Tech, WordPress, and the Life Lessons In Between

Hello! I'm Lorna Timbah, and this is my digital home.

By day, I'm an IT Consultant and Tech Trainer;
by heart, I’m a WordPress developer who loves building things that actually work. Nowadays, I'm also experimenting with GenAI and automation.
While I hold the fancy certificates from Microsoft and Google, I'm far more interested in turning innovative tech into something that's simple, applicable, and down-to-earth.
If you're looking for the formal, corporate version of my life, there's always my LinkedIn page.

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Set Up Blogger Permalink without date using JavaScript and Cloudflare

As much as I love hosting my own blogs using WordPress, sometimes I just need something simpler that doesn’t require me to administer my own server, while still be flexible enough theming-wise. With this in mind, I’ve almost always chosen Blogger to start off my niche content development projects. If you have ever felt that […]

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Upgrade PHP on DigitalOcean’s Ubuntu for WordPress

You may have seen the WordPress admin dashboard notice about upgrading PHP to at least version 8.3. If you’re like me and have been putting it off, here’s how I finally got it done on my DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet. Since I have terminal access via SSH (as most DO droplets do, I believe), I decided […]

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A Hotel Booking Job Scam That I Almost Fell Victim To

Disclaimer: The following AI-generated writeup is based on my personal and real screenshots and chat conversations, and proof-read for accuracy. Each image is linked to its original hi-res counterpart that’s shared in Google Drive. It started, as so many of these stories do, with a simple, almost flattering, message on WhatsApp. A woman named “Grace” […]

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Contentment, Small Tech, and Big Moves

Hello, 2026! Looking back at 2025 and older, I realised that my blog has become this weird, wonderful hybrid of a technical reference library and a public safety manual. It’s been a year of checking things off, both on my server and in my life. If 2024 was about the hustle, 2025 was about the […]

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Set Up Blogger Permalink without date using JavaScript and Cloudflare

As much as I love hosting my own blogs using WordPress, sometimes I just need something simpler that doesn’t require me to administer my own server, while still be flexible enough theming-wise. With this in mind, I’ve almost always chosen Blogger to start off my niche content development projects. If you have ever felt that […]

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