Series: Guides & Unrelated

I wanted to write an article on open source software, and specifically Linux. Sometimes I forget how deeply I understand these systems—and that many people…

My sites are currently using Wordpress on Apache. It is more efficient on a low-end VPS to use NGINX.

A custom shortcode-powered footnotes system that connects chapters to referenced CPTs like books, concepts, and quotes with anchors.

ChatGPT has empowered me to create a site with more advanced features than I imagined possible. I have a lot of work ahead of me…

A single memory instruction can make GPT-4-turbo more efficient—just ask, and it’ll start using fewer tokens.

Deleted files linger in free space. dev/urandom makes overwriting them easy. cat /dev/urandom > tmp. No paid tools needed—just raw terminal power.

It is very easy to install Open source/free AI software locally. OpenAIs Whisper lets you convert any audio file to text locally. This allows you to keep your files private without having to upload them to a web-based transcriber.

I used Adminer to safely and efficiently replace featured image extensions with .webp in the database, avoiding manual updates while preserving file paths and post associations.

Using dd in Rescue Mode, I cloned my VPS’s disk for a full WordPress backup, ensuring bare-metal recovery.