I have a little newsletter on Buttondown. It is free to anyone, although I can receive voluntary payments. To that end, I sometimes insert what is called an interstitial in messages to people who are not paying subscribers asking them to upgrade. And to make it stand out just a little I give it a pale yellow background. Whether it works to “convert” people I don’t know, but I do know that in one important respect, it didn’t work.

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For a little more than four years now I have kept half an eye on visitors to my various sites using Jason McIntosh’s Bise. I like the hand-rolled ritual each Sunday morning of renaming the log files, running my duct-taped scripts, the brief shot of elation (or despair), and then putting the log files away, never to be looked at again. Except, I do look at them again occasionally, and this is one of those occasions.

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For the past couple of months there have been problems with the comments on this website. For the most part I have been happy to solve them manually. There aren’t that many and I’m about to redesign everything (eventually) so no point dealing with it now. Then yesterday, thanks to my on-this-day facility, I noticed Comments plugin fixed from 2019.

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Normal service has been resumed.

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One of the primary reasons to design a new ClassicPress theme from the ground up was so that I would understand how it worked. That, in theory, would make it easier for me tinker and so, by and large, it proved. The last thing I knew I had to do¹ after it went live about 10 days ago was to add t...

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