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What I’ve watched
I keep a little log.
Today is a bit of a geeky anniversary for me, which I would never had recognised had I not started trying to bring in old posts written on this day. Turns out that on 23 August 2004 I wrote my first piece using the WordPress CMS, while on 23 August 2006 I first published a piece of audio as a podc...
In my as yet completely unsuccessful attempt to revive an internet meme, I was somewhat sketchy on the idea of planets, mostly because they were not something I ever used. I suggested that they were automatic accretions, without detailed curation. I was wrong, as Fluffy pointed out when a group of...
As I continue reading previous blog posts written on this day, I’ve been struck by a couple of things. One is how often there didn’t seem to be anything worthwhile writing about, and how even writing about that seemed worthwhile. There was a phase when lots of bloggers were looking at their logs and writing about the strange searches that brought readers to them, probably only to be disappointed. Linked to that, there were blog carnivals and blog memes.1
It’s no secret that I know just enough to be a danger to myself. My latest problems surfaced when I tried to build a new theme in Grav, and was told that my version of PHP was too low. This despite the fact that MAMP happily uses PHP 7.4.16. I understand that Terminal on the Mac does not necessarily use the same version of PHP as MAMP, and spent an utterly frustrating day trying a whole slew of things to either persuade my Mac to use the same version as MAMP or to upgrade PHP on my Mac. Neither worked, and I realised I had got into a terrible muddle with $PATH. After another frustrating few hours (and I should say that during all this some people on the Grav Discord were incredibly helpful, despite the problem really being nothing to do with Grav) I had to give up. Today, I took up the task again, having spent a bit of time researching $PATH.