Category: Development
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Quick and simple HTML5 page skeleton template
<!doctype html> <html lang=”en”> <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″> <title>Site Title</title> <meta name=”description” content=”Site Description”> <meta name=”author” content=”Jeff Steinport”> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”css/styles.css?v=1.0″> </head> <body> <script src=”js/scripts.js”></script> </body> </html>
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Limit WordPress admin access by IP address in nginx
As soon as any server is set up on the net, it will immediately see attempts at loading the /wp-login.php page. If you actually have a WordPress site set up, you’ll quickly start receiving lots and lots of login attempts. You can stop this completely by limiting access to /wp-login.php and /wp-admin by IP address…
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Nationwide transit usage dropped 2.0% in 2018
The December transit stats were finally posted this week from the Federal Transit Administration, so I updated the National Transit Database site and updated the code for annual ridership stats. Nationwide, there were 9.85 billion transit rides in 2018, compared to 9.78 billion in 2017. This represents a 2.01% decline year-over-year. Peak ridership, according to…
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National transit ridership declined by 3.26% in May of 2018
I’ve updated the National Transit Database site with May’s data and national ridership declined by 3.26%.
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New Project: National Transit Database Visualization
I created a new site that helps visualize data from the National Transit Database, which historically has made its data very difficult to parse. For a little background: all transit agencies which receive federal funding must report a certain amount of data to the Federal Transit Administration’s National Transit Database. The FTA publishes two series…