Steve Abraham

Steve accidentally spent twelve years as a web developer before returning to his roots. He now runs an IT company in the North of Scotland and spends nearly all day in his inbox.

 • Web Dev

Manually set safari theme colour

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/683403

 • Web Dev

Clearing safari favicon cache

https://paco.me/writing/safari-favicon-showing-white-background

 • Web Dev

Add WordPress Admin User with phpMyAdmin

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Reclaiming old content

I’ve spent a little time over the last few weeks gradually reclaiming old blog content from various sources. Some has been pulled from the Wayback Machine, some from old Pinboard archives, some from site backups. Going back over two decades, almost none of it has any value, it’s certainly well beyond being useful, so it’s perhaps entertaining at best.

It’s facinating how much near 25 year old linked content is still available.

Note #1

Hugo have just released v0.141.0 which now includes an alignx option on images.Text. Slightly neich perhaps, but it’s exactly what I wanted to generate my OpenGraph images and center the text (more on that another time).

I changed my mind, my CMS adventure

Oops…! I did it again.

When I launched this site a few days ago I posted that I’d settled on Kirby as my CMS1 of choice. This wasn’t exactly a spur of the moment thing, it’s a system I’ve been dabbling with for quite a while. In fact, my introduction to Kirby came from the talented Simon Collison when he designed and built my company site some time back.

I’ve since changed my mind.

New year, new blog

For the last few weeks Matthias Ott has been running a newsletter about designing and publishing on the web, with a heavy emphasis on owning and running a personal website. There’s an archive available of past issues, well worth a peruse.

Every time a new issue drops, I remember that it’s something I want to (re)launch. I open Sublime Text, try and remember what CMS I was playing with, get lost looking at colours and fonts, and then… oh, shiny thing!