Blog

Linux entropy woes

25 August 2018

Lack of boot-time entropy causes PHP 7.2+ to fail to initialise.

Running Make when files are changed

6 July 2018

How to use inotifywait in a shell script to run Make when files are changed.

Making websites with Make: a comparison of build tools

4 July 2018

Make is a declarative, pattern matching, general purpose build tool enabling fast website builds with dependency checking and parallel execution.

ProcessWire vs WordPress: it's the API

28 June 2018

WordPress has its good points, but for bespoke websites ProcessWire is a better CMS. Here's why.

Using prismjs for code syntax highlighting with browserify and npm

26 June 2018

We use prismjs to generate fancy code snippets. Beware of language dependencies when loading language modules directly with 'require'.

Concatenating browserify builds

24 June 2018

Missing semicolon alert: concatenating browserify builds when using source maps without the --standalone option causes a fatal error: "Cannot find module 'function ()".