NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. ARGON AUDIO FORTE A4 Actual stereo sound (not two speakers in one box) The Argon Audio Forte A4 ticks all these boxes. They’re active speakers, with a single cable running from the main unit to the other. On the main unit, there’s a RCA phono (turntable) input, a regular AUX one, and two Toslink connectors. And there’s Bluetooth with Apt-X and AAC

support.

RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. ARGON AUDIO FORTE A4 Actual stereo sound (not two speakers in one box) The Argon Audio Forte A4 ticks all these boxes. They’re active speakers, with a single cable running from the main unit to the other. On the main unit, there’s a RCA phono (turntable) input, a regular AUX one, and two Toslink connectors. And there’s Bluetooth with Apt-X and AAC

support.

RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. ARGON AUDIO FORTE A4 Actual stereo sound (not two speakers in one box) The Argon Audio Forte A4 ticks all these boxes. They’re active speakers, with a single cable running from the main unit to the other. On the main unit, there’s a RCA phono (turntable) input, a regular AUX one, and two Toslink connectors. And there’s Bluetooth with Apt-X and AAC

support.

RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header.

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header.

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE Pi-Hole 1: 30,645 requests (32.5% blocked) Pi-Hole 2: 3919 requests (20.5% blocked) This indicates that 11.3% of all DNS queries were handled bij DNS 2, even though I took it down for a couple of hours to give it a better power supply. From the log files, I get the feeling most traffic on DNS 2 is from Windows machines. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

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RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB). ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE Pi-Hole 1: 30,645 requests (32.5% blocked) Pi-Hole 2: 3919 requests (20.5% blocked) This indicates that 11.3% of all DNS queries were handled bij DNS 2, even though I took it down for a couple of hours to give it a better power supply. From the log files, I get the feeling most traffic on DNS 2 is from Windows machines. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

LENOVO THINKPAD E490 FIRST IMPRESSIONS A couple of weeks ago, I got my new Thinkpad E490. It replaces two desktop PCs and my old laptop, so I needed a serious work horse. The most obvious choice within Lenovo's line-up would be a T480, but I found those to be rather expensive. It's follow RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB). ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE Pi-Hole 1: 30,645 requests (32.5% blocked) Pi-Hole 2: 3919 requests (20.5% blocked) This indicates that 11.3% of all DNS queries were handled bij DNS 2, even though I took it down for a couple of hours to give it a better power supply. From the log files, I get the feeling most traffic on DNS 2 is from Windows machines. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

LENOVO THINKPAD E490 FIRST IMPRESSIONS A couple of weeks ago, I got my new Thinkpad E490. It replaces two desktop PCs and my old laptop, so I needed a serious work horse. The most obvious choice within Lenovo's line-up would be a T480, but I found those to be rather expensive. It's follow RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB). ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

NOW – ROY TANCK

I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE Pi-Hole 1: 30,645 requests (32.5% blocked) Pi-Hole 2: 3919 requests (20.5% blocked) This indicates that 11.3% of all DNS queries were handled bij DNS 2, even though I took it down for a couple of hours to give it a better power supply. From the log files, I get the feeling most traffic on DNS 2 is from Windows machines. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

go. Martin Michlmay

LENOVO THINKPAD E490 FIRST IMPRESSIONS A couple of weeks ago, I got my new Thinkpad E490. It replaces two desktop PCs and my old laptop, so I needed a serious work horse. The most obvious choice within Lenovo's line-up would be a T480, but I found those to be rather expensive. It's follow RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB). ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Reviving an old PC, part 1: Research. Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It’s been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I USING PI-HOLE TO INVESTIGATE DNS 1 VS. 2 USAGE Pi-Hole 1: 30,645 requests (32.5% blocked) Pi-Hole 2: 3919 requests (20.5% blocked) This indicates that 11.3% of all DNS queries were handled bij DNS 2, even though I took it down for a couple of hours to give it a better power supply. From the log files, I get the feeling most traffic on DNS 2 is from Windows machines. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. RUNNING DEBIAN ON AN OLD QNAP NAS QNAP TS-212P dual-bay NAS With a shiny new replacement already on my desk, I was just about to throw out my old QNAP TS-212P NAS when I read that you can install and run Debian on it. As an Ubuntu/Mint user I'm fairly familiar with Debian Linux, so I thought I'd give this a

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. SECURING YOUR VACATION WIFI WITH A MANGO HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NETWORK ADMIN ASSISTANT HELPS KEEP YOUR MULTISITE During my 15 years of building and maintaining sites with WordPress, I've managed a number of medium-sized multisite installs. Sites with anywhere between 10 and 300 "blogs", and a large number of users in various roles. As a network administrator you RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. SECURING YOUR VACATION WIFI WITH A MANGO

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE Opting out as a website owner. It is possible to opt-out of FLoC on a website level. This requires the website to add an HTTP header that tells Google to not gather FLoC information on that website. The blog post I linked to above also has info on this header. SECURING YOUR VACATION WIFI WITH A MANGO HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER Reviving an old PC, part 4: On to a new owner. In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NETWORK ADMIN ASSISTANT HELPS KEEP YOUR MULTISITE During my 15 years of building and maintaining sites with WordPress, I've managed a number of medium-sized multisite installs. Sites with anywhere between 10 and 300 "blogs", and a large number of users in various roles. As a network administrator you RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Click here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).here to download a fully configurable standalone version of the generator for Windows (0.8 MB).

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It's been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. So, wh RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or

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I'm currently working on: Contributing to WordPress core (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5).Just released a new WordPress plugin.Consulting for the Dutch Tax Office.Getting better at photography.Losing weight and getting fitter. Last update: August 27nd, 2020. Learn more about /now pages. ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules ROY TANCK – ROY TANCK Hi. My name is Roy Tanck. I'm a freelance web developer, specializing in WordPress. Whenever I can, I release WordPress plugins though the wordpress.org repository. WPExperts.nlThis.play WordPress ConsultancyWordPress.orgTwitterGithubFlickrEmail PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 1: RESEARCH Last week, I got my hands on an old PC. The former owner asked me if I had any use for it, and I decided it would be fun to see if I could transform it into a usable computer again. It's been 20 years since I last built a PC from parts, so this seemed like a nice Covid-19 lockdown project. So, wh RUNNING LINUX ON A DELL WYSE 3040 THIN CLIENT PROBLEMS UPDATING YOUR ASUS ROUTER’S FIRMWARE? THIS MIGHT Roy Tanck I'm a freelance WordPress developer, designer, consultant, meetup organizer and speaker. In my spare time I love to go out and take pictures of things. QUICK TIP: SECURE YOUR TP-LINK ROUTER’S WIFI A while ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer C2300 router in my office. I like TP-Link's very user-friendly web interface, and I followed the step-by-step installation wizard to set thing up. What that wizard does not tell you however, is that some of the ingredients in its magic potion are way past th ARGON AUDIO STREAM 3M REVIEW OPT-OUT OF FLOC ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE If you read my blog, you'll know I'm concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookies to work. It's called "Federated Learning of Cohorts", or HOW I LOST WEIGHT: 2 SIMPLE RULES I've been in the fence about writing this blog post for a while. This is mostly a tech blog, and there's plenty of health/food/diet bloggers out there already. But like with the tech stuff I write about, I like sharing tips and tricks that worked for me. So here is how I lost 30kg. Two simple rul ROY TANCK – PERSONAL BLOG After 12 years of blogging, roytanck.com needed a reboot. View Post → How I lost weight: 2 simple rules PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NATURE – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 3: ASSEMBLY Time to get my hands dirty. I'd done my research and gathered replacement parts. So today, I built my first PC in twenty years. The last one probably was a Celeron 300A machine in a beige case or something. Software issues Before messing with the hardware, I wanted to upgrade Windows 7 to what REVIVING AN OLD PC, PART 4: ON TO A NEW OWNER In earlier parts of this series of blog posts, I acquired, upgraded and re-assembled an older PC. It was never my intention to keep it, so the final act was to try and sell it on. Preferably with a small profit. But before I could do that, there was the HDMI issue to resolve. Selling a PC without NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN: DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT TYPE WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types.You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site is “production”, “staging” or any other type. NATURE – PAGE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROY TANCK A collection pictures taken by Roy Tanck. This is a collection of images taken by Roy Tanck, a freelance WordPress consultant and amateur photographer from Huizen in The Netherlands. It uses a custom WordPress theme inspired by sites like Flickr and 500px. NETWORK ADMIN ASSISTANT HELPS KEEP YOUR MULTISITE During my 15 years of building and maintaining sites with WordPress, I've managed a number of medium-sized multisite installs. 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