Last week we were hit by a sudden storm. We missed the sky clouding over, it was very quick and then there was an almighty flash and instand thunder that shook the whole house. Our power went off before the thunderclap stoppped. It was a bit of a shock but the electricity came back on failry quickly and that...

A new model of a row of cottages The baseboard of Whitesands Quay is bigger then the original plan by Reinier Hendrickson and so I had to introduce additional features which includes a back row of buildings. This started off with a row of four cottages which I had built from a kit by Scale Model Scenery and it...

The AI revolution really began in 2022 for the common person but 2023 is the year where it really took off. Whilst everyone is trying to get the most out of ChatGPT, already on v4 Google Released its own text prompt AI yesterday called Bard and it is fast. I was able to pull in information from live URLs unlike...

The old cottages Originally my extended layout design had two old single story cottages at the back between the shop and the boat builders. When I set out all the buildings on the plan and added some height to the back row I realised the flow of the buildings wasn't quite to my liking. In front of the old cottages...

Google Search Console sends out automated emails for issues including the 'Page with redirect' as an issue. If that's expected behaviour – you have changed a page URL and added the redirect – then check your sitemap.xml. Hopefully that's automatically updated but GSC may have a cached version and still thinks the...

GSC was flagging some Canonical issue on this site so I decided to add the canonical using the page.url parameter in my base.njk nunjucks include. <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.simoncox.com{{ page.url }}"> However, I have already included a Canonical in the frontmatter of some of my posts and there may be...

I don't have a games console but really wanted to play Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out and Google Released it on Stadia so I go the package. It included a Chromecast Ultra and a very nice hand controller. Sadly, as with many Google forays, they decided to Sunset Stadia and it closed down on the 18th Jan 2023. The...

I realised that the sitemap.xml file was listing the 404 page - we really don't want that in there as the search engines don't want it. The 11ty sitemap.njk file had the answer in its frontmatter for any page you don't want in a collection, and that includes the All collection, I added this in the frontmatter of the...

I have tried to add Webmentions to the site having read Max Böck's post on this and then Chris Bongers post - both very helpful and bewildering at the same time! Have found my natural limit again having got so far with 11ty!

No issues with coding the pages up as and when I need but if I am on the go somewhere making changes to the site will have to wait - except that I have now installed the Netlify CMS! It's very lightweight for a CMS and is based on the 11ty Collections so static page changes are a little more difficult but posts are...

Many many years ago I owned a Spectrum +3 computer. For some nostalgia the Spectrum +3 operating manual is online. My friend Nick and I programmed a D&D Character generator in Basic on these. Took us months to do and then we added and added to it. Did it just for our own games. I then developed a font for use on our...

There are many 11ty resources available but the one that I started with to get me going is Kevin Powell's Turn static HTML/CSS into a blog with CMS using the JAMStack and I keep going back to it!