I have started and restarted this blog many times over. There are good days to write and there are good days to delete blogs. It may not stick this time. But I want to write as a form of sel… Read More

The Aggro Paladin deck is highly effective in standard play, when the right cards come. ### Aggro Paladin # Class: Paladin # Format: Standard # Year of the Wolf # # 2x (1) Righteous Pro… Read More

Summary I have experimented with this blog and have set it up to run in two different EC2 regions. The original EC2 instance with RDS was running in the EU-CENTRAL region (Frankfurt) and… Read More

Introduction I was taken with the Matrix. It was my first visit to the United States when we went to a cinema with friends to watch a movie, without knowing which movie it would be, and t… Read More

This post will explain how to redirect a domain to another, on HTTP and HTTPS. What we aim to achieve is to have source.domain automatically forwarded to target.domain, so if a user enters h… Read More

This year I am worried that I have no time to enjoy “autumn”. I guess I have an ideal of what autumn should or could be. Part of that ideal is rooted in reality, in my childhood… Read More

Introduction This blog is its own story. By this I mean that the posts on WordPress that appear here are actually tested and implemented on the blog itself. So, if the blog works or doesn… Read More

This article will go through the basics of hardening a Ubuntu Pro 22.04 server using the CIS Benchmarks. As per Ubuntu documentation: Security Technical Implementation Guides like the C… Read More

If you use the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, you may discover that depending on your settings, some information, such as the author name, may be exposed in various ways on your website. This i… Read More

I found these speakers recently on eBay at a good price. Most of the time when I find things on eBay there is no budget available, yet this time, things came together and I was able to purch… Read More

The focus of this article is on showing how to configure your WordPress installation to improve speed using the AWS CloudFront CDN and enhance security using AWS WAF. This builds on the earl… Read More

Here I am, suggesting that there are traces of the simulation theory in lyrics of the band Queen. Perhaps I am just seeing what I want to see, but the simulation theory is rooted in age old… Read More

I struggled with getting this working for a bit but found a relatively easy to enable Adobe Fonts on WordPress for the Twenty Twenty-Three theme. Firstly, you need to create your Web Proj… Read More

Review In this post we will aim at secucuring Apache and PHP on our Ubuntu Server 22.04 through various configuration directives. Let’s review what we did so far: We installed an… Read More

The simulation hypothesis or simulation theory is the idea that the reality we perceive is actually an artificial simulation, like a computer-generated virtual environment. I find the idea i… Read More

Now that we have a functional WordPress installation, it may be a good time to look at some security-related settings. This is fairly basic in terms of implementation but it should provide s… Read More

Before you ask, the feature image above was generated with DALL-E 3. Since this post is about how great Elasticache is, it may not be quite so appropriate to refer to it as Elastic Ache. Sti… Read More

In the previous article, we looked at setting up WordPress on AWS EC2 using a MySQL RDS instance for database storage. This was in fact how the present blog was set up. In what follows, we u… Read More

This blog starts here at this initial post, with a tutorial for the installation of WordPress 6.3.2 on an Ubuntu 22.04 Server (AWS EC2 instance) with its database hosted on an AWS MySQL RDS… Read More