Web developer.
Tea drinker.
Cheese eater.
Since Christmas, I’ve been busy cultivating a few new things for this site. None of these really warranted a standalone blog post—not because they are minor additions, but because they are designed to speak for themselves.
When I migrated to Hugo last year, I chose it specifically for its flexibility. I wanted a space for content that doesn’t fit the “standard blog post” mold—the kind of digital gardening that requires custom layouts or specific functionality to be truly useful.
I grew up eating a roast dinner every Sunday. There were varying proteins—my favourite being chicken—along with roast potatoes, sometimes stuffing or Yorkshire puddings, and a selection of vegetables. Tying this all together was gravy. Until I started cooking roast dinners for my family, I never realised how key the gravy actually was to really bringing the meal alive.
How many times can I use the word “refresh” in the title before it becomes too cumbersome? Well, I think we’re just about alright with 3.
That time has come around again, as it inevitably does, once in a blue moon…. the website (refresh) rebirth.
This website has looked this way since early 2011, but back then it was a full-blown Wordpress site. The grand plan was to write some stuff of varying flavours here. Over three years I wrote nine posts, which is an output I’m pretty happy with. Problem is, after 2013 it would appear I stopped.
I don’t really do new years resolutions, but I do recall in early 2013 saying to myself that this would be the year I actually make some money from the internet.
For as long as I’ve done this web development thing I’ve been working on projects that were set to earn millions. But then, isn’t everything? The sad fact, repeated over and over the past 10 years is that, no, the majority of stuff you work on amounts to nothing.
Over recent years I’ve come across the need to design and build a website generally under tight time and budget constraints. With this in mind I went looking for a framework to build off of to save myself from the many pitfalls of starting from scratch. Enter Bootstrap.
It’s probably been a while since I built anything using it, but after I came across a website which sells themes for Bootstrap, I decided to brush of my theming skills (if I had any) and “throw” together a theme or two and see if they’d earn me some Red Bull money.
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