Kenan Fallon kenanfallon

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

How to remap the caps lock key to the emoji selector on Mac

Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys...
Change “Caps Lock” to “No action”
Install Seil
Change the Caps Lock key in Seil to keyCode 80 (F19)
Install Karabiner
Open Karabiner and go to Misc & Uninstall -> Open private.xml
Copy the contents of this gist's example to the XML file and save
In Karabiner, go to Change Keys -> Reload XML

Homebrew

How To

Homebrew is a package management system for OS X. You can read more about it here, or simply run

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

to install it.

Single WordPress on a Droplet

Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 12.04
How To Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 12.04
A Basic MySQL Tutorial
How To Install phpMyAdmin on a LEMP server
How To Install Git on Ubuntu 12.04
Generating SSH Keys and connect with DigitalOcean
Install Composer on DigitalOcean
[Install php5-cli if you get stuck with installing Compos

Install the latest JRE from Oracle
In the Java Control Panel, go to the Security tab and make sure 'Enable Java Content' is checked
Open Safari
Go to the ATO Business portal site https://bp.ato.gov.au/BpStatics/homepage.htm
Click Login
A dialog will apear asking you 'Do you want to trust the website “authentication.business.gov.au” to use the “Java” plug-in?'
Click 'Trust'
Now you will be asked 'Do you want to run this application?'
Click 'Run'
Another dialog will appear asking you to 'Allow access to the following application from this website?'

	php artisan tinker
	$user = new App\User;
	$user->name="Admin";
	$user->email="[email protected]";
	$user->password=bcrypt('1234');
	$user->save();

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp-content/uploads/(.*)$
	RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/uploads/%1 !-f
	RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ http://www.remotesite.com/wp-content/uploads/$1 [R=301,L]
	</IfModule>

	set :repo_url, '[email protected]:Design-Collective/some-repo.git'
	set :application, 'the-app-name.com'
	set :theme_name, 'sage'

	# Branch options
	# Prompts for the branch name (defaults to current branch)
	#ask :branch, -> { `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`.chomp }

	# Hardcodes branch to always be master
	# This could be overridden in a stage config file

	<?php
	/**
	* Plugin Name: Responsive oEmbed
	* Plugin URI: https://foxnet-themes.fi
	* Description: This plugin makes your oEmbed responsive without JQuery using FluidVids script.
	* Version: 1.0.0
	* Author: Sami Keijonen
	* Author URI: http://foxnet.fi
	* Text Domain: responsive-oembed
	* Domain Path: /languages

	<?php
	/**
	* Plugin Name: WooCommerce Settings Tab Demo
	* Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/BFTrick/b5e3afa6f4f83ba2e54a
	* Description: A plugin demonstrating how to add a WooCommerce settings tab.
	* Author: Patrick Rauland
	* Author URI: http://speakinginbytes.com/
	* Version: 1.0
	*
	* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify