Looking back at 2016, I hit several milestones as an anesthesiology resident. I was selected as a chief resident, matched to an incredible institution to begin my fellowship journey in summer 2017, and visited Chicago for the first time to attend my first ASA national meeting. Overall, 2016 was a pretty amazing year…
Due to an oversight with folder permissions, I was recently the victim of a massive spam attack. I fixed the problem by issuing a 410 redirect to all links pointing to a particular folder in my file tree.
I wanted to catalog some changes I made throughout the year of 2016 on RK.MD.My objectives were:
Today marks the 8th birthday of my site’s current domain name! My journey started back in the mid-2000s with rishi-kumar.com, originally hosted by Dot5Hosting. I transitioned to a Bluehost shared hosting account on September 18, 2008. Back then, I was blogging fairly regularly about politics, tech, and the medical school…
With the end of the year fast approaching, I wanted to see how my site’s design has evolved over the last few years. I turned to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see how RK.md looked roughly three years ago.
I’ve been a Bluehost customer for roughly eight years, but after growing issues with web performance and uptime, I reluctantly decided it was time for a change. After doing some online research, I decided to go with SiteGround’s startup shared hosting plan locked in at $3.95 for 3 years (about half…
In my pursuit for optimization without utilizing resource-hungry plugins, I’ve compiled the following PHP snippets to run as cron jobs on my Bluehost account.
Thanks to the Disqus Recent Comments Widget, WordPress users can easily display recent Disqus comments through sidebar widgets; however, for dynamic sites with significant activity, Disqus API requests can prove to be cumbersome. What if you exceed the allotted requests per hour? How slow will fetching recent comments make page…
With only a third of intern year remaining, I’ve been wanting to change this site’s banner to something with more… anesthesia-ness. I originally threw together something with a medical context (behold, the famed caduceus) but wanted to incorporate my training into the forefront of the site.
Google’s Feedburner service has long been heralded as one of the best ways for websites to distribute RSS feeds. Users can monitor, publicize, and distribute their feeds through a variety of ways… all for the price of free. However, Google has made a few unnerving moves in the world of…