Category: Miscellaneous
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“My Apple order is still in process in the Apple Store app hours before the scheduled pick up time, what shall I do?” – a lesson from my own experience
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I was at Toronto’s Eaton Centre to pick up my new iPhone from 11:30 AM to 11:45 AM. But when I entered the Apple Store around 11:33 AM, my order was still “In Process”, i.e., “Not Ready for Pickup”. I asked a lady, and she told me to wait until my pickup window closed at…
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iCloud Passwords extension may slow down your browsers – a non-perfect solution
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If you are like me, who uses Apple devices but also a Windows PC, and you have the iCloud Passwords extension to sync your passwords. Well, maybe you are having the same issue as described below. I have been experiencing a slow Edge/Chrome on my Windows 11 PC, even with a fresh installation after the…
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TopCashback works and is an awesome choice for online shopping
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In May, I bought a VPN service. The price was a little high, but with TopCashback, I successfully saved 65% in total – today, I received a VISA pre-paid card from them. The only drawback is that it takes a little longer to process, about two months. But I feel like as long as it…
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Bulk image optimization by ShortPixel takes forever to finish, and today I know why – it is my fault
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I have a personal blog in Chinese, which I have been running since 2016. It is my first WordPress site. I decided to make it serve WebP images for the sake of speed. I had lots of ShortPixel credits so I ran “bulk image optimization” in the media library after installing the plugin, expecting the…
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How to install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on a Ubuntu VPS to host websites
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This article is about how I deploy a Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) environment on my DigitalOcean VPS. I wrote this article in Chinese originally. I borrowed some ideas from the internet.
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Personal Website Redesigned
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From HTML+CSS+JavaScript, to Vanilla PHP, From Vanilla PHP, to Laravel, From Lravel, BACK to WordPress.