Dot Kiwi is born

Published December 14th, 2014 under General

I was squirreling away launching a complete rejig of my domain names. This website will henceforth be known as geek.hellyer.kiwi 🙂

Update all the things

Published December 12th, 2014 under Plugins

I was getting frustrated having to hunt out code to make WordPress update all the things, so I’ve added an “Update all the things” section to my tools page,

Unique Headers

Published November 3rd, 2014 under Plugins

I’m working on a substantial update to the Unique Headers plugin. If you use the plugin, I’d love to hear some feedback on how you find it.

Google location tracking

Published August 16th, 2014 under General

I was stunned to see a scarily accurate plot of my exact location published online by Google! I’m not sure how that happened; either Google or I screwed up.

Creating Facebook applications

Published August 1st, 2014 under General

Every time I need to make a Facebook application I get horridly confused. So here is a brief set of instructions on how to do it.

Simple Colorbox v1.6!

Published July 19th, 2014 under Plugins

I’ve released a much needed upgrade for the Simple Colorbox plugin. The new version includes the latest version of the Colorbox script and more.

Saving CSS files in uploads folder

Published June 27th, 2014 under General

I used to do silly things with code. Okay, I most likely do silly things now too 😛 But back then, one of the dumbest thing I did, was to load CSS via PHP.

Spam epiphany

Published June 4th, 2014 under General

I had an epiphany whilst out running this evening. You can use “sporting methods” to block comment spam, but this can be improved.

Cryptocat Facebook integration

Published May 14th, 2014 under General

Due to the risk of my private messages becoming non-private, I am now using the Cryptocat to Facebook encryption service to secure my messages.

Dot KIWI conundrum

Published May 1st, 2014 under General

I am a proud Kiwi and am now the proud owner of both the ryan.kiwi and hellyer.kiwi domain names. What should I do with them?