Don’t like Short Videos aka #shorts? Me too. They are not the reason why I visit YouTube but the site seems to be doing everything in its power to force you to watch those TikTok-like content. It’s Really annoying! Here’s how hide or block them: Install the uBlock Origin extension. For Firefox; For Chrome Once…← continue reading →
Prevent Linux Hard Disk Drive from Sleeping
If you are using a Hard Disk Drive on your Linux desktop as a secondary drive you may have noticed it consistently making a starting and stopping noise. This is the hard drive being shut down to save power. In my case since I only use it as a secondary drive to store images and…← continue reading →
WordPress Themes Updated After 3 Years
How time flies. I was finally able to work a bit on my WordPress themes after 3 years. Made sure they still work with WordPress 6 and has support for up to PHP 8. Just minor changes. On upcoming updates I’m thinking of having the option to host the fonts locally. Font GDPR issue. Frontier…← continue reading →
Review: Kingston A2000 M.2 SSD After A Year
I finally got myself a Solid State Drive. It’s very late in the SSD game, I know and even I’m surprised I haven’t upgraded till now since most of my everyday life revolves around my PC. I usually don’t try to change things unless they’re broken so up until 2020 I’ve been using an HDD…← continue reading →
Receive Adsense Earnings with UnionBank
Last year Google Adsense announced that receiving Adsense earnings through Western Union remittance will be discontinued this year. This got me worried since Western Union was very convenient for me as there is a remittance center nearby my house. I only had one bank account then and I didn’t know if my BPI Savings Account…← continue reading →
Concerning WordPress Themes
I got a couple of ideas for new WordPress themes I’d like to make. I also would like to update and work on my old themes again. But after taking a huge break from WordPress, I’m finding it very hard for me to get any momentum going. The WordPress landscape is not what it used…← continue reading →
Hello World! Or rather, Hello blog. It’s been months since I was last active on anything. Things that used to bring me tidbits of joy didn’t have the effect they used to have. Quite the opposite, in fact. Nothing but stress.
I only made 1 post last year as 2019 has been a very bad year for me. The ever-present mental and emotional anguish is there but this time with the addition of a deteriorating physical health. So I took a big sleep from everything in hopes that I’d feel recharged with energy and passion but I was wrong. It’s as if the batteries are dead.
Then 2020 happened. A terrible year for the entire globe, in fact. Cooped up at home, I wasn’t able to ride my bike and explore. Depression without physical exercise is a bad combination and I am now the heaviest I’ve ever been. I get dizzy constantly and am fatigued most of the time. With my family’s history of diabetes, I’m not feeling quite optimistic.
Making things worse, our dog Chico suddenly disappeared last November. He suffered a stroke years back and can’t walk properly. I’d like to think that he’s been taken in by another family instead of the more likely scenario that he simply died somewhere. Now his brother Dino is all by his lonesome.
Now with all of this going on, instead of looking forward to a happy and prosperous future, I find myself day-dreaming and reminiscing of the past. They weren’t all good memories but at least there was happiness. It’s now December 31 and in a couple of hours this year will end. Will things change? I don’t know.
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First WordPress Post Using Gutenberg
Testing; Attention please. Gutenberg for WordPress has been out for months now but I have been a holdout and was using the Classic Editor plugin. Gutenberg had issues with the “Preview” feature and was unusable for me. With the release of WordPress 5.1 the glitches and delays with previewing a Gutenberg post seems to have…← continue reading →