How to Validate Freemius Licenses Outside of a Plugin

8 minute read This technical tutorials shows how I enable a SAAS site to validate a Freemius license key sent from a user’s site.

Problem Using SSH keys and Eclipse’s REmote System Explorer

2 minute read I use the program Eclipse for editing website files on a server. We recently beefed up security on the server by disabling password logins and instead only allow SSH login with an SSH key. But once we enabled that, I could no longer use Eclipse to SSH into the server. I started getting an error […]

Protected: Gratitude Journal — November 2020

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How to Relabel WordPress’ “Publish” Button for Custom Post Types

3 minute read For my WordPress plugin Print My Blog, I wanted to change WordPress’ “Publish” button to instead say “Save”, and it was complicated enough to merit sharing a blog post. My Situation The plugin registered a custom post type called “Print Material”, which isn’t publicly visible on the website. So the button “Publish” was misleading because […]

How Faith in Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost Helped Me in 2020

6 minute read This is from a talk I gave at church on October 25, 2020. French Fry DIsappointment Yesterday, we went to the one place you can get soy sauce with your fries: Shawnigan Jens Sushi. Celeste and Elise and I marched into our favourite Japanese-American take-out restaurant, and were told some terrible news: they were out […]

Protected: Gratitude Journal — October 2020

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N-Zero-Alpha discovers Feelings

4 minute read This is a story my girls and I did. It’s meant to teach kids to perceive others’ feelings and deal with them. N-Zero-Alpha is a robot with a big job. He’s flying a spaceship full of animals to a distant star, and his friend robot, Buster, isn’t working anymore. Monkey says the animals are worried […]

Password-Free SSH For Windows without Putty

2 minute read I’ve spent a few hours setting up password-free ssh access to Dreamhost’s websites a couple times now, and don’t want to waste this time again. Dreamhost has instructions on how to do it with Windows and PuTTY, and how to do it on Mac, but I’m using Windows with Laragon‘s Terminal which has a few […]

Protected: Gratitude Journal — July 2020

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Delete Files When Deleting Models in Django

2 minute read In Django, when you delete a model instance from the database the files uploaded to those instances are not deleted automatically. This can lead to having lots of “orphaned” files: they’re not referenced by the database, but they’re still taking up space on the server. In this post, I’ll share how to change that so […]