Month: February 2021
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MacOS updates are slow
I remember a time 10 or 15 years ago when you could install a system update on your Mac without rebooting. I always chuckled at the Windows users who seemingly had to reboot every time they installed a new program, let alone a system update. I don’t remember exactly when Macs started requiring reboots for…
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Forcing JPEG instead of WebP for images with Jetpack
I use Jetpack on most of my WordPress websites, because it has some really great features, many of them free. I still can’t believe that Automattic gives away a CDN (content distribution network). If you don’t know what that is, it is a way of hosting static files like images, javascript, and css and the…
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Diff twice, commit once
Carpenters have a saying “measure twice, cut once”. The idea is that if you double-check your work, you are less likely to make mistakes, and have to re-do the work later. A former boss adapted this to software development – “diff twice, commit once”. That is, before you commit a change, take a second look…