Notes – Page 95 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 2 minutes to read

I’ve spent this weekend playing with a Linode VPS in an attempt to install my own copies of various indieweb apps, (Compass, Quill, Own YOur Swarm, ETC.), and I’m somewhat ashamed of myself for letting my server administration skills atrophy as much as they appear to have done.

I mean, I get it, I spend most of my time involved with HTML and the like, and not necessarily the server side of things, but at the same time, damn.

I intend to correct this deficiency. I’ve grabbed a couple of books on Ubuntu, (most of my server experience has been with Redhat and so I was never as familiar with Ubuntu in the first place), and I’m giving myself a crash course as fast as possible.

Once I’m a little more confident, (and really, now that I’m writing all this down I think that’s what it comes down to), I’ll move my personal site and John’s personal site off of WPEngine.

I think we’ll need to do that if we want to use Compass with the Simple Location plugin, and anyway I think I’d rather trade the inconvenience and often necessary calls to technical support and custom NginX rules and everything else I’ve had to do to get indieauth working along with other indieweb stuff for the inconvenience of managing my own server.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

59 °F Clear

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Amanda CAARSON

· 10 Adar 5780 (Friday 6 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Finally! Finally finally finally finally it’s done! We! Are! Going! To! Ship!

Also, I don’t think I ever want to see a list element again. Ever.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 6 Adar 5780 (Monday 2 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Quick tip: If you’re building podcast websites with WordPress, or even a website which has a podcast as a secondary feature, use the Simple Podcasting plugin. If you use PowerPress you’re locked into the Classic Editor plugin with everything that entails, including using older themes.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 6 Adar 5780 (Monday 2 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m wondering if it might be worth writing up the experience of using both Gutenberg and the Classic Editor in tandom on a site? Spoiler alert: It’s complicated and it introduces a lot of extra coordination regarding content editing and creation.

Do not recommend unless it’s absolutely necessary.