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.

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A really relaxing month, although the UK government’s decision to open up somewhat to overseas travellers made the final few days a bit hectic.

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Having decided to take a daily approach to filling in the missing posts on this incarnation of my website, I started to think about displaying what I had written on this day in years past. There are all sorts of reasons to do this, many captured by the IndieWeb wiki page on the topic.¹ For me, it is partly simply to remind myself of things past. Undoubtedly there will be some negative things in there, but they’re mine, and I own them.

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Slightly delayed, this time, by departure for holiday on the last of the month and then taking three days to get to the point where it would be OK to sit in front of a screen again.

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Later than I’ve ever been, I think, thanks to The Client From Hell. Further proof, if proof were needed, that no amount of compensation is sufficient and also of that old adage:

Heigh ho.

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