Daniel Voicu

I was trying to configure Ulysses to post stuff directly from it. I was looking at issues that I thought were stemming from the fact that I disabled xmlrpc.php. After I spent an hour trying different things, I thought that maybe the issue isn’t at all coming from how the site is configured.

I remembered that a lot of the things on the web get fixed by clearing the cache. So I did just that. I use a plugin called “LiteSpeed Cache” for caching the site. I purged everything from it and now I am able to connect Ulysses to my blog.

LiteSpeed Cache was caching the plugins’ settings, including some stuff from Wordfence. After purging everything, I’ve set up a new application password and connected Ulysses. Couldn’t find anything through Google about this issue being caused by caching. That's why I’m leaving this here, just in case someone else needs it.

The conclusion is: If you’re using Wordfence, LiteSpeed Cache and want to publish stuff through Ulysses, yet you get a “connection refused” error even after you’ve allowed application password authentication in WordFence, try and purge the LiteSpeed cache.

A digital garden?

"Why a digital garden", you might ask. I asked myself the same question. And I don't know if I have a clear answer, but I know that I want to write more and write freely. In case someone ends up on my site and finds something useful, it will make me very happy to know that.

I noticed that I tend to spend a lot of time moving from one thing to another and writing them down helped me memorize things. My attention span has slowly but steadily devolved over the years. So I needed to find a way to focus more on the input-output process of my mind, if there is such a thing. I needed something that allowed me to write freely and see if the things I read or watch or consume in one way or another are of any use to me. I also consider myself a permanent learner, and I want to share with others the things I'm learning about. Speaking of which, I found out about a method of reading on the Zettelkastten.de site. I've added a small note about it here: About Reading

I've been taking notes with Obsidian.md and I've been trying a few other solutions to create some sort of a personal knowledge system. I've stuck with Obsidian as I think it's an amazing tool, with a great and welcoming community to support it.

I have a local Obsidian vault, where I keep notes in Romanian. This one will be in English and I'll probably translate some of the Romanian notes and add them here too. That's also the place where I keep my podcast notes. By the way, if you can understand Romanian and you're interested in creative coding, I have been doing this little podcast called "Tab & Space". I'm working on a new episode that I will release (hopefully) next week.

For the moment, I won't touch the design of this space. I will probably change some things, but this isn't my priority right now.

Next steps

This place will probably change a lot in the following weeks. Content will appear, disappear and be moved around. I want to let it grow organically, but I would also like to know some things about the people that might end up here. I've decided not to use any unnecessary tracking scripts, cookies or anything like that. I found out about plausible.io recently so I will give it a go. They say they are a "simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics". I've already added a script to my main domain, and I'm adding their script to this place now. One of the things that I liked from the start about Plausible is the fact that's extremely easy to configure.

Probably in a week or so this place will have more content added to it. I also need to find a way to automate my workflow so I can publish directly to this place.