Kate’s Updates

WordPress, technology, and miscellaneous thoughts.

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Working From Home (and Not)

At my new job I’ve had the opportunity to work from home more than a few times. I really like it. However, I also really like that I’m close enough to go into the office and physically interact with people, too. It’s the best of both, I think, in that I can work in-office and at-home. There are benefits to both.

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Feedback to Google on Gmail’s Message Clipping

Recently I’ve noticed some e-mail messages getting clipped off at the end in Gmail. There’s no setting to turn it off, according to this and this. Apparently there’s an extension for Chrome but that doesn’t help me much as I’m on Firefox. Also not really keen on needing to install a thing to prevent very simple behavior in a web app, but maybe that’s just me being stodgy. So I did what the product forums suggested and sent feedback off to Google. Funny thing is, when I sent it, the form just sort of disappeared, leaving the send button hanging […]

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Web Development Speed Test

One of my friends needed a website for a business he wants to start. I threw this together for him in ~5 hours. I started around 8 PM and finished around 1 AM, from getting the information to closing down all of my tabs.

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IPB 1.3.1 to phpBB 3 Forum Conversion

I had an old forum archive on IPB 1.3.1 Final forum software from Invision Power Board. 1.3.1F is over 10 years old — it hasn’t been supported in a really, really long time, and its community of users is dwindling (or even nonexistent). More pressing, however — webhosts have been upgrading PHP lately. 1.3.1F has ceased to function without updates to make it compatible with new versions of PHP: some functions used by 1.3.1F have been deprecated, unsurprisingly. There are instructions as to how to make 1.3.1F compatible, but running an ancient and unsupported application isn’t ideal. We didn’t want […]

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Backup Workflow and Scripting

Please-please-please don’t refer to anything said in here as a guide or true, unless it comes accompanying a supporting link (and even there, yeah, do your research). I’m learning this stuff and it definitely should not be taken as a how-to, tutorial, etc. If you have input and ways for me to improve what I’ve done or other suggestions, I appreciate it. Thanks!

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Neat Things Since July

CSS Guidelines !# for removing scroll-to-top on empty anchor link Photoshop Layer Filtering A few things I’ve done since July

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