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WordPress Maintenance: Fleet Management Update 2026
f you’ve been following my journey for a while, you might remember my original post about managing multiple WordPress sites. Back then, having three or four sites felt like a lot. Fast forward to today, and if you’re a developer, agency owner, or even a serial hobbyist, that number has likely tripled. The problem remains…
Top-Performing Stocks: Historical Total Return Comparison
5-Year, 10-Year & 20-Year top Performing Stocks. Historical Total Return Comparison (As of March 2026) Data Note: Sourced from financecharts.com, YCharts, Visual Capitalist, and U.S. News. Returns include reinvested dividends. Exact figures vary slightly by source and measurement date. An update to my previous posts about Stock Performance Great addition. Comparing individual stock “moonshots” to…
Starting a New Year — A Little Less Invincible
Originally posted on my JorgeDiaries Substack | This is a continuation of the journal of my recovery process, since my previous blog, “Doing Embarrassingly Well”. I sit here finally getting down to write about something I’ve been thinking about for a few days now — the start of a new year in my life. As…
Tonto National Forest Off Roading
We went to the Forest Service Tonto National Forest Cave Creek Ranger Station today to find out what we needed to discover the area’s off-road “amenities” So much to explore! Looking forward to it!
Don’t Mess with the Monkeys
A Childhood Memory from a Costa Rica That No Longer Exists Originally Published on my JorgeDiaries Substack here I know this is progress, but on a recent vacation to Costa Rica, I was shocked by how little of the old country remains. You can still catch glimpses of it here and there, but so much…
Who Owns Greenland?
The Surprising Truth About Land, Homes, and Money on the World’s Largest Island I’ve been following the news about Greenland lately and honestly; it’s been wild to watch. I wanted to speak more clearly about what’s actually happening, so I did a little deep dive into the facts. The results of my research were so…
Balancing One-Click Access with Data Privacy
This is part of my continuous learning on my DevLog topic. When managing a private community directory—containing sensitive member details like names, home addresses, and personal emails—the biggest hurdle is access friction. You want your group members (whether they are on Facebook, WhatsApp, or Slack) to click a link and get in instantly. However, standard…
The Storage Crisis: Why Your Next PC Will Cost
The tech industry is facing an unprecedented shortage that’s about to hit your wallet hard. Industry insiders are calling it the “Storage Apocalypse” or “RAMageddon,” and it’s not just another chip shortage—it’s a fundamental restructuring of the memory market that will reshape PC pricing for years to come. If you’ve been planning a computer upgrade,…
Christmas Songs Are Way Younger Than You Think
Every December, it happens like clockwork. You turn on the radio, pour a cup of hot chocolate, and suddenly you’re surrounded by Christmas songs that feel… ancient. Timeless. Like they’ve always existed. Surely these songs must be hundreds of years old, passed down through generations like holiday folklore. Right? Well—surprise —many of the most beloved…
What the Wright Brothers Can Teach Us About AI’s Future
I also wrote a shorter version on my Substack Newsletter From Kitty Hawk to Silicon Valley The departure board at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson flickers with destinations: Seoul, Amsterdam, São Paulo. I’m wedged into a terminal restaurant booth, laptop open, working on an application while my flight boards in forty minutes. On my screen, a local AI…
Moving to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)
If you’re a developer working with containers, chances are Docker Hub has been your go-to for years. It’s the default, the familiar, and for many, the “it just works” solution for storing and distributing Docker images. But if you’re like me, and vibe coding, Coding Assistants has moved to doing and deploying so many of…
Cave Creek Arizona Business Licensing
Originally posted on 35sites.com -Guide to Cave Creek,AZ Business Licensing Starting a small business can be exciting, but local and state licensing rules can be confusing, especially if you work from home or sell online. If your business is based in Cave Creek, Arizona, this guide explains exactly what licenses you may need, why they are…
What If You Invested $1,000 in the Right Stocks 20 Years Ago?
When he was 11 years old (he is now 34), my son came from an afternoon’s playdate at a friend’s house af, and told us over dinner to invest in Google. That was when way back when google was just a search engine and I was helping companies trying to keep the internet out of…
Updating Docker Containers
You can manage many devices using docker remotely with Portainer. However Portainer does not have the ability to check if there are updates and actually update containers within Docker. Up until a few months ago, there was a script which I have used for years to do this called: watchtower. Unfortunately, watchtower is not being…
Gumroad vs. Patreon: A Quick Comparison
In today’s digital economy, content creators are always searching for efficient ways to monetize their work. Gumroad and Patreon are two popular platforms that enable creators to turn their passions into income streams. Both support one-time payments and recurring revenue, but they emphasize different models and experiences, so it’s important to understand how they compare….
Accenture’s Big AI Shift: Tough Cuts Now, Brighter Future Ahead
The announcement of Accenture’s layoffs of over 11,000 employees was made public on September 28, 2025. This move is part of a strategic AI-focused restructuring program aimed at aligning the workforce with the company’s AI-driven future. CEO Julie Sweet outlined the plan during an earnings call CNBC, 2025-09-26. Why the Layoffs Happened: Closing the Skills Gap CEO Julie Sweet has been clear: these changes are about skills. Accenture is…
OneNote – The New Old Name
Starting October 14, 2025, Microsoft will end support for OneNote for Windows 10, making it read-only. The ONLY officially supported version moving forward is simply called OneNote—no year or edition attached. Previously known as “OneNote 2016,” this desktop app is included with Microsoft 365, Office 2019, Office 2021, and Office 2024, and is also available…
Build Log: Creating a Custom AI Research Agent
Author: Jorge Pereira Date: August 2025 Tech Stack: n8n (Docker), Ollama, Open WebUI, JavaScript/HTML, Windows 11 The Vision The goal was to build an autonomous “Deep Research” agent capable of performing real-time web searches and returning professional, high-quality Markdown reports. I wanted a tool that behaved like Perplexity but lived in my own home lab…
Starship Enterprise Ships: A Legacy Through the Stars
I am so very excited that the new Season 3 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds is about to air on Paramount+ next week. Season 2 finished on a true cliff-hanger and I have been waiting anxiously waiting for this one. While travelling I got the change to revisit both seasons, and now thinking of…
Build Blog: Blog Image Generator Workflow
Author: Jorge Pereira Date: June 2025 Tech Stack: n8n (Docker), Ollama, Open WebUI, JavaScript/HTML, Windows 11 The goal is simple: Create a web-based tool where you enter a blog post URL, and the system scrapes the title, generates an AI image, resizes it to a 1024×512 pixels (2:1 rati)o, and displays it back to you…
Digital Asset Management Systems for Solo and Small Businesses
I have written about my personal Photo Library organization tools and challenges in the past, but this time I want to expand the conversation a bit. Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems were first developed in the 1990s to help large organizations manage huge volumes of digital files—such as images, videos, and documents—that were increasingly difficult…
Tools I use for Learning AI and Developing AI Enabled Apps
In the past year alone, I’ve tested MANY AI tools, built over a dozen “client” projects, mentor many on how to use AI, and saved many of hours through automation—all because I chose experimentation over endless research. My mantra is simple: to keep up with AI, I embrace a culture of experimentation, testing, and side…
My AI Learning Journey- How I Started
Originally posted on JorgeTechBits Substack My mantra is simple: to keep up with AI, I embrace a culture of experimentation, testing, and side projects. I prefer DOING over merely listening, reading, or watching. (Though I must confess, I do spend a fair amount of time binge-watching YouTube tutorials!) This hands-on approach helps me maintain a…
I want to make it a Service out of this App
Session with Claude.ai on how to make a service out of Text-To-Speech App Now that I just created and is running locally perfectly well. I want to be able to place it on my VPS server and use it as a service. How would you go about making this code a docker container that can…
My Session to create a Chrome Profile cleaner script
So after I finished my previous blog post: How to Back Up All Chrome Profiles from Your Computer (at about 8:30p) I wondered if I could build a quick script to clean up the profiles on my device. I was already using perplexity to help me as an editor of that blog post so I…
How to Back Up All Chrome Profiles from Your Computer
Written with the invaluable assistance of my research and editorial assistants, Gemini and Perplexity. A few weeks ago, I experienced a hard disk failure and had to replace it—a frustrating setback. This happened on my development computer (thankfully not my primary machine), and I hadn’t enabled Google Account Sync on that system, since it didn’t…
There Is No Manual – Dive in!
Originally published on my JorgeTechBits in Substack Check out this blog My AI Learning Journey- How I Started The last couple of years have been exciting, exhilarating, and utterly transformative. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or you are not around technology, you know the feeling—the ground is shifting beneath our feet, and the…
It Is Not Easy to Be Green!
Originally posted on my JorgeDiaries Substack This is a continuation of the journal of my recovery process, since my previous blog, “Doing Embarrassingly Well”. I do not know who said this, but a good friend of mine used to quote it all of the time: “What is most personal is most universal.” So here we…