Recently I needed to have something that allows me to have more control over my data stream client, so that:
The initial implementation was quite straightforward:
As mentioned earlier, I finally dropped virtual host and rented myself a Droplet. It’s cheap, easy to setup, no downside yet (except that it’s a really small instance compare to what I work with during day times).
I’ve wanted to move our xiangpi.ca to a VPS for a long time now since I don’t like Wordpress without heavy optimizations. With a virtual host there wasn’t much I could do.
GitHub page has served me well. But since I already signed up a $5 VPS at digitalocean.com, I figured it’s time to switch to gain more control and pollute GitHub commit number no more.
Here’s a list of things I did with this little devil:
Just about a month ago, I decided to fully switch from Google Reader to Twitter for news aggregation. The reason was simple, I always had 1000+ unread feeds, and at the end of the day, I’d just ‘Mark All Read’ and let go; Twitter does exactly that, all automagically.
After being a long time user of Google Reader, I want to jot down some thoughts about it.
PHP was the first programming language I learned, no matter how bad you think it is, it has its fair share of contribution toward my knowledge pool today. During that learning process, other than programming insights and techniques, I learned two things:
After years of using Wordpress, I decided to try something new. It’s not like I blog a lot anyways, but it’s nice to have something to perform my brain-dump. The major reason behind this decision is due to the way blogware of its generation are flawed by design.
How so?