Arnan de Gans
arnan.meArnan is a webdeveloper who creates WordPress plugins and works on various PHP related projects. He is also something of an adventurer with his motorcycle.
Recent articles
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Couple of months ago I’ve bought a house and 5 apartments. We’re hard at work to make them livable and nice looking. But from time to time the sewer would smell. Or so we thought… Yesterday I went on the roof and inspected the water tanks. In true Me
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This week we’ve painted the bedroom in apartment 2. It’s all crisp looking and cotton white now. Neat! Last week the bedframes got delivered and my mom painted a couple of those already. In the Mexican heat, the bedroom paint dried in less than an ho
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Maybe once or twice a year an over-eager someone reports a security issue with one of my plugins. Cool, you might think. Someone who cares and helps! Yeah, in their mind they are helping and doing a good thing. But more often than not they find such
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In Mexico that seems perfectly acceptable. Today I had a meeting with the engineer we've hired to rebuild the upstairs apartment. He went on a mission of discovery for existing blueprints at city hall and to apply for a new building permit. He came b
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Well, kinda... But until I'm figuring out how to route the wires both my house and apartment are disconnected from the main power grid. Earlier this week I found a good deal in a building supply store for a 20 gallon electric water heater. They deliv
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Last month I bought a three wheel motorcycle with a cargo bed. It's a neat vehicle, it maneuvers really well in the city. I can carry up to about 1000 Kilograms according to the dealer, but the manufactorer puts that at around 500Kg including the dri
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A quick update on the renovations. I have since moved on to the main house, for now at-least. And my mother has started on painting the apartments. The first bedroom turned out nice using 'cotton-white' for the walls. I ran into more issues with apar
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I did these steps a while ago and haven't used Chrome or much of anything from Google for about 5 years now. But it remains relevant. Now maybe even more than 4-5 years ago. Your privacy is your own, and it should stay that way. Cloud storage and it'
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Today a couple were at the gate asking if they could rent one of my appartments. I got the feeling they were keen to move in on short notice. But, they're not ready yet. Most of the walls still need painting. Some of the electrics need to be finished
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Use browser caching Most websites will work fine without caching. But if you want to save bandwidth and make your site feel more responsive for your visitors, a little control over how browsers respond to your website and its assets is always good. T