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Posted on 23 May, 2024
Riley on our stairs ...
What iz hooms doing?
Posted on 10 May, 2024
One thing that I've missed since moving from BlueHost has been not having my custom email. Fixing that has been on the to-do list for a while ...
Whilst I previously had an 'actual' mailbox (so could send from, as well as receive, emails on my custom domain), I only really need to receive emails. And lo and behold, Cloudflare has that covered with email routing.
It's ridiculously easy to set up — just go to your domain in the Cloudflare dashboard, go to
Email > Email Routing, click on get started and follow the instructions.
The steps are basically:
... morePosted on 18 April, 2024
Further to the previous post about Bulma I'm nearly finished with the charity project, and decided to run a Lighthouse report.
To my (somewhat) surprise, not great news — performance score was in the 80s. There were a few reasons, but one in particular for today — I was using the Material Design Icons web-font and it really wasn't happy about that.
To be fair, their own docs say that it's recommended not to use the web-font, I was just being a bit lazy (or, maybe, trusting that Bulma would have dealt with this problem for me — spoiler alert, they haven't).
The problem with using the web-font is basically that you load every single icon regardless of how many of them you're using — I don't think it's that big a file, but certainly loading a few thousand icons when I'm using a handful of them seems a bit wasteful. So, what to do?
... morePosted on 02 April, 2024
I'm working on a project at the moment for a charity. Whilst I absolutely don't want to do a half-arsed job, I also don't want to have to invest a lot of time designing and styling the UI. An ideal opportunity to look at using a UI library!
I knew I would be using React — although initially I wasn't sure whether I'd be using Gatsby or Next for my build tooling.
A quick Google suggested the possibles were:
Of these, I've previously used Material UI — happy enough experience, but found it quite intensive for what hopefully will be a lightweight project. Whilst I've not used React Bootstrap, I have used Bootstrap a while ago and didn't particularly enjoy it. That left Chakra UI or Bulma, and after a little reading through the documents I decided to give Bulma a go.
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