Remkus de Vries

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  • HowTo: Create YouTube Channel Subscribe link

    There’s different ways to link to your YouTube channel. Let’s take mine for example. It’s available at: https://www.youtube.com/@remkusdevries. But did you know you can also create a link that will result in a prompt on YouTube to directly subscribe to the channel? So a proper subscribe link. Here’s How:

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  • My hack to publish more on my WordPress site

    Just like many of you out there, I found myself publishing less and less over the last couple of years on my WordPress site. Not because I had nothing to share, but because I set the bar too high. Failing before I started, so to say. This is how I fixed it: I added an…

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  • AutoPost to Mastodon from WordPress

    If you’re looking for an easy way to autopost your content from your WordPress site to your Mastodon account, there is a solution. In fact, there are multiple solutions, but I’m going to highlight the one I ended up using: It’s simple enough, but offers a few nice features. My favorites are:

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  • How I use the Block Editor in WordPress

    Since I’ve left page builders behind me, I’m only using WordPress’ Block Editor of late. These are the things I do in terms of settings in every single site to make it work best for me: I know there’s plenty of Keyboard Shortcuts as well, but I’ve not found myself wanting to use them. I’m…

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  • How To Use Mastodon With Cloudflare R2

    Since Mastodon is compatible with Amazon S3, it automatically is also compatible with Cloudflare R2. Why? Because R2 uses the same API endpoints. So, what works with Amazon S3 works with Clouflare R2 as well. Sounds pretty straight forward, in installing my Mastodon instance with Cloudflare R2 storage, I ran into a few small niggles…

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  • How To Use Mastodon CLI

    I just finished setting up my Mastodon instance and one of the first things I wanted to get my hands on what the Mastodon CLI. I mean, why not use a simple command line interface when you can, right? Turns out, it’s a little less straight-forward compared to WordPress’ WP CLI. In the spirit of…

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  • AWS S3 Bucket working with Cloudflare, a Short HowTo

    First off, I much prefer Cloudflare’s R2 over Amazon’s S3 for a slew of reasons, but I found myself in a place where I needed to offload about 80Gb to AWS S3 bucket to be served under a subdomain, proxied by Cloudflare. I ran into a problem where I could not get a properly configured…

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  • Finding files in Amazon AWS S3 Buckets

    One of my clients uses a 1.5TB sized bucket on Amazon S3 and regularly needs to have a file removed because of copyright claims or something like that. It’s mostly a legacy bucket without any proper file structure. You can imagine searching through all of the folders is something of a nightmare. At least manually.…

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