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 times already. That's why I make these notes for myself. Disable Go helper...

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 indicator. However, I’ve been interested in diving a bit further into the...

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 felt the personal web page was a perfect starting point. So now this page is up 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 https://youtu.be/cYvhYX2Nce4?si=rBCWHmr8O-Bc0uSD&t=2132 This really speaks to me....

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 project is a bit easier to maintain than it was in Laravel Valet, and to have...

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 list goes like this: Craft CMS Their official Starter Kit Wordpress To have a...

I saw this tweet the other day, and it resonated with me. It hits me at the right moment, because I both try to convince myself that this blog has a reason to live, and at the same time try to convince myself to take my work less "seriously", and enjoy the process more. I've been locked in a "never good enough"...

I just finished a great little book from John Cleese called Creativity: A short and cheerful guide. In it, he talked about a book and idea from Guy Claxton, called "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" (Which now is on my reading list). The idea is that the "Hare Brain" involves 'figuring matters out, weighing up the pros and...

As a continuation of my decision to move my life away from the Google Cloud I have finally started to take action. I oftentimes watch a youtube video or two while eating lunch, and two days ago I got very inspired by Matt D'Avellas eposide on "I learned a productivity system for organizing life". It is very much...

I heard Seth Godin say this on a podcast with Tim Ferriss: "If you don’t have time to do it right, how will you find time to do it over?" I often feel i get caught up in solving things reactively, on-the-go, as quickly as possible. Often times under budget constraints from customers, and without managing to fairly...

This year I have decided to make the leap, and transition from my trusty Gmail account. I have long considered to, but the task felt so huge that I always pushed it aside. I was a user of gmail since the early beta-stages. For a long time I was even a huge proponent of it. Suggested it to friends and family as a...