Fifteen years ago, a hosting pro told me to patch my packages and never reboot. He was half right — and the wrong half involves the kernel, deceptive version numbers, and a blind spot in Plesk’s automatic updates. A Saturday morning investigation on my own server, epilogue included.
Git tags are perfect for marking releases — and VS Code supports them, if you know where to look. Here’s how to create annotated tags, what the mysterious double prompt means, and why your tag isn’t showing up on GitHub.
Merging one Git branch into another is five lines on the command line — and a small treasure hunt in the VS Code UI. Here’s both ways, including where the Merge option is actually hiding.
Every git feature exists in VS Code — checkout, merge, sync, tags. The problem is where they all live. A tour of the three branch menus, the hidden merge option, what “sync” actually does, and how the whole thing could make sense.
F11 is just a convention — plenty of apps never implement it. On KDE Plasma, KWin can force any window into full screen from the outside: Alt+F3, an unbound shortcut worth binding, and Window Rules.
Quick-reference steps for putting an Unreal Engine project under Git with LFS: the .gitignore, the .gitattributes, and committing in the correct order — plus a note on Perforce, Diversion, and Epic’s new Lore.
Claude Code installation on Windows has changed (again) — and for the better. One pasted line, no admin rights, and a proper VS Code extension. Here’s the current state of play.
Claude can now talk to my self-hosted WordPress sites via MCP. Here’s the full setup with the Atlas AI Connector, the OAuth debugging saga that came with it, and the Notion-to-WordPress publishing pipeline that fell out the other end — including the fact that this very article travelled through it.
