make a string url-safe

When running devops scripts (among other things), we often need to get a url-safe representation of an arbitrary string. This is commonly known as “url slug” by the average netizens. As my JavaScript is better than my bash, and npx is more universally available than my capability to master both Windows and Linux shell scripts, […]

ghost 2.x – how to use a specific pOST as THE home (landing) page

This post discusses an approach to use a normal Post as the entire homepage of a Ghost blog

How do I (as a developer) use Automattic products (and their competitors) – Part 1

Hello there, If you’re a random reader, this post is exactly as its title reads. If you happen to be from Automattic Inc. itself, you know why this post is here! Now without further ado, I’ll tell you a story about how I came to choose and use some of Automattic’s products. A. WordPress itself […]

A collection of error pages (40x, 50x) from popular global sites

*This is intended to be an ever WIP (Work-in-progress) post. Your contribution is much welcomed! During my daily surfing, I come across lots of error webpages. Popular sites often get their interfaces updated, which is one good reason I’d love to “keep the moment”. Some day these error pages might be precious things for […]

How Facebook Page “likes” are “hacked”

Hey guys, So today while browsing around the one-giant-social-network, I noticed a particular Facebook Page which seems to have generated a conspicuously big amount of “likes” in just a matter of hours. Plus, to my amazement, I found out that I was among the Facebook users that DID LIKE the page itself!!! You see, not […]

Happy Birthday …. Wishitives ;)

Hi everybody, So this week was my birthday! Some of my closer friends might actually be familiar with me always getting buried in my work on this day, every year. I don’t know why, could be a curse.. Last year I stayed up all night and for 2 consecutive years before that I even slept […]

On doing business

There was this article I read a few days ago suggesting that one of the things you should do in life is to at least once run a business of your own. You know, big, small, large, tiny, from selling seashells to real estates, doing so will give you a taste of being the boss, […]

Street-Entrepreneurs in Vietnam

Hi guys, If any of you were reading my last post about SephPlayer, you’d notice it was the first good news of the week. And that means the second one is here: This is about a video project I took part in together with my friends Yen, Nhat, and Xinh; it was a short clip […]

ASCII Arts, Emoticons, Memes, whatever you call ’em

Just a place to share the ascii emoticons /memes, both western and eastern originates, that I’ve collectively found during my daily surfing 🙂 Credits to whoever inventing each and every of these stuff in the first place! ಠ_ಠ —– to me it seems like “wtf”, anyone? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ —– the popular “why u no….” face （╯°□°）╯ (: —– […]

Sth. personal

Say, more than 80% of the web is WordPress, or WordPress-based. I gotta admit that I believe this. Strongly. Building my own web / blog isn’t something beyond my capabilities, but, sincerely, why bother doing that when I’ve got something so fine-tuned for personal blogging at my own disposal? Instead of trying to make time […]