tech Posts

Feb 11, 2024

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 ...

Dec 10, 2023

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 ...

Nov 26, 2023

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 ...

Nov 1, 2023

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 ...

Oct 30, 2023

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 ...

Oct 25, 2023

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 ...

Oct 16, 2023

One of the first steps I had to sort out in deciding to move from WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro is how do I get the content out of WordPress/ClassicPress to a format that Astro would be able to deal with. Fortunately Astro accepts content in markdown so a quick search for ...

Oct 15, 2023

This has been in the works for awhile, but it was finally time to move from ClassicPress to Astro. The site is not complete yet, but I have ported the posts and several pages over and I feel confident that most of the content is here. I am still in ...

Apr 13, 2023

TL;DR: Cloudflare needs to disable IPv6 that they use to communicate with the Gmail servers to stop Gmail from bouncing all routed email. Don't let Cloudflare support tell you that email routing to Gmail addresses is your fault. Support tried to brush me off and tell me that the problem was ...

Jun 19, 2016

There has been a lot of talk over the last little while about the new skinny cable packages that the CRTC made the cable companies implement. I was interested in what the plans would be because it would have been simple to go from the rather large SaskTel MaxTV subscription ...