Welcome

This website has been put together as a test of static site generation. It’s filled with placeholder content for now, fingers crossed I get around to populating it some time soon!

Hello Cloudflare

Static sites and optimisation in one.

I’ve recently had a great experience building a friends simple business site using Hugo all-in on Cloudflare, who recently (to me) launched their own static site build and hosting solution. I thought it worth checking out how hard it would be to move across from Gitlab Pages which has been dependable for a few years and wow(!) - it was as trivial as pointing Cloudflare Pages at the Git Repository and flicking over the DNS. [Read More]

Hello 2022

Double figures

So goodbye 2021 - a year were I could count the number of times I went into the office on a single hand. Technology at my workplace has established a new order for when we do return - a minimum 2x days a month in the office, though we’re welcome to go in more if we choose. I’ve had the fortune to change roles in the last 12 months - handing over the reins of the API platform to talented colleagues and new starters to enable a shift into the Architecture world. [Read More]

Hello 2021

What surprises are in store next?

As I speak it’s been 10 months of Working From Home, with proposed changes in the office setup to suggest permanent or vastly increased home working above and beyond the additional 2 days a week I did back in 2020. I still remember the strangeness of that last day in the office… should I empty my locker?…no I’ll be able to swing back and grab things soon enough (spoiler alert: I still haven’t). [Read More]