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Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood Review
I started talking about my family's trip to Los Angeles to take a Mexican Riviera cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line with a short review of the La Quinta Inn && Suites by Wyndham LAX but today I wanted to talk about how we spent our extra day in Los Angeles
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Welcome to Netlify
This website has had many different iterations over the years. Plain HTML, Blogger, WordPress, ClassicPress and now most recently Astro. When I moved this site to Astro I took the path of least resistence and started hosting it on Cloudflare Pages. Over time it became apparent that the Cloudflare Pro
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Bye Cloudflare, Your Support Sucks!
I have been a customer of Cloudflare in some shape or form since 2011. I started like most do using the free plan that they offer. I have been a Pro customer since at least 2016, possibly longer but that is as far back as I could look up invoices.
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La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham LAX Review
My family and I recently travelled to Los Angeles to take a Mexican Riviera cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line. We had a great time and I will write more about our trip but I thought I would start with our pre-cruise hotel, the [La Quinta Inn && Suites by Wyndham
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Using GitHub to Edit Your Blog
Moving to Astro and hosting my website using GitHub and Cloudflare pages meant that I no longer have easy access to a graphical interface, like WordPress, to add and edit new posts on the website. It means I have to do most of my writing on my main computer where
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Astro Partial Dynamic Routing Matching
I am working on a website redo for a website I run making plans to move it from ClassicPress/WordPress to Astro but that website has a significantly more posts and will be using server side rendering. I was having some issues with routing, mainly the issue is the posts structure
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Website Rebuild - Astro SSG vs. SSR
One of the things I really like about Astro is the options you get. Astro is a fantastic static site generator (SSG), which is what I use here, but it also provides you with the ability to run using server side rendering which is more like a traditional server model
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Website Rebuild - Comments are Dead
At one time the whole point of creating a blog was to engage with your readers in discussion in the comments section. Times have changed. Now comment sections have turned into giant dung heaps of vitriol. One only needs to look at the discussion that takes place on the majority
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Website Rebuild - Learning Markdown
One of the things that has been a learning curve for me with this website rebuild is the switch to using Markdown. I have been using HTML since 1995 and to be honest it has been a bit of a challange to not write posts using HTML. In WordPress/ClassicPress I
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Is Web Hosting Dead?
Over the years I have hosted websites on many different web hosting providers. From simple shared hosting plans to having my own dedicated web server but in this move to Astro this website is now not really hosted anywhere, instead it is hosted everywhere. In this case everywhere Cloudflare has