{"tags":["airtable","analytics","animation","api","bios","browser","buttondown","caching","career","ci-cd","cli","cloudflare","conference","css","css-in-js","daisyui","database","debian","docker","domains","e2e","email","extension","fastmail","fathom","fedora","flyio","freecodecamp","gatsby","getting-started","git","github","graphcms","graphql","guide","habits","hardware","hello-world","hooks","houdini","how-to","html","jamstack","javascript","kitql","learning","linaria","linux","macos","mail","manjaro","markdown","mdx","n","netlify","nextjs","node","notes","npm","obs","planetscale","playwright","pocketbase","prisma","productivity","protonmail","react","redis","reference","render","resource","robots.txt","rss","seo","snippets","speaking","sql","ssh","storyblok","streaming","styled-components","svelte","sveltekit","tailwind","testing","toast","tools","turso","typescript","ubuntu","upstash","vba","vcs","vercel","vite","vscode","windows","writing","wsl","zsh"],"posts_by_tag":{"sveltekit":[{"id":1725286,"date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve been doing more stuff with Fly.io and Turso with SvelteKit. If\nyou’re following my posts you’ll know I’ve got a real nerd boner for\nusing Turso in anything I can cram it into at the moment!\n\nWhy Fly.io though? Just get a $5 VPS and use that!","preview_html":"

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...

","reading_time_minutes":25.935,"reading_time_text":"26 min read","reading_time_seconds":1556100,"reading_time_words":5187,"slug":"sveltekit-turso-flyio-app-guide","tags":"sveltekit,flyio,turso,docker,guide","title":"SvelteKit Turso Fly.io App Guide","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":1699036,"date":"2024-04-02T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Aight! I’ve spent the weekend working out the migration of this site\nfrom Vercel over to Fly.io. I’m still not 100% there but think I’ve\ncovered most of it now, one thing that took up a lot of my time doing\nthis is trying to work out why a from...","preview_html":"

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":2.64,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":158400,"reading_time_words":528,"slug":"csrf-with-sveltekit-on-flyio","tags":"flyio,sveltekit,docker,notes","title":"CSRF with SvelteKit on Fly.io","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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":5.48,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":328800,"reading_time_words":1096,"slug":"deploying-sveltekit-apps-on-fly-io","tags":"sveltekit,flyio,docker,notes,turso","title":"Deploying SvelteKit Apps on Fly.io","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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?

This is a short post detailing my stupidity and how I overcame it. So, here’s the sitch! I was starting again with the dopedevs.icu project I started over 4 years ago but never f...

","reading_time_minutes":4.29,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":257400,"reading_time_words":858,"slug":"handling-multi-select-form-data","tags":"javascript,sveltekit,how-to,guide","title":"Handling Multi-Select Form Data","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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":3.68,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":220800,"reading_time_words":736,"slug":"sveltekit-and-fathom-svelte-5-integration","tags":"analytics,svelte,sveltekit,fathom","title":"SvelteKit and Fathom Svelte 5 Integration","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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":240000,"reading_time_words":800,"slug":"use-common-table-expressions","tags":"sql,turso,sveltekit","title":"Use Common Table Expressions","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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":2.855,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":171300,"reading_time_words":571,"slug":"sveltekit-environment-variables-flyio-deployment","tags":"sveltekit,notes,flyio,docker","title":"SvelteKit Environment Variables with Fly.io Deployment","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.136Z"},{"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":6.145,"reading_time_text":"7 min read","reading_time_seconds":368700,"reading_time_words":1229,"slug":"building-session-analytics-sveltekit-turso-db","tags":"analytics,turso,sveltekit","title":"Building Session Analytics with SvelteKit and Turso DB","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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":3.785,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":227100,"reading_time_words":757,"slug":"airtable-to-upstash-redis-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,redis,upstash","title":"Airtable to Upstash Redis with SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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":18.595,"reading_time_text":"19 min read","reading_time_seconds":1115700,"reading_time_words":3719,"slug":"sveltekit-page-reaction-component-with-upstash-redis","tags":"sveltekit,redis,upstash,how-to","title":"SvelteKit Page Reaction Component with Upstash Redis","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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":10.835,"reading_time_text":"11 min read","reading_time_seconds":650100,"reading_time_words":2167,"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":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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.

I’ve always liked implementing something in the way of a theme change into my sites. This often meant that I’d have to define my own theme up-front wit...

","reading_time_minutes":8.44,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":506400,"reading_time_words":1688,"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":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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.

I have some analytics I bring in from Fathom Analytics ...

","reading_time_minutes":1.9,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":114000,"reading_time_words":380,"slug":"how-i-got-back-online-after-aws-east-went-down","tags":"vercel,analytics,sveltekit","title":"How I got back online after AWS East went down","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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.

This is an update to the previous post I did on this, the recent changes to how you create ...

","reading_time_minutes":14.325,"reading_time_text":"15 min read","reading_time_seconds":859500,"reading_time_words":2865,"slug":"sveltekit-contact-form-example-with-airtable","tags":"sveltekit,how-to,guide,airtable","title":"SvelteKit Contact Form Example with Airtable","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":137,"date":"2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"During a workshop I was hosting at CityJS (\nago) for getting started with Svelte and SvelteKit, I received some\nvaluable feedback from an attendee who was unclear about the role of\nthe load function in SvelteKit.\n\nThis prompted me to revisit this...","preview_html":"

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.

This prompted me to revisit this topi...

","reading_time_minutes":13.945,"reading_time_text":"14 min read","reading_time_seconds":836700,"reading_time_words":2789,"slug":"sveltekit-data-loading-understanding-the-load-function","tags":"sveltekit,resource,how-to","title":"SvelteKit Data Loading, Understanding the load function","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":12,"date":"2023-03-17T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I had a bit of a surprise land in my inbox at the start of the month\nfrom my analytics provider Fathom, the subject line “You’ve been\nquite popular”.\n\nNot the good type of surprise though! 😅","preview_html":"

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! 😅

","reading_time_minutes":9.465,"reading_time_text":"10 min read","reading_time_seconds":567900,"reading_time_words":1893,"slug":"caching-with-fathom-redis-and-sveltekit","tags":"analytics,sveltekit,fathom,redis,caching","title":"Caching with Fathom, Redis, and SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"id":107,"date":"2023-02-25T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I came across this issue when adding real-time analytics to my site,\nessentially what I wanted to do was get some analytics data from a\nserver endpoint and pass that to the page.\n\nIn SvelteKit you can have different ways to get data onto a...","preview_html":"

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":1.24,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":74400,"reading_time_words":248,"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":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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 ...

","reading_time_minutes":21.725,"reading_time_text":"22 min read","reading_time_seconds":1303500,"reading_time_words":4345,"slug":"adding-real-time-analytics-to-my-sveltekit-site-with-fathom","tags":"analytics,svelte,sveltekit,fathom","title":"Adding real-time analytics to my SvelteKit site with Fathom","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"id":119,"date":"2023-02-20T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Here’s a real quick one on making sure you don’t blow your crawl\nbudget on your SvelteKit project JavaScript files.\n\nI noticed this ago and didn’t write\nabout it. Tangentially related, I’ve recently been having a bit of a\nmare with Google indexing...","preview_html":"

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":1.475,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":88500,"reading_time_words":295,"slug":"robots-txt-file-for-sveltekit-projects","tags":"sveltekit,guide,seo","title":"Robots.txt file for SvelteKit projects","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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.

","reading_time_minutes":4.385,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":263100,"reading_time_words":877,"slug":"how-to-implement-redirects-for-changed-post-routes-in-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,seo,guide,how-to","title":"How to Implement Redirects for Changed Post Routes in Sveltekit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":83,"date":"2023-01-15T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I had this idea whilst working on a SvelteKit project to see if I\ncould use the Marked package in place of MDSveX.\n\nSo the idea was that I only need the markdown rendered so I thought\nwhy not just load the file into a Svelte page and render...","preview_html":"

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":4.415,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":264900,"reading_time_words":883,"slug":"load-markdown-via-endpoint-in-sveltekit","tags":"markdown,sveltekit","title":"Load markdown via endpoint in SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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!

","reading_time_minutes":4.61,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":276600,"reading_time_words":922,"slug":"gradient-animations-in-tailwindcss","tags":"css,tailwind,how-to,svelte,sveltekit","title":"Gradient animations with Tailwind CSS and SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":75,"date":"2023-01-06T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"Real quick! This was a dumb idea I had when I created the repo for\nthis in 2018 and never got around to doing anything with until\nyesterday! 😂\n\nTl;Dr: It’s a list of CSS filters that you can apply to an image\nto see what effect they have.","preview_html":"

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.

","reading_time_minutes":3.255,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":195300,"reading_time_words":651,"slug":"instagram-image-filters","tags":"css,how-to,svelte,sveltekit","title":"Instagram Image Filters with Tailwind CSS and SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":36,"date":"2022-10-30T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"With the recent changes to SvelteKit which has invalidated a lot of\ncontent already out there, I want to make some notes on how to load\ndata in SvelteKit.\n\nFirst up, if you weren’t aware, SvelteKit completely changed how file\nbased routing is done.","preview_html":"

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":5.065,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":303900,"reading_time_words":1013,"slug":"data-loading-in-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,resource,how-to","title":"Data loading in SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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 ...

","reading_time_minutes":8.245,"reading_time_text":"9 min read","reading_time_seconds":494700,"reading_time_words":1649,"slug":"use-urql-with-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,how-to,svelte","title":"Use URQL with SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":139,"date":"2022-08-07T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"With SvelteKit in the past if you wanted to use a file secret\nthat you didn’t want exposed on the client there was some additional\nconfig you needed to do.\n\nVite exposes all variables contained in the file prefixed with\n to the client. If you...","preview_html":"

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":1.535,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":92100,"reading_time_words":307,"slug":"sveltekit-environment-variables-with-the-sveltekit-env-module","tags":"sveltekit,notes","title":"SvelteKit Environment Variables with the SvelteKit $env Module","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.136Z"},{"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":11.795,"reading_time_text":"12 min read","reading_time_seconds":707700,"reading_time_words":2359,"slug":"getting-set-up-with-storyblok-and-sveltekit","tags":"sveltekit,storyblok,how-to,guide","title":"Getting set up with Storyblok and SvelteKit","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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!

I’ve written about Getting Started with KitQL and GraphCMS in the past and there’s a few things that have changed between the two versions. Most notable to those are that KitQL has merged with Houdini. T...

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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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Here’s an overview of the various ways to fetch data in Svelte. This was inspired by a conversation I had on the Svelte Discord and goes into detail on when and where to use each of the different methods.

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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.

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

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

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The indie web is alive and well and there are more and more people taking control and owning their online presence and also how they consume other content. One way to help consumers of your site know that there is new content available is by making y...

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

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

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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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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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Yo! It’s that time again!!

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

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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

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

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Already use WSL with Ubuntu? Want an Upgrade??

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Hooks ahoy!

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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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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!

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

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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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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...

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We’re going to style the basic create react app with styled-components to look something like this:

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

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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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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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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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Speed up your git workflow with git aliases, this is a brief introduction on using aliases 🚀👍

The more you work with Git the more familiar you become with the commands used in your every day workflow for your projects or your team’s projects.

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No doubt you have heard of Git or GitHub for source control, but what is source control?

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","reading_time_minutes":4.635,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":278100,"reading_time_words":927,"slug":"gets-better-with-git","tags":"guide","title":"Just starting out with Git and GitHub? It gets easier, honest!","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":154,"date":"2017-05-23T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"How to build and deploy a multifunctional Twitter bot!\n\nThis is a reference for me and anyone else that’s interested in\nTwitter bots in JavaScript.","preview_html":"

How to build and deploy a multifunctional Twitter bot!

This is a reference for me and anyone else that’s interested in Twitter bots in JavaScript.

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Want to get set up with your very own Twitter bot quickly and easily, with this guide you can be set up in under 30 minutes. But first, why should you want to build a Twitter bot?

There are some really useful Twitter bots out there that do some prett...

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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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","reading_time_minutes":5.48,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":328800,"reading_time_words":1096,"slug":"deploying-sveltekit-apps-on-fly-io","tags":"sveltekit,flyio,docker,notes,turso","title":"Deploying SvelteKit Apps on Fly.io","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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":"

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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...

","reading_time_minutes":4.005,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":240300,"reading_time_words":801,"slug":"switching-from-brevo-to-buttondown","tags":"notes,email,buttondown","title":"Switching from Brevo to Buttondown","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":74,"date":"2023-08-13T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I came across one of those infographic’s today detailing a couple of\nuses of the HTML tag and decided to dig a bit deeper into the\nuses for it and was quite surprised to find quite a few I didn’t know\nof.\n\nThis is a reference primarily for me...","preview_html":"

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":1.875,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":112500,"reading_time_words":375,"slug":"growth-over-the-past-year","tags":"notes","title":"Growth over the Past Year","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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 ...

","reading_time_minutes":0.995,"reading_time_text":"1 min read","reading_time_seconds":59700,"reading_time_words":199,"slug":"stylelint-configuration-for-tailwindcss","tags":"tailwind,css,notes","title":"Stylelint Configuration for use with Tailwind CSS","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":101,"date":"2021-03-13T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I was directed to direnv by Chris Biscardi when I was trying to use\nsome environment variables in my Toast site.\n\nIn the past I have always reached for dotenv so taking a look at other\nToast sites I couldn’t find any that used it so I reached out...","preview_html":"

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":2.315,"reading_time_text":"3 min read","reading_time_seconds":138900,"reading_time_words":463,"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":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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":7.795,"reading_time_text":"8 min read","reading_time_seconds":467700,"reading_time_words":1559,"slug":"windows-terminal-config","tags":"windows,resource,notes","title":"Windows Terminal Config - Make it Your Own","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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...

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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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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":5.49,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":329400,"reading_time_words":1098,"slug":"wsl-web-developer-setup-with-fedora-39","tags":"fedora,linux,wsl","title":"WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 39","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":181,"date":"2021-12-08T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"This is an updated guide on the post I did at the start of the year\nfor setting up a web development environment on Windows with Windows\nSubsystem for Linux (WSL). This guide is intended for use to get set\nup with Fedora 35 on WSL.\n\nThis is my...","preview_html":"

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

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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":4.3,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":258000,"reading_time_words":860,"slug":"backup-ubuntu-wsl-instances","tags":"wsl,ubuntu,linux,how-to","title":"Backup Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"id":9,"date":"2021-03-24T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I have always liked using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I’d\nroutinely trash installs then reinstall them from the Microsoft store\nand have become quite adept at setting up new instances with\neverything I need to get back to coding as quickly as...","preview_html":"

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 ...

","reading_time_minutes":7.77,"reading_time_text":"8 min read","reading_time_seconds":466200,"reading_time_words":1554,"slug":"fedora-bootstrap-from-scratch","tags":"fedora,linux,wsl","title":"WSL Web Developer Bootstrap with Fedora 33","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"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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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":0.905,"reading_time_text":"1 min read","reading_time_seconds":54300,"reading_time_words":181,"slug":"use-chrome-in-ubuntu-wsl","tags":"guide,linux,ubuntu,wsl","title":"Use Google Chrome in Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem Linux","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":166,"date":"2020-12-13T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"So I had a play around with the openSUSE Leap 15.2 you can get on the\nWindows store and after familiarising myself with it decided to see\nif I could use it for web development.\n\nWell, yeah, you can, that’s it, that’s the post!","preview_html":"

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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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.

","reading_time_minutes":4.255,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":255300,"reading_time_words":851,"slug":"switching-to-manjaro-from-ubuntu","tags":"manjaro,ubuntu,getting-started,linux","title":"Switching to Manjaro from Ubuntu","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"}],"wsl":[{"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":"

","reading_time_minutes":5.49,"reading_time_text":"6 min read","reading_time_seconds":329400,"reading_time_words":1098,"slug":"wsl-web-developer-setup-with-fedora-39","tags":"fedora,linux,wsl","title":"WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 39","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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":1.855,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":111300,"reading_time_words":371,"slug":"updating-bios-on-motherboard","tags":"windows,wsl,hardware,bios","title":"Updating BIOS on Motherboard","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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":"

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

","reading_time_minutes":1.93,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":115800,"reading_time_words":386,"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":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"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.

","reading_time_minutes":1.09,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":65400,"reading_time_words":218,"slug":"get-debian-wsl-set-up-for-web-development","tags":"wsl,debian,guide","title":"Get Debian WSL Set Up For Web Development","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.135Z"},{"id":157,"date":"2022-01-18T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"In this guide I’m going to detail upgrading Ubuntu on Windows\nSubsystem for Linux (WSL) from the current version 20.04 to 22.04 this\nthe development build of Ubuntu 22.04 which is due to be released on\n2022 April 21.\n\nYou can Tl;Dr and watch...","preview_html":"

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

","reading_time_minutes":3.89,"reading_time_text":"4 min read","reading_time_seconds":233400,"reading_time_words":778,"slug":"update-ubuntu-from-20.04-to-21.10","tags":"wsl,guide,ubuntu","title":"Upgrade Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux from 20.04 to 22.04","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":181,"date":"2021-12-08T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"This is an updated guide on the post I did at the start of the year\nfor setting up a web development environment on Windows with Windows\nSubsystem for Linux (WSL). This guide is intended for use to get set\nup with Fedora 35 on WSL.\n\nThis is my...","preview_html":"

This is my opinion...

","reading_time_minutes":6.935,"reading_time_text":"7 min read","reading_time_seconds":416100,"reading_time_words":1387,"slug":"wsl-web-developer-setup-with-fedora-35","tags":"fedora,linux,wsl","title":"WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 35","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":8,"date":"2021-11-02T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows\nSubsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this\nbefore but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here.\n\nWSL moves pretty fast so a lot of the...","preview_html":"

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":4.3,"reading_time_text":"5 min read","reading_time_seconds":258000,"reading_time_words":860,"slug":"backup-ubuntu-wsl-instances","tags":"wsl,ubuntu,linux,how-to","title":"Backup Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.134Z"},{"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...

","reading_time_minutes":1.975,"reading_time_text":"2 min read","reading_time_seconds":118500,"reading_time_words":395,"slug":"wsl-on-windows-11","tags":"wsl,windows,ubuntu","title":"Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11","last_updated":"2024-04-24T08:30:03.137Z"},{"id":9,"date":"2021-03-24T00:00:00.000Z","is_private":0,"preview":"I have always liked using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I’d\nroutinely trash installs then reinstall them from the Microsoft store\nand have become quite adept at setting up new instances with\neverything I need to get back to coding as quickly as...","preview_html":"

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