Blog - page 12

2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z 14th January 2021

Making sure you're not doing everything at work

Delegation is hard for people who find themselves in management roles. The trick is to be the overflow, not the gatekeeper.

2020-12-31T00:00:00.000Z 31st December 2020

2020 In Review

2020 brought the first pandemic of my lifetime, but plenty of good things too

2020-11-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th November 2020

What is a server?

Liquid Light

Servers power the internet and have done since the creation of it. All the websites in the world run on servers (with varying levels of web interfaces & logins). So what are they, how do they work and what do Liquid Light typically use?

2020-10-07T00:00:00.000Z 7th October 2020

Converting Behind the Source to 11ty

I spent the week converting Behind the Source from Craft to Eleventy (a static site generator). Will I use it again?

2020-10-05T00:00:00.000Z 5th October 2020

Setting up Homebrew, NPM and Eleventy on a fresh mac

Walking through setting up Homebrew on your Mac, so you can install NPM and Eleventy.

2020-09-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th September 2020

Composer - creating a private package to include your own PHP class

I am currently in the midst of developing a new side-project and wanted to use the same class as a base for two separate elements of the project.

2020-07-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd July 2020

Getting a Slack helper running with Netlify: Part 2

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

2020-07-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th July 2020

Getting a Slack helper running with Netlify: Part 1

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.

2020-07-05T00:00:00.000Z 5th July 2020

Useful command line MySQL commands

It seems I have been doing a lot of command line work on Debian with MySQL recently and have been having to search the internet (or my bash history) every time I need to do something. Here is a collection of commands I have been using

2020-05-28T00:00:00.000Z 28th May 2020

The Git Commit Hash

The magic 40 character string that is attached to every commit you do. What is it, where does it come from and will understanding it help you with Git in the future?