All right. Here’s a simple explanation of how end-to-end encryption works. Recently there’s been a healthy amount of chatter in the news regarding WhatsApp, and i’ve noticed more and more of my contacts using (installing at least) Signal on their phones. This will give you an idea essentially of how our text message convos go when unencrypted and encrypted, and you’ll, hopefully, come away with why it’s important. I’ll probably do a more extensive write-up later […]
Continue Reading …How to fix this “WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’] ~” error. Simply change “utf8mb4” to “utf8” in the Database Charset setting in your wp-config.php file. Voila. Update (2018.02.01): Do NOT follow any of that above. You’re going to want to keep the ‘utf8mb4’ under Database Charset in your wp-config.php file, but you’ll need to upgrade your WordPress database. You can do so by navigating here YOUR_WP_INSTALL_FOLDER/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php. For reasons why, read this from WordPress […]
Continue Reading …During my never-ending search for web development gigs, i used Craigslist a ton, but it was tedious having to go city by city. That was until I found an easy way to search ALL Craigslist posts throughout the country simultaneously.
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