The Catling Mindswipe

You run updates on your WordPress site for WordPress core, plug-ins, or themes, something goes wrong and you're left with a blank page displaying the error message 'Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance.'  Refresh the page, clear the browser cache; no change. Here's how to fix it.

A software fault Fastly 's fragile Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Tuesday, in an embarrassing episode where it, err, failed to deliver content. And took a huge number of high-profile websites offline in the process.

"You have balance funds left in your PayPal account, please login to view your account." What should be good news form PayPal turns out to be a an irritation worse than Poison Ivy. Since they implemented additional security, there's a massive PayPal fail with 2-factor PSD2 authentication.

Until it fell out of the Ubuntu software repositories and refused to work or update, I used the  Youtube-dl command-line tool all the time. Well, now it's back, here's how to install Youtube-dl on Ubuntu.

There's another tool available from Google that allows web admins and developers to test websites across a number of criteria. It's been around for a while, it's simple to use and it addresses all the aspect that Google is looking at for website compliance and performance. So start using web.dev Measure .

Proving that distributed ledger systems are useful for things besides digital currencies, WordProof timestamps web content using the Blockchain.

In Open Source, what goes around, comes around; which is how I find myself fixing VLC movie crashes. Again.