Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Personal blog mostly on design and technology, with a focus on simplicity.
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Good question. I guess a natural follow up question is: Why did you start in the first place? My thoughts on it: "Writing to learn": I believe that writing is a great way to learn. It sorts floating thoughts somewhere. Sure, could be...
My previous post is really not that old. I wrote it 13th of September 2023 so less than half a year ago. A fair bit has changed since then. Kirby launched Kirby 4 in December 2023, and Craft CMS just launched Craft CMS 5 march 2024....
I have many a time added node_modules and the likes to my git repositories. Tired of always googling it, I noted down this solution to cleaning up after. make .gitignore file (or update the one you have) add node_modules/ or what you...
I've long been fascinated by the notecard systems of people like Ryan Holiday and Billy Oppenheimer, and no less fascinated by the quality of content they consistently share. My current system for collecting nuggets and wisdom I pick up...
“Victory belongs to the most Tenacious” — a phrase that echoes across the clay courts of Paris each spring. Originally attributed to Napoleon and later adopted by aviation hero Roland Garros, this quote now adorns the stadium walls of...
Most years since my late teenage years I had the same simple new year’s resolution: Care less what others think of me. I still work on that same goal a decade (or two) later, but have luckily gotten a bit better along the way. I have...
What I really like about having a personal web page, is that it can be ground zero for testing out ideas. If something feels right, it'll likely carry over to other projects I work on. Time to drop Tailwind? This has been a thought I've...
The last month I've been diving into sustainable web design, and although I keep links in apple notes, bookmarks etc. I kind of like the idea of using the blog for long-term storage. As Chris Coyier calls it in his blog post: "the...
Some people in the Statamic community have commented that my previous tests were unfair (or rather; dumb and crap). Some arguments pointed towards 1: file size doesn’t matter, and 2: Statamic had «no caching and file watcher was on». I'm...
After my post regarding the size of the codebase of multiple CMS’s, I’ve gotten some comments about the flaws of this approach. As much as I agree that its too simplistic to make substantial conclusions from, I still believe it’s a great...
I'm a big fan of Laravel Forge for provisioning servers. Generally setting up a Kirby site is very straight forward, especially on Apache, but with default Forge setup (and Nginx) there are two small things that has tripped me up a few...
Wow, I really didn't expect to have any readers at this point, but after my CMS filesize comparison post I've had a few people asking me for my RSS feed, which is really cool! I've also been digging further into Kirby CMS lately, and...
"The average size of our sites doubled in the last 10 years. We honestly need to think about «digital degrowth». We are not building better sites than 10 years ago. The quality does not match the resources we waste." – Bastian Allgeier...
I mainly work with Craft CMS sites currently, and I made the switch from Laravel Valet to DDEV as per their suggestions last year. Generally there is much to like about DDEV, especially the aspect of having different versions of PHP per...
People probably disagree with the usefulness of a blunt size-comparison between CMS'es. But I find it a great indication of complexity vs simplicity, tendencies of bloat, load times ++. I only really care about PHP CMSes, and my testing...