Don't need advice, just want to complain.

Last week my office computer died; the tech support people determined that the hard drive was fried and they couldn't recover any data from it. Inconvenient, since I lost some files that were on the hard drive, but most of my work is on either our network or an external hard drive. I had my old computer, which is slow and clunky, but functional enough, if annoying to work with. The tech support people are going to install a new hard drive and the basic software and give the computer back ... sometime. Today I got a message from them - the guy set up a new password so he could work on installing it and making it work with our network. He gave me the password and I logged back into email ... and about three hours later discovered that NONE of the messages I'd sent - some of them important - had gone out. So I had to restart the entire computer, log back in with the password tech support had created, log back into my Outlook with that password and the messages went out. But there were an additional 20+ messages waiting for me, some of which had to be handled ASAP. I'm about fed up with these guys. But they seem to be the only ones who will provide any service at a price the office is willing to pay. * end of rant *

Well, they finally returned the laptop with the new hard drive. No one came to help with the set-up - sent it over by courier who dropped it at the front desk and left. I got everything connected ... carefully coiling the multiple cables and cords to reduce the Laocoon effect I was having. But, of course, they'd only installed the basics - I couldn't connect to the network, couldn't set up printers, email wasn't working, couldn't get to the internet. I had to call (this is what phones were used for before they became smart, kids) and get someone to call me back. Managed to get my email sort of working and got the internet connection. Nice person called, took over the computer and got me set up. Had to wait half an hour for him to call and then another half hour to get it cleared up. Still have to install some of my software ... it only took them 12 days (eight working days?) to get this done. But I didn't yell, didn't get really angry ... managed to not even cry. yay?

You're an Amazon woman, Toddson. I'm glad it's finally done!

I wrote a command-line version of solitaire to help me learn Rust. It works pretty well.

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I'm working on making my personal website and I'll have downloadable binaries and documentation when that goes up. But, hey, if you want a command line version of solitaire (for some reason) and have a Rust compiler installed it is available.

BTW, Rust is awesome.

Rust seems pretty awesome

I used Gatsby to make my new personal website welarson.net. Gatsby is pretty cool. It takes a React website and compiles it to as much static content as possible to make things fast. It also has some interesting features for integrating CMS and aggregating content from different data sources, but I didn't need any of that for my simple site.

I am struggling with modifying some Wordpress files largely because I don't actually know PHP and am just winging it.

I want to display the posts on a category page based on a custom field. I have successfully set up a query to do this in the category.php page. However, that query is overwriting the original query, so I'm getting posts from every category instead of just the intended one.

I have

$args = array(
		'orderby' => 'meta_value',		
		'meta_key' => 'fandom',
		'order' => 'ASC',
		

If I wanted to specify a category by ID or name, that would be easy. But I want it to pull posts from the current category. Shouldn't I be able to put another item there that has a variable for the current category?

I realize that this is halfway a WP and halfway a PHP question, but I'm hoping it's coherent enough for non-WP people to weigh in.

Saw this now just. Maybe I can help try tonight. Can't look at it now right.

No stress, Gud.