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Aight! So, I’ve been using Claude Code for a bit now, and one thing that’s been bugging me is the way you’re supposed to configure MCP tools. If you follow the official approach, you’re stepping through a CLI wizard that forces you to enter everythin...

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I used Windsurf for the whole day yesterday, I’m impressed! I’ve been using Cursor as part of my development workflow full time since September last year. There’s many a post on here from me on integrating other tools into my workflow for using “AI” ...

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Ok, so, I’ve heard about this CLI tool that allows you to use your preferred LLM provider, Goose, from Block (Square, payment thingy) which I think is officially called codename goose, but we all know everyone is going to refer to it as Goose. Anyway...

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Aight! I’ve been playing around with using and creating my own Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools lately. I also talked myself into giving a talk at the next Svelte London event to share what I’ve learned. It’s a bit of a stretch talking about AI too...

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","reading_time_minutes":9,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":540,"reading_time_words":1973,"slug":"using-mcp-tools-with-claude-and-cline","tags":"mcp,claude,tools,svelte,learning,notes","title":"Using MCP Tools with Claude and Cline","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":6565618,"date":"2024-12-28T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context\nProtocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using\nNode in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).\n\nUsing WSL allows me to manage my Node versions on WSL...","preview_html":"

In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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I was directed to direnv by Chris Biscardi when I was trying to use some environment variables in my Toast site.

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For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes. Partly notes to help clarify my understanding of something and partly for future me.

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Aight! It happened again! Mysteriously git just straight up stopped working for pulling/pushing on one of my WSL Ubuntu instances! I’ve just gone through setting up a fresh WSL Ubuntu 24.04 install and wanted to detail the process of getting Git conf...

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In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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The WSL Cursor setup, debugging your setup before you even code! I initially tried Cursor around 18 months ago when I saw something from Catalin about it. At the time I couldn’t get past launching it with the cursor . command.

With all the hype going...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1297,"slug":"cursor-setup-for-wsl","tags":"wsl,cursor,guide","title":"Cursor Setup for WSL","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":1447457,"date":"2024-03-17T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"A couple of years ago I wrote a guide on setting up a web development\nenvironment on\nWSL using Fedora 35.\nI wanted to get an up to date version of Fedora to use in WSL so I\nwent back to my guide and the link for the file was a 404 on\nthe repo...","preview_html":"

A couple of years ago I wrote a guide on setting up a web development environment on WSL using Fedora 35. I wanted to get an up to date version of Fedora to use in WSL so I went back to my guide and the link for the rootfs file was a 404 on the repo ...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1292,"slug":"wsl-web-developer-setup-with-fedora-39","tags":"fedora,linux,wsl","title":"WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 39","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":160,"date":"2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Real quick one for me! Future me that is!! I had to update the BIOS on\nmy motherboard, now a lot of manufacturers will recommend their\nsoftware which is usually hot garbage! Every time I try it I’m\nprompted to install virus protection and other...","preview_html":"

Real quick one for me! Future me that is!! I had to update the BIOS on my motherboard, now a lot of manufacturers will recommend their software which is usually hot garbage! Every time I try it I’m prompted to install virus protection and other sketc...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":437,"slug":"updating-bios-on-motherboard","tags":"windows,wsl,hardware,bios","title":"Updating BIOS on Motherboard","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":179,"date":"2023-01-22T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"If, like me, you’re on the Windows Insider Programme Dev channel and\nyou use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for your web development\nthen you may have noticed some weird dev server behaviour recently.\n\nBehaviour like, starting the dev server...","preview_html":"

If, like me, you’re on the Windows Insider Programme Dev channel and you use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for your web development then you may have noticed some weird dev server behaviour recently.

Behaviour like, starting the dev server, then ...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":486,"slug":"wsl-dev-server-not-working-on-v1.1.0-try-this","tags":"wsl,guide","title":"WSL Dev Server Not Working on v1.1.0? Try this!","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":51,"date":"2022-05-22T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Quick guide to getting Debian WSL set up for web development.\n\nYou can install Debian from the Windows Store and get started\nstraight away with using it, but there’s a few things missing.","preview_html":"

Quick guide to getting Debian WSL set up for web development.

You can install Debian from the Windows Store and get started straight away with using it, but there’s a few things missing.

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In this guide I’m going to detail upgrading Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from the current version 20.04 to 22.04 this the development build of Ubuntu 22.04 which is due to be released on 2022 April 21.

You can Tl;Dr and watch the video...

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This is an updated guide on the post I did at the start of the year for setting up a web development environment on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This guide is intended for use to get set up with Fedora 35 on WSL.

This is my opinion...

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I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this before but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here.

WSL moves pretty fast so a lot of the documentation ...

","reading_time_minutes":5,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":300,"reading_time_words":1021,"slug":"backup-ubuntu-wsl-instances","tags":"wsl,ubuntu,linux,how-to","title":"Backup Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":180,"date":"2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Now that Windows 11 has been released I decided to switch from my\nWindows 11 insiders build and go over to my Windows 10 partition,\nreset it and start over on a fresh Windows 11 machine!\n\nIn the past getting set up with Windows Subsystem for Linux...","preview_html":"

Now that Windows 11 has been released I decided to switch from my Windows 11 insiders build and go over to my Windows 10 partition, reset it and start over on a fresh Windows 11 machine!

In the past getting set up with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WS...

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I have always liked using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I’d routinely trash installs then reinstall them from the Microsoft store and have become quite adept at setting up new instances with everything I need to get back to coding as quickly as ...

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I have been having a blast playing around with configuring Fedora 33 in Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux, I didn’t know you could straight up import a Linux distro and use it.

In this guide I’ll go through the complete setup needed to go from ...

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Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a look see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have installed.

As I’m all jazzed about using Cypress in WSL I thought I’d give it a go on Fedora.

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This is a specific use case for installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu on WSL.

On Ubuntu, Snap is the preferred method to install Chromium and although snap is on the WSL image you get from the Microsoft store it’s not functional. There is a solution unt...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":259,"slug":"use-chrome-in-ubuntu-wsl","tags":"guide,linux,ubuntu,wsl","title":"Use Google Chrome in Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem Linux","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":68,"date":"2020-12-09T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"So this post started off with me getting GUI apps running on my\nWindows WSL install of Pengwin, but has now turned into doing it\nwithout the need to fork over the readies for Pengwin as now you can\ndo it with Ubuntu or Debian (possibly others) which...","preview_html":"

So this post started off with me getting GUI apps running on my Windows WSL install of Pengwin, but has now turned into doing it without the need to fork over the readies for Pengwin as now you can do it with Ubuntu or Debian (possibly others) which ...

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Yo! It’s that time again!!

This is an opinionated guide on setting up a development environment for web development in widows that will use the requisite tools, Bash, Node, Git, VS Code etc…

","reading_time_minutes":16,"reading_time_text":"16 min read","reading_time_seconds":960,"reading_time_words":3545,"slug":"wsl-bootstrap-2020","tags":"learning,guide,wsl","title":"Windows Subsystem Linux Bootstrap 2020","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":182,"date":"2020-06-18T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time\nto refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end\nof 2018.\n\nhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10","preview_html":"

Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time to refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end of 2018.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10

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In this guide I’m going to detail upgrading a Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL) Ubuntu install from the current version 18.04 to 19.10 this is an intermediary release before Ubuntu 20.04 is released on 2020 April 23.

I have documented this process in the...

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Already use WSL with Ubuntu? Want an Upgrade??

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Over the past couple of weeks now I have set up several development machines at work and have had to also use two git accounts, GitHub and Bitbucket.

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From scratch to Create React App on Windows

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I’m a Windows user, I have been a Linux user as well but I have found that Windows is a bit less neck beardy for me, both have their pros and cons. One of the big cons with Windows for me was when I started learning web development.

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So, this is my updated Zsh config! To be honest there’s little that’s changed over the years since I originally posted about this a good three years ago now in My Zsh Config. But! The changes are substantial enough for me to justify a new post. I ess...

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Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ages, more like 5+ seconds every time I opened a new terminal, that sort of thing can add up. This is just somet...

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In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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Real quick one from me on updating a Hetzner VPS with something like apt update. I noticed some weird behaviour today when I wanted to install sqlite3 on my Hetzner box. I was greeted with the following message:

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It’s been since I last wrote about implementing redirects for changed post routes in SvelteKit. In that time, SvelteKit has evolved, and so has my approach to handling these redirects. Today, I’m sharing an update on how I’ve improved this implementa...

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With all the hype going...

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Aight! So, I’ve gone off of Fly.io, great service, I’ll probably come back to it in the future, but, now I’m going to set up my own VPS on Hetzner.

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I’m currently looking into upgrading a large app where I’m working, to upgrade from Svelte 4 to Svelte 5. The upgrade from 4-5 wasn’t as much of a problem as I thought it would be, there was one issue with another Svelte package that I discovered I c...

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I’ve been doing more stuff with Fly.io and Turso with SvelteKit. If you’re following my posts you’ll know I’ve got a real nerd boner for using Turso in anything I can cram it into at the moment!

Why Fly.io though? Just get a $5 VPS and use that! Skil...

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How to get the array of selected values from a multi-select form input?

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Real quick! I’m in the process of migrating domains to Cloudflare. I moved scottspence.dev recently and noticed my Fastmail DKIM wasn’t configured correctly.

Cloudflare will import your DNS records when you add a domain to your account with their def...

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So, I’ve got these massive CSV files (some up to 233 thousand rows) that I exported from Fathom Analytics. I want to import them into the Turso DB I use for this site, so, eventually visitors will be able to view the data. I’m lot leaving Fathom, I s...

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So, you’ve just upgraded to Svelte 5 and are excited to test out your components. But wait, what’s this? You run your tests and hit an error that’s throwing a spanner in the works:

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I was asking ChatGPT to read some posts from my site and summarise them for me, I was a bit surprised when I got the response “I wasn’t able to directly access the URL you provided due to restrictions on the webpage.” from the bot. It was then that I...

","reading_time_minutes":7,"reading_time_text":"7 min read","reading_time_seconds":420,"reading_time_words":1576,"slug":"making-a-robots-txt-syntax-highlighter-for-vs-code","tags":"reference,guide,vscode,extension,robots.txt","title":"Making a robots.txt syntax highlighter for VS Code","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":20,"date":"2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"What a catchy title! So, I thought it’d be a good idea to completely\nmove away from using Airtable. I used Airtable for my short URL\nservice I created and for various config options for the Let’s Work\nTogether page on my site. I moved them all to...","preview_html":"

What a catchy title! So, I thought it’d be a good idea to completely move away from using Airtable. I used Airtable for my short URL service I created and for various config options for the Let’s Work Together page on my site. I moved them all to Ups...

","reading_time_minutes":11,"reading_time_text":"11 min read","reading_time_seconds":660,"reading_time_words":2396,"slug":"contact-form-send-email-from-site","tags":"fastmail,guide,resource,email","title":"Contact Form Send Email From Site with Fastmail","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":135,"date":"2023-05-21T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"This is a how-to guide for adding a contact form to your SvelteKit\nsite using Airtable to store the submissions and notify you when there\nis a new submission.\n\nThis is an update to the previous post I did on this, the recent\nchanges to how you...","preview_html":"

This is a how-to guide for adding a contact form to your SvelteKit site using Airtable to store the submissions and notify you when there is a new submission.

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Here’s a real quick one on making sure you don’t blow your crawl budget on your SvelteKit project JavaScript files.

I noticed this ago and didn’t write about it. Tangentially related, I’ve recently been having a bit of a mare with Google indexing thi...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":351,"slug":"robots-txt-file-for-sveltekit-projects","tags":"sveltekit,guide,seo","title":"Robots.txt file for SvelteKit projects","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":71,"date":"2023-02-06T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"In this post I’ll be detailing how I implemented redirects for changed\npost routes in SvelteKit. I initially did this back in the Summer of\n2021 but with the SvelteKit v1 release some things have changed.\n\nFor the Tl;Dr skip to the solution.","preview_html":"

In this post I’ll be detailing how I implemented redirects for changed post routes in SvelteKit. I initially did this back in the Summer of 2021 but with the SvelteKit v1 release some things have changed.

For the Tl;Dr skip to the solution.

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Behaviour like, starting the dev server, then ...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":486,"slug":"wsl-dev-server-not-working-on-v1.1.0-try-this","tags":"wsl,guide","title":"WSL Dev Server Not Working on v1.1.0? Try this!","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":5,"date":"2023-01-20T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"So, I just found that the SPF record on my Fastmail account for\nscottspence.com was throwing a verification error. I didn’t really\nknow what the SPF record was for until this point and I had to\nresearch why it was failing on Fastmail.\n\nSo, I did a...","preview_html":"

So, I just found that the SPF record on my Fastmail account for scottspence.com was throwing a verification error. I didn’t really know what the SPF record was for until this point and I had to research why it was failing on Fastmail.

So, I did a pos...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":364,"slug":"adding-multiple-spf-records-with-vercel","tags":"domains,guide,resource","title":"Adding multiple SPF records with Vercel","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":3,"date":"2023-01-09T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"So, I’ve started using Sendinblue for my transactional emails and\nnewsletter. There’s the usual configuration to do with these services\nto add and configure your domain with them to show it as the sender.\n\nI’ve documented that process of Setting up...","preview_html":"

So, I’ve started using Sendinblue for my transactional emails and newsletter. There’s the usual configuration to do with these services to add and configure your domain with them to show it as the sender.

I’ve documented that process of Setting up Fa...

","reading_time_minutes":4,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240,"reading_time_words":872,"slug":"adding-dkim-records-to-vercel","tags":"domains,guide,resource","title":"Adding DKIM records to Vercel","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":122,"date":"2022-10-02T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I was playing around with Linode recently to try set up a PocketBase\ninstance then I came across this guide on the PocketBase GitHub\ndiscussions.\n\nThe whole thing took around ten minutes and I now have a SQLite\ndatabase I can read/write to.","preview_html":"

I was playing around with Linode recently to try set up a PocketBase instance then I came across this guide on the PocketBase GitHub discussions.

The whole thing took around ten minutes and I now have a SQLite database I can read/write to.

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I’ve been having a play around with Storyblok this evening and want to make some notes on getting set up with it.

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Quick guide to getting Debian WSL set up for web development.

You can install Debian from the Windows Store and get started straight away with using it, but there’s a few things missing.

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I’ve started using TypeScript on every new project I start with Svelte. My buddy Jamie Barton has helped me out with getting set up with the GraphQL Code Generator so that data is typed in the project.

This is a just so you know kind of guide as ther...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1304,"slug":"typescript-wit-sveltekit-example","tags":"typescript,svelte,sveltekit,graphql,guide","title":"GraphQL Code Generator with SvelteKit and TypeScript Example","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":99,"date":"2022-04-14T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve always bundled in my Zsh config with other guides I’ve done in\nthe past and never a stand alone post. So I’m making this now for my\nreference.\n\nI switched to Zsh around two years ago after being a long time Fish\nshell user. The reason for the...","preview_html":"

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Sooooooo, so, so, so, Zsh is pretty neat, right?

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This is a very specific issue myself and anyone that uses Gatsby and React router for navigating between headers in their Gatsby sites.

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I started adding videos to my YouTube channel in November 2018, this was mainly intended as an accompaniment to the blog post I did to Get your GraphCMS data into Gatsby.

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Here it is kids! All I know about Markdown. First! The standard preamble…

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Yo! It’s that time again!!

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Fathom Analytics, a great tool to use for your site analytics without the compromise of giving your visitors data to Google.

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Use the same frontmatter block all the time for your blog posts?

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I found an opportunity to improve the npm package for the Victor Mono font I like to use here and in my text editor (much to peoples horror when they see it)!

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Remember services like Bitly and TinyURL? Yeah, they still exist, shortening your URLs for you, they’ve been around for a long time too.

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I’m talking Fathom Analytics again, this time about tracking link clicks in my Markdown.

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Fathom Analytics recently added a really neat feature for custom domains with their service.

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Do you use Google Analytics (GA) for any of your sites?

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Over the past couple of weeks now I have set up several development machines at work and have had to also use two git accounts, GitHub and Bitbucket.

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Let’s go through getting styled-components working with the Gatsby default starter.

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Let’s set up Gatsby to pull data from GraphCMS.

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Let’s use the React Context API to change theme in an app!

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I thought I’d set up this blog with some sort of build pipeline, the intention was to have a good Continuous Integration pipeline so that if there were any issues when building the site that I wouldn’t push a broken build. No one wants to see that 😿

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller.

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How to combine two separate unrelated Git repositories into one with single history timeline.

Just adding a quick note on this…

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How to build and deploy a multifunctional Twitter bot!

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I know why Linus called it that now!

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I must say this was great to do and a nice little introduction to node and npm.

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I have previous wi...

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Why Fly.io though? Just get a $5 VPS and use that! Skil...

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Aight! I’ve spent the weekend working out the migration of this site from Vercel over to Fly.io. I’m still not 100% there but think I’ve covered most of it now, one thing that took up a lot of my time doing this is trying to work out why a from using...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":580,"slug":"csrf-with-sveltekit-on-flyio","tags":"flyio,sveltekit,docker,notes","title":"CSRF with SvelteKit on Fly.io","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":1522116,"date":"2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Ok, so I went over this in this in a\npost\na while back. I was having issues deploying a SvelteKit app to Fly.io.\nThe reasoning behind me wanting to use Fly is so that I can put the\nprojects near where the users are, reducing latency and giving an...","preview_html":"

Ok, so I went over this in this in a post a while back. I was having issues deploying a SvelteKit app to Fly.io. The reasoning behind me wanting to use Fly is so that I can put the projects near where the users are, reducing latency and giving an all...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1292,"slug":"deploying-sveltekit-apps-on-fly-io","tags":"sveltekit,flyio,docker,notes,turso","title":"Deploying SvelteKit Apps on Fly.io","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":1152811,"date":"2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"How to get the array of selected values from a multi-select form\ninput?\n\nThis is a short post detailing my stupidity and how I overcame it. So,\nhere’s the sitch! I was starting again with the\ndopedevs.icu project I started over 4 years\nago but never...","preview_html":"

How to get the array of selected values from a multi-select form input?

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","reading_time_minutes":5,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":300,"reading_time_words":946,"slug":"handling-multi-select-form-data","tags":"javascript,sveltekit,how-to,guide","title":"Handling Multi-Select Form Data","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":545331,"date":"2024-01-28T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"This is a post that will go over some of the specifics needed to\nconfigure a SvelteKit project using Svelte 5 runes. So this is a\ndedicated post for the Svelte 5 integration going over the work done\nin previous posts on setting up a project to use...","preview_html":"

This is a post that will go over some of the specifics needed to configure a SvelteKit project using Svelte 5 runes. So this is a dedicated post for the Svelte 5 integration going over the work done in previous posts on setting up a project to use Fa...

","reading_time_minutes":4,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240,"reading_time_words":804,"slug":"sveltekit-and-fathom-svelte-5-integration","tags":"analytics,svelte,sveltekit,fathom","title":"SvelteKit and Fathom Svelte 5 Integration","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":12282,"date":"2023-12-26T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I have the popular posts on this site which are stored in a Turso\ntable, the table is generated from the Fathom Analytics API on this\nsite and you can see them when you get to the bottom of a post or in\nthe footer of the site. Here’s the sitch...","preview_html":"

I have the popular posts on this site which are stored in a Turso table, the table is generated from the Fathom Analytics API on this site and you can see them when you get to the bottom of a post or in the footer of the site. Here’s the sitch, using...

","reading_time_minutes":4,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240,"reading_time_words":871,"slug":"use-common-table-expressions","tags":"sql,turso,sveltekit","title":"Use Common Table Expressions","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":4566,"date":"2023-12-11T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Real quick! I’m going to go through what I did to get a SvelteKit\nproject deployed to Fly.io and how to set up environment variables.\nThe back story is that I wasn’t getting the best response times from\nthe project I deployed to Vercel for Building...","preview_html":"

Real quick! I’m going to go through what I did to get a SvelteKit project deployed to Fly.io and how to set up environment variables. The back story is that I wasn’t getting the best response times from the project I deployed to Vercel for Building S...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":655,"slug":"sveltekit-environment-variables-flyio-deployment","tags":"sveltekit,notes,flyio,docker","title":"SvelteKit Environment Variables with Fly.io Deployment","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":4253,"date":"2023-12-10T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Okedokey, so, I’ve been playing around with Turso DB and SvelteKit and\nI decided to see if I could record analytics for a project and use\nTurso to store the data. This was a bit of exploratory work, which I\nfound really interesting as it’s something...","preview_html":"

Okedokey, so, I’ve been playing around with Turso DB and SvelteKit and I decided to see if I could record analytics for a project and use Turso to store the data. This was a bit of exploratory work, which I found really interesting as it’s something ...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1380,"slug":"building-session-analytics-sveltekit-turso-db","tags":"analytics,turso,sveltekit","title":"Building Session Analytics with SvelteKit and Turso DB","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":7,"date":"2023-09-09T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Yesterday I switched my URL link shortener\nfrom Airtable to Upstash Redis. Airtable is great and I still use it\nfor a couple of features on this site, the contact from being one of\nthem. I am really enjoying using Upstash Redis for a lot of things...","preview_html":"

Yesterday I switched my URL link shortener from Airtable to Upstash Redis. Airtable is great and I still use it for a couple of features on this site, the contact from being one of them. I am really enjoying using Upstash Redis for a lot of things no...

","reading_time_minutes":4,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240,"reading_time_words":848,"slug":"airtable-to-upstash-redis-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,redis,upstash","title":"Airtable to Upstash Redis with SvelteKit","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":141,"date":"2023-07-16T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I made a reactions component in SvelteKit that uses Upstash Redis to\nstore the user reactions. It uses a SvelteKit form action to submit\nthe reaction to the server. It’s a nice example of how to use Upstash\nwith SvelteKit.\n\nI’ll go through creating...","preview_html":"

I made a reactions component in SvelteKit that uses Upstash Redis to store the user reactions. It uses a SvelteKit form action to submit the reaction to the server. It’s a nice example of how to use Upstash with SvelteKit.

I’ll go through creating th...

","reading_time_minutes":18,"reading_time_text":"18 min read","reading_time_seconds":1080,"reading_time_words":4140,"slug":"sveltekit-page-reaction-component-with-upstash-redis","tags":"sveltekit,redis,upstash,how-to","title":"SvelteKit Page Reaction Component with Upstash Redis","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":33,"date":"2023-07-01T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Tailwind is awesome n’ all but what do you do when you want to change\nthe default fonts. I’ve spent a bit of time customising this site to\nuse local fonts above the default used in Tailwind CSS. In this post\nI’ll go over adding in new fonts for...","preview_html":"

Tailwind is awesome n’ all but what do you do when you want to change the default fonts. I’ve spent a bit of time customising this site to use local fonts above the default used in Tailwind CSS. In this post I’ll go over adding in new fonts for Tailw...

","reading_time_minutes":11,"reading_time_text":"11 min read","reading_time_seconds":660,"reading_time_words":2490,"slug":"customising-fonts-in-tailwind-css-and-daisyui","tags":"css,tailwind,how-to,daisyui,sveltekit","title":"Customising Fonts in Tailwind CSS and daisyUI","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":24,"date":"2023-06-28T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"This guide will cover how to add a cookie-based theme selection to a\nSvelteKit site using daisyUI.\n\nI’ve always liked implementing something in the way of a theme change\ninto my sites. This often meant that I’d have to define my own theme\nup-front...","preview_html":"

This guide will cover how to add a cookie-based theme selection to a SvelteKit site using daisyUI.

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","reading_time_minutes":9,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":540,"reading_time_words":1928,"slug":"cookie-based-theme-selection-in-sveltekit-with-daisyui","tags":"sveltekit,daisyui,tailwind,how-to","title":"Cookie-Based Theme Selection in SvelteKit with daisyUI","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":70,"date":"2023-06-13T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Ok, on 2023-06-13 there was an AWS outage and everyone that used AWS\nEast was affected. I use Vercel for hosting and they use AWS for their\nedge rendering lambdas (in AWSEast) so I was affected.\n\nI have some analytics I bring in from Fathom...","preview_html":"

Ok, on 2023-06-13 there was an AWS outage and everyone that used AWS East was affected. I use Vercel for hosting and they use AWS for their edge rendering lambdas (in AWSEast) so I was affected.

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This is a how-to guide for adding a contact form to your SvelteKit site using Airtable to store the submissions and notify you when there is a new submission.

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During a workshop I was hosting at CityJS ( ago) for getting started with Svelte and SvelteKit, I received some valuable feedback from an attendee who was unclear about the role of the load function in SvelteKit.

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I had a bit of a surprise land in my inbox at the start of the month from my analytics provider Fathom, the subject line “You’ve been quite popular”.

Not the good type of surprise though! 😅

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I came across this issue when adding real-time analytics to my site, essentially what I wanted to do was get some analytics data from a server endpoint and pass that to the page.

In SvelteKit you can have different ways to get data onto a page, which...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":320,"slug":"passing-sveltekit-page-server-js-data-to-page-js","tags":"sveltekit,resource,how-to","title":"Passing SvelteKit +page.server.ts data to +page.ts","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":6,"date":"2023-02-21T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I spent a bit of time the other day looking into the Fathom Analytics\nAPI, this was something I took a look at around a year ago now, but I\ndidn’t really get around to using it.\n\nIf you’re looking to implement Fathom analytics on your site...","preview_html":"

I spent a bit of time the other day looking into the Fathom Analytics API, this was something I took a look at around a year ago now, but I didn’t really get around to using it.

If you’re looking to implement Fathom analytics on your site, I updated ...

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Here’s a real quick one on making sure you don’t blow your crawl budget on your SvelteKit project JavaScript files.

I noticed this ago and didn’t write about it. Tangentially related, I’ve recently been having a bit of a mare with Google indexing thi...

For the Tl;Dr skip to the solution.

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I had this idea whilst working on a SvelteKit project to see if I could use the Marked package in place of MDSveX.

So the idea was that I only need the markdown rendered so I thought why not just load the .md file into a Svelte page and render the co...

","reading_time_minutes":5,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":300,"reading_time_words":1022,"slug":"load-markdown-via-endpoint-in-sveltekit","tags":"markdown,sveltekit","title":"Load markdown via endpoint in SvelteKit","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":64,"date":"2023-01-06T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Tailwind is cool, right? Really configurable as well, I wanted to add\nsome gradient animation to a project of mine. So did a search and\nfound this awesome post by Victor Yoalli on how to do it! Thanks\nVictor!\n\nI’ve basically taken Victor’s code and...","preview_html":"

Tailwind is cool, right? Really configurable as well, I wanted to add some gradient animation to a project of mine. So did a search and found this awesome post by Victor Yoalli on how to do it! Thanks Victor!

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Real quick! This was a dumb idea I had when I created the repo for this in 2018 and never got around to doing anything with until yesterday! 😂

Tl;Dr: It’s a list of CSS filters that you can apply to an image to see what effect they have.

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With the recent changes to SvelteKit which has invalidated a lot of content already out there, I want to make some notes on how to load data in SvelteKit.

First up, if you weren’t aware, SvelteKit completely changed how file based routing is done. Th...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1178,"slug":"data-loading-in-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,resource,how-to","title":"Data loading in SvelteKit","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":165,"date":"2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"In this guide I’ll be going through getting set up with the Universal\nReact Query Library (URQL) in SvelteKit. There’s documentation you\ncan check out for URQL itself if you need to go more in depth. This\nwill be covering initialising the client and...","preview_html":"

In this guide I’ll be going through getting set up with the Universal React Query Library (URQL) in SvelteKit. There’s documentation you can check out for URQL itself if you need to go more in depth. This will be covering initialising the client and ...

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With SvelteKit in the past if you wanted to use a .env file secret that you didn’t want exposed on the client there was some additional config you needed to do.

Vite exposes all variables contained in the .env file prefixed with VITE_ to the client. ...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":396,"slug":"sveltekit-environment-variables-with-the-sveltekit-env-module","tags":"sveltekit,notes","title":"SvelteKit Environment Variables with the SvelteKit $env Module","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":55,"date":"2022-07-19T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve been having a play around with Storyblok this evening and want to\nmake some notes on getting set up with it.\n\nWith the moving target that is the public beta of SvelteKit there’s a\nfew things that have changed recently which I want to document...","preview_html":"

I’ve been having a play around with Storyblok this evening and want to make some notes on getting set up with it.

With the moving target that is the public beta of SvelteKit there’s a few things that have changed recently which I want to document her...

","reading_time_minutes":13,"reading_time_text":"13 min read","reading_time_seconds":780,"reading_time_words":2822,"slug":"getting-set-up-with-storyblok-and-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,storyblok,how-to,guide","title":"Getting set up with Storyblok and SvelteKit","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":148,"date":"2022-07-05T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":1,"preview":"The latest version of KitQL dropped yesterday!\n\nI’ve written about Getting Started with KitQL and GraphCMS in the\npast and there’s a few things that have changed between the two\nversions. Most notable to those are that KitQL has merged with\nHoudini.","preview_html":"

The latest version of KitQL dropped yesterday!

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","reading_time_minutes":1,"reading_time_text":"1 min read","reading_time_seconds":60,"reading_time_words":215,"slug":"the-new-kitql-sveltekit-graphql-client","tags":"svelte,sveltekit,kitql,houdini,graphql","title":"The new KitQL SvelteKit GraphQL client","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":111,"date":"2022-07-03T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Here’s some of the issues I faced when deploying a SvelteKit project\nusing Prisma to Vercel.\n\nI was following along with the awesome guide put together by\nMatia, on authentication with SvelteKit using cookies. By far the\nmost comprehensive guide...","preview_html":"

Here’s some of the issues I faced when deploying a SvelteKit project using Prisma to Vercel.

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This is a just so you know kind of guide as ther...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1304,"slug":"typescript-wit-sveltekit-example","tags":"typescript,svelte,sveltekit,graphql,guide","title":"GraphQL Code Generator with SvelteKit and TypeScript Example","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":94,"date":"2022-05-02T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I have several components that I use across a couple of my SvelteKit\nprojects. I decided to make them into an npm package so that I’m not\nmaintaining them in several places.\n\nHere I’m going to go through the process I followed to develop the\npackage...","preview_html":"

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Aight! With Svelte Summit Fall 2024 done with we got a load of cool new announcements, Svelte 5 being the big one along with the new site and docs! Beautiful!

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How to get the array of selected values from a multi-select form input?

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I’ll go through creating th...

This guide will cover how to add a cookie-based theme selection to a SvelteKit site using daisyUI.

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This is a how-to guide for adding a contact form to your SvelteKit site using Airtable to store the submissions and notify you when there is a new submission.

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This prompted me to revisit this topi...

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I came across this issue when adding real-time analytics to my site, essentially what I wanted to do was get some analytics data from a server endpoint and pass that to the page.

In SvelteKit you can have different ways to get data onto a page, which...

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For the Tl;Dr skip to the solution.

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Two situations over the last couple of days I’ve needed to do this and I’ve had to look up the code to do it. So I thought I’d write it down here so I can find it again.

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Real quick! This was a dumb idea I had when I created the repo for this in 2018 and never got around to doing anything with until yesterday! 😂

Tl;Dr: It’s a list of CSS filters that you can apply to an image to see what effect they have.

With the recent changes to SvelteKit which has invalidated a lot of content already out there, I want to make some notes on how to load data in SvelteKit.

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I’ve been having a play around with Storyblok this evening and want to make some notes on getting set up with it.

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Styling a scrollbar with Tailwind CSS for Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox. This is possible with vendor prefixes and pseudo-elements.

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","reading_time_minutes":4,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240,"reading_time_words":695,"slug":"change-text-highlight-colour-with-tailwind-css","tags":"css,tailwind,how-to","title":"Change Text Highlight Color with Tailwind CSS","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":174,"date":"2022-04-18T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve had this issue a couple of times now and want to document how to\nresolve it in most cases.\n\nThe latest time this happened to me was with the 22H2 insider preview\nWindows 11 update.","preview_html":"

I’ve had this issue a couple of times now and want to document how to resolve it in most cases.

The latest time this happened to me was with the 22H2 insider preview Windows 11 update.

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The Git username and email are the bare minimum needed for when working with Git to commit changes. It’s also one of the first things you do after installing Git.

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Skip links are internal links that allow you to skip to the main content of the page.

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Secure Shell (SSH) is a secure way to connect with code repository hosts like GitLab, Bitbucket and of course GitHub. While HTTPS connections require a username and password credentials, SSH instead uses a pair of cryptographically generated keys.

Th...

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In this how-to I’ll be walking through the process of creating a contact form in SvelteKit using Airtable for storing the submissions with no additional dependencies.

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Do you ever watch a live stream and wonder how the chat is shown? If you have and you’ve searched online you’d probably have found videos detailing how to do this with services like Streamlabs, or Stream Elements. These involve configuring the panel ...

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Houdini! The disappearing GraphQL client! I’ve used Houdini for a couple of projects now and I think it’s great!

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If you want to fetch data from a GraphQL endpoint, you can use the browser fetch API without the need for any third party tools. You can use the browser fetch API in SvelteKit on both the client and the server.

In this first example I’m using the Sve...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":346,"slug":"sveltekit-fetch-from-graphql-with-variables","tags":"svelte,api,graphql,how-to","title":"SvelteKit Fetch from GraphQL Endpoint with Variables","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":73,"date":"2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"How to set up Tailwind CSS with Svelte, two examples here of adding\nTailwind CSS to a new Svelte project.\n\nℹ️ Please note at the time of writing SvelteKit is not at v1 but this\nwill be the default way to create new Svelte projects when...","preview_html":"

How to set up Tailwind CSS with Svelte, two examples here of adding Tailwind CSS to a new Svelte project.

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I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this before but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here.

WSL moves pretty fast so a lot of the documentation ...

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This guide has now been updated, take a look at Use URQL with SvelteKit for an up to date reference

Use the Universal React Query Library (URQL) in Svelte!

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This g...

","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1254,"slug":"make-a-sitemap-with-sveltekit","tags":"svelte,sveltekit,seo,guide,how-to","title":"Make a Sitemap with SvelteKit","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":90,"date":"2021-08-09T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"The indie web is alive and well and there are more and more people\ntaking control and owning their online presence and also how they\nconsume other content. One way to help consumers of your site know\nthat there is new content available is by making...","preview_html":"

","reading_time_minutes":5,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":300,"reading_time_words":1142,"slug":"make-an-rss-feed-with-sveltekit","tags":"svelte,sveltekit,rss,guide,how-to","title":"Make an RSS Feed for your SvelteKit Project","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":104,"date":"2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I came across this issue today when trying to set up OBS on a new\nmachine where trying to add a display capture and there was no output\nfor the screen.\n\nI found a fix, apparently this only affects laptops and it’s to do\nwith the video card.","preview_html":"

I came across this issue today when trying to set up OBS on a new machine where trying to add a display capture and there was no output for the screen.

I found a fix, apparently this only affects laptops and it’s to do with the video card.

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I got my new hardware from GraphCMS today and wanted to stream the setup of a Windows PC for web development.

The idea was to do a ‘set up a Windows machine from scratch for web development’ and there would be restarts when installing Windows Subsyst...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":461,"slug":"obs-ndi-two-screen-capture","tags":"how-to,obs","title":"OBS Display Capture from one PC to Another","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"}],"zsh":[{"id":7400130,"date":"2025-02-07T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"So, this is my updated Zsh config! To be honest there’s little that’s\nchanged over the years since I originally posted about this a good\nthree years ago now in\nMy Zsh Config. But! The\nchanges are substantial enough for me to justify a new post.","preview_html":"

","reading_time_minutes":5,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":300,"reading_time_words":1146,"slug":"speeding-up-my-zsh-shell","tags":"zsh,guide,notes","title":"Speeding Up My ZSH Shell ⚡","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":99,"date":"2022-04-14T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve always bundled in my Zsh config with other guides I’ve done in\nthe past and never a stand alone post. So I’m making this now for my\nreference.\n\nI switched to Zsh around two years ago after being a long time Fish\nshell user. The reason for the...","preview_html":"

I’ve always bundled in my Zsh config with other guides I’ve done in the past and never a stand alone post. So I’m making this now for my reference.

I switched to Zsh around two years ago after being a long time Fish shell user. The reason for the swi...

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Sooooooo, so, so, so, Zsh is pretty neat, right?

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sudo apt install sqlite3 Reading packa...

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Ok, I don’t usually do a post like this, this site is usually around how to work with a technology or to get something done with it.

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I have previous wi...

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Aight! So, I’ve gone off of Fly.io, great service, I’ll probably come back to it in the future, but, now I’m going to set up my own VPS on Hetzner.

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","reading_time_minutes":6,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":360,"reading_time_words":1292,"slug":"deploying-sveltekit-apps-on-fly-io","tags":"sveltekit,flyio,docker,notes,turso","title":"Deploying SvelteKit Apps on Fly.io","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":4566,"date":"2023-12-11T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Real quick! I’m going to go through what I did to get a SvelteKit\nproject deployed to Fly.io and how to set up environment variables.\nThe back story is that I wasn’t getting the best response times from\nthe project I deployed to Vercel for Building...","preview_html":"

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":655,"slug":"sveltekit-environment-variables-flyio-deployment","tags":"sveltekit,notes,flyio,docker","title":"SvelteKit Environment Variables with Fly.io Deployment","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":16,"date":"2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I don’t get it. I’ve used macOS for well over 4 years Windows for the\npast 20 and I have used Linux for 4 years. I’ve been using all these\nsystems for a long time and sometimes the snark get’s to me.\n\nI get it everyone has their preference, but...","preview_html":"

I don’t get it. I’ve used macOS for well over 4 years Windows for the past 20 and I have used Linux for 4 years. I’ve been using all these systems for a long time and sometimes the snark get’s to me.

I get it everyone has their preference, but, this ...

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Ok, so, back at the start of the year, I switched from Revue (remember that? 😅) to Brevo (Send In Blue at the time) and made a concerted effort to use it as I paid quite a premium for it! There was some fun around setting up DKIM records for the doma...

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I came across one of those infographic’s today detailing a couple of uses of the HTML input tag and decided to dig a bit deeper into the uses for it and was quite surprised to find quite a few I didn’t know of.

This is a reference primarily for me de...

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There were a couple of Tweets I saw in quick succession today along the lines of “Don’t create your own blog, write on someone else’s platform instead”. Now, as someone that has been blogging since April 2010 (since 2016 here) I can tell you it is ab...

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With SvelteKit in the past if you wanted to use a .env file secret that you didn’t want exposed on the client there was some additional config you needed to do.

Vite exposes all variables contained in the .env file prefixed with VITE_ to the client. ...

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Six months ago today I started a new job as a developer advocate for GraphCMS. This has taken me by surprise as if feels like I’ve only just started still!

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So SvelteKit is super awesome n’ all and the best thing ever but have you ever tried to use a .env secret that you didn’t want exposed on the client?

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I was listening to James Q Quick on his podcast, he was doing his origin story and there were some questions being asked and someone asked this question which got me thinking.

Did you ever consider giving up?

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Render is pretty neat!

I’m still super early days but I have discovered the render.yml files that is the equivalent to the Amazon CDK (Cloud Development Kit). The Amazon CDK is pretty powerful from what I can glean.

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I had a play around with Svelte the other day and wanted to make a few notes and comparisons to React, React being a point of reference for me and hopefully others.

I’ve found a lot of the examples here on Svelte Mastery

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I was tagged into a conversation over on James Q Quick’s Discord about growth over the last year and it wasn’t until I sat down to write about it that I realised I’ve done quite a bit over the last 12 months now.

Most of my content is written and sup...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":495,"slug":"growth-over-the-past-year","tags":"notes","title":"Growth over the Past Year","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":134,"date":"2021-03-15T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"When using Tailwind CSS in a Toast project I got a CSS warning\n when trying to use\nthe Tailwind directive.\n\nA quick Google gave me a stackoverflow result for using it in Vue but\nthe solution worked the same in Toast with one last...","preview_html":"

When using Tailwind CSS in a Toast project I got a CSS warning semi-colon expected css(css-semicolonexpected) when trying to use the Tailwind @apply directive.

A quick Google gave me a stackoverflow result for using it in Vue but the solution worked ...

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I was directed to direnv by Chris Biscardi when I was trying to use some environment variables in my Toast site.

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For the past couple of weeks I have slowly been getting a more comfortable with Toast

The best way to do that would be to make a project with it, I decided to move my blog to Toast.

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A sitemap is an important for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) because it makes it easier for Google and other search engines to find your site’s pages.

Google ranks web pages not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML Sitemap and havin...

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":571,"slug":"dynamic-sitemap-generation-with-nextjs-and-sanity","tags":"nextjs,seo,notes","title":"Sitemap Generation for Dynamic Routes In NextJS with the Sanity Client","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.583Z"},{"id":173,"date":"2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve been using the Windows Terminal now since the summer, it’s great\nand I now prefer it over Hyper which was my preferred terminal.\n\nWindows Terminal comes with a lot of options for configuration and a\nload more which I’ve only just discovered...","preview_html":"

I’ve been using the Windows Terminal now since the summer, it’s great and I now prefer it over Hyper which was my preferred terminal.

Windows Terminal comes with a lot of options for configuration and a load more which I’ve only just discovered after...

","reading_time_minutes":9,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":540,"reading_time_words":1936,"slug":"windows-terminal-config","tags":"windows,resource,notes","title":"Windows Terminal Config - Make it Your Own","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":43,"date":"2021-01-05T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a\nlook see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have\ninstalled.\n\nAs I’m all jazzed about using Cypress in WSL I thought I’d give it a\ngo on Fedora.","preview_html":"

Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a look see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have installed.

As I’m all jazzed about using Cypress in WSL I thought I’d give it a go on Fedora.

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Ok this is a little snippet I’ve got set up to query data from the GitHub GraphQL API.

I use this for getting data to work with in data visualisation tools, I’ve done it a couple of times now with my Gatsby site but now I’m attempting to do it in a s...

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":345,"slug":"get-graphql-data-with-axios","tags":"graphql,api,notes","title":"Get GraphQL Data Using Axios","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":97,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes. Partly notes to help\nclarify my understanding of something and partly for future me.\n\nThat’s why I have my digital garden, an online collection of my\nlearning over the...","preview_html":"

For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes. Partly notes to help clarify my understanding of something and partly for future me.

That’s why I have my digital garden, an online collection of my learning over the ye...

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","reading_time_minutes":10,"reading_time_text":"10 min read","reading_time_seconds":600,"reading_time_words":2141,"slug":"setting-up-codename-goose-in-wsl","tags":"mcp,goose,learning,tools,learning,wsl,notes","title":"Setting Up Codename Goose in WSL","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":7349654,"date":"2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Ok, so, I’ve heard about this CLI tool that allows you to use your\npreferred LLM provider, Goose, from Block (Square, payment thingy)\nwhich I think is officially called codename goose, but we all know\neveryone is going to refer to it as Goose.","preview_html":"

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I have previous wi...

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For 2023 I’m going to note down my goals for the year. I’ll take a look at this quarterly and update it accordingly.

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I was asked to create a simple auth from at work, this tweet immediately sprang to mind.

Create a Video overlay with React hooks.

I had to create a video overlay for a project I was working on. This example use a portal to render the player with react-player.

For the past couple of weeks now I have been getting familiar with Preact and the Preact CLI.

It’s great, it’s similar to React

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So I had a play around with the openSUSE Leap 15.2 you can get on the Windows store and after familiarising myself with it decided to see if I could use it for web development.

Well, yeah, you can, that’s it, that’s the post!

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Sooooooo, so, so, so, Zsh is pretty neat, right?

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The Gatsby File System Route API was announced recently and I have been having a play around with it. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s something like the dynamic routing you get with Next.js. If you’re not familiar with that either then it’s a wa...

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This is a very specific issue myself and anyone that uses Gatsby and React router for navigating between headers in their Gatsby sites.

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So what is web monetisation? It’s an ...

Yo! It’s that time again!!

This is an opinionated guide on setting up a development environment for web development in widows that will use the requisite tools, Bash, Node, Git, VS Code etc…

Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time to refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end of 2018.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10

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Fathom Analytics, a great tool to use for your site analytics without the compromise of giving your visitors data to Google.

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Virtual Box Guest Additions can be a bit of a pain to set up sometimes.

My current PC setup for some reason wouldn’t show a VM in the full resolution.

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I built my first PC, here’s how it went and what I learned.

Up until recently I was very happy with my home computer, which was an ASUS Transformer Pro T304UA.

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Use the same frontmatter block all the time for your blog posts?

I do, so I’ve created a VS Code snippet to pre-populate the block with some default tags and today’s date.

I found an opportunity to improve the npm package for the Victor Mono font I like to use here and in my text editor (much to peoples horror when they see it)!

It was a simple fix to add font-display: swap; to the css file in the dist package.

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Here’s some of the reasoning and detail that went into making the React SEO Component.

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I used CSS variables to make a theme switch, light and dark, I’ve done this in the past using styled-components but not attempted it via the CSS variables route.

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I am a massive fan of both Vercel’s Now.sh platform and the Netlify platform.

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I’ve spent a while today trying to bring down the size of this project, I have several posts that are particularly large so I wanted to work out a way to reduce that.

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I spent a couple of days now questioning how and what I write after reading a post from Richard Haines. In his post he mentioned how he stumbled across the Digital Garden idea.

Richard’s post led me to Chris Biscardi’s thoughts on that and in turn Jo...

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Quite a while ago now I was introduced to dependency update tools like Renovate and Greenkeeper, at the time I thought they were awesome, keeping your projects patched and secure so I went and used them in every project I made.

Busy work

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Remember services like Bitly and TinyURL? Yeah, they still exist, shortening your URLs for you, they’ve been around for a long time too.

Bitly founded in 2008 and TinyURL founded in 2002 😱

I’m talking Fathom Analytics again, this time about tracking link clicks in my Markdown.

I have written about how to track custom events with Fathom previously and this is really an extension to that post.

Fathom Analytics recently added a really neat feature for custom domains with their service.

If you’re having issues with the clicks not scrolling to link IDs see Not scrolling to ID

The main purpose for me documenting this is to demonstrate implementing a table of contents with smooth scroll to the anchors in a Gatsby project using MDX.

I’ll be swapping out the styles included with a CSS...

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In this guide I’m going to go through how to track custom events in a Gatsby site using Fathom analytics.

Preamble

Over the years I have made my own Pro...

Do you use Google Analytics (GA) for any of your sites?

I’ve used it in the past and it gives quite good information about

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This is a dump of all the snippets I have collected over the last 18 months or so, that I’m going to document here so it’s probably going to be a mess but it’s mainly for my reference so 😛

Arrays

","reading_time_minutes":3,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":180,"reading_time_words":515,"slug":"javascript-snippets","tags":"learning,javascript,snippets","title":"JavaScript snippets from around the web","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":22,"date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"In this guide we’re going to cover converting the Gatsby default blog\nstarter to use MDX.\n\nAll the cool kids are using Gatsby and MDX in their blogs these days.\nIf you already have a blog that uses Gatsby but want to move onto the\nnew hotness then...","preview_html":"

In this guide we’re going to cover converting the Gatsby default blog starter to use MDX.

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Already use WSL with Ubuntu? Want an Upgrade??

This is a guide that will cover upgrading Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL) from the current LTS version to the latest ‘normal’ version 18.10.

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Hooks ahoy!

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Moving to the new hotness!!

I’ve now moved this blog over to Gatsby MDX. You can see all the changes on my repo here.

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Over the past couple of weeks now I have set up several development machines at work and have had to also use two git accounts, GitHub and Bitbucket.

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From scratch to Create React App on Windows

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Cliffs/TL;DR

I made a recruiter FAQ on my personal site for recruiters and created an online CV.

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Let’s go through getting styled-components working with the Gatsby default starter.

Let’s set up Gatsby to pull data from GraphCMS.

Let’s use the React Context API to change theme in an app!

This is what it will look like by the end of this post:

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I’m a bit late to the party using the new React Context API, I did get to use it the other day at work, I also made a snippet to scaffold out a component for it.

I had followed a couple of guides explaining how to use it and neither of them as good a...

","reading_time_minutes":9,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":540,"reading_time_words":1886,"slug":"react-context-api-with-gatsby","tags":"learning,guide,gatsby,api","title":"Use the React Context API with Gatsby","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":91,"date":"2018-02-27T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a\nwhile, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller.\n\nI’m going to go over steps I have taken the help me with learning to\ncode (again)","preview_html":"

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller.

","reading_time_minutes":7,"reading_time_text":"7 min read","reading_time_seconds":420,"reading_time_words":1454,"slug":"make-time-for-100doc","tags":"guide,learning,habits,career","title":"How to make time for 100 days of code","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":59,"date":"2017-06-30T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"How to combine two separate unrelated Git repositories into one with\nsingle history timeline.\n\nJust adding a quick note on this…","preview_html":"

How to combine two separate unrelated Git repositories into one with single history timeline.

Just adding a quick note on this…

","reading_time_minutes":2,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":120,"reading_time_words":324,"slug":"git-allow-unrelated-histories","tags":"learning,guide","title":"Git ` — allow-unrelated-histories`","last_updated":"2025-04-03T09:30:00.584Z"},{"id":60,"date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I know why Linus called it that now!\n\nIf you’re reading this there’s a good chance you know at least the\nbasics of Git but if like me and you are the only person making\nchanges to your repos then there’s a good chance that you just use\n to move your...","preview_html":"

I know why Linus called it that now!

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Since setting up this blog I haven’t really bothered with Jekyll any more than just forking Barry Clarke’s repo of Jekyll Now and adding these posts as and when the feeling takes me.

So I got to checking out Barry’s blog and his Jekyll Now templates ...

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I’m a published developer! [sort of] Well that was a bit painful, well not actually I mean from the documentation I feel I was a bit mislead.

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Ok, I have recently discovered and started doing freeCodeCamp(🔥) which so far I’m really enjoying.

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The Git username and email are the bare minimum needed for when working with Git to commit changes. It’s also one of the first things you do after installing Git.

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Over the past couple of weeks now I have set up several development machines at work and have had to also use two git accounts, GitHub and Bitbucket.

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I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this before but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here.

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Now that Windows 11 has been released I decided to switch from my Windows 11 insiders build and go over to my Windows 10 partition, reset it and start over on a fresh Windows 11 machine!

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This is a specific use case for installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu on WSL.

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I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux, here’s how it went.

So for a while now I’ve been using Ubuntu, from when my old Asus Transformer Pro decided that it didn’t like running windows any more.

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My beloved HAVIT KB395L keyboard left Ctrl key has started cutting out intermittently. As a developer all my coding revolves around that key saving changes and copy pasting.

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I built my first PC, here’s how it went and what I learned.

Up until recently I was very happy with my home computer, which was an ASUS Transformer Pro T304UA.

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I have documented this process in the...

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Aight! With Svelte Summit Fall 2024 done with we got a load of cool new announcements, Svelte 5 being the big one along with the new site and docs! Beautiful!

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So, you’ve just upgraded to Svelte 5 and are excited to test out your components. But wait, what’s this? You run your tests and hit an error that’s throwing a spanner in the works:

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I spent a bit of time the other day looking into the Fathom Analytics API, this was something I took a look at around a year ago now, but I didn’t really get around to using it.

If you’re looking to implement Fathom analytics on your site, I updated ...

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I did what I usually do and made a useless project! I was searching for HTTP codes and went to httpcodes.com to see if anyone had done anything there and it looks like it’s parked. This made me think though, “what about httpcodes.dev?”

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Real quick! This was a dumb idea I had when I created the repo for this in 2018 and never got around to doing anything with until yesterday! 😂

Tl;Dr: It’s a list of CSS filters that you can apply to an image to see what effect they have.

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The latest version of KitQL dropped yesterday!

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This is a just so you know kind of guide as ther...

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In this how-to I’ll be walking through the process of creating a contact form in SvelteKit using Airtable for storing the submissions with no additional dependencies.

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In this first example I’m using the Sve...

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How to set up Tailwind CSS with Svelte, two examples here of adding Tailwind CSS to a new Svelte project.

ℹ️ Please note at the time of writing SvelteKit is not at v1 but this will be the default way to create new Svelte projects when SvelteKit goes t...

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In this guide I’ll go through the configuration needed to get set up with Fathom Analytics in a SvelteKit project.

I’ll cover getting set up, tracking goals and creating and using a custom Fathom Domain.

This guide has now been updated, take a look at Use URQL with SvelteKit for an up to date reference

Use the Universal React Query Library (URQL) in Svelte!

Real quick example of how I used Promise.all to fetch data from multiple endpoints in SvelteKit.

This uses the server side fetch that is part of SvelteKit and is destructured into the load function.

Okedokey! In this crash course I’ll be detailing loads of SvelteKit features and how you can use them in a project.

If you prefer to see this in a video you can Tl;Dr to the video section.

There’s some SvelteKit prerender settings that need...

This g...

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Over the last few weeks, I have been getting familiar with Svelte and SvelteKit in particular. Coming from a React background there are many similarities using Svelte and some that are not.

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I made a starter blog with SvelteKit and GraphCMS, I’ve been doing a couple of small projects with it and I really like it!

This will focus mainly on the Svelte and SvelteKit side with not too much emphasis on the GraphCMS side. GraphCMS has a blog s...

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I had a play around with Svelte the other day and wanted to make a few notes and comparisons to React, React being a point of reference for me and hopefully others.

I’ve found a lot of the examples here on Svelte Mastery

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In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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Aight! So, I’ve gone off of Fly.io, great service, I’ll probably come back to it in the future, but, now I’m going to set up my own VPS on Hetzner.

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I’ve been playing around with Hetzner Cloud for a while now, mainly setting up this site on it using Coolify but it got me thinking about using it for other things too.

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Ok, I don’t usually do a post like this, this site is usually around how to work with a technology or to get something done with it.

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Real quick! This was a dumb idea I had when I created the repo for this in 2018 and never got around to doing anything with until yesterday! 😂

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Styling a scrollbar with Tailwind CSS for Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox. This is possible with vendor prefixes and pseudo-elements.

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Skip links are internal links that allow you to skip to the main content of the page.

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When using Tailwind CSS in a Toast project I got a CSS warning semi-colon expected css(css-semicolonexpected) when trying to use the Tailwind @apply directive.

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This is a follow up on the post I did about Getting Started with Linaria

The starter I worked on last time I made into a template so it can be used as the base of this project.

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I had a work colleague introduce me to Linaria last week and I’ve used it on a project and I quite like it.

Linaria is like styled-components but different as in there’s no runtime cost and some other gotchas I’ve found along the way.

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A curated list of hints and tips for using styled-components.

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This is a collection of some handy snippets and resources I collected which I’m going to be documenting here, it’s probably going to be a mess but it mainly for my reference.

Big thanks to Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan 🙏

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I used CSS variables to make a theme switch, light and dark, I’ve done this in the past using styled-components but not attempted it via the CSS variables route.

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I have previous wi...

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Here’s a real quick one on making sure you don’t blow your crawl budget on your SvelteKit project JavaScript files.

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For the Tl;Dr skip to the solution.

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This g...

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A sitemap is an important for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) because it makes it easier for Google and other search engines to find your site’s pages.

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Here’s some of the reasoning and detail that went into making the React SEO Component.

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I’ve been playing around with Hetzner Cloud for a while now, mainly setting up this site on it using Coolify but it got me thinking about using it for other things too.

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I was playing around with Linode recently to try set up a PocketBase instance then I came across this guide on the PocketBase GitHub discussions.

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I’m talking Fathom Analytics again, this time about tracking link clicks in my Markdown.

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If you’re having issues with the clicks not scrolling to link IDs see Not scrolling to ID

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Houdini! The disappearing GraphQL client! I’ve used Houdini for a couple of projects now and I think it’s great!

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I made a starter blog with SvelteKit and GraphCMS, I’ve been doing a couple of small projects with it and I really like it!

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Let’s set up Gatsby to pull data from GraphCMS.

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I came across this issue today when trying to set up OBS on a new machine where trying to add a display capture and there was no output for the screen.

I found a fix, apparently this only affects laptops and it’s to do with the video card.

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This is a dump of all the snippets I have collected over the last 18 months or so, that I’m going to document here so it’s probably going to be a mess but it’s mainly for my reference so 😛

Arrays

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Let’s use the React Context API to change theme in an app!

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Having one place for all your social links is big business! Services like Linktree, ContactInBio, LinkBook, etc all offer the same sort of service. One location for all your social links.

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For the past couple of weeks I have slowly been getting a more comfortable with Toast

The best way to do that would be to make a project with it, I decided to move my blog to Toast.

I have delivered this talk several times now but not actually written about it.

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I was listening to James Q Quick on his podcast, he was doing his origin story and there were some questions being asked and someone asked this question which got me thinking.

Did you ever consider giving up?

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I have seen the same situation many times now in my career as a VBA Developer about how source code control is managed with VBA projects.

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Render is pretty neat!

I’m still super early days but I have discovered the render.yml files that is the equivalent to the Amazon CDK (Cloud Development Kit). The Amazon CDK is pretty powerful from what I can glean.

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Ok, so this is another one of those “let’s use a new CSS-in-JS library on a Gatsby default starter project” post.

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Fathom Analytics, a great tool to use for your site analytics without the compromise of giving your visitors data to Google.

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If you’re having issues with the clicks not scrolling to link IDs see Not scrolling to ID

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Moving to the new hotness!!

I’ve now moved this blog over to Gatsby MDX. You can see all the changes on my repo here.

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React Advanced London going deep!

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My first post using Jekyll, all I have done really is fork the awesome jekyll-now repo from Barry Clark and rename the repo and adjusted the _config.yml file.

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Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time to refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end of 2018.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10

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Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time to refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end of 2018.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10

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Ok, I have recently discovered and started doing freeCodeCamp(🔥) which so far I’m really enjoying.

Since being out of work I have had some time to start exploring different programming languages and technologies but I haven’t found any courses that I...

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