Aloha! Miguel here. I just finished setting up WordPress and this is the first post to check out the new default theme ‘twentytwenty five’. So far so good!
I created this blog primarily to give my thoughts some structure, celebrate successes, and document learnings. A like to think of it as a modern-day instant camera like a Polaroid. For those who know me, I tend to organize myself at very high level and that’s how I plan to grow this website. However, I guarantee every post will have three elements:
- Original thoughts
- A photograph taken by Yours Truly
- A word and its explanation, as Iexicology is another one of my hobbies
Without further ado, let’s crack on with the first item. I like to do things the hard way, so this site was not built using one of the many all-in-one blog hosting solutions. Instead, I registered a domain up through the lovely Brazilian folks @ Porkbun [$11.06/yr]. Then, I used RackNerd’s LowEndBox’s deal for a small private server to host this blog[$10.98]. I installed AlmaLinux 9 on that and followed this by installing the pre-requisites for WordPress such as Apache, PHP and MariaDB. All this software is free and OpenSource! Next, I created the database and a user for my website so it could write and read data to MariaDB. Finally, I downloaded WordPress,installed it on the server, and $22.04 later here we are!
Do I recommend this approach? Absolutely not, unless you work in tech or want to learn. However, it’s a good experience to learn. For example, I had never used AlmaLinux, which appears to be based off CentOS. Also, I had never played around with MariaDB and while setting this blog up I learnt that it is a fork of MySQL created by former MySQL developers after Oracle acquired SunMicrosystems. It inherits much of the same SQL syntax from MySQL, but like any fork over time it has diverted a bit and added interesting features making it lighter and even faster than MySQL in some use-cases.
Picture of the Day
Victoria Street in Edinburgh is one of my favorite streets in the world! It’s colorful, charming and almost enchanted-looking. Some cool traditional shops + Liquid Rooms which is great for a night out!
Word of the Day
Rollicking is an adjective used to decribe something happy, energetic and often noisy.
Arsenal are playing well! It might be rollicking fun to support them this year – said no one ever ๐๐
I love this word as it sounds great, the ‘Roll’ sound paired with ‘ick’ makes for a striking pronunciation [/หrษlษชkษชล/]. Also, it’s speculated that it originates from merging two words: roll and frolic.
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