In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Erm. No. This needed to lose a good 15 minutes. I actually got bored.
I confess that I might be a victim of my own expectations on this one.
Anyone else worry when the WordPress Comment spam is empty? It should feel like success but it never does.
So, I had a minor disaster. This is what went wrong and how I fixed it.
We use the amazing WordPress Redirection plugin. We recently started a survey and the best way to contact the participants was by letter. We had to include a URL to the survey. Some people were mistyping the URL. For example:
/direct-payments-servey
/direct-payments-urvey
/directpayment-survery/
/directpaymentsurvey
/directpaymentssurvey
The correct URL is /direct-payments-survey/
To fix this, at 8:10am this morning, I threw up a very hasty regex redirect and went to have my breakfast, slapping myself on the back. It matches all the errors and, I thought, would catch most other typos. Here it is:
^/(directpayment|direct-payment).*
Problem is it also caught the target URL and an endless redirect ensued. The page was down for 9 hours.
After my trials a little while back trying to get to grips with not matching strings in a regex I had a good idea for how to fix it.
^/(?!direct-payments-survey)(directpayment|direct-payment).*
It was that easy. Here is the regex on regex101 as usual.
The silver lining here is that I now have a very reusable fix when I need to match something very close to the target URL. I’ve had this problem in the past and often just created a completely different URL. Even then this was not foolproof as WordPress keeps it’s own records of old URLs and redirects.
I do like celebrate a victory but today I must acknowledge a failure. I put a pretty important web page into an endless redirect loop with some fast and loose admin. Sadly, I made that change at 8:10am and I only just fixed it… ?
I use Chrome once a month at work to access analytics from the major social media platforms at it almost always breaks. How is this the world’s most popular browser?
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
You’ve got to love how this builds. It keeps a lot of its shocks back for the final third and it’s way more effective. The visual effects are, frankly, excellent.
Sidenote: Amazon Prime was telling me this was a PG! It surely is not.
We’ve expanded our demographics collection and we now cover sexuality. I wrote about it here https://www.healthwatchbucks.co.uk/2021/06/why-were-asking-for-more-information-about-you/. Since we added the new categories we have had a few people tick asexual. Do you think we should add links to the options explaining the meanings?
Phil (161.35.32.91)I do like a takeaway pizza. I don’t like opt-out marketing communications and no clear link to a privacy policy.
If you write reports that contain a lot of similar charts from Excel, you must look at Chart Templates. They save so much time.
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
Love it.
Watched on Sunday June 27, 2021.
