Blog and general digital garden of the full stack programmer Simon Dann.
A few months ago I was asked why I publish the source code to this website for all to see and honestly up until that point I hadn't really put that much thought into it. I had been inspired by seeing Xe Iaso linking the most recent git commit in each pages footer to do so myself and that required having a public repository; but none of my previous website repositories are public so why this one?…
This week I have been battling with getting a Laravel application deploying on #AWS Elastic Beanstalk and one of the issues I had was installing php-gRPC via pecl was taking way too long due to it compiling from source thus timing out the deploy. My solution to that conundrum was to build the grpc.so file on my computer and create a rpm package file to install it. In order to do so I would need to…
In December last year with help from a PR raised by Belmin Began( @MaNemoj01 ) I added a git log to the content pages of this website, Belmin's contribution aside from being wrapped by caching has remained unchanged until today. I like the addition of page history meta however, I do not want it to take over the page and in the case of some regularly updated pages that was beginning to happen. I…
In December last year I began exploring the vast expanses of The Indie Web and in doing so reignited my love of 88x31 button banners and the Button Boards that people display them on. After adding my own button board I became a Digital Magpie and over multiple Digital Spelunking sessions began filling out my own board with little images that bring me joy. My precious I have since made it so that a…
You can cancel every meeting as long as you live with the outcome. — Andy Grunwald | notes It's a fresh week, a New Year and like many office workers in the UK I am back to work after almost two weeks leave. This week I read a few peoples end of year reviews: John Wargo's 2023 wrap up , Cassidy William's Bye Bye 2023 and Jeremy Keith's 2023 in numbers to name but a few that stood out; this…
This is an Anchor Page for listing eleventy.js plugins that I have written. Eleventy.js Interlink Plugin view on npm | view on GitHub I use Obsidian.md to draft my posts before they are published on PhotoGabble. One feature of #Obsidian that I love is interlinking between notes and being able to see the connectivity graph of each note. Out of all the plugins I have written for Eleventy this…
My personal computing history began in 1988/9 with my dad’s VIC20 , I was three or four at the time and remember typing in BASIC and playing a lander game from a cartridge. Then in the early 90s (93 or 94) we got an Amiga 600 and it was around 1996 when I was donated my very own computer in the form of a Toshiba T5100 clam-shell “luggable”. The first computer that was mine The computer came from a…
I used to spend an extortionate amount of time on Twitter, upwards of three hours a day scrolling what was mostly a feed of noise. It wasn't all unproductive though, I did relish interacting with the Vintage Computing and Retro Gaming communities on there but alas even their appeal wasn't enough to entice me to stay once Twitter became entirely possessed by the Devil. — My disenfranchisement from…
After saying goodbye to 2023 I have decided that in order to make the most of my time in 2024 I should plan out how I want to use it; this page will be a Living Document that I update throughout the year as tasks get completed. The idea being that if I ever get stuck for what to work on next I can visit this page and work on filling out the stubs. What's happening in January It's currently January…
A living document is something that is continually edited and updated, never finished its purpose is to grow and change over time.