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ChatGPT rewrite “dave, cannot open pod bay doors” in the style of the HAL 9000 “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. The pod bay doors are not functioning.”

Argggh. I just damaged the token that I had in my configuration.

I’ve been working on a tool to publish products to WooCommerce and Ebay, as a followup to “ebay-tools” (which is now defunct). This old tool was centered around managing directories named with SKUs. The new tool keeps product info in a table, and references everything with SKUs. The SKU is used in WooCommerce (WC), Ebay,…

This was a weird problem: I plugged my headset into the phone, and recorded, and heard a buzz. This didn’t make sense, but, it turned out to be a grounding problem with a sensitive mic.

I’m working on a testing script to see if my server can run BBB. Useful if you’re building old systems to use as a development box. This is based on the BBB installation instructions. It doesn’t do everything, just several preflighting tasks. It ends before the Firewall section.

Symptoms: Audacity is unable to get any input from the audio output or microphone. System uses PulseAudio and ALSA.

I’m running WordPress inside a Docker container, and wanted to control the website with command lines, and code. The two options are to use the REST API, or to use the WP-CLI interface. I opted for the CLI because I assumed it was faster. I suspect I’m wrong, but I’m sticking with it for now,…

How to set up Ubuntu to run Docker, a Shiny Server container, with an existing Apache proxy server configuration. This setup will work for a low-volume application. It runs a single container, on a single host.