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Saaze CMS
This site has been powered by many different CMS's over the years. Every so often I would get the urge to build a flat-file CMS in PHP and convert this blog over to whatever I'd built (e.g. Pico, Baun, etc). However, in the end, I'd always move back to WordPress...
17 November 2020 · More →
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AJAX in WordPress Themes
For some reason, it seems really hard to find a nice, simple, copy-and-paste-able resource for explaining how to do AJAX requests in WordPress themes the-right-way™. So here it is. Backend Let's add the function that will return the AJAX response from the backend. This is normally added to the theme...
13 January 2020 · More →
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2019 Year In Review
As has been my custom for the past nine years, I like to spend a bit of time at the end of the year reflecting on the year that has been, looking ahead to the year that is to come, and noting down these reflections for posterity. Professionally This year...
6 January 2020 · More →
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Yo! Podcast
This week Rob Hope was kind enough to invite me on to the Yo! Podcast to chat about the Nivo Slider, side projects, online tracking, productivity and Biffy Clyro (of course). If you have a spare 30 mins go and have a listen and let me know what you think...
12 September 2019 · More →
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Grace
I'm delighted to be able to announce that on the 6th of August 2019, at exactly 8 pm, Grace Catherine Pellegrom came into the world weighing exactly 7lbs 🎉 To say we're thrilled is an understatement. I mean just look at her! I know I'm totally biased but isn't she...
26 August 2019 · More →
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Redesign and Rebuild
Since moving back to WordPress I've been wanting to improve the design of this site to make it feel a bit less bland and bring it more in line with modern sites in terms of technology. My biggest gripe, in terms of design, was that the homepage was just a...
10 June 2019 · More →
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Expecting Again
We're thrilled to be able to announce that my wife and I are expecting again! Another wee bundle of joy is due to arrive in August 2019. We are so thankful to God for Joshua and the amazing wee boy he has become, and we're just as thankful to Him...
12 February 2019 · More →
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Moving Back to WordPress
It's been some time since this blog ran on WordPress. I can't remember when exactly, but some time ago I moved this blog to Medium for the convenience of not having to manage a site and the free exposure offered by Medium's network. However, these days hosting your own content...
9 January 2019 · More →
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2018 Year in Review
As has been my custom for the past eight years, I like to spend a bit of time at the end of the year reflecting on the year that has been, looking ahead to the year that is to come, and noting down these reflections for posterity. Professionally Since selling...
31 December 2018 · More →
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Coming Around to Utility First CSS
This week I've been playing with Tailwind, which is a "Utility-First CSS Framework for Rapid UI Development". At first I was skeptical of the benefits of "utility-first" CSS but I'm pleased to say that after using Bootstrap 4 for a while (which contains some utility classes) and Tailwind for a...
20 September 2018 · More →