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The Beautiful Web - Henry.Codes And Talks On Grief

The incredibly well-designed website of designer/developer Henry Desroches and some equally beautiful advice found in his writings.

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Here Are My Answers to The 2025 Blog Questions Challenge

One of my favorite bloggers Kev Quirk threw out a challenge post to answer questions about blogging so I decided to answer.

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Having Fun With The Raindrop.io API To Grab Recent Bookmarks

A quick little python script to convert your most recent bookmarks on the raindrop.io app to a local json file using their API

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HTML To Markdown Tools - How To Convert Content For LLMs

Some of the best open-source and free tools I use for converting websites and git repos into structured markdown data for improved LLM ingestion

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How To Find New RSS Feeds To Follow - Free Tools & Resources

How I find quality RSS feeds that are worth subscribing to and how you can do the same using a few free tools and resources that are easy to use

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How To Generate Your Own Spotify Album Poster With Python

A great open-source album poster generator that uses the Spotify API to pull the cover image. Lots of options, completely free

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Update On The Free Follow.is RSS Reader - Lots Added!

Updates to the Follow RSS Aggregator including Obsidian integration, email newsletters, webhooks and user-generated puzzles for access codes

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Venv or Virtualenv? A Short Guide To Virtual Environments

A quick tutorial on the difference between Python virtual environments Venv and Virtualenv and why it matters which one you use on your next project

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Burger Kings Angry Whopper And Facebook Debauchery

We revisit Burger Kings launch of their 2009 Angry Whopper campaign as it was nothing short of being one of the most memorable advertising campaigns

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Dos Equis - The Most Interesting Man In The World Revisited

We revisit the old Dos Equis - The Most Interesting Man In the World ad campaign with a look back at it's incredible lifespan of almost a decade.

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Easy 301 Redirects To Help With SEO - The Master Guide

A guide to implementing easy 301 redirects to send traffic from one link or website to another. Boost your website SEO and do it the right way!

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Add A Recently Played Music Page To Your Hugo Blog

A guide to adding your very own recently listened to music page to your hugo blog using a github workflow and and a python script

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Add HTML Tags To Hugo Blogs - My Guide To Shortcodes

Hugo can render HTML on your blog if you add a shortcode in your layout folder. Here's a quick guide on what code to add and where to add it!

My Early Review Of Follow.is - The Best Rss App Now In Alpha

The new must-try RSS app named Follow.is is here and I'm going to show you why you should download it today and take it for a spin

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Wget Tutorial - A Complete Guide To Downloading Websites

A Quick tutorial on using wget to download anything off the internet. Perfect for anyone looking for a easy to use tool that works on any platform

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How To Extract All Archived Links From The Wayback Machine

Get all the URL links that the WayBack Machine has for a domain. Bring back to life old archived pages or check up on old designs.

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Why I Am Rebooting This Blog After Almost A Decade Away

Restarting this blog after 10 years of no posts, 20 years of owning it. Decided to start completely fresh. Thanks for checking it out.

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