WordPress Themes: Athena

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OwnerSmartcat solutions (smartcatdesign.net)LicenceFreemuim (Upsell to Athena-Pro)Demo(Here until next year)http://demo.justfreewpthemes.com/?theme=athena Pros Free Clean, slick and installs on latest Wordpress Cons Hidden cripplewareDoesn't show as a Lite theme, but has features that you can't really customize to encourage upgrade to Pro version Locked features Background colour Removal of first slider (see workaround…
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API Reviews: CCXT and Huobi exchange

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Review firstly: API Dochttps://huobiapi.github.io/docs/spot/v1/en/Changelog URLhttps://huobiapi.github.io/docs/spot/v1/en/#change-logUpdate Frequencysporratic, and not often (Jan, Mar x1, June x3 in 2022)Tax readyNoMissing:- Earn API First looks gives it a simple scan for transactions but nothing on earn for automated scripting/tax reasons Bugs: Noticing that fetchDeposits() returns ALL deposits - does not support start/endtime. Limit is…
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PHP 8.2 : the Crash-list

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Just a quick warning for people upgrading PHP to the latest and greatest version of PHP 8.2 (and AlmaLinux 9.1, and Remi Repo). There are a lot of programs and stuff that doesn't work with it (yet). Here's the 'crash list' that I found so far: Nextcloud 25.0.2 (Thanks for…
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CCXT library drops AAX Exchange

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Quick solution notes for people who still use Laravel/PHP's "ccxt/ccxt" library to access AAX exchange. The exchange's API was delisted due to the likely insolvency, but for those who still need that for code #!/bin/sh curl -o vendor/ccxt/ccxt/php/aax.php https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ccxt/ccxt/2.2.63/php/aax.php if [ -z `cat vendor/ccxt/ccxt/php/Exchange.php | grep aax` ]; then #…
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InfluxDB : Stay away from them!

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Summary:Do not use InfluxDB, especially on IoT/RPI3 (32 bit). You will run into an (will stay) unfixable problem when data size gets big Background/Story:I have created a great Grafana/InfluxDB (seemed a match in heaven) solution to be deployed to client sites as monitoring for Sungrow SH5k inverters. Beautiful presentation, and…
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Laravel 6.0 is out!

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Just when I'm getting started on getting used to stuff, Laravel 6.0 is out. Time for the control panel to retake a new twist again! PHP has been upgraded to 7.3 for much better performance, now Laravel to add LazyCollections to speed things even more!
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