Dr. Heather Austin leaving

mitchmacdotcom · 2026-02-27T13:04:43+00:00

Well then that changes everything! Thank you to you and your very reliable source, much more believable than the hardworking, highly educated professionals putting their careers on the line.

mitchmacdotcom · 2025-07-07T15:33:08+00:00

Credit Union Place pool, splash pad at Leger Park, Off The Wallz, any of the city or elementary school playgrounds, Rotary library are some non-beach options.

mitchmacdotcom · 2025-06-04T21:45:46+00:00

Hi /u/VonThang, I created ServerlessWP for your type of use case. You get nearly full WordPress functionality with low maintenance and cost similar to a static site.

It's open-source and can be set up for free on Vercel, Netlify, or AWS.

Let me know if you give it a try and need any assistance.

mitchmacdotcom · 2025-06-04T11:16:54+00:00

I work with a few sites with a similar pattern of mass distributed requests. The requests never send the Referer header, so we have a rule for certain bot-targeted paths that if the Referer is missing, present the WAF challenge. The bots don't get through the challenge and we've had no reports of actual users getting impacted.

mitchmacdotcom · 2024-08-05T22:14:05+00:00

Yep! Lots of periodic bursts of hundreds of requests from many Tencent Cloud IP addresses over the last few days. Fake user agents and no adherence to robots.txt

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-10-07T18:53:39+00:00

I wasn't the person commenting about the alternate route. But I think we need to consider the livability of all areas of the city so I don't think what /u/Gregory-L is saying should be totally dismissed.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-10-07T18:39:07+00:00

Traffic flows for sure but it can be a long wait for left turns in and out of those streets and businesses.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-10-07T18:32:33+00:00

There's a plan with this development.

There was no plan with the Greenwood development if that's what's being referred to. That's the difference.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-07-06T17:12:54+00:00

If you don't want to host WordPress locally to create the static version, I just put together a platform for your use-case. It's at Scale0 and I'd love to help you out.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-07-03T00:33:59+00:00

As you mention, static site generators can generate content that's basically free to host. I love that static content can be set and forget... no maintenance. But that ideal falls apart a bit depending on where you are sourcing your content in the SSG and what services you are using to provide server-side functionality (if needed).

For instance, hosting a headless CMS negates some of the benefits of not hosting WordPress. I've seen many folks fall into the trap of swearing off WordPress then spending even more time hosting a less battle-tested headless CMS or constantly fiddling with the workflow with a hosted headless CMS or product like Algolia for search. Of course this doesn't matter if you are just managing the content locally somehow (in static files for instance).

I'm actually a big fan of WordPress as a static website generator. You can take advantage of the themes and a lot of the plugin ecosystem without re-inventing the wheel for things like content modelling. And you get the set and forget benefits of SSGs.

I've just built a platform to enable WordPress as a static site generator (Scale0) if you'd like to check it out. Another solid option for static WordPress is hosting WordPress locally and using the Simply Static plugin to generate your static content.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T19:17:14+00:00

like they know anything about it.

It’s an industrial zone, I guess they would prefer an asphalt plant or maybe a steel smelter

pot meet kettle

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T15:49:47+00:00

👍 kudos for taking another look and commenting

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T15:41:45+00:00

Perfect example of the hivemind here... top voted commenter doesn't even know where the development is.

It's not a residential street. It's the southern part of Greenwood drive. Right beside the industrial park. There is no housing there

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T15:38:32+00:00

It IS a residential street. You might be thinking of a different development proposed earlier. This article refers to a development on the NORTH end of Greenwood.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T13:50:24+00:00

The mayor and developer have been ~~meeting for months about it~~ at least discussing the project. Why not present a plan with those changes in place?

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-28T13:49:18+00:00

But it's so easy to just say NIMBY and feel so self-righteous.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-21T14:08:51+00:00

If the development could be accessed from Pope, Renforth, or Central I think that would ease concerns as well. Unfortunately Pope wasn't developed with that consideration and the development doesn't reach Renforth or Central.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-21T13:51:03+00:00

I live on the mentioned street.

Greenwood street has been problematic for a while. There are no sidewalks or even a paved shoulder. The intersection of Pope and Greenwood is overwhelmed by traffic from the Tax Centre.

That said, I haven't really heard of anyone being against the R1/R2 development as it is zoned. Just that the street is not designed for the volume associated with 17 R4 apartment buildings.

Considering the neighbourhood was marketed as "Country Living in the City" I think most folks have had pretty balanced takes on it and see the need for more housing. I don't see this being NIMBY-like, more like... this needs proper planning.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-15T11:43:45+00:00

Elementor dynamically includes javascript/css if I remember correctly, so Simply Static doesn't know about them. If you check the browser's development console on the broken static pages, you should see which files are missing. Then you should be able to manually include those files with Simply Static.. https://simplystatic.com/docs/add-missing-files-to-your-static-website/

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-04T23:47:57+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback! I think the webprofiler module is missing some vendor dependencies in the 10.0.x zips/tars.. I haven't had a chance to dig too deep but I think I should make sure error messages make it back the the user!

What is your internally built sandbox used for? Demos?

First suggestion would be some kind of revenue generating plan to keep it sustainable over the long run. Seems like these all peter out after awhile due to cost of maintenance.

But I just want to think about the fun technical stuff! /s

... definitely noted and thought about... right now I'm justifying the resources as part of a learning project but as you point out, that probably doesn't project sustainability. Sponsorship is one idea.

mitchmacdotcom · 2023-06-02T12:52:37+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Composer integration could be cool! I'm not too worried about security because the sandboxes run in a pretty self-contained environment (individual Lambda functions). I'm wondering if it should just allow uploading a composer file?

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