Blog - page 11

2020-04-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th April 2020

Setting up Tiny Tiny RSS to collate feeds

I set up Tiny Tiny RSS as a self-hosted feed reader, but it wasn't clear how get the application to fetch RSS feeds in the background. This blog post gives a walkthrough

2020-04-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th April 2020

Mikestreety's New Clothes

For regular readers, you will notice a fresh new face on the old dog (my first blog post that made the many migrations was from 2009!).

2020-03-05T00:00:00.000Z 5th March 2020

Using Cloudflare Workers to set a cookie based on a GET parameter or path

An example of how to use Cloudflare Workers to set a cookie on your page without modifying code on your server. This Worker can set a cookie based on either a GET parameter in the URL or a particular file path

2020-02-26T00:00:00.000Z 26th February 2020

What are Cloud Functions, Cloudflare Workers and Serverless?

Serverless & Cloudflare workers have been cropping up a lot recently. I try to organise my thoughts into what they are and how you can use them

2019-12-31T00:00:00.000Z 31st December 2019

2019 In Review

2019 was a strange year, new kitchen, bathroom car and bike. But overall it was good. I enjoyed it.

2019-12-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th December 2019

How do you deal with designers who design without any thought?

Written For Liquid Light

As a developer, dealing with designers and their creations can sometimes be challenging. At Liquid Light we've honed our process to ensure minimum friction between both developers and designers.

2019-11-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th November 2019

How to become device agnostic and what it means for your data

Written For Liquid Light

All too often you hear about people losing their phones and, along with it, their data. This blog post explores how you can become "device agnostic", freeing the tether between your device and your memories.

2019-08-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd August 2019

email.subscribeto - a newsletter database

I've always been keen to discover new newsletters and have always kept my eye out for recommendations. I decided to collate these recommendations and build a directory.

2019-07-31T00:00:00.000Z 31st July 2019

The Real World of Web Development

I read "The Real Dark Web", a blog post from @whalecoiner and within a few paragraphs it really hit home. There are a few noisy web developers who are innovating, ...

2019-06-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th June 2019

Getting started with Xen - setting up virtual machines

Xen is a basic but powerful package for linux which allows you to create virtual machines, A rival to Vagrant, Xen has less configuration (but is potentially less "agile")