Working notes on software, systems, and security.

Infected versions of legitimate plugins, published under their own names, reaching every site set to update automatically.

If you are running Docker Desktop for a first time on Ubuntu/Debian desktop, most likely you will encounter issue that prevents you to login to the Docker Hub using the login button in the application UI. The problem is that once you click on the “Login” button in the header on the right hand side, […]

I’ve been automating my home since moving into my new place this year, though I actually started earlier with basic sensors like temperature and similar stuff. At first I set up Home Assistant on a RaspberryPI 3 device, however I quickly realized that that is way too limiting and moved the installation to my home […]

By default wp-cli on your Mac will use the system’s PHP version located in /usr/bin/env, however as of Valet 3.0 you an use the isolate command to make specific site using specific PHP version as follows: This will make your-website.test to use PHP 8.0.x, however instead of calling PHP directly in the command line, you […]

WordPress 5.3 introduced big image downscaling feature that basically resizes the images above certain threshold during the upload. The goal is to prevent huge images being uploaded and embedded in the content which will slow down the page load. By default this threshold is 2560px width/height and this means that if you upload image bigger […]

The problem Imagine you have huge spreadsheet that requires some custom processing and on top of that you also need to upload the data to WordPress. In my case i was given a spreadsheet of almost 1500 entries that was set of data containing name, email, ip address and some other data. The request was […]

Attending or speaking at WordCamp is fun, enjoyable and will result in meeting a lot of new people!