Socket RSS - The Gleefreshing answer to your Doomscrolling habits
Posted on 22nd February 2021.
I have recently made a side project called "Socket RSS". The idea is it becomes a place for Gleefreshing, not Doomscrolling.…
Mike Street
I am CTO and lead developer for Brighton-based web agency Liquid Light. I am a serial tinkerer, productivity hipster, procrastiner side-projectahoic and amateur phone photographer
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Compiling your front-end assets with Laravel Mix while your 11ty site builds, so you don't have to switch between processes
Posted on 15th February 2021.
Laravel Mix is a great asset compiler from the creators of Laravel - but you don't have to be using their framework to benefit from it. This blog walks through setting it up to run with 11ty.…
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How to set up and use Laravel Mix with your project
Posted on 1st February 2021.
Despite the name, Laravel Mix isn't just for Laravel. It is a tidy, succinct task runner with understandable syntax and a single config file. This tutorial will run through setting it up with your project…
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Setting up a custom domain with Netlify with Cloudflare SSL
Posted on 18th January 2021.
In this post we are going to set up a custom domain in Netlify using Cloudflare. We will also install a self signed Cloudflare certificate on Netlify to ensure end-to-end encryption.…
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Making sure you're not doing everything at work
Posted on 14th January 2021.
Delegation is hard for people who find themselves in management roles. The trick is to be the overflow, not the gatekeeper.…
Notes
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#9
Posted on 23rd February 2021.
Long time no notes 🙄I have pushed a beta to my Socket RSS reader out to the public. I've already had a bit of feedback which is a great little incentive to keep working on itOver the last few weeks, me and a couple of friends have been recording a…
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#8
Posted on 24th September 2020.
With only 8 days between this and my previous notes, there isn't much to be writing about. Playstation In just over 2 months I managed to complete the Spiderman game on Playstation 4. Was a great little game and was excellent to be able to start & complete a game successfully. 100%…
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#7
Posted on 16th September 2020.
So this isn't really "#7", it's more #6 part 2 as I am writing them both at the same time. However, this note tries to fill the July - Mid-September void. No Coding July and August kind of saw me down-tools on my side projects while I focused on the house. The…
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#6
Posted on 7th July 2020.
Wow. Notes #6. I started so well and then haven't published anything in months. The draft of this post was made on 7th July (hence the published date) and this is actually written on 15th September. I'm going to break the notes up into two parts - flesh out the bullets…
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#5
Posted on 6th June 2020.
Black lives matter This week in America, riots and protests have happened across the country (and world) after the death murder of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer. It has really made me check my privilege and I am making sure I am educating myself on racism and…
Projects
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Behind the Source
A series of interviews with the people behind the websites. From all walks of life, these stories show there isn't only one way into the world of the web.
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Subscribeto
Subscribeto is a directory of email newsletters, tagged and searchable. All of the information is crowd-sourced; collated from directories and the community to help spread the word and share all the wonderful newsletters that are out in the world. Read more about it in the blog post - email.subscribeto - a newsletter database.
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Ale House Rock
I have an Instagram account where I rate ales, bitters and stouts. What started off as an advent calendar has soon grown into a hobby. This site uses the instagram API to pull in a process the data, allowing me to create a sortable, searchable database to find what beers I have rated before and what I thought of them.
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Hovélo
In 2014 I started a cycling group in Hove, where I lived at the time. This group has seen a lot of cyclists come and go over the years and has formed many friendships. It is a relaxed cycling group with no chairman, board or membership fees.