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Google Chrome broke apt-get update
Recently Google stopped supporting the 32-bit version of its Chrome web browser on Linux. This unfortunately had the side-effect of breaking Ubuntu’s apt-get update/upgrade command. Here’s how to fix!
Be Careful $with Laravel
Following a little surprise on a Laravel project I was developing, I figured best to write a short post about it. Make sure to be very careful when you use the $with property in your models. Whilst this can be a helpful property – it allows the model to always eager load a relationship or […]
Thoughts on advertising in the modern age
The Verge wrote about “Teens can’t tell the difference between Google ads & search results” which reveals scary figures on lack of advertising awareness.
It made me think about how important it is for us to bring up the next generation with not only an awareness of recognising advertising and the importance of researching facts with multiple independently verified sources, but also not bringing them into the world with an already defined advertising profile against their name.
My wishlist for Reason 9
Propellerheads recently launched Reason 8 and whilst it brings some nice new features, and I’m a huge fan of the software in general, I must admit it did feel as though it fell slightly short of the mark.
WordPress: Modify page RSS feed to display full content
By default WordPress ‘pages’ have an RSS feed of comments available – but what if you need the feed link to display the full page content instead?
Read on to find out how to change this functionality without modifying the WordPress core.
Creating a Mixcloud embed shortcode for WordPress
Save yourself time and make it easy to change your embedded media layouts with this handy shortcode for embedding MixCloud in your WordPress theme.
Forcing download of mp3 and other files in browers
Sometimes you want your users to download a file instead of it being displayed in their browser. This method can be used to customise different websites to force different file types to be downloaded.
Bug: Chrome browser constantly requests sign-in
After changing your Google password, Chrome constantly tells you your account sign-in details are out of date, no matter how many times you sign-in again.
Here’s a way to fix this weird Chrome bug.
WordPress: Adding Custom Post Types to Home and RSS Feed
Whilst rebuilding the Invisible Agent record label website, we’ve updated the handling of content types to split different types into new custom post types.
Importantly we need to make sure that these custom post types are shown in the correct places, such as the WordPress front_page, tag archives, and RSS feeds.
