A couple of days ago a strange error on one of my websites suggested I look at php_error.log for a deeper understanding of the problem. The deeper understanding eluded me, but I did notice just how many errors there were. I had never before had to pay attention to these things and now I was upset, not least by my ignorance of what to do.

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Painted wall at the Library of Congress with the quote from Pope, A little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep or taste not of the Pierian spring.

At the Library of Congress, they understood

In yesterday’s monthly post I teased about not being able to talk about “the thing that hijacked this update” because it happened in the current month. Here’s the story.

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The subtitles over at Eat This Podcast were really tiny, which somehow I had not noticed before. A WP plugin called Subtitles is responsible, and reading the FAQs I discovered that it injects its CSS directly inline. To replace with my own CSS I would need to block the plugin’s CSS from loading...

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An archive of some of the data I have recorded about how I spend some of my time.

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I have a little newsletter on Buttondown. It is free to anyone, although I can receive voluntary payments. To that end, I sometimes insert what is called an interstitial in messages to people who are not paying subscribers asking them to upgrade. And to make it stand out just a little I give it a pale yellow background. Whether it works to “convert” people I don’t know, but I do know that in one important respect, it didn’t work.

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