Converting Behind the Source to 11ty
Posted on 7th October 2020.
I spent the week converting Behind the Source from Craft to Eleventy (a static site generator). Will I use it again?…
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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Setting up Homebrew, NPM and Eleventy on a fresh mac
Posted on 5th October 2020.
Walking through setting up Homebrew on your Mac, so you can install NPM and Eleventy.…
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Composer - creating a private package to include your own PHP class
Posted on 15th September 2020.
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Getting a Slack helper running with Netlify: Part 2
Posted on 22nd July 2020.
Part 2 of the Slack status updater with Netlify. This walks through using dotenv and locking the function down to "local" use. There is also a crude UI that has been made…
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Getting a Slack helper running with Netlify: Part 1
Posted on 20th July 2020.
So I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to web stacks - I'm all about LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). I had an idea for a small little web app and thought it would be the perfect opportunity to give Netlify a go.…
Notes
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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…
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#4
Posted on 18th May 2020.
Behind the Source going well Behind the Source interviews are going well and are well received. Already on the third interview today and I have had nothing but positive comments. Fortunately it is all set up beforehand, so there is minimal work each week to get it live. Unfortunately, Mailchimp have…
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.
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Photos
I am a keen ameteur phone photographer and post all of my photos to Instagram. I wasn't keen on not owning my data so, using the Instagram API, I pull my photos and their descriptions into a local database.