I’ve been working on a tool to publish products to WooCommerce and Ebay, as a followup to “ebay-tools” (which is now defunct). This old tool was centered around managing directories named with SKUs. The… (read more)

This was a weird problem: I plugged my headset into the phone, and recorded, and heard a buzz. This didn’t make sense, but, it turned out to be a grounding problem with a sensitive… (read more)

I’m working on a testing script to see if my server can run BBB. Useful if you’re building old systems to use as a development box. This is based on the BBB installation instructions.… (read more)

Symptoms: Audacity is unable to get any input from the audio output or microphone. System uses PulseAudio and ALSA. (read more)

I’m running WordPress inside a Docker container, and wanted to control the website with command lines, and code. The two options are to use the REST API, or to use the WP-CLI interface. I… (read more)

How to set up Ubuntu to run Docker, a Shiny Server container, with an existing Apache proxy server configuration. This setup will work for a low-volume application. It runs a single container, on a… (read more)