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  • Sustainable Web Design: Book thoughts

    2021-02-25

    Some brief and random thoughts on the excellent book "Sustainable Web Development"

  • Tinkerwell for WordPress Developers

    2020-01-24

    Tinkerwell is a brilliant tool from the Laravel world that I believe can really help WordPress developers. Read up, watch my introductory video, and buy the darned thing!

  • Catching a Tailwind: My components revelation

    2020-01-13

    A huge number of people in my tech circles seemed to love Adam Wathan's Tailwind CSS framework. But, for some reason, I just didn't get it. Until I had this revelation about components that has caused me to go and take a serious look.

  • Understanding web "components"

    2020-01-13

    The pre-amble to my Tailwind thoughts in which I lay down my goal to properly get to grips with "components"

  • Tech Note: Checking the integrity of npm modules

    2019-10-21

    Quick tech note on how to find and check the integrity hash value of an npm package.

  • WordPress: Fixing shortcodes that enqueue JavaScript when used in ACF fields

    2019-09-13

    A quick bit of WordPress learning on the interaction between ACF, shortcodes, and enqueuing and registering scripts.

  • Laravel: Being explicit in authorization policies

    2019-05-09

    How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.

  • A new look: What? Why? and How?

    2019-03-05

    Years in the thinking, not very long in the making, here's the What?, Why? and How? of my extra-geeky, new look website.

  • More struggling with JS: how the PHP -> JS interface is broken and why this is painful

    2018-06-15

    Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.

  • I need to add social sharing buttons to a website…

    2018-02-21

    Here's a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.

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