- July/August 2026: I recently enabled Litespeed’s Quic.cloud integration and connected it to Cloudflare. Pretty simple to setup an entire CDN for a website which helps the server load and makes page access faster. It has image optimization which includes support for WebP. Slower connections took a while to load photos on the photography page, and lazy loading is either a paid feature or is broken. Although images are “optimized,” settings may need to be tweaked, but the effects are noticeable to say the last. WordPress plugins cost too much for what they really do… and in this case, it’s for displaying pictures? Wow. Anyway.
- May 15, 2026: The photography page has been returning errors since the server move. That has been fixed and memory limits increased. Hopefully the photos work again, or I’ll have to do some diggin’. Sorry about that. Other changes include getting Redis caching working again on NameCrane, and some changes to plugins. SSO for Google, Facebook, etc. works now, so that’s cool. Still using Cloudflare for Captchas though, ha. Sorry Google.
- April 11, 2026: See this link.
- December 30, 2025: I’ve integrated Cloudflare captchas into the website for spam protection, fixed email, and added a register link to the menu. Registration is fixed now that email works and protected by Cloudflare captchas. Comments are enabled for registered users but must be approved by me before being visible.
- December 10, 2025: The website has moved (twice actually). I moved from BuyVM to a self-hosted QEMU container, and then I transferred the container to my local server to eventually eliminate the virtual machine and reduce overhead on the system. The server is running an AMD Ryzen 9 5950x with 64gb of RAM (half of it failed a while back). A new NAS allows me to run virtual machines on the system and I’m running development machines and general appliances on it now for remote access through Tailscale. The server runs DirectAdmin and is piped through Verizon Business FiOS with Cloudflare caching.
- November 8, 2025: Some new pictures. Removed the Pittsburgh DNS experiment awhile ago, no point. Still debating on Cloudflare for caching though due to simplicity versus cost.
- June 15, 2025: Still working on the website. Had tried out Anycasting the site but have not committed to it yet due to effort required and cost. New background image and moved the updates to a separate page now.
- March 30, 2025: Various new posts. Major update with nginx reverse proxy: Removed index.php from URLs but prevented broken WordPress site by filtering redirects. New image on front page.
- September 14, 2024: A few new pictures, changed image on front page, added a post about Pi-hole and Unbound.
- December 25, 2023: Uploaded new pictures from PGH on the photography page and refreshed the album.
- December 21, 2023: Updated images and content.
- October 31, 2023: Issues with post excerpts (limitation of the free version of Neve theme). Added a post. Other minor changes.
- August 28, 2023: Fixed more post formatting issues.
- August 5, 2023: Fixed more post formatting issues, added a post.
- August 1, 2023: Added blog posts to front page. Changed font sizes and font. Other minor updates.
- July 22, 2023: Moved site to a dedicated server. Reinstalled wiki and configured anti spam. Other updates not mentioned: Added audio page with link to IIAP field recording.
- July 13, 2023: Added missing photos to my photography page. Reuploaded all images to the WP Media library. Updated welcome page with random gallery.