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Why Your WordPress Redirects Stopped Working (And How to Fix Them for Good)

Note: This is a guest post by my buddy Claude.ai, who helped me figure this out and agreed to write it up as a blog post for me. All credit where credit is due Click here for a reference-card version By Claude Sonnet, Anthropic — based on a real debugging session with the sites you re [ ]

Why Your WordPress Redirects Stopped Working (And How to Fix Them for Good)

Why Your WordPress Redirects Stopped Working (And How to Fix Them for Good) By Claude Sonnet, Anthropic — based on a real debugging session with the sites you re already reading this on Note: This is a guest post by my buddy Claude.ai, who helped me figure this out and agreed to write it up as [ ]

ChatGPT compares an Apple II (my first computer) vs 2024 Mac Mini

My nifty new BirdOMatic bioacoustic data analysis system is up and running! To celebrate, I asked ChatGPT to SWAG how long my Apple II would have taken to analyze the bioacoustic audio data. Pretty much fun. Scroll to the bottom for the punchline . By the way, ChatGPT had to be coaxed through this a little [ ]

Landscape Rake – pulling weeds from the driveway (and modifying the rake to sit on the quick-attach 3-point hitch)

I made a video version of this that you can watch here: But I like this kinda thing as a blog post, so here is is. Click on the pictures to embiggen them. It starts out with the build (and takes a detour into revising the assembly the Vevor rake I bought to sit in [ ]

Wisconsin Catholic Tribune is at it again — just in time for the April 1 2025 Supreme Court election

Got this in the mail today. It turns out this is a tradition here in Wisconsin when there s a tight election like the one for a critical Supreme Court justice. Since the guy who publishes it is shy and doesn t include any information about himself, here s a link to help you out. Summary: it s fake. [ ]

Woodshop refresh

Huh! Didn t realize I published this one .

Riverland rate changes – 2024

Here s a summary of an analysis I did to understand the impact on me (as a grid-connected solar member) of a recent change in rates at the electric coop (Riverland Energy Cooperative) that I belong to. My conclusion in a nutshell: I accept the new rates as they stand. They seem fairer to coop members [ ]

X/Y Pal notes

A quick post about getting X/Y Pal connected between an iPhone 15 and an M1 Mac Ultra. Connecting over the wire (USB in the documentation) didn t work, but using a Network MIDI connection did with the advantage of not having to be tethered to the Mac. Here s a 45 second video that shows the [ ]

Big Improvements in the late ’70’s

Document wish list: NTIA funding both power increase and Bedford St. move CPB-qualification Bedford St. deal Board minutes from that period Significant Events Applying FCC approval to change frequency and transition to vastly upgraded transmitter power and antenna facility on the west side of town. Joan Rubel and Vinnie Curren worked on that, Steve [ ]

Power Trac 1850 oil and hydraulic filter change tips

Distractions led me to falling way behind on these two chores and I had to relearn a lot of stuff. So here s a list of notes to aid my failing memory. Oil change Try a socket wrench on the drain plug might be easier to get the leverage-pipe on it. The tractor takes just [ ]

WORT — the first few years — for the 50th Anniversary

This is a scratchpad post to collect stuff for the upcoming 50th anniversary of WORT. Cautionary notes: the newsletters and other documents behind the click here links are hosted here on my site. Also this is still under heavy editing/development (I ll take this warning down when I feel like it s close to done). My [ ]

Power Trac – mower dropping a mower blade hub

Scratchpad reminding myself of the steps needed to remove the pulley and key in order to drop the blade hub out of the mower. Really boring, don t read any further.. Tips: To just remove the pulley (say, to tighten the silver bolts underneath) just loosen the grub screw that locks the assembly to [ ]

Reset IFS variable in Mac OSX

I know, nobody could be so stupid as to set IFS directly from the command-line on their Mac whilst following a tutorial to learn how to split variables. But just in case you re just as stupid as me and you want to set it back to the Mac OSX default, here s what I did. First [ ]

Scaling Jack (and Jacktrip?) by using section-routing

This is really fast/early draft stuff. The puzzler: Building a 20-person mix-delete audio routing template in my Pretty Good Jacktrip Toolkit crashes (moderately-sized) Linode servers. They seem to crash when automating large numbers of Jack-connection adds or deletes issuing a delete-all with JMESS for example. The hypothesis: Jack works OK, it s the number of [ ]

PerformaX 16×32 sander – reduce burning – improve airflow

Clogged sandpaper leading to burns in the wood has always been a big problem with my PerformaX (JET) 16-32 drum sander. I m hopeful that this is the fix replacing the cover to provide a connection for a 4 dust collection hose (from the current model) rather than the original one which connected a 2.5 [ ]

Loopback: routing Jacktrip audio

UPDATE: September 2023 This post is for a person using command-line connection to Jacktrip and Qjackctl to manage Jack (which is the way we did it back in March of 2021). It creates a single virtual device to route audio to and from Jacktrip. This makes Qjackctl a lot easier to manage by providing a [ ]

A micro photography rig for Marcie

Here s the rig that that Marcie uses to take pictures of things at microscope scale. We took a long journey through a lot of attempts that were unsatisfactory perhaps this post will save you some steps. Here s a picture of the whole setup (click on the photos to embiggen). Here s the recipe: The core [ ]

WORT memories — for the 45th anniversary

dear WORT. happy 45th! many thanks for the invitation to throw a few words into the virtual gathering. here s a collection of WORT memory-jogger photos, starting off with a few pages from early program guides, that tell a lot of the story of the early days. clicking on the newsletter-page photos brings up bigger versions. [ ]

JackTrip — Hub-Mode server options

Here s a scratchpad on how Jacktrip Hub Mode does audio routing as of early September 2020. Starting the server in Hub Mode (capital-S instead of lower-case S) with the -p option offers four ways to configure the server. Here s an example launch string that would fire up a server in Mode 2: jacktrip -S -p2 [ ]

Add OBS (and optionally Syphon) as a video source to Zoom

Here s a video and a recipe for musicians who want to display something other than a web-cam of themselves when performing in an ensemble. Maybe graphics, or animation. Especially interesting is to insert a Syphon stream into the mix. Here s one way to do that. Sorry I only cover Mac software here. Part [ ]