Year: 2020

How do you know what blocks are in use on a WordPress site? I recently saw a tweet asking this question in regards to knowing whether it is safe to turn off a plugin. https://wptavern.com/find-my-blocks-plugin-shows-all-blocks-in-use-on-a-wordpress-site

One of the great things about Raspberry Pi is the plethora of HATs (hardware attached on top), boards that connect to the GPIO pins and provide extra functionality such as lights, sensors and motors. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-sense-hat-projects-for-kids

The new More Python for Beginners series consists of 20 videos that run between two minutes and 15 minutes each. It covers working with files, lambdas  or ‘anonymous functions’, and object-oriented programming, and each tutorial is followed by a short demo video. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-our-new-free-python-programming-language-courses-are-for-novice-ai-developers/

It’s a bit of a cliche to say that data is the new oil. I like to think of it more as a renewable resource like wind.? Whatever energy source you choose as your metaphor, you want to harness some of its power! ⚡️ https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-get-data-from-apis-with-python-dfb83fdc5b5b

A little over a month ago, our world changed forever. A virus spread around the world and our financial systems bordered on collapse. We were forced to take refuge in our homes in a global quarantine on a scale not seen for a century. https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/doh-adam-liaw-on-the-highs-and-lows-of-making-your-own-sourdough-20200429-h1np44

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/steve_vai_answers_if_knowing_music_theory_is_important_for_guitarists_calls_ear_training_vital.html

WordPress makes up 1/3 of websites on the internet today. But many of them don’t appear as WordPress to the users or the public. Why? Because of a practice called white labeling. White labeling is when you remove all the branding of one product in place of another. https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/wordpress/how-to-white-label-wordpress

Already powering over 30% of the internet, WordPress is the fastest-growing content management system (CMS) in the world—and it’s not hard to see why. https://opensource.com/article/20/4/wordpress-security

Recently, a new set of endpoints in the Power BI REST API for exporting Power BI reports and paginated reports to files went into public preview (see the main announcement here and the paginated reports announcement here). https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2020/04/25/calling-the-power-bi-export-api-from-power-automate-part-1-creating-a-custom-connector/

In a perfect world, you’d never have a single issue that required debugging. But in the real world, you’ll almost certainly run into issues on your WordPress site that require a look under the hood. https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-debug/