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I've been hosting my website on shared hosting, but I'm tired of paying their monthly fee. I want to move my website to my home computer. How do I need to configure my DNS records to make that ha...
Meta issue: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288441 I uploaded an image into this question: How accurate are the browser usage statistics at caniuse.com? However it isn't showing up. When I upl...
Web Builders would make a decent name with web.codidact.com as the URL. It's more modern that "Webmasters" and covers more of the site scope than "Web Developers."
When I needed to cut a 4' circle out of the middle of a sheet of plywood, I fabricated a compass by tying a long-enough piece of non-stretchy string to a tack or finishing nail -- I forget which, b...
You can try using pressure with a hard object. Just run something like a pen or plastic knife over the edge of the hem while pushing down (probably after sewing). The pressure will create a crease,...
There's a number of ways to send the user to another URL in JS (from [1]): // Simulate a mouse click: window.location.href = "http://www.w3schools.com"; // Simulate an HTTP redirect: window.l...
I've seen SEO advice that the ideal length for a page title is 50 to 60 characters and that the maximum length is 80 characters. Our site relies on user generated titles for our content and our us...
Personally, I prefer the domain name to be branded, but short as possible and catchy. It's not the domain name that will make a website more searchable, it's more the content, the structure and pe...
Most WordPress sites that I know of are hosted on other servers. Any reasonable LAMP server, which includes most typical low-cost web hosting services, can host WordPress. Many web hosts include "o...
I think at least some aspects of Steam are already on topic as per the existing proposal, and simple logic/common sense: Usage of Steam to run games (eg. Proton, updates, compatibility modes, ov...
The name of the game should go in every question title. The tag isn't always shown with the question, so it isn't enough context. When I look at the video-games tag I see the following where the ...
I've added a template to the help, linked from both the "how to propose a community" help topic and the posting guidance when you start a proposal post. We don't yet have a way to pre-populate the...
Website Management Q&A about all the stages of hands-on website management. Questions and answers about the whole website lifecycle, from conception, development, launching, opera...
I like the crayon rail games. I've played a lot of Iron Dragon, some EuroRails, and a smattering of others. I'd like to introduce acquaintances who aren't already experienced gamers to this cate...
In riichi mahjong, the term suji is often thrown around when deciding what tiles to discard. What is suji, and how does it factor into mahjong strategy?
When discarding a drawn tile that already exists in your hand, is it better to discard the draw (tsumogiri) or discard from hand (tedashi)? Assuming that you're not planning to riichi (open hand o...
I created https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288863 but I was not trying to set the agenda - I was merely trying to reproduce what the author of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288095 intended (a...
I've heard the term "wall fishing" in the context of interior wiring of a house. What does this mean?
Content Aggregation Content aggregators tend to collect and link to lots of content. This is especially prevalent for news. Many news sites don't do their own reporting. Rather they display a lis...
In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom you can feed luminous stones to animals called "dondons" which then later produce gems. How do you optimize this process? You can feed each dondon up to 5 stones, bu...
The flip side of "fresh" content is "evergreen" content which is useful for a long period of time. News sites need lots of fresh content because most users need the latest news, not news that is w...
Some lenders offer an option where one can pay additional money in closing costs to get a lower APR. This is often called a rate or point "buy down". Is this a good idea?
What free alternatives are available to the GPT-3 and GPT-4 large language models (LLM)? Are there competing models with similar capabilities that I can download and run on my own computer?
Sometimes responses from the OpenAI API are large and it takes a long time to receive them. During this time the program appears to hang since there is no output. Is there a way to incrementally r...
I want to give an AI the ability to read, write and manipulate files on my computer, such as with the OpenAI function calling feature. The goal of this is to use the AI to work on a project compris...
