About Anthony Irwin
I have been building websites and using Linux since 1998. I officially started working as an IT Professional in January 2000 when I started an IT Traineeship straight out of high school.
I started building and hosting websites in the late 90s before most people owned a computer or had an Internet connection. CSS was not commonly used yet, Perl CGI scripts were the main method for sending email contact forms and PHP was not supported on all web hosting platforms.
I have hosted websites using a variety of control panels in shared hosting prior to virtual private servers (VPS) being a thing and have managed Redhat and Ubuntu VPS machines from the ssh shell for websites, dns, email and custom web applications for well over 10 years.
I work on a per-project basis or an hourly rate which varies depending on the type of work being done.
My Software and Scripts
This is a collection of software, scripts and websites that I have developed.
My Metatrader 4 Utilities
I developed these tools around 2015 when I was a member of an online forex trading group. The group recommended trading software that cost hundreds of dollars per month to use. I wrote these utilities to provide features that the paid software had to the free Metatrader 4 platform provided to users by the brokers. I have published them here on my website in the hope that others will find them useful.
Latest Blog Posts:
Make an application always load as a floating window in Cosmic Desktop
Make an application always load as a floating window in Cosmic Desktop
Why I migrated from Wordpress to Hugo
1. Security
One of the main reasons for migrating was because of security. I have a number of WordPress websites that I look after, and I use the Wordfence security plugin on all of them. I have Wordfence setup to send me weekly activity reports, and each week, without fail, all the WordPress sites are attacked from at least a dozen different countries.
The content on these websites rarely changes once posted, so a static website generator like Hugo is perfect for my needs and makes my website more secure as the user is accessing static html files, so there are no dynamic php files or database access that can be exploited by attackers. No known security vulnerabilities with WordPress or plugins that can be used by attackers targeting my website.
Fix Unity Game Engine Crashing With Nvidia Graphics Card
A couple of years ago I was having issues with the Unity Editor randomly crashing on me. I tried many thing such as
prime-runetc without success.I found through trial and error from multiple forum posts that launching Unity Hub with the following worked well for me and stoped the random crashing issues.
I am posting this just in case I need it again and hopefully others will find it helpful.
Adventure Game Studio AGS MacOS Build
How to play windows AGS games in a MacOS AGS Bundle and how to release your own games in a MacOS AGS Bundle with codesigning and notorization