Blog - page 10

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?

2020-04-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th April 2020

Why should you consider Cloudflare for your website?

Written For Liquid Light

Cloudflare is a service which, among other things, provides a CDN (Content Delivery Network), firewall, and performance layer for your website. It has plenty of paid upgrades and features and ...

2020-04-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th April 2020

What are the different SSL modes on Cloudflare?

Cloudflare has a few different options when it comes to selecting which TLS/SSL mode you should choose?

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!).