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Three grey pubes and an ankle sprain

I’ve started writing a post to sum up hitting 40 and a recap on my progress on all the things I wanted to achieve before I hit 40 about 6 times since the start of January and each time I get about one paragraph in and the inspiration just fizzles out. I think it’s partly... read full entry »

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Up, up and away!

I completed another of my 40 before forty list last week and fulfilled a childhood dream in the process: I went up in a hot air balloon. Shane bought the balloon vouchers for me for Christmas last year, and after redeeming the vouchers with Wickers World we had repeatedly tried to book evening flights, but... read full entry »

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Everything hinges on strength

I had a quick flick through the 50+ drafts dating back to 2013 sat in the back-end this morning and spotted one near the top entitled ‘West Midlands Autumn Cup Powerlifting Competition’. That comp happened nearly three years ago (September 2023) which really cements how bad I’ve been at blogging over the last few years.... read full entry »

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Bubbles, and the old web

I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn’t the first time I’ve spotted a resurgence in indie / ‘old’ web stuff lately. Personal sites are making a comeback, bloggers are... read full entry »

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Re: Re: An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop

I spotted Online Goddess’ blog post, Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop, which itself is a reply to Gavin Anderegg’s An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop on Bubbles and had to add my tuppence worth. Like Gavin and OG, I’ve been using Photoshop a long time. I switched to Photoshop 5 after Corel bought Paint Shop... read full entry »

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Watering someone else’s garden

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else’s garden. (This isn’t some ~deep~ metaphor, I’ve literally been watering someone else’s garden.) My daughter agreed to water her boyfriend’s parent’s garden while they’ve been away on holiday, and as they live two villages over and she doesn’t drive, it inevitably fell on to me... read full entry »

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My daughter’s going to college

My daughter collected her GCSEs yesterday and, having successfully achieved the requisite grades for her choice of course, is going to college* in September. This isn’t really my news to share, so I don’t want to get into the nitty gritty about grades and courses and choices (funny how I used to blog everything and... read full entry »

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Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit

We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get. Support isn’t always quick or knowledgeable but we rarely need it, so it’s not a massive issue. However, I’ve had two different... read full entry »

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Building React Microfrontends using Piral

Microfrontends allow independent teams to scale complex web apps, mirroring backend microservices. Using an app shell for routing and shared design, the article highlights the React framework Piral, which streamlines microfrontend development into modular plugins (pilets) with a serverless-first workflow.

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Microsoft MVP

Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for the 15th year in a row! 🏆

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What I'm building in 2026

Where web architecture is heading in 2026 - and what I'm building next 🚀

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Agentic Coding

Stop using AI as glorified auto-complete in your IDE. Start using local agentic workflows in your terminal. 🤖

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The Role of Runtime Contracts for Micro Frontends

Runtime contracts are the most important aspects of modular architectures and micro frontends in particular

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AngleSharp.Wasm v1

Modern web scraping isn't just about parsing HTML anymore - it's about executing dynamic client-side logic.

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Human in the Loop

AI coding agents are fast. Unchecked AI coding agents are tech debt acceleration engines.

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The Secret to Fast Micro Frontends

Tackle the biggest performance criticism of Micro Frontends: bundle size bloat. Explain how Native Federation handles shared dependencies (like React, Angular, or utility libraries) at runtime without locking teams into identical build steps or rigid versions.

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How to mock @Value field in Spring Boot

The @Value annotation injects externalized properties into a Spring Boot application. The field’s value is usually read from the application.properties or application.yml file. While @Value eases the reading of externalized [...] The post How to mock @Value field in Spring Boot appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Fix CloudWatch log resource policy failed: LimitExceededException

The LimitExceededException error can occur when running a Terraform script. It indicates that while the Terraform configuration is valid, there’s an issue with CloudWatch. If you run the same Terraform [...] The post Fix CloudWatch log resource policy failed: LimitExceededException appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Execute commands as the root user on OpenBSD with doas

In Linux, when a user wants to execute a command as the root user, they use the sudo command. In the OpenBSD world, it is different since the system, by [...] The post Execute commands as the root user on OpenBSD with doas appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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What is EnumMap in Java

EnumMap is a specialized implementation of the Map data structure in which the keys are enums. It’s particularly useful in scenarios where we want to retrieve a value corresponding to [...] The post What is EnumMap in Java appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Turn Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into USB WiFi dongle

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a versatile device capable of emulating multiple functionalities, such as a sound card, USB WiFi adapter, or USB storage using USB OTG (On-The-Go) [...] The post Turn Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into USB WiFi dongle appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Beyond prompt engineering: A first look at MCP

Sooner or later, most of the software we touch will have some AI wired into it. Once you go past prompt engineering, custom instructions, and skills, you hit a new [...] The post Beyond prompt engineering: A first look at MCP appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916”

Easter, 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club, Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent In ignorant good-will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more

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William Carlos Williams: “By the road to the contagious hospital”

Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast – a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines— Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches— They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they en

Essays - Poetry Letters by Huck Gutman · EN