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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 • July 25th 2022 replying to this from @DavidDarnes
@DavidDarnes @lynnandtonic “Stream tea” (Jam on first)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 25th 2022 replying to this from @DavidDarnes
@DavidDarnes @lynnandtonic I’ll pop the kettle on.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 25th 2022
* Does happy dance * https://twitter.com/kaelig/status/1551612285075869697
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 25th 2022
I need to learn more about how to use @Netlify Graph to integrate different @GraphQL services and APIs into my sites.

So I've asked @sgrove to give me a demo.

Want to join in with questions of your own?
We'll do it live on Wednesday, 10am PT

https://youtu.be/t8FIcX2UyXg
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 25th 2022 replying to this from @JeffGrigg1
@JeffGrigg1 @jlengstorf Now I feel spoiled. 😳
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 24th 2022 replying to this from @joelcloralt
@joelcloralt What a gorgeous name.
And what an adorable look on that lovely face of yours.

Many congratulations, Joel! ❤️
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 24th 2022
Checked the terms and conditions.

There’s nothing to stop us just being kind to each other on here.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 24th 2022 replying to this from @radenpioneer
@radenpioneer @tapasadhikary @Netlify The teams are always quietly working an a variety of different improvements and optimisations. 🥳
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 24th 2022 replying to this from @BrittneyPostma
@BrittneyPostma It looks so great!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 24th 2022 replying to this from @tapasadhikary
@tapasadhikary @Netlify Hooray!

Yes. The engineering teams have been working hard on lots of things that impact this.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 23rd 2022 replying to this from @Dayhaysoos
@Dayhaysoos @github Off the charts cool
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @0x0caf
@0x0caf @jlengstorf I think this one might win.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @raycastapp
@raycastapp This is slick!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @philhawksworth
@jlengstorf (they would never look at, analyse, or act on the data captured by said analytics, BTW)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @hdv
@hdv @jlengstorf heh. Yeah.
So many bear the scars of years of this!

:)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @hdv
@hdv @jlengstorf Thanks! And sadly, I agree.

The good news is that the credibility and popularity of genuine alternatives to this legacy thinking has been on the rise for a while. And companies like @sanity_io are a big part of that.

Still a long way to go and a lot of folks to help.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022
Woah! I missed this!!! https://twitter.com/hdv/status/1479460199694061570
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @hdv
@hdv @jlengstorf Sadly, this was about 4 years later.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf A leading enterprise CMS was unable to present content in the components needed, so instead it rendered all possible content into the HTML as JSON and then re-rendered everything needed for that page client-side with JavaScript.

The SEO, A11y, and perf impacts were comical
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf 10 months of engineering work to hit ambitious browser performance goals for a heavy design undone on launch day thanks to the customer adding 8 different analytics tracking products 7 of which were render blocking.

And Google Tag Manger.

#enterprise
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf Content for dozens of regionally localised sites for a global brand managed in a single Excel spreadsheet file. All the brand managers would work on it individually and send various versions around via email.

No version control.
No canonical version.

SHIP IT

#enterprise
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf A deployment process that required an hour of navigating and clicking a web UI in a magical order which was undocumented and understood by only one team member.

Later "automated' with a Selenium test runner to automatically click all the buttons.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf "{APPLICATION NAME REDACTED} platform license expired" displayed as a persistent modal on top of the prod site.

(License was fine. License key generation was borked. Account managers unable to resolve)

After many angry phone calls we mitigate using CSS to hide it.

#enterprise
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf A limit of 10 "vanity URLs" which we could specify on an enterprise platform which would generate its own URLs for every other resource using a scheme that seemed to use every word and acronym ever devised.

#enterprise
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • July 22nd 2022 replying to this from @jlengstorf
@jlengstorf 2 week code and content freeze, and a 4 week lead time for production deployments.

#enterprise
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