I’ve previous had a Patreon link on my site, for people to support what I do if they would like to. Turns out that I was really rubbish at keeping it up to date, and whilst I had planned to publish all of my course content there too, you can’t actually do that without a paid…
Pluralsight – Free Weekend
Pluralsight is a great online learning system with really high quality courses that get added to all the time. I thought I must have written about them before, but looking at my blog posts, I haven’t – this is a travesty! They’re generally very tech-centric, with courses covering every programming language you can think of,…
FontAwesome awesomeness in WordPress
FontAwesome is a font, that’s awesome. Except these days it’s not just a font, because with FA5 you can either use a Webfont with CSS, or my preferred option of SVG with javascript. In case you’re not aware, it’s one of the premier libraries of icons that is used across the web to give websites…
Setting up Cloudflare – Scrape Shield deep dive
I’m happy to announce that have a new course live on Skillshare and Udemy… Setting up Cloudflare – Scrape Shield deep dive This course follows on from setting up Cloudflare for website security and performance, which goes through all the Cloudflare settings, explaining what’s available and the configuration that I would recommend for most websites.…
Blogging streak
Seth Godin (legend!) wrote recently about Streaks and how they are their reward. Streaks create internal pressure that keeps streaks going. You may have noticed, you may not, but this is the 32nd blog post in a row that has been posted every 3 days. That’s a 3 month streak of regular blogging, the kind of…
Self host Google Analytics in WordPress
I’ve said before that you should always aim to self host static assets to improve the performance and stability of your website. I’ve also written about how to self host Google Fonts in WordPress, as this is one of the common use cases. Well today I’d like to talk about another common use case, and that’s Google…