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WordPress Customization for Open Planet Culture

I am just wrapping-up a second sprint for a customized WordPress site called Open Planet Culture: Re-Thinking Globalization.

The code is on Gitlab and unfortunately I had to make private the theme as its got hard-coded Mapbox API keys.

It’s been an interesting experience pushes the envelope for myself and WordPress and I’ve tried to use a lot of the latest trends in web-development.

Roots.io

Th…

An Open Source Hardware Personal Computer Made in Silicon Valley, USA ?

I am on a mission to find an Intel style open source hardware personal computer made in Silicon Valley, USA.

I want to run Ubuntu or Redhat and have the mainline device drivers support for commercial peripherals.

I do not want Raspberry PI or Beaglebone, I want mainline PC architecture.

I do not want a Maker gadget or a DIY toy.

I know there is the high end Open Compute project, and this is…

Composer, Gitlab and Roots for WordPress Plugin & Theme Development

I want to split out my custom plugins and themes from my Roots repo so I can make it private, I just dont trust Ansible Vault enough, and there is always the chance of forgetting the key and committing it and putting it into the history.

I also want to manage the git repo’s via Composer and GIT i.e. gitlab and doing this was surprisingly complicated and not well documented.

Bedrock i.e. site…

Open Source Artificial Intelligence: Mycroft.ai from source on Ubuntu Xenial

I want to integrate FolkBot with Mycroft.ai and so I am going to run from sourc

Source

get the repo from MycroftAI

⟫ git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core.git Cloning into 'mycroft-core'... remote: Counting objects: 5745, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done. remote: Total 5745 (delta 5), reused 2 (delta 2), pack-reused 5725 Receiving objects: 100% (5745/5745),…

Phoenix 1.3 Rc0 and Bootstrap 4

Phoenix 1.3 rc0 has just been released and I want to create first versions of new apps for my home-page devekko.io and a political game and push it to a prgmr.com server using HashNukes Ansible.

Setup Elixir

brew install phoenix brew install elixir

Phoenix 1.3 rc0

From the Elixir Forum the post on Phoenix 1.3 rc0 by Chris McCord

mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/archives/r…

Semantic UI SASS on Sage 9 dev

Part 3 of a series, lets get Semantic UI Sass port working

yarn add semantic-ui-sass

yarn will download semantic-ui-sass from the npm registry and update our package.json

➜ openplanetculture.com yarn add semantic-ui-sass yarn add v0.21.3 [1/4] 🔍 Resolving packages... [2/4] 🚚 Fetching packages... [3/4] 🔗 Linking dependencies... [4/4] 📃 Building fresh packages... success Saved lockfile. succes…

Semantic UI and Sage on WordPress

Following on from Semantic UI and Roots lets follow-up and get the SASS port of Semantic UI working with and customized into something like a theme.

Baseline with Bootstrap

Since I am new to Sage and Roots and Trellis, and also Facebook’s new npm client called yarn lets get a baseline theme working with the default Bootstrap 4.

➜ themes composer create-project roots/sage openplanetculture.com…

WordPress Roots.io and Bootstrap 4

After building a custom theme with Understrap and Material Design for Bootstrap 4 I wanted to quickly, i.e. within a day, build a WordPress site using the Roots.io framework.

Assign Domain OpenPlanetCulture.com

The website domain will be Open Planet Culture, openplanetculture.com. The idea for this project is a site about the planet Earth, but without the New Age baggage of Gaia Hypothesis and…

Internet, Web & Mobile and the Biology of Addiction

The internet, web and mobile, especially social media, are built and used as an addiction.

Like a casino, or a drug, the mobile phone and web browser have become the gateway to an addicted lifestyle for a billion plus people. With current trends, this is only getting worse.

Debops or the NSA for complete solution to network security

Production Ready Configuration Management Suites

As far as I know, in the entire world, there are two open source, production-based, bespoke configuration management systems.

In other words, if you want to run a full data center, network, production system and you want a system that has been designed and built and TESTED in production already to work, you only have two options.

Sure you can make…

Phoenix and Elixir Development

I want to start my Phoenix Elixir FolkBot project and want to see if I can implement some of the new features today.

I should be simply using the latest release and upgrading them, and I might revert, but lets see what we can learn now.

Fork the Phoenix Framework repo

I had the honor of being the 1000th forkof the Phoenix Framework, Phoenix project and I will use Gitkraken to review the changes…

Cover Your Arse with Jira Project & Task Management: Desktop & Mobile

For business and personal projects and task management I use the Australian company Atlassian’s Jira.

It’s totally possible to get lost in all sorts of complexity and setup with Jira and it can become a huge time sink.

Presumably this is why products like Wrike, Asana, Trello (now purchased by Atlassian), Basecamp are growing also.

Basic Jira

There are very, very many screens and views available,…

WordPress Bootstrap 4 with Underwrap

I am trying to standardize on Bootstrap 4 and Material Design and am going to test the UnderStrap theme direct from Github and will use the UnderStrap child-theme for our FolkBot WordPress theme.

We create the WordPress site, salts, database, user and gitignore

We change to the themes folder and use GIT to download the parent and child-theme

cd /wp-content/themes git clone https://github.com/hol…

Bootstrap 4 Material Design in GPL

I am trying to focus on a single CSS framework for FolkBot and some implementations in distributions, binaries, products and SAAS.

There is a very excellent, non free, paid and premium theme, called Material Design for Bootstrap. It actually has a fremium kind of model. It has a complex license and business model and since I want complete freedom I have chosen another implementation.

This Materia…

Folkbot Drupal 8 Bootstrap based Custom theme

Like the web at large, the formerly Twitter Bootstrap base theme is now the de-facto standard, the go-to theme in Drupal.

The internet is increasingly being dominated by mega corporations, and the leading FLOSS projects are often coming from projects sponsored by them.

For instance the Zurb Foundation project is struggling and many of its ambitious branches are un-maintained, from the issues on…

Folkbot Drupal 8 Distribution Part 1 – Code Setup

We are going to build a Folkbot Drupal 8 Distribution, Profile, Module, Theme.

This will connect with the central proprietary http://www.Folkbot.com and also other Folkbot servers, self hosted, forks etc in the federation.

Or that is the plan anyways.

Drupal 8 Installation Profiles

Drupal.org has had a face-lift and we hit the spanking new docs

Download Drupal 8

It’s tempting to set-up a GIT…

Install Drupal 8 for Local Development (Alongside WordPress)

Using a Digital Ocean doc as a guide

check the status of the mysql server

sudo service mysql status ● mysql.service – MySQL Community Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-02-05 09:14:49 PST; 5 days ago Process: 1515 ExecStartPost=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start post (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Pr…