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Jul 20, 2021

Made in the Spirit of the Early Web — Critical MAS

I recently released a brand new version of my radio tribute site NeilRogers.org. This is what I added to the footer of the site. 2012–2021 NeilRogers.org is a project maintained by Michael Allen Smith with the support of Neil’s heir, attorney, and fans.The code for this site is freely available…

Web

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Made in the Spirit of the Early Web — Critical MAS
Made in the Spirit of the Early Web — Critical MAS

Jul 20, 2020

Rewriting the Neil Rogers Website in Svelte

One of the other websites that I maintain is neilrogers.org, which I discussed a little bit in the 2014 post My Tribute to Radio’s Neil Rogers. You don’t need to read that post. …

Neil Rogers

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Rewriting the Neil Rogers Website in Svelte
Rewriting the Neil Rogers Website in Svelte

Jul 6, 2020

Tribute to Jorge Rodriguez

On Friday July 3rd, Jorge Rodriguez died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 55. Jorge was the long time producer and guest host for the Neil Rogers Show. …

Radio

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Tribute to Jorge Rodriguez
Tribute to Jorge Rodriguez

Jun 6, 2019

How Google Helped Kill the Indie Web and How It Can Bring It Back

My hope is that someone that works inside Google reads this post and shares it with their co-workers. Maybe this post can get a conversation going about where the web is heading next. In 2013, Google made a mistake. It shut down Google Reader, which was an RSS Reader that…

Blogging

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How Google Helped Kill the Indie Web and How It Can Bring It Back
How Google Helped Kill the Indie Web and How It Can Bring It Back

Sep 21, 2018

Reduce Your WordPress Resource Usage With Login CAPTCHA

In an early post titled Reduce Your WordPress Resource Usage By Hiding Your RSS Feed Link, I explained how I was able to thwart bots that were hammering my WordPress RSS Feed link. It worked and my Resource Usage dropped down to a safe range. Well, recently my Resource Usage…

Word Press

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Reduce Your WordPress Resource Usage With Login CAPTCHA
Reduce Your WordPress Resource Usage With Login CAPTCHA

Jun 20, 2018

Your SEO Backlink Strategy Will Backfire With Me

About 3 or 4 times a week, every week, for years, I receive an email requesting that my coffee site INeedCoffee provide a backlink to some article on another coffee website. Without fail, I mark the email as SPAM, block the user, and then delete the email. If that sounds…

SEO

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Your SEO Backlink Strategy Will Backfire With Me
Your SEO Backlink Strategy Will Backfire With Me

Jun 18, 2018

The State of Blogging in 2018

I’m putting this post together as a way to gather my thoughts on the current state of blogging. WordPress is a Bloated Mess I’ve been using WordPress now since 2007. I use it on 5 of my websites now. It is probably still the best content management system out there. Almost 30% of all websites…

Blogging

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The State of Blogging in 2018
The State of Blogging in 2018

Apr 14, 2018

Miami Herald Covers the Neil Rogers Audio Recovery Project — Neil Rogers

Yesterday, I was interviewed by Jose Lambiet for a story about this website and the YouTube channel we created as a tribute to Neil Rogers. It is a good article and I hope it attracts new fans and maybe new audio will be recovered. Side note: If you know someone…

Neil Rogers

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Miami Herald Covers the Neil Rogers Audio Recovery Project — Neil Rogers
Miami Herald Covers the Neil Rogers Audio Recovery Project — Neil Rogers

Apr 8, 2018

Detecting the Country Code of your user with SiteGround and CloudFlare Caching Enabled using WordPress

I have caching enabled for my WordPress websites using both the SuperCacher offered by my web host SiteGround and my CDN CloudFlare. This enables my websites to run smoking fast. My site INeedCoffee.com has an Amazon Ad below the content of each article. The ads pay for the site. The…

Web Development

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Detecting the Country Code of your user with SiteGround and CloudFlare Caching Enabled using…
Detecting the Country Code of your user with SiteGround and CloudFlare Caching Enabled using…

Oct 26, 2017

Tribute to John Baker — Neil Rogers

Yesterday morning I received word that my friend John Baker had died. I do not know the cause of death, but I was aware he had been battling a sickness for a week that left him very tired. For the past five years, John was my partner on the Neil…

Neil Rogers

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Tribute to John Baker — Neil Rogers
Tribute to John Baker — Neil Rogers
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