WordPress is the worse “shareware” model

WordPress basic, which doesn’t have much functionality may be free and open, but the meat of it, the plugins, aren’t. The WordPress plugin ecosystem has grown from being an useful extension framework to a monster of “shareware”, trialware only set out to make a sale. Even the spamfilter Akismet, which once used to be free…

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I’m seeking remote work as a Go / Golang and/or Vue or Angular Backend or Full Stack Developer

Hello potential employer or contractor, I’m seeking remote only paid work, 20-40 hours / week. No job agencies. I’m available as a contractor or as an employee. My location in winter is Göppingen, Germany – in summer Rijeka, Croatia. I’m registered in Germany, that’s also where my business is registered. I currently only have a…

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Keycloak upgrade to 16.1.0 standalone

Upgrading Keycloak to 16.1.0 is not straightforward, it requires manual hands, especially if you’re behind a nginx proxy or other reverse proxy. The documentation has some vague hints that sends you to dead ends. I wrote a little upgrade script for my keycloak upgrades

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Crayon Syntax Highlighter Updated for PHP 8

I have updated the Crayon Syntax Highlighter to work with PHP8 and above. While I have tagged the release as 2.8.6 I’m moving away from that version scheme.

and use master branch. Remember to visit the settings page and save your settings, especially when switching PHP versions. To my knowledge this is the only…

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