First Aid Kits Suck, Part 1

Kris Bravo on September 26, 2023

I have decided for my next reference implementation demonstrating a Rust web service API catalog that I should make a first aid kit refill service.

These things are awful. They are homogonous and full of stuff the average person will never use. The items are often expired. They are cheap. The bandages give people rashes.

So to begin with I’ll make a landing page in WordPress, with the intent of wrapping it in a business if customers agree.

Landing Page

Since I don’t have a product yet, the first landing page is more about making sure I will at least have customers.

Here’s the plan:

  • Create a page
    • Healthy/Medical/Urgent Care oriented
    • Copy is about tailored first aid kits
    • Refills first
      • Based on where you are located
        • Zip Code -> Supplies
    • Call to Action
      • Sign up for updates
  • Google Ads
    • Nationwide
  • Analytics
    • Kachug
  • 30 day trial to see if anyone is interested

I have one hour. Let’s see how far I get.

I have this site on WPEngine. So, I’ll fire up another Site. $20 per month. That’s a reasonable bet.

Bravo Med Refill Bundles. Bramedic.com. Be Brave – we’ve got you covered.

I got the domain registered. The next morning I created the DNS records to direct the domain to the WordPress site.

Stopping for a quick maintenance across sites, and to look at references for effective landing pages.

Adventures in Ubuntu Upgrades, 2023

Kris Bravo on September 21, 2023

I recently caught back up with system maintenance, part of which involved upgrading from an archaic version of Ubuntu to the latest Long Term Support (LTS). While Ubuntu isn’t perfect, it has been tolerable as various distributions have come and gone in reliability.

I found this post to follow along. They had me at “MAKE A BACKUP”:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/upgrade-ubuntu-20-04-lts-to-22-04-lts/

Starting point:

  • Linux 5.4.0-163-generic x86_64
  • Description: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
  • Deja Dup Backups from this morning

The process rolled along from about 10 am to.

It’s interactive. I was prompted to agree to a few service restarts. Conflict in configuration for pulse audio.

After the reboot, the outcome I feared would happen, happened. The window manager was trashed. It basically disappeared the moment the desktop was populated. The system was unusable as a desktop.

I switched to another console, and methodically removed Unity from it, after looking up the missing “dock”. After removing Unity and rebooting the system recovered with gnome and is better that this morning when I started.

So, a happy ending after all.

Time for another backup.