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Updating IP Address In No-IP.com With Raspberry Pi
I previously wrote how to use ddclient on a Raspberry Pi to updating an IP address In OpenDNS. Shortly afterward I added updating the IP of my noip.com domain into my configuration but never documented it… until now. If you don’t yet have ddclient installed, follow steps 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 & 10 in […]
Using YOURLS in a Subdirectory – Revisited
I’ve written before about how to use the YOURLS URL shortener from a subdirectory. In fact, I’ve written about it twice. First I wrote about how to get the admin and other functions to work properly. Later, I wrote how to get the API to work properly when installed in a subdrectory. But in the […]
Do We Still Believe in Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
Everybody deserves the benefit of the doubt. The United States criminal legal system seems to be built with this in mind. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. So why is it ok for them to be guilty until proven innocent in the court of public opinion? Much of the talk […]
Learning How to Run a Non-Profit
Through a series of odd events, I recently found myself being named the president of a small non-profit organization that I have done volunteer work for over the last several years. Though the discussion about me taking this position was not completely unexpected, the timing and circumstances were. With no previous experience overseeing an organization […]
Running YOURLs API from a Subdirectory Install
Some time ago I wrote about how to generate root short URLS from a YOURLs subdirectory install. For example, if you have YOURLs installed in the subdirectory ‘subdir’, by default your short URLs will come out as example.com/subdir/xxx. But example.com/xxx is so much nicer. The post details exactly how to get the nicer URLs. But […]