Crafty Field Migration
Migrating content between fields in Craft is not as simple as it might be. In the wake of Craft 5, I've been getting a lot of practice, and wanted to write up some of the techniques I've been using.
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Craft 5, Matrix Entries, & Custom Sources
Craft 5 introduces entry-based Matrix fields, but being able to see the entries created this way is surprisingly tricky. Thankfully, it can be done!
Building a design token system
A very detailed and thorough overview of how to use design tokens to power a distributed design system and site architecture. The crux is ensuring design (Figma), code (CSS), and content management […]
Creating content migrations in Craft CMS
A useful primer on how to use migration files in […]
No More Damp Stories
Storybook encourages setting the same arguments over and over and over again, but this is a pain to maintain. There is a better, DRYer approach, it's just not well documented.
Can You Code On An iPad?
How well does an iPad work as full code editing device; a veritable laptop replacement? That's what I wanted to find out.
A Ghost in the Machine
Or how I spent four days trying to debug a local Astro environment that refused to load any CSS.
The time to unmaintainable is very low
A critique of npm (and other package managers), the move-fast hype cycle of tech products, and the tech debt it […]
Git Authorship
How to change your Git author details for a single codebase, and check that the changes have taken effect.
A GitHub content editor
Prose is a service that connects with any GitHub repo you want, and then lets you edit Markdown and plain text files directly from a dedicated text editor. Particularly useful for people using GitHub […]
Core web vitals reporting
A semi-official reporting tool to interrogate trends in web technologies versus Core Web Vitals (including the upcoming INP metric). Things look particularly bad for React-based frameworks, but […]
Open source web analytics
An alternative, open-source analytics package which should be lighter weight than Google and claims to be more privacy conscious than even […]
Choosing a green web host
A useful rundown of some of the considerations worth keeping in mind when evaluating the "green" credentials of a web host or […]
Debug iOS Safari with Xcode
Need to debug an iOS or iPadOS device but don't have one? Got a Mac of some kind? Turns out, Xcode is a pretty comparable environment to the real deal and almost any mobile Safari bug can be tested […]
A static-site CMS that runs in VS Code
A clever, open-source CMS designed for static site generators like Eleventy, Astro, and Hugo which use Markdown files and frontmatter metadata. The CMS itself runs directly in your IDE, giving you a […]
We're still not innovating with AI-generated UI
With the recent announcement of an AI-UI tool from the folks at Vercel, there's been a lot of discussion about claims around "production-ready code" that is actually riddled with bugs, lacks […]
Track design system use & adoption
A new tool that allows an organisation to check how, where, and why components are being used across shared codebases, and gain insights into their usage and […]
An open source Postman alternative
An open-source tool for API testing, with automatic type safety baked in and a much more advanced output UI that highlights contained images, code blocks, messaging etc. whilst still providing the […]