Catch Up Again
Posted on November 9, 2023
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| 431 words
| Robert McLaughlin
My technical issues from late summer have passed and the site is still up. My host and I had different opinions about the way something behind the scenes should work. I tried to do what they asked, it didn’t work, nothing bad happened and on we go.
My casual thought about completing 100 books in 2023 is looking more and more like reality. I’m working on 87, 88 and 89 now.
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Enough
Posted on March 22, 2023
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| 453 words
| Robert McLaughlin
Two quotes come to mind as I ponder the result of my website change:
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
Pivot!
Ross Geller
I wanted to add an interactive comment section to the site and I have been pushing a rock up a hill for a month trying to make it work.
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Update
Posted on February 25, 2023
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| 264 words
| Robert McLaughlin
Behind the scenes there’s a lot going on with the site. I got it in my head to add the ability to allow you dear readers to comment and I’m working on that.
I also have (what I think is) a pretty cool side project that I have been working on with my home network. My network arose from the decline of the dvd player and that The Office left Netflix, and for a while Harry Potter left HBO.
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Issue Resolved
Posted on February 4, 2023
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| 434 words
| Robert McLaughlin
My mastery of language is fading.
I had some ongoing frustrations with hosting on GoDaddy last year, and AWS the year before. Even though mclaughlin.one is a very fancy and influential site on the interwebs, the horsepower required to support and deliver this site is modest. Because it’s mostly text, the whole site totals only 11 mb and can be delivered easily.
Due to the low computing and storage requirements, I built this on OCI on the ‘Always Free’ tier.
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Web Hits
Posted on January 10, 2023
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| Robert McLaughlin
Being a novice web site writer/manager/janitor is an interesting challenge, especially with the ‘do everything myself’ approach I’m taking. There are a few bits that that are surprising.
mclaughlin.one suffered through a bit of downtime while I made an enhancement in the way the web server operates. Now that everything is up and running again I took a look at the page hits and discovered one of the pleasantly surprising bits:
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Website Construction
Posted on January 4, 2023
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| 285 words
| Robert McLaughlin
My website building started in the early 2000s with manually written html sent via ftp to a host. Mostly it was a way to share pictures before it there were countless easier ways to share pictures.
In 2021 I put up a site on AWS. It was a static blog hosted insecurely on S3 but it worked. That evolved into a custom domain, www.mclaughlin.world, hosted on GoDaddy and run through WordPress in 2022.
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