After my last post, I decided that I would in fact start using a CMS, so I took a look at some of the options available to me. My criteria for choosing a CMS were: Lightweight Easy to setup Has markdown editing Works with Eleventy Can be accessed from devices that aren’t my laptop The […]
I’ve been seeing some good posts recently, like these ones from Andy Bell, Chris Coyier, and Sophie Koonin, about using a blog as a real “base” for your place on the web, and then following the POSSE principle for everywhere else. I like that idea – this is the one part of the web I […]
It’s my last day of work for 2022 – I’m off from today until the 3rd of January, which will be my longest break since my honeymoon. I’m looking forward to taking some time off: we’ve got some Christmassy things planned for tomorrow, and it’s my daughter’s second birthday in between Christmas and New Year’s […]
Or not. I started this post intending to write an honest retrospective, in a similar vein to the one I wrote last year. But, honestly, this year has been shit and the thought of writing that post exhausted me. It’s not all been bad, of course: I (finally) got married this year, after several attempts […]
A little while ago I wrote about managing my reading list using a JSON file. Then I decided that was too easy, so I starting using an SQLite database instead. Moving my reading list to JSON was a mistake, to be frank. Data is spread across three tables, and there’s no easy way to reference […]