When uploading a screenshot of your website (or someone else's website), make sure your email address (or portion of your email address) is not exposed when taking a screenshot. I uploaded my screenshot of pagination for my website and a part of my email address has been exposed over the web and I had to retake the screenshot without it. If you have a webmail opened in one browser tab such as GMail/Google Workspace, your browser tab will look similar to this:
Inbox (5): yourname(at)your...
That tab is exposed by the <title> tag inside a website. Here's what I mean:
<html>
<head>
<title>Inbox (5): yourname(at)yourdomainname(dot)com</title>
<head>
<body>
<h1>Your E-Mail Provider</h1>
<p>Your email messages go here.</p>
</body>
<html>
Instead of "@", I use "(at)" so that spam harvesters and bots won't harvest any email addresses in my website; however, I won't give away any of my 170+ email addresses at all. Pay special attention to the title of web pages that you currently have opened. By "title," I meant your browser tabs. My advice is do not leave anything sensitive unattended. I hope I can be of help to everyone. Be safe out there in the web!
Article published: 2021-05-01 10:01
Categories: General, Announcement
Transitioning From Custom CMS To ClassicPress
I have rebuilt my website using ClassicPress instead of a custom-built Content Management System (CMS for short). The reason for why I chose ClassicPress is simplicity. However, simplicity comes with compromises regarding the security and underlying control of my website such as not being able to separate the administration panel from the core CMS. I have first built my website with my own theme in mind due to my experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. I built my own admin panel from scratch as well, although it's very tedious and it took me a lot of time. Even though building my admin panel is tedious, mine turned out pretty well--well, almost. I wanted to write PHP code that would synchronize my changes from hte local database to my production database, but I did not put my time into it. So, while building my CMS from scratch is fun, at the end of the day, ClassicPress simplifies the implementation of features for me such as search, categories, and archive for listing posts by month.
About my website that I built with a custom CMS, I focused in the paradigm called Model-View-Controller, or MVC for short. I will get into more detail at a later time as I want to keep my blog article short. However, I can show you the images for those who have eyesight.
Article published: 2021-02-05 18:50
Categories: General, Announcement
Hello! My name is Grayson Peddie and this is my first time writing my blog from scratch instead of using WordPress. I was born in Panama City and raised in Tallahassee, Florida throughout my entire life. I am CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ certified and I love to get into career in Information Technology. I want to get my feet wet in a little bit of cybersecurity and a lot of network engineering. Not only that, I would also like to setup a homelab with a couple of servers for running OpenStack.
Let's talk about my hobbies. So what do I do for a living? I listen to music, play games, and watch YouTube videos. I even administer my own network and program my home automation system using Home Assistant. Specifically, Home Assistant Core, although I do have a tendency to refer "Home Assistant Core" as "Home Assistant" because I've been a user for about 4 years as of Home Assistant 0.17 and the latest version is 0.108.
So what music do I listen to? Because I'm an adventure type, I like to listen to new age and Celtic music from around the world. ("Celtic" is pronounced "keltic" but with a "c.") I listen to music from David Arkenstone, Yanni, Cusco, Kitaro, Loreena McKennitt, Clannad, Enya, and so many artists that I could list, but could get rather long. Plus, I like to listen to smooth jazz, symphony orchestra, 40s instrumental jazz, and even 60s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Most of the time, I listen to instrumental music. Unlike vocals, musical instruments speak their own language.
Article published: 2021-02-03 05:20
Categories: General, Introduction
