Josh Betz

Harrison Ford Lifetime Achievement Award

Josh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:18:13 +0000

This is a really touching speech by Harrison Ford. I grew up with Han Solo and Indiana Jones and now I’m enjoying his performance in Shrinking.

Happy Birthday Frank

Josh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Frank is 6 today. He loves his little brother so much and we love Frank.

Latte Art of the Day

Josh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:19:57 +0000

Christmas Lights Plugin

Josh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:10:49 +0000

There used to be a Mac app to add holiday lights to your menu bar. This weekend I realized it would be pretty easy to build a lightweight web component with the help of Copilot.

Christmas Lights is a WordPress plugin, but you could use the web component on any website.

pflogsumm

Josh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:35:26 +0000

Email has been broken on my WordPress install for quite some time. I finally fixed it recently and I wanted a way to monitor usage.

WordPress normally sends transactional emails about things like password resets. The volume is not much on most sites, but it’s important that they’re delivered.

You can pass your Postfix logs through pflogsumm to analyze the logs and make sure everything is healthy and, importantly, that you’re not generating spam emails.

It turns out a website I host for a family member had a contact form that was generating a lot of spam! I switched it to a Jetpack Form with spam protection by Akismet. Problem solved.