After deciding I couldn’t get the URLs I wanted for my blog using Cloudflare Pages without some actual real honest-to-goodness rewrites I had to use GitHub Actions for the first time ...

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GDS has an absolute boat-load of repositories on GitHub, and no clear way to access or browse them. One of those repositories, govuk-developers, is an ordered index to those repositories, allowing you to find exactly what you’re looking for. This is a static site generated with Middleman ...

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Yesterday, with the return of my family from holiday, I forgot to make changes to any of my projects in GitHub, and broke my commit streak at 57 days. Initially I’d aimed for making changes on 30 consecutive days, just to try and get some momentum up in making progress on a couple of fairly low-key projects that hadn’t been going anywhere, and ...

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As I said this time last year, I dislike the idea of people using a decentralised version control system to centralise their code. This means that some of my code sits in Bazaar on my server, some in Git on my server, and some in github. I’m not keen on this situation, and given that gith...

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I’m not that keen on git (for mostly aesthetic reasons although I suspect I’ll have to get over this soon), and github makes me jump through a couple of hoops too many to get up and running for the first time, but those aren’t th...

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