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Astro and Netlify largely play well together, but I've found a few aspects of redirects and URL design that contain the odd foot-gun I had to work around.

Netlify suspended my site, due to a sudden resource spike on a completely separate domain. Now, for the first time in five years, you're reading this on infrastructure that Netlify does not own.

I didn't know that the <a> element had a download attribute, nor that it could rename the file on download for you …

Max has put together a quick overview of how to store webmentions in a cache folder so that you don't have to fetch them on each build with Netlify. Super useful and can't help but think this might …

On the surface, Netlify has very simply redirect functionality. In principle, I tripped up twice trying to set it up 😅 Konstantin helped set me right: I needed to move the _redirects file to the …

I've been trying to get this working since the Beta of Netlify plugins, and along comes Mark with a fully working example 😂 Definitely want to look into the source code (GitHub) and see if I can …

A good look behind Andy's "microblog", a small website that powers his Twitter feed and link list via a mixture of IFTTT, RSS, Feedbin, Eleventy, and Netlify. Includes step-by-step guide and source …

Netlify's microsite celebrating their millionth user is a brilliant experiment, so it's great to see them immediately posting a "making of" article on CSS Tricks. It's a beautifully rendered SVG …

A combination of build commands and Netlify tools equals a very creative native commenting system for Jamstack sites (hosted on Netlify, of course). Definitely need to drill a bit deeper into how …

We have seven days in a week, 24 hours in a day – but what does that actually mean when trying to set aside time to work on side projects? Once you take into account work hours, time to eat and sleep, and everything in between, is it all as bad as it feels?

Oh boy, there's a lot worth pulling out of this overview of upcoming web …

A solid introduction to the Jamstack, including full build tutorials for an initial SSG setup with Eleventy and Netlify, integrations with the News API service and Open Weather, geolocation checks …

Heydon has been working on Ga11ery, a neat image portfolio site generator that's ideal for webcomics. But it's built on the Jamstack using 11ty and Netlify, which means it isn't so simple to …

I like this definition. I think it does a good job of encapsulating why static sites are beneficial whilst also being clear that there are very few things a static site can't be. As Josh demonstrates …

Using a combination of Speedlify and Google Lighthouse tool, Zach is able to display web performance scores in his footer, bespoke for each page. He seems to be doing so client-side, though I don't …

Some interesting results from the latest Software House frontend survey. Surprised to see that over a third of respondents reckoned CSS-in-JS would be a "fad" and gone in three years; personally …

I feel like Max is about two years ahead of me on everything 😁 Here I am thinking about getting Twitter syndication working on Netlify, and he wrote a perfect tutorial back in 2019. Definitely …

Dave has been running Netlify Analytics (server-side) and Fathom (client-side) for a few years, and the results are in: data integrity is hard. They offer a solid overview of why neither dataset …

Need to self-host your front end away from the "modern" services like Netlify or Vercel? As both continue to get a little sketchier with time, it's definitely something I'm having to …

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.

An amalgamation of all the data you get fed at the end of a year. From Spotify Wrapped, to Google tracking, to my own beer journal, a look back over 2019 from a (mildly) data-centred viewpoint.

I finally made it to an IndieWebCamp meetup, even if it was remote only due to the increasingly restrictive implications of the coronavirus. I learnt a lot, I had a great time, and I'm ready to start implementing a whole bunch of new ideas right here. I also took a huge number of notes from the speakers and sessions throughout the day.

Every time I upload a GIF to this website it ends up rendered as a single frame. It's taken me quite a while to get to the bottom of why that is.

A pretty exhaustive overview of the HTML and CSS options that we now have for responsive image layouts. Here are some key …

Notes from the 2020 Jamstack Conf. Some interesting dives in the Jamstack community and various applications of Jamstack technologies, with tweet threads as usual.

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".

Accuracy in carbon footprint tools will always be a little dubious, but the Website Carbon Calculator is still a neat idea. theAdhocracy is currently sitting at 89% "cleaner" than the average …

I saw Zach's poll on Twitter when they posted it, so I was intrigued to see what the results were. Most people agree with me, that URLs shouldn't have trailing slashes. It turns out that we're …

2023 was another BIG year in terms of, well, everything. We travelled all over the world. We attended scores of major events. And we got married. It's taken a while to write up, as a result!

I finally made it to an IndieWebCamp! It was a huge amount of fun and left me with many ideas, thoughts, and questions.