With the latest versions of WordPress, Matomo (open-source web analytics), and YOURLS (self-hosted URL shortener), I’ve finally transitioned to PHP 8.2.x for all of my websites hosted on Cloudways. :-) This post is mainly for me to have a milestone for this transition.
In 2022, I was humbled to be nominated for the hospital’s physician of the year, achieved diplomat status for critical care echocardiography, obtained my certification in medical quality (CMQ), bought the Batmobile (Tesla Model S Plaid), became the program director for our combined fellowship track in cardiothoracic anesthesiology and critical…
Creating entities in Home Assistant to display your Matomo statistics is super easy through the RESTful Sensor integration. First of all, you’ll need to visit your Matomo install as a super user, click on Administration (the gear) > Security > scroll down to Auth Tokens > Create New Token. Please…
Coming from a Drobo 8D Thunderbolt 3 direct-attached storage (DAS), I wanted to preserve the benefits of transfer speed when moving to my Synology DS1821+ network-attached storage (NAS). My iMac Pro’s 10-gigabit ethernet (10GbE) port connects directly to the 10GbE Synology card (pictured above) with a CAT8 cable I pulled…
After roughly two years with a Drobo 8D, I’ve become frustrated for several reasons centered around StorCentric’s apparent lack of customer care and product support. As an ICU physician who worked on the front lines in the pre-vaccine COVID-19 era, I can understand the ramifications the pandemic continues to have…
Earlier this month, I dabbled with WordPress’ full site editing (FSE) and block-based themes as these are the platform’s future; however, they are still very much in their infancy. Depending on the landscape and adoption rate, I might consider using block-based FSE for the next redesign. For now, I give…
2021 has been another year filled with COVID-related issues centered around the perils of politics mixing with medicine. The omicron variant has now spread through the population and leading to some of the highest spikes of new cases we’ve seen at any point in this pandemic. And right around the…
I started my web journey with Dot5Hosting back in the mid 2000s and ultimately transition to Bluehost shared hosting on September 18, 2008. After growing issues with performance and uptime, I switched to Siteground on June 13, 2015 at the recommendation of many users across the WordPress ecosystem.
2020 will be remembered for many things, but the one that most directly affected my livelihood and career has been the COVID-19 pandemic. We learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus in early 2020 and watched pseudoscientists (including many high office politicians) dismiss it as a hoax or underplay the effects it…
I’ve been a Chrome browser user since its inception in 2008. Over the years, I experimented with a wide variety of hardware ranging from Windows gaming rigs and Linux servers to MacOS laptops. Currently, Apple powers the majority of my life; however, I’ve stuck with Chrome as my browser of…