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

[link]

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.

I did finally figure it out, mostly by giving in and doing it the more complicated way that was "recommended by professionals" or whatever. Thank god for online syntax checkers.

Working-from-home/quarantine-tech problem:

Hec works from home. I'm working from home for the next 3 weeks. Matilda is out of school for the next 3 weeks. She'll have school assignments to work on, almost entirely online, and I'm all set up with a VPN and ready to go.

HOWEVER... the wifi signal in our structurally problematic apartment (bowling alley-ish, with lots of narrow doorways and a long crooked hallway) reaches no further than the living room. Not only are we all confined to the apartment, we're all stuck in the same two rooms.

I've been looking online at ways to boost or extend the signal for months but I am a dummy and have succeeded only in utterly confusing myself as to what to do and how. Can some wise member of the hivemind (I think almost everyone here has been in our apartment and knows our set-up) advise me? Just tell me exactly what to get and I'll get it; I'll be fine with installation and set-up, but for a very long time now I've been literally stuck at the overwhelmed-by-choices/too-little-knowledge-to-make-an-informed-choice stage.

Until it's fixed, I can at least go with Matilda up to my campus library for short stints, since it has a gorgeous signal and is more than large enough for safe social distancing, but Hec's device is a desktop so he can't really up and leave, and we can't just live at the library. And we have two bedrooms with doors that close, perfect for getting actual work done, and it's infuriating that we can't use them.

Help? Just tell me what to get and I'll get it and I'm pretty confident after that, but I'm literally stuck at the pre-Step 1 step.

I'm a tech dummy and I'm sure there is a more sophisticated approach to this, but when I was having trouble streaming video from my bedroom TV through Roku due to spotty wifi there, I bought this WiFi extender from Amazon and it's been working great for me: [link]

Basically you have to plug this into an outlet in an area that is like half way between your main router and your problem area, but still gets a decently reliable wifi signal. Then it will boost the signal to cover your problem area. I could barely get Roku in my bedroom to connect before, and now, I'm having no problem streaming video. It required no specialty knowledge at all. I plugged it in and I think pushed a button and voila!