@fbarton @chris
We did the move from an ancient Xen cluster quite successfully.

#Clonezilla was a major help in the migration process for us. The whole migration felt like we were replacing the engines of a plane mid-flight, but we were able to get 99+% of the guest machines transferred smoothly (windows, Centos, Ubuntu, mixed methods of disk encryptions) with near zero observed downtime.

Quite proud of that work.

@fbarton
@chris

I'd love to try ceph at $DAYJOB (via proxmox), but we only have a 3 node cluster, so it's not really an option for us at this time

Well, crapola. Was replacing disk 1 and it got to 99% when disk 2 gave out. Running rsync's off to some other drives and then I guess a full rebuild is next.

Unrelated, how are #ugreen NAS's? Worthwhile?

#raidisnotabackup #homelab

@valkyrie
Some things are worth the risks.

It's that time again, folks: #GodotEngine 4.6 is now ready for broader testing with its first beta snapshot! ⚗️

No new additions to showcase, as we were already in feature freeze, so we can jump straight into the main highlights of this new version:

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-beta-1/

Hi!

We just translated the Heroic website to several languages. If you find any thing that can be improved or want to add more languages, let us know or just open a PR in in the website repo.

Thanks!

https://heroicgameslauncher.com
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/heroic-website

If you ever need to migrate from an Atlassian Bitbucket/ JIRA to Gitlab:

https://gitlab.com/jeremygonyea/jira-to-gitlab-migration-tool

#jira #atlassian #bitbucket #gitlab #migration

please just hear me out

RE: https://mastodon.r3pek.org/@r3pek/115686107036255053

Any #rust dev I can reach? Doing an app with #tokio and need some crosscheck because I might be overthinking it which leads to 4848593727483373 borrows and mut violations and stuff 😅

I have a quick survey for all my #selfhosted folks out there. If you have 3 minutes, a response would be awesome. Thanks, and best to you all. New videos coming tomorrow. https://mync.routemehome.org/apps/forms/s/saoreppWijfmNb5LebbBRLS9

@gbryant
I was curious about the Steam announcement of the new machine and controller, but when they announced the Frame, they had my attention (Django Unchained reference).

I can't wait!

@phs
@joeress

-ravh along with --progress

So far, #hades2 is an excellent sequel to the first game. Keeps the overall flavor of the first while still having enough new stuff to keep it fresh. Plays perfectly on the #SteamDeck

Kudos, Supergiant Games!

#pcgaming #hades

A big list of things I disable in WordPress

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/

There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size, Gutenberg stuff I've no use for, and ridiculous editorial decisions.

To double-down on the annoyance, there's no simple way to turn them off. In part, that is due to the "WordPress Philosophy":

Decisions, not options

[…] Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option this ultimately leads to frustration.

I broadly agree with that. Having hundreds of options is a burden for users and a nightmare for maintainers. Do please read this excellent discussion from Tom McFarlin for a more detailed analysis.

But I want to turn things off. Luckily, there is a way. If you're a developer, you can remove a fair number of these "enforced" decisions. Add the following to your theme's functions.php file and watch the mandatory WordPress bloat whither away. I've commented each removal and, where possible, given a source for more information. Feel free to leave a comment suggesting how this script can be improved and simplified.

//  Remove mandatory classic theme.function disable_classic_theme_styles() {    wp_deregister_style( "classic-theme-styles" );    wp_dequeue_style(    "classic-theme-styles" );}add_action( "wp_enqueue_scripts", "disable_classic_theme_styles" );//  Remove WP Emoji.//  http://www.denisbouquet.com/remove-wordpress-emoji-code/remove_action( "wp_head",             "print_emoji_detection_script", 7 );remove_action( "wp_print_styles",     "print_emoji_styles"              );remove_action( "admin_print_scripts", "print_emoji_detection_script"    );remove_action( "admin_print_styles",  "print_emoji_styles"              );//  https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-new-dns-prefetch-code/add_filter( "emoji_svg_url", "__return_false" );//  Stop emoji replacement with images in RSS / Atom Feeds//  https://danq.me/2023/09/04/wordpress-stop-emoji-images/remove_filter( "the_content_feed", "wp_staticize_emoji" );remove_filter( "comment_text_rss", "wp_staticize_emoji" );//  Remove automatic formatting.//  https://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/disable-automatic-formatting/remove_filter( "the_content",  "wptexturize" );remove_filter( "the_excerpt",  "wptexturize" );remove_filter( "comment_text", "wptexturize" );remove_filter( "the_title",    "wptexturize" );//  More formatting crap.add_action("init", function() {    remove_filter( "the_content", "convert_smilies", 20 );    foreach ( array( "the_content", "the_title", "wp_title", "document_title" ) as $filter ) {        remove_filter( $filter, "capital_P_dangit", 11 );    }    remove_filter( "comment_text", "capital_P_dangit", 31 );    //  No idea why this is separate    remove_filter( "the_content",  "do_blocks", 9 );}, 11);//  Remove Gutenberg Styles.//  https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-inline-styling-style-idglobal-styles-inline-css/remove_action( "wp_enqueue_scripts", "wp_enqueue_global_styles" );//  Remove Gutenberg editing widgets.//  From https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets///  Disables the block editor from managing widgets in the Gutenberg plugin.add_filter( "gutenberg_use_widgets_block_editor", "__return_false" );//  Disables the block editor from managing widgets.add_filter( "use_widgets_block_editor", "__return_false" );//  Remove Gutenberg Block Library CSS from loading on the frontend.//  https://smartwp.com/remove-gutenberg-css/function remove_wp_block_library_css() {    wp_dequeue_style( "wp-block-library"       );    wp_dequeue_style( "wp-block-library-theme" );    wp_dequeue_style( "wp-components"          );}add_action( "wp_enqueue_scripts", "remove_wp_block_library_css", 100 );//  Remove hovercards on comment links in admin area.//  https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-mshots-service/#post-12946617add_filter( "akismet_enable_mshots", "__return_false" );//  Remove Unused Plugin code.function remove_plugin_css_js() {    wp_dequeue_style( "image-sizes" );}add_action( "wp_enqueue_scripts", "remove_plugin_css_js", 100 );//  Remove WordPress forced image size//  https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62413#comment:40add_filter( "wp_img_tag_add_auto_sizes", "__return_false" );//  Remove <img> enhancements//  https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_filter_content_tags/remove_filter( "the_content",  "wp_filter_content_tags", 12 );//  Stop rewriting http:// URls for the main domain.//  https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_should_replace_insecure_home_url/remove_filter( "the_content", "wp_replace_insecure_home_url", 10 );//  Remove the attachment stuff//  https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/01/building-dynamic-block-based-attachment-templates-in-themes/remove_filter( "the_content", "prepend_attachment" );//  Remove the block filterremove_filter( "the_content", "apply_block_hooks_to_content_from_post_object", 8 );//  Remove browser check from Admin dashboard.//  https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/27626/disable-wp-check-browser-version.0.2.phpif ( !empty( $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] ) ) {    add_filter( "pre_site_transient_browser_" . md5( $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] ), "__return_null" );}//  Remove shortlink.//  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42444063/disable-wordpress-short-linksremove_action( "wp_head", "wp_shortlink_wp_head" );//  Remove RSD.//  https://wpengineer.com/1438/wordpress-header/remove_action( "wp_head", "rsd_link" );//  Remove extra feed links.//  https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/feed_links/add_filter( "feed_links_show_comments_feed", "__return_false" );add_filter( "feed_links_show_posts_feed",    "__return_false" );//  Remove api.w.org link.//  https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/211467/remove-json-api-links-in-header-htmlremove_action( "wp_head", "rest_output_link_wp_head" );//  https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/211817/how-to-remove-rest-api-link-in-http-headers//  https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/rest_output_link_header/remove_action( "template_redirect", "rest_output_link_header", 11, 0 );

You can find the latest version of my debloat script in my theme's repo.

If there are other things you find helpful to remove, or a better way to organise this file, please drop a comment in the box.

#blog #howto #php #wordpress

Accidentally pushed one prominent, unmarked button on my #github app, and now I get this unwanted email.

If I wanted to use #Copilot, I would have by now.

#annoying

Do you use #WordPress?

Here's how to remove everything (I find) irritating about it.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/

Please share and enjoy, or like and subscribe, or go forth and multiply.

Do I know anyone whose employer would be interested in sponsoring a high school robotics team in Toronto?

My nephew's current fundraising strategy seems to be to ask family members for money, and as someone without a lot of money who also doesn't think that school extracurriculars should be restricted to students with well-off families, I was trying to think of what else I could do to help.

I personally think they should build robots that will fundraise for them. Maybe a lemonade-making robot that could staff a lemonade stand? But I guess they first need enough funding to get to the point of being able to design & build such a thing!

There are a good chunk of free games to check out right now for your #SteamDeck, including Universe For Sale, Gunslug, and more:

https://steamdeckhq.com/free-games-for-your-steam-deck-11-27-25/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@0xabad1dea
Didn't one of these have BASIC on it? I recall having a friend who had one like these back in maybe the mid 90s?

My #WordPress to #GravCMS exporter [1] now exports drafts, revisions, and comments in addition to the users, roles, posts, and attachments! Finished a ton of work on the plugin this past week. There are now a fair amount of phpunit tests, too.

Check out version 0.4.1 for the latest and greatest!

[1] https://github.com/jgonyea/wp2grav_exporter