Category Archives: Blogging

Outage

Posted on 2014-03-03 by jcs

And, we’re back. Sorry for the outage. Apparently my hosting provider had a series of drive failures that overwhelmed their RAID system. One of the servers affected runs the database for Irreal. My provider is very proactive and has been … Continue reading →

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1000

Posted on 2014-02-25 by jcs

Today is a milestone of sorts. This is the one thousandth post at (this inception of) Irreal. As I wrote after publishing a post everyday for a year, it’s one of those things that doesn’t seem like much until you … Continue reading →

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More Site Tuning

Posted on 2013-11-26 by jcs

Since I tuned up the caching software for Irreal.org I’ve seen a significant improvement in download speeds. Unfortunately, I’ve also seen some problems with client-side caching. After I add a new post and reload the site, I see the previous … Continue reading →

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Delay Update

Posted on 2013-11-16 by jcs

Just a quick note to bring you up to date on my efforts to fix the slow page loading that’s been plaguing Irreal lately. As I mentioned in my last update, the problem appears to be page generation not server … Continue reading →

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Update on Slow Loading of Irreal

Posted on 2013-11-13 by jcs

A quick update on the Irreal loading problems. I ran a tcpdump on a typical page load of Irreal and discovered the following: The initial three-way handshake with the server completes almost immediately. Immediately afterwards the GET from the browser … Continue reading →

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Help: Irreal Loading Slowly

Posted on 2013-11-09 by jcs

For the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that Irreal has been loading slowly. Irreal, like many small WordPress blogs, runs on a virtual server and I assumed that my hosting provider was moving things around a bit and that … Continue reading →

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Using yasnippet to Reduce Blogging Friction

Posted on 2013-10-14 by jcs

Every Irreal blog post begins with some header information that tells org2blog the title, category, and tags for the post. These get communicated to WordPress when org2blog exports the post. Those lines look like this: #+TITLE: Using =yasnippet= to Reduce … Continue reading →

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A Year of Posts

Posted on 2013-06-01 by jcs

A year ago today I gave myself a challenge: make at least one post to Irreal every day for a year. Yesterday’s post successfully completed that challenge. It was harder than I thought. The experience has given me a new … Continue reading →

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Emacs Challenge?

Posted on 2013-02-05 by jcs

Some of the most popular posts here at Irreal are those in which I attempt bring the power of Emacs to bear on VimGolf problems. I like those posts too because I always learn some new tricks both by working … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs—Another Method

Posted on 2012-01-16 by jcs

Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there … Continue reading →

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