Having enjoyed Kaj Kandler’s presentation at the 25th 11ty meetup July 2025 I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic. Schema files Structure in 11ty I have created a schema directory in the includes directory and keep all the...

I was having issues sorting out the redirects on Cloudflare and have learnt a few things on the way so am documenting them here – because I will forget it all whilst in the pursuit of happier things. Directory migration I made a major change to the structure of a section of my site /shorts/ has reverted back to...

I came across an odd bug in Apple OSX Messages and reported it to Apple a few months ago, but I am sure they have had other liquidy things to focus on at the moment. I use Messages on my Mac OSX desktop quite a bit as I find typing on the keyboard more convenient when I am working on the Mac. It is also a bit easier...

I track keywords and phrases for websites even though I have had a long held belief that it's partly a waste of time. But I do it all the same because I like to watch the long term trends - it can be fascinating! A long term high ranking keyword dropped The image above show the ranking position of the keyword...

This has been quite a journey and as professional Technical SEO, quite the challenge. I have been using Bing Webmaster Tools for many years, mostly as a confirmation tool when comparing issues with Google Search Console. As Bing tends to only provide 5% or less of organic search results it hasn't been that important...

Why did I want a bookmarks page? A thing that has been on my ideas list for quite some time is to create a links type page from the Toots I bookmark on Mastodon. The mastodon bookmarks are really handy for items that I want to go back to, to read more or as a prompt to get me to do something. Having them actually on...

Winchelsea Beach We have decided to get out a bit more this year and go and see places we have not been to before or for a while. I plotted a route through the Kent and East Sussex back lanes down to Winchelsea Beach, along the coast road through to Rye Harbour and into Rye itself. I had planned to stop at Mary...

Many years ago when I was working for a global financial services organisation I came up with a strategy which I called Marketing URLs. I developed this as a workaround for the obligatory CMS paths we were forced to use in the server set up. It was less than optimal but in those days usability had not been...

I was tagged by Bob Monsour to answer the challenge. I accepted. The challenge was started here Ava's Bear Blog Challenge Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? In those heady early days of the web we built sites for the fun of it - there were not that many people out there able to see our sites anyway. I...

Just read Git Commit Messages by Angie Herrera who has started organising Git Commit Messages "in a way that keeps things organized and makes future me a bit happier and less stressed". What a great idea! I decided I am going to do the same – so I copied Angie's bullet points into a Note and then started thinking...

Table of ContentsFirst Building - Sennan Cove cottageBrick booking office and goods hallStone Office with adjoining open canopy and platformCompletion of the Goods Shed and Ticket Office The original plans Reinier drew included a building at the front of the layout that had track going through it. He wrote in...

I upgraded the image plugin for 11ty on a small site which had an unintended chain of issues! I noticed that the Source control had node elements in it, even though I have node_modules in my gitignore file. After some investigation and testing I realised that I must have deployed the site before adding the...