I read a short post on Mastodon from Pierre Carrier saying that his blog had a newspaper mode - and it looks great! Pierre has his site on 11ty, as my site currently is, so I thought I would have a quick go at building a newspaper version of my content - the Simon Cox Evening News. First off I didn't want to change...

A week ago I started having issues with my home network, a network that I had built up and improved over the years. The first step in this was when we moved to this house and BT provided us with a couple of Powerline networking sockets. This allowed us to run a simple network between the router and the BT YouView...

That's odd I though - does Mousehole actually have cobbled streets? As lovely as it is with Stargazy pie, traditionally eaten on Tom Bawcock's Eve, and the last person to speak Cornish as their first language to live there, Dolly Pentreath, but I'm not sure it is known for its cobbled streets. Mousehole no longer...

I signed up for the Modelu. Patreon plan last year and pay a small amount each month and in return I receive a zip file of five or six figures on a theme for the month. These files are the .stl files for 3D printing. The downloads are only available for a short time and I missed March and Aprils this year -...

Whilst most of the Whitesands Quay layout has been planned for many years the details don't actually get sorted out until I turn my attention to them. An example is the area behind the Customs House. It is in the curved corner on the right of the layout and will not be seen that well - but that is not an excuse for...

Table of ContentsHow to build a bin storeMaterials and PlanningConstruction ProcessBin Store Under Construction – Without RoofBin Store Under Construction – With RoofExtra FeaturesBlock of Wood to Hold Bin Lids OpenFinishing TouchesPainting the Bin Store Black How to build a bin store When I ordered the timber for...

We had a Nordpeis Duo 2 wood burning stove installed some years ago and it looks fab! We use it to keep warm on those days when it is a touch cold but not cold enough to turn the heating on. Of course it gives out a tonne of hygge as well so also gets lit sometimes when it isn't even that cold! The firewood logs we...

More of a reminder for myself next time Image need to do this! Adding a collection tag to a post as a link There are some lovely ways to automate sets of tags with a list page. Hoever I don't think these can have additional content to make them into a proper topic hub page so I am building them out manually. For...

I switched all my small projects over to Fathom Analytics in 2023 for various reasons but there was one page on my site where I kept the Google Analytics code - the 404 page. I did this so that I could pull the data into a Data Studio dashboard to provide me with errant URLs being visited on my site. The above image...

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A "Hang on a minute" moment - what are those? Today I ran a crawl on my site using Sitebulb. and I was reviewing a medium issue by delving down into the source code that Sitebulb had collected. There were red dots all over the content - what were these I thought? I had my suspicions. I have come across invisible...

I read a couple of articles this week on cleaning up your 11ty config file, the initial one that I found from Robin Hoover and the second from Lene Saile in which Lene had added a 3rd method, adding another config file as a plugin which I then understood what I could do. Yes takes me a bit of time sometimes. I...