Using WP Widget Cache, I improved my site load time by about 600% by just starting to cache the widgets. Here are some screenshots from my strace-based ‘magic profiler’ (which I still promise to talk more about later.) It lets you attach to a process which is about to render your website, and then trace [...]
My brother and I were playing around with Arduinos as part of my epic road trip this summer. He was trying to get a stable temperature reading from a sensor. The issue was that the sensor was fine, except when it was rapidly transitioning from one temperature to another. For example, if the ambient temperature [...]
These days as we move increasingly to ‘the clouds’, it’s becoming common to get a server where you’ve got local root. However, those (from a provider and a user perspective) aren’t always the best way to go. Those are more expensive to provide (dedicated IP’s, more dedicated resources on the server) and thus more expensive [...]
