I Heart Upgrades
So I just upgraded Wordpress to the latest version (as kindly prompted to do by my administration panel) and decided that this would be a good opportunity to talk about my experience with Wordpress and having a blog in general over the three months I’ve been posting for.
Contrary to my original thoughts it has not been difficult to find topics to write about, almost every single day I have something that I want to talk about - of course this isn’t always translated into posts. I haven’t got very much feedback, although it is difficult to judge my readership as it stands - aside from the one or two people who I personally know that subscribe. In fact the most difficult part of having a blog has been developing a theme, currently it is rather bland, and although I’m trying to design an improved one this isn’t exactly going to plan; design creativity isn’t my forte, apparently. I’d like to start taking photographs to brighten up my blog, need a decent camera first though.
Wordpress itself is a dream to work with, the dashboard is elegant and smooth, and behind the scenes it is easy to develop themes with. While there are still many features that would be great to have, it’s awesome as it stands (I’d love to develop some stuff for it, but learning another codebase is something I don’t have much time or will power for at the moment).
I also recently purchased a VPS and have been using it quite a lot in an effort to centralize my SSH and SFTP sessions and allow me to connect to an environment I am used to and can work with from nearly anywhere. Since I have full control over it I’ve been able to connect to it from school after configuring it to run the OpenSSH daemon on port 443 rather than the conventional 22; this also makes it more secure, of course. While I am currently using sshfs with FUSE so that I can access files across systems from a single filesystem it does have disadvantages and it occasionally refuses to delete certain files.