Upstream released sesh 2.27.0 while misc/sesh was still at 2.26.1. I added the package earlier this year, but this was the first time I upgraded a package written in Go, so I made some notes about the Go-specific steps. The general pkgsrc update procedure applies as usual; the new part is go-modules.mk, the file listing all the Go module distfiles fetched from the module proxy. (more…)
21.7.26
Upgrading a Go package in pkgsrc
3.7.26
A Redis object cache for WordPress
WordPress Site Health had been nagging me to use a persistent object cache. I already run Zend OpCache, so I wondered what else I needed.
OpCache is an opcode cache: it stores the compiled bytecode of the PHP source so the engine need not recompile it on every request. The object cache is a different layer, holding the results of database queries and transients. WordPress ships with a non-persistent object cache that lives only for the duration of a single request; making it persistent means backing it with something that survives across requests, such as Redis.
On this site I manage the WordPress tree with svn and do not let PHP write into it, which changes a couple of the steps from the usual click-in-the-dashboard instructions. While I also generally prefer nginx and PHP-FPM, this site is still on Apache with mod_php. However, the installation is basically the same regardless of the web server software, but troubleshooting differs between them. I’m covering both here. (more…)