I’m in the process of consolidating all my work scattered across the WWW to www.ronaldbradford.com
As part of the process I was originally redirecting this to my present blog but I was not doing it the correct way. You should Use standard redirects: don’t break the back button! from W3C.
For now, I’ve reverted to a splash page and physical links until I can complete the new site.
Changing the password of a MySQL account that an application uses was hard before MySQL 8.0. It is easy in MySQL 8.0 and later, thanks to two clauses of ALTER USER: RETAIN CURRENT PASSWORD and DISCARD OLD PASSWORD.
Read moreI recently tracked down a performance problem that turned out not to be in the application, the servers, or the CDN. A corporate TLS-inspecting proxy sat between the users and the site.
Read moreVillageSQL published Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp . The extension serves the Model Context Protocol from inside the database, so an agent talks to MySQL over Streamable HTTP without a sidecar holding a credential.
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