I built a system that allows my 3-year-old to select videos from a printed binder using a cheap QR code scanner. No remote, no distracting thumbnails, no YouTube app at all! Here's what I did.

I've used WordPress for many years. It no longer suits my needs as well as it used to, so I've been investigating alternatives, inlcuding migrating this site to Bridgetown, a Ruby-based static site generator. And the switch feels principled and liberating.

After many years with Ionos, I finally made the switch to self-hosting on Hetzner. In this post, I walk through spinning up a VPS with WordPress preinstalled, hardening it with SSH keys and UFW, and configuring WordPress Multisite to serve multiple domains...