• Goodbye Disqus

    I’ve been using Disqus as the commenting system on this website for years now. It was convenient and did the job… until it wasn’t. 😅 Recently, Disqus decided to start adding ads to their free tier. Here is the email I received: Hi there, You’re currently on our free Disqus...

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  • Why my Jekyll post isn't showing up in production?

    So you have you Jekyll post properly appearing in your dev environment but not there when you deploy in production. Here is a few things that are most likely the reason why: Your local dev environment timezone may differ from the remote server. Make sure you have configured the timezone...

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  • Phpize error with phpbrew (Debian like)

    Today I’m using Laravel to prototype an application. I have to manage a lot of PHP versions at the same time that’s why I’m using phpbrew which is an awesome piece of software btw. I compiled recently PHP 7.2.9 and forgot to add the GD library to it. With phpbrew...

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  • Fonts I'm using for coding

    Here is a modest list of the fonts I have been using along my 15 years of coding/programming. If you read those lines, I assume you are looking for a good font which is pleasant to code with, easy to read with distinct characters (ex: O / 0 or l...

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  • PLESK - FTP Secured TLS does connect but does not obtain directory listing

    Chances are your Passive Ports are not set in your PLESK ProFTPD configuration. To fix that edit: vim /etc/proftpd.d/50-plesk.conf Add a PassivePorts range to allow simultaneous FPT connections. Your configuration should be like this: #ATTENTION! # #DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, #SO ALL YOUR CHANGES...

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  • Limits of Jekyll categories and i18n

    Before reading: This article deals with categories page generation by language using Jekyll and the problems I personally have to implement it. This article don’t list the limits of Jekyll in a general point of view. As you maybe noticed, I have been using Jekyll to build this website from...

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  • phpMyAdmin "No input file specified." error (Nginx with FastCGI)

    If you encounter a “No input file specified error” when you try to access your phpMyAdmin alias on your Nginx web server, please try to add this line to your vhost or default configuration: location ~ \.php$ { ... fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } This fastcgi_param line was missing into my...

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  • Tridiv - a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS.

    Quick post to introduce you Tridiv which is a cool editor to create 3D shapes and models in CSS. You can find few examples on their website (iPhone 4, Nintendo NES, X-wing). Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox… A dependency to WebKit I guess. Here is what I’ve...

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