The modern way of serving images
A very thorough overview of how to write a modern, performant, HTML-driven image component that is as optimised to serve the most appropriate image as possible. There are some very neat tricks in […]
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Take me to another useless website please
A quirky little tool quite similar to the Whimsical Web, only for websites that serve no purpose. A few random presses took me to a site which is just a never-ending stream of 8-bit corndogs raining […]
Trunks and Masters
There are several strong arguments for moving away from using "master branch" as default terminology, but what should it be replace with? Personally, I like the idea of extending the tree abstraction that we use when talking about branches, so have started using "trunk".
Deno 1.0
There has been a lot of web chatter around the launch of Deno, the new JavaScript runtime engine. Their introductory blog post does a great job of explaining when you should use it (and conversely […]
Smaller HTML payloads with Service Workers
A service worker can request just the bare minimum of data it needs from the server... and then it can programmatically transform that data into a full HTML […]
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.
LifeMap
Well it's been a long week of other distractions rather than writing, but I have built up several things to link out to, so I guess a round of links from the web is in […]