Simon Facciol

Squarespace to Ghost

I finally decided to take the leap and move from Squarespace.com to Ghost. It wasn't easy and I had to create a node.js script to import my posts in Ghost.

blockchain

Understanding Blockchain Technology: 3. Characteristics of a blockchain

Data is always available as long as any of the nodes are online since the full copy of the data is stored on all the full nodes causing minimal disruptionData is highly secure and immutable because the data is encrypted with strong cryptographic algorithmsLocation

blockchain

Understanding Blockchain Technology: 2. Why was blockchain created?

Why was blockchain created? What is blockchain trying to achieve?As previous breakthroughs filled significant gaps to free civilisations from manipulations and dictatorships such as knowledge, power and distance, blockchain is going to increase the value of trust in data, as the history of

blockchain

Understanding Blockchain Technology: 1. What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a decentralised network of peer to peer nodes that replicate a digital transaction ledger and is made up of blocks of securely encrypted data which are chained together and dependent on each other. This means that there are several exact

ie11

IE11 SVG background images not displaying correctly

The ProblemThere is an issue with IE11 when rendering some types of SVG files the styles are embedded as a <style></style> element inside the SVG

Understrap

I have recently (2 weeks) started to use Understrap as starter theme kit for Wordpress. There is a lot of pre-developed functionality to make it easier to override or add

github

Github : Changelog.md bash script

Recently I have been tagging my releases with the following tag format "release/0.2.10" and I felt the need to generate a changelog that would then be visible

python

Python: Rename files using a csv map

This script is written in Python and makes use of a 2 column .csv file to find and rename files by mapping their existing name and rename it to the

code

Python: Check the resolution of images in a directory

Check the resolution of images in a directory and output the filename of the incorrect images. I had to check over 200 images and there was no better way than

mysql

MySQL Trigger to generate a slug on before insert a new row

This week I needed to write a trigger for MySQL to generate automatically the slug from a string column whenever a new game is added. What this trigger does is to get the game name column and replace some characters to generate a proper

amazon

Jaybird X2 FIRE

I just got my Jaybird X2 FIRE (red colour) today after deliberating through a dozen reviews and various other wireless in-ear headphones. I went for the Jaybird X2 mainly

ssh

Server ssh key login setup [OSX]

Do you ever get fed up of having to enter the ssh password every time you need to access a server from the terminal. Setting up ssh-copy-id is easy and

virtualbox

VirtualBox - Failed to create the host-only adapter [OSX]

This morning I went to fire up my local vagrant machine on OSX and I got the following error: Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Checking if

api

Wordpress - Send post data to external (3rd party) service

Did you ever want to send Wordpress post data as soon as a post is created, or published, or updated? Maybe even when the post is trashed or deleted? Using

ookla

Ookla - Could not connect to test server issue

Recently I had to debug and issue with our hosted Ookla speed test application. To cut it short the flash application was loading fine, license key was correct too but

htaccess

Setting environment variables in Magento using .htaccess or httpd.conf

.htaccessOR httpd.conf

drupal

Drupal 7 – Enable a theme from a custom module via code

Sometimes you are required to enable a theme programmatically from a module without needing to do it manually all the time, so to do this I have used the hook_

code

How to stop a youtube iframe video after closing a popup

If you ever embed a youtube video in a popup window, unless you use a third-party modal plugin, you would need to stop the video when the popup is closed