Malcolm's Geek Blog

Month: October 2017

  • Time to upgrade Mediawikis again!

    Time to upgrade Mediawikis again!

    I did this last year and took notes and made observations. This time I’m upgrading three mediawiki installations:

  • A modern dev’s Git/GitHub centric process to change a file

    A modern dev’s Git/GitHub centric process to change a file

    Just so you know, and this probably isn’t the most modern/bleeding edge process or platform, but as a modern-ish dev who’s interested in using and leveraging the cloud service equivalent for tracking changes to my self-hosted WordPress files, this is my process.

  • The dreaded rebuild

    The dreaded rebuild

    I don’t know about you, but I am rough on computers. In the course of the weeks and months I spend doing geeky shit, I tend to load and overload and reload and reconfigure and rebuild and reinstall a bunch of different kinds of development tools and platforms and language interpreters for different purposes and…