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The archive of what I posted on Twitter, which I now self host due to a lack of trust in Twitter and some other reasons.

I'll soon begin refelcting all my Mastodon posts here too. I'm happier self-hosting or maintaining an archive of my content on URLs that I can own.

There are tools to help you do this too. Such as this one from the makers of Eleventy.

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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
Yes @steeevg is very clever and makes beautiful stuff with webby things. But also he is the best at names.

Case in point —
"Clip Clop Clippity Clop" 👏🥥

https://codepen.io/ste-vg/pen/oKYjKV
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @HenriHelvetica
@HenriHelvetica Well, booo to all of that!

This wasn't exactly my experience with this. It was just an offhand dismissal of something I was excited about. I wish I had had the confidence and self belief to keep pressing on.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @simonhearne
@simonhearne Hats off to your persistence!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @chrlsbr
@chrlsbr @eleven_ty You bet!

That comments example is more of an example than a product... so the setup might not be as clear as I'd like.

Happy to help.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @chrlsbr
@chrlsbr @eleven_ty I could try to help a little later today, Charles. Might be easiest over in Slack.

https://jamstack.org/slack
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @TatianaTMac
@TatianaTMac @DavidDarnes @kvlly @sarah_edo Oh trust me, this is all getting written down.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @DavidDarnes
@DavidDarnes @TatianaTMac @kvlly @sarah_edo Oh FFS.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @kvlly
@kvlly Same.

Although I like being able to make coffee without fear of getting saddled with a monster coffee/tea round.

...but I want to have my cake and eat it.

...also nobody brings cake.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @snekstep
@snekstep @TatianaTMac @snipeyhead No. Hate speech and intolerance need to be emphatically condemned. There's no room to tolerate or normalise them. History should have taught us that.

Understanding & working out differences is valuable, but cannot extend to intolerance and hate. See Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @andyhawkes
@andyhawkes That's lovely!

Reminds me that I've been meaning to convert the dusty old site I made to a #JAMstack site so that I won't need to worry about it falling apart from neglect.

https://www.hawksworx.com/blog/the-shapes-of-web-views/

I spy a weekend project coming up!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
Ok, it's time to finally face facts and make this update to my about page. 😢

https://hawksworx.com/about
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @rafahari
@rafahari @Netlify
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @djm_
@djm_ Ha ha.

The other thing later turned out to be Pinterest at least 5 years before Pinterest was Pinterest.

#WhereIsMyYacht?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
I've always found the split testing UI in @Netlify gratifying. But I'd never noticed the little bouncing padlock on locked branches letting me know that I can't adjust some weightings because maths.

Boing!

❤️ Love it.

Related: https://dev.to/philhawksworth/power-up-gatsby-sites-with-a-b-testing-on-netlify-fp4
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @philhawksworth
@Benghamine Also the thinking that it's ok to dismiss the passion project being enthusiastically described and demonstrated by a junior (or any, really) developer as being without merit because "there are things like this"... is missing the point by some margin.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @Benghamine
@Benghamine 100%
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
One of my lingering regrets from early in my career was letting the feedback of “so, you’re just building another X?!” completely torpedo a side project of mine.

I was learning, energised, and convinced I was making something useful. This feedback from a mentor knocked me back. https://twitter.com/TaelurAlexis/status/1163676341557846016
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @Netlify Ok. So, can I ask in what was was the site crashing? Other than manually sharing specific URLs (which didn’t exist for all) as entry points to the site, what was leading users to 404s? What did a “crash” look like?

Prossibly related: what kind of site was this? (Site/SPA etc?)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @philhawksworth
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify If you’re curious and willing to explore further, I’d love to move this over to http://community.netlify.com where other people could help to figure it out, and we might be able to share the learnings with others who might have tripped up on something similar.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify I think I see. So some pages existed on one branch but not others? I’m also curious how users were being redirected differently. Netlify redirect rules would be specific to the branches too, unless there was something involved?

(I might not quite get the logic that was in place)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify Why were urls unique/different on different branches?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify Oh really? Did you ever get to the bottom of that? Netlify creates branch affinity so that each user should always be served by the same branch they were allocated. Did accessing the build on each branch url directly all work ok?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @_prateekbh
@_prateekbh @Netlify @sarah_edo I'd suggest asking in http://community.netlify.com.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @Frankspin
@Frankspin @sarah_edo @gatsbyjs @Netlify Great question, Frank!

I think this is where so much of the art comes in to this kind of thing.

A lot depends, I think, on the type of site and publishing cadence you have. But it really helps if all content and code updates are based on a git publishing model.

Good blog idea.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @TatianaTMac
@TatianaTMac @DavidDarnes @zachleat @nejsconf @andybelldesign @Robb0wen 'AVID!
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