For a little more than four years now I have kept half an eye on visitors to my various sites using Jason McIntosh’s Bise. I like the hand-rolled ritual each Sunday morning of renaming the log files, running my duct-taped scripts, the brief shot of elation (or despair), and then putting the log files away, never to be looked at again. Except, I do look at them again occasionally, and this is one of those occasions.

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For the past couple of months there have been problems with the comments on this website. For the most part I have been happy to solve them manually. There aren’t that many and I’m about to redesign everything (eventually) so no point dealing with it now. Then yesterday, thanks to my on-this-day facility, I noticed Comments plugin fixed from 2019.

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Normal service has been resumed.

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One of the primary reasons to design a new ClassicPress theme from the ground up was so that I would understand how it worked. That, in theory, would make it easier for me tinker and so, by and large, it proved. The last thing I knew I had to do¹ after it went live about 10 days ago was to add t...

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With a couple of hours to spare, I decided to try and upload a correct route for Monday’s ride. First I had to convert the data recorded by Compass into a GPX file. With the help of ChatGPT that was reasonably easy, resulting in a Python script that works. I ought perhaps to tweak it to name outp...

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