I’ve been running multiple WordPress blogs for my friends and family on my own VPS since ~2012. I didn’t bother checking them for updates, and surprise surprise they all got hacked.

This is my journey of how I fixed it and how the latest version of my blog was born.

At Metric, my latest accounting AI automation startup, we’ve built complex interconnected pipelines that query an LLM with multiple transactions and invoices.

A simple way to implement a “search” feature into your node app is using the database engine to check for presence of tokenized search query. In my case, I’m using MySQL with the Sequelize ORM and needed to add a e-commerce like search form with product results for a client.

Vue loads content asynchronously, which means that Google’s crawlers won’t pick up your site for indexing. That is, until you give them a rendered version to see. We’re going to discuss a common way to serve content properly for crawlers here, called “Prerendering”.

Ghost… I tried. Trust me, I really did. I stuck with you for over 3 years, developed a custom theme on you, hacked around any shortcomings you had. But yesterday, I had to give up. Trying to upgrade from 0.11.x to 1.x had to be one of the most annoying experiences I’ve had recently and enough is enough. It’s not me, it’s you.

I’ve been looking for a free option for instant RSS to email subscriptions, and while Zapier comes close; the free tier does not support the volume or speed that I require.

I don’t know about you guys, but I always have an annoying time trying to figure out how to make Sequelize work — the documentation seems to have a dearth of examples. Here’s a few examples for “common” functionality.