How to disable root login on a DigitalOcean droplet
27 January 2016
The personal website of Matt Henderson.
27 January 2016
This website runs on WordPress, and over the past several years has seen its hosting move from the DreamHost shared environment, to DreamPress managed hosting, to GoDaddy managed hosting to, finally, DigitalOcean. This article explains why.
18 January 2016
Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites. I purchased a plugin from them, subsequently decided it wasn’t for me and requested a refund. I was eventually granted a refund, but only after some frustration and confusion. Here’s the story.
17 January 2016
A while back I created a second personal website at rantbox.io. The idea was that my frequent complaints about things really weren’t content I wanted living here at dafacto.com. Ultimately, however, maintaining a second website didn’t compensate any benefit of that separation of content, and so I’ve consolidated that site back into dafacto.
16 January 2016
The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex—because it puts an unbearable burden on his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts. Their aim is to make the unintelligible simple, and even obvious.
01 January 2016
Back in 2003, I posted this paragon of user interface design that I discovered at the Malaga airport, when trying to pay for my parking ticket:
01 January 2016
I just love the cultural differences in Europe. This Christmas, we played two chess tournamentsone in Spain, and the other in Germany. Prior to the events, we emailed both tournament directors, asking how to get to the venue from the local airport. The contrast in replies are hilarious.
30 December 2015