I should title this, “I don’t know what I don’t know.”
Bitnami stopped providing free WordPress images. This means I have to create a container and docker compose control file that will plug in and replace the Bitnami version.
This isn’t horribly difficult; it just takes a bit of work. Even now, I just realized that I can make a change that will make my life a little easier, so it is something I will do.
The problem is that there is a possibility of crashing the site. Not something I want to do.
So I’ve been putting it off.
The good news is that we went from a point fix to a point release. We were on 6.8.2; 6.8.3 came out. I found out the need to redo the containers.
Before that happened, 6.9.0 was released.
I have a policy of waiting for the point fix before migrating. The point fix would be 6.9.1.
In the meantime, Google changed the way they handle reCAPTCHA, that annoying thing that asks, “Are you human?”
The robots found The Vine and proceeded to register around 450 users before I shut down user registration.
Those have been cleaned out. Unfortunately that took a bit of time, and now I have to look into the newest version of robot defenses.
Argh, why can’t this stuff be simple?
Meanwhile, on a different screen, I’m looking at a 3D model with dropdowns for “work”, “RPM”, “boiler pressure,” and a few other things that feed into the built-in spreadsheet. That spreadsheet then drives the 3D model.
This has required learning things that every backwoods machinist used to know. Now it requires reading books published in the late 1800s.
Oh, getting my AI to give me trustworthy numbers is driving me bonkers.