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 […]
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My Virtual Forest
I continue to be impressed by the commitment Krystal – my web host – shows towards green computing. Their recent milestone of planting a million trees also highlighted a really cool charity: Ecologi.
Craft Update Woes
CraftCMS has a habit of imploding when running software updates, for which I have developed several coping strategies.
A place to write
Something something Micropub and posting from my […]
State of frontend 2020
Some interesting results from the latest Software House frontend survey. Surprised to see that over a third of respondents reckoned CSS-in-JS would be a "fad" and gone in three years; personally […]
The making of Netlify's million devs animated website
Netlify's microsite celebrating their millionth user is a brilliant experiment, so it's great to see them immediately posting a "making of" article on CSS Tricks. It's a beautifully rendered SVG […]
Animated GIFs with Craft CMS on Krystal Hosting
Every time I upload a GIF to this website it ends up rendered as a single frame. It's taken me quite a while to get to the bottom of why that is.
2019: The Year of Craft JAM
A look back and a look forward... it must be the start of a new year. 2019 held a lot of change and personal improvement, but I can't help but feel that 2020 is going to be a big one. So what exactly do I have planned and what am I hoping for the next 12 months?
Installing Craft on Arcustech
A step-by-step guide to installing Craft CMS 3+ on the Arcustech hosting services, because sometimes all the command line steps can seem a little daunting if you aren't used to it!
Third Time's The Charm
Welcome to the third version of theAdhocracy! It's been a long time coming, but the site has finally been rebuilt, rehosted, and re-just-about-everything else, so I figured I'd actually formalise the launch with a new post explaining what's happened and why.
Insta Inspiration [#45]
The recent update to Lightroom (and descent into League) means that photography has taken a bit of a backseat once again, but I have actually managed to turn posting to social media into a bit of a […]
theAdhocracy Mark II: The Rehosting
CSS? Fonts? Italics? Sidebars? What witchcraft is this? Is this not theAdhocracy, the home of plain HTML and nothing more (despite the clear problems associated with that)? Well: yes! But at […]