Pages Tagged “Site Updates”
Reviews
- Reviews have moved to KVibber.com I finally decided to move beyond the site I named after a mythical location in a 50-year-old movie 25 years ago.
Blog Posts
- ClassicPress Federation
I’ve been using the excellent ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress to connect this blog to the Fediverse for several years now, and it keeps getting better. The plugin makes any WordPress blog also work like a Mastodon server, so you can follow and interact from any site running Mastodon, Akkoma, Pixelfed (image posts only, of course), […]
- Migrated to ClassicPress
Migrating this 22-year-old 3000+ post behemoth of a blog from WordPress to ClassicPress turned out to be a lot faster and easier than I expected.
- The Firehose and the Jetpack
I’ve been meaning to disconnect from Jetpack for a while now. This seems like a good time to do it, and to finally clear out the older Tumblr and WordPress.com blogs I don’t use anymore. Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools — 404 Media It’s the kind of thing that […]
- Sort of Blogging on the Fediverse
Over at Key Smash!, I’ve been helping beta-test the Pterotype plugin to hook up a self-hosted WordPress to the Fediverse. It gives WordPress an ActivityPub presence, so new posts and comments can be seen in Mastodon, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub-powered networks, and replies from those networks can come back as comments. But Key Smash! is […]
- Why am I still blogging? (And why about this stuff?)
This blog has been around 15 years. Social media has mostly moved on, to silos like Facebook and Twitter. People don’t follow random personal blogs. Topic-focused sites are what people actually read, and even that mainly following links from silos. Meanwhile there are so many major things going on that make the things I post […]
- Finally pulled the HTTPS switch!
That took a lot longer than I intended. But I’ve finally made all of Hyperborea.org run over HTTPS. It’s been possible to view the whole site over HTTPS ever since I turned it on for the admin area of this blog years ago, but I left HTTP as the canonical URL and didn’t redirect anything […]
- Adding the S in HTTPS
I finally moved the public side of this blog over to HTTPS last weekend. Traditionally I’ve preferred to put public info on HTTP and save HTTPS for things that need it – passwords, payment info, login tokens, anything that should be kept private — but between the movement to protect more and more of the […]
- 2014: Still Plugging Along
I’ve been making more of an effort to post here this year, though it’s been a long time since the site had many regular readers. I’d like to do more long-form writing, but that’s just not in the cards these days. Some highlights: Los Angeles/California: I’ve been following the demolition of a bridge near LAX to make way […]
- Saving Ideas from the Contracting Blogosphere
Special-purpose online communities have given way to spots on major hubs like Facebook. I’ve moved a lot of old content from those networks to this site.
- Top Posts of 2012
Troubleshooting, tablet devices, comic cons and a solar eclipse were the subjects of the top five most-read posts of the year.
- 10-Year Blogaversary
When I set up a B2 site just for kicks in 2002, I didn’t really expect to still be posting to it ten years later.
- New Server
After years of piggybacking on employers’ web servers (with permission, of course!), I’ve moved my personal websites to a third-party web host. It’s kind of weird to be dealing with a web server that I don’t fully control.
- Hey, Look! Comics!
Cool! I’ve been named in The Comics Reporter’s reader poll on Name Five Writers About Comics You Like That Aren’t On CR’s Home Team Of Tom Spurgeon And Bart Beaty. It’s an impressive list, and with some of the big names on it, almost intimidating to be included. If you’re visiting here for the first […]
- New Look for WordPress 3.0
WordPress has been making a big deal out of their new default theme, Twenty-Ten, released with WordPress 3.0. Meanwhile, I’ve been watching this site get more and more cluttered, and I keep having to tweak the existing theme to be able to deal with new WordPress features like nested comments, custom menus, etc. Last week […]
- Back to WP-Mobile
I’m really impressed with the new version of WordPress Mobile Edition. It handles both the low-end and high-end (iPhone, Android) devices cleanly and efficiently. I was using a three-tiered setup with WP-Mobile for basic phones, WPTouch for iPhone and Android devices, and of course the regular theme for desktops, but it seems simpler to drop […]
- Banner Update
Finally updated the blog banner to something that was actually taken in the same state! (The old one was in Hawaii.)
- Twittering
I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of weeks as an additional update channel and sort of an adjunct to my blog, Speed Force (you can follow it at @SpeedForceOrg), and I’ve actually realized that yes, there is a point to it. It’s good for the random thought that only takes a sentence or two, […]
- Six Years
I was just commenting on The Comic Treadmill’s 5-year anniversary, and I realized: K-Squared Ramblings turned six last month. (September 14, to be exact.) I’ve been so busy with Speed Force that I haven’t posted much here, and didn’t even notice the milestone. Let’s run the numbers: 6 years and not-quite 1 month 1708 posts […]
- Announcing SpeedForce.org!
I’ve just launched SpeedForce.org, a companion blog to the website, Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning. Since I started adding news items to the front page of Ride the Lightning, it’s started to get a bit crowded. I thought about converting it to a Delicious feed, but then I realized it really ought to be […]
- Avatars!
Since Gravatar was bought by Automattic, the service has been a lot more stable. I had already re-enabled them on this blog before WordPress 2.5 came out with built-in Gravatar* support. Not everyone has a Gravatar, though, so many comment threads just show the default icon, over and over. Not only does this look boring, […]
- Spam Switch
With the recent rash of Trackback spam, I finally bit the bullet and am now experimenting with Akismet in addition to Spam Karma. I’m not sure how well they work together, or, at this point, which plugin processes the comment first. Update: I’m trying Akismet on its own for now. Or, more precisely, Akismet as […]
- Survived a Mild Slashdotting
This server weathered its first Slashdotting last Friday, or at least the first I’ve noticed. But then, it was a mild one compared to some reports I’ve seen. While writing up my commentary on IE dropping WGA last Thursday, I realized that the original story was perfect for Slashdot. It had Microsoft, anti-piracy methods with […]
- Speed Force
I just discovered that the domain name speedforce.org was available. I couldn’t pass it up. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. I’ve toyed with the idea of separating out all the Flash stuff from this blog and creating a dedicated comics blog. I’ve also thought about renaming the site, Flash: […]
- K2R is 5 Years Old
I just realized that as of last week, this blog has been online for 5 years. Crazy, huh? This is the 1,398th post. We’ve got 2,307 comments at the moment, including pingbacks. Typical traffic these days seems to run around 650-700 views on weekdays, 550-600 on weekends. Most of it seems to be people searching […]
- We’ve Been Stumbled Upon
Wow! Songs Not to Play at a Wedding has been one of our more popular posts for a long time, and I’d seen hits start coming in from StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site, about a week ago. But that was a trickle. I wasn’t prepared to check my stats at lunch today and see 1,112 […]
- Firefox too mainstream for Alternative Browser Alliance
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but it’s time to refocus the Alternative Browser Alliance. Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler has referred to Firefox and Internet Explorer as the “mainstream browsers” for more than a year now, and it looks like that’s become true. The web is no longer an IE monopoly. It’s become an […]
- Three Years of Blogging
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been three years since the first post on this blog. I still think of myself as being kind of new at this, but at this rate, we’ll be in the old guard. Or at least the new old guard. 😉 Topics have shifted around. It started out as a […]
- The Alternative Browser Alliance
I’m launching a new browser switch site, with a bit of a twist. It’s promoting all alternative browsers, kind of like Browse Happy, but a bit more inclusive and aimed at a slightly different audience. The idea is that a diverse browser “market”—one with three or four major browser suppliers all competing with each other—is […]
- Thank you, spammers
Comments on this site are now moderated. After a week of daily spam runs that have managed to get past other blocking methods, I’m tired of messing with it. At least with moderation, they won’t show up on the site. This means that when you post a comment, it will not show up immediately. One […]
- Welcome, BlogExplosion Visitors
In hopes of bringing in some more readers, I signed up with BlogExplosion yesterday. I’ve spent some time last night and tonight surfing through their system, and I’ve seen some interesting blogs, some boring blogs, and some infuriating blogs. (Politics… why did it have to be politics…) If you’re coming here through BlogExplosion, feel free […]
- Gravatars
Well, I signed up with Gravatar, mainly so I could test the plugin. Basically the idea is that you can define an avatar that will follow you around the Internet, anywhere you post. All that’s necessary is for the site you’re commenting on to be Gravatar-enabled at the time someone visits. The one thing I’m […]
- Weblog Etiquette vs. Link Rot
On an ideal Web, pages would stay put and links would never change. Of course, anyone who has been on the Internet long enough knows just how far away this ideal is. Commercial sites go out of business, personal sites move from school to school to ISP to ISP, news articles get moved into archives […]
- New Blog Software
The B2 /Cafelog project is evolving into WordPress. I finally got around to updating the software, and I’ve run into a few problems with some of my customizations. Mainly there’s no “On This Page” list on the sidebar, but if you notice anything else odd or broken-looking, comment on it here!
- New journal
For a while now I’ve been thinking of setting up something where I can just post random thoughts or opinion pieces without taking the time to write an HTML page and update bunches of links. Some sort of blogging software seemed ideal, so I looked at a few, noticed they all seemed to use MySQL, […]