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So, I’ve finally updated my website. It’s been a long time since the last major change, but it wasn’t without trying. It’s not a radical change, the core content is still the same but the underlying technology has been updated to help me continue to…
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I use Laravel to manage my projects and I wanted to integrate the drag and drop code I wrote using Alpine.js, so I built a new component. This Laravel component supports passing in variables which builds up the two sides of the drag and drop listing;…
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Alpine.js is a new lightweight JavaScript framework which uses the approach of adding behaviour directly within your HTML markup. According to the documentation; Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or…
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If you use a component library you might find some disconnect between them and how they're used on a project website. I have a primer about using the component library Fractal and your website. This describes syncing your CSS, JS and assets from the…
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I have recently been using Fractal to build out component libraries for a couple of new projects and I was curious how it would integrate with a project website. I needed a way to using the Fractal component library to integrate with a project websit…
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I have been experimenting with Tailwind CSS and trying to find an approach which fits my development workflow and approach to writing HTML and CSS. Tailwind is a “utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs”. It provides a config…
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You might’ve heard about Docker. It might’ve sounded interested, but you didn’t know why you would use it, or it appeared scary. No fear, it’s actually quite straight-forward. Firstly, you’ll need to download Docker itself. This is an application you…
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After you’ve learnt about standardising git commit messages you can use that data and do some nice things. You can automate versioning and CHANGELOG generation using Semantic Versioning First, use NodeJS to install the “standard-version” dependency.…
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Let’s talk about git commit messages. I’m sure you’ve seen or written git commits which aren’t exactly that helpful. The problem is so prevalent, some one has even built a website where you can generate your own horrendous ones. What we need is a con…
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Learn some basics of how to copy files to Amazon S3 using the command line. First you need an setup your AWS account. Listing Want to know what buckets you have? Use the ls command; aws s3 ls --profile "your-site" Making buckets You can ea…
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