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A short guide to removing Git history entirely. Particularly useful when you're forking an existing project as a base for something …

Why does this website exist? That's the question I found myself wondering today. I was making my way through the usual motions: eating lunch, catching up on RSS feeds, discovering something I found …

My last post was on the 8th. Today is the 20th. Do you see a little problem there? In short: 12 days are longer than a week. Sad …

I just fell down a rather wonderful rabbit hole. My tale begins with a book review, written by Ross Barnett, of Sabretooth (Mauricio Anton). Apart from instantly causing me to add the book …

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.

I can relate to Lea's frustrations (or, more specifically, those of her friend who doesn't often stray into JavaScript …

... otherwise known as the Great Vulture Failure of 2020 …

CraftCMS has a habit of imploding when running software updates, for which I have developed several coping strategies.

Starling Bank frustrates and impresses me in equal measure. Their technical solutions are magical – when they work – but their service is steeped in a privileged bias that makes them hard to truly recommend.

Animating a grid element provides a lot of potential for fancy UIs and interesting interactions, but it's not immediately obvious when searching online how it needs to work and what the limitations are.

Various notes from my battle to get a local development environment working for Craft CMS.

Or how I spent four days trying to debug a local Astro environment that refused to load any CSS.