WWW: WordPress, Browser Defaults, and Curl Bugfix
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Using WordPress for a self-hosted blog
While I long since moved off WordPress for my own blog, I’ve mentioned that I still maintain various installs for others. This has prompted a few of you to ask if it’s worth it for a personal blog.
I’d say so. If you’re not tempted by static site generators, or prefer running server-side software (as I keep being tempted back to), it works fine. There are so many benefits to hosting your own material if you can, regardless of what you use. In the words of my late mum: stop worrying about the chisel, and get carving!
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Browser Defaults We Throw Away
I think there are a few browser-related features that, collectively, we simply ignore. They’re built-in to the browser for our use, and yet it has become an almost knee-jerk reaction to immediately override them.
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curl 8.1.2 ate one too
This is the second follow-up patch release in the 8.1.x series due to regressions and bugs that are too annoying to leave lingering around.