Christian, Husband, Dad, Hacker
On 4/17/16, I will be giving a presentation on the WordPress backups, updates and security. This presentation provides a basic, high level approach to keeping a WordPress site secure.
This presentation will be given at WordCamp Jacksonville 2016.
The video above was published by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety to educate viewers on texting while driving. Teens spend their time texting on the phone not realizing they are swerving into other lanes or right off the road. Most of the incidents result in a panic of over corrective steering.
As a parent of teenagers, I find this video a bit disconcerting. I believe the biggest thing for parents is to lead by example and certainly not perform this type of behavior themselves. Moreover, express the importance of giving 110% attention to the road while driving.
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is a non-profit, charitable organization based in Washington DC. The purpose of their research is to communicate their findings to policy makers, safety partners and the media.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: We Built This City.
What do you love most about the city / town / place that you live in? What do you like the least about it? If you were mayor, what would be the most important problem you’d tackle? How would you tackle it?
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Places”
Beach, mountain, forest, or somewhere else entirely?
Some of the best memories I have in my life are from being in the mountains. The mountains, which in a single view are breathtaking as they are enormous. It’s amazing to witness the amazing power of what the earth results in when the crust that floats above the earth’s core can create. Continue reading “Places”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Study Abroad.”
If you were asked to spend a year living in a different location, where would you choose and why?
Right now, I could be happy living anywhere that is not considered “paradise”. Continue reading “Live Abroad”
If you loaded your Raspberry Pi using the Raspbian operating system, chances are you may still be using the default user id “pi” with the password “raspberry”. This is a quick tutorial to show you how to change that. Continue reading “Change Password on Raspberry Pi”
I have been evaluating the idea of spinning up a Digital Ocean VM for my web hosting as a cost effective alternative to shared web hosting. Digital Ocean requires you to know how to understand operating systems, I just happen to be the right guy for the job. I wanted to field test my future setup on my Raspberry Pi to get an idea of how much time it is going to take and what I can do to tune it for maximum performance. All of my sites have been converted to WordPress, my desire was to build a LEMP (Linux Engine-X, MySQL and PHP) stack to accommodate this setup. Continue reading “Install WordPress and NGINX on Raspberry Pi”
This past week, I wrote and published my first game review to the Christian Gamer. The game that I reviewed, was Child of Light, which is an amazing game that I could barely put into words. Although the game was published last year, we are committed to providing reviews of games for Christians to reference. Continue reading “First Game Review”
Today, one of the Desk Community members came up with this topic:
What hobbies and/or talents did you take up between childhood and high school and how did they guide or not guide you into your current career choices and hobbies done in your free time now? Continue reading “How Childhood Hobbies Influenced my Career Choice”
I feel a bit overwhelmed as of late. We are working on putting the house up for sale, we just passed into mid-terms at school and I’ve been moving web hosts. In hindsight, I should have put off the web host move for a few months, although I do not regret moving my sites. Continue reading “Juggling Too Much”