Dummy’s Guide to Roots Sage Theme in WordPress

Recently I’ve mostly been using Understrap as a theme for WordPress, however the Understrap GitHub repository has shown a disturbing lack of maintenance for the last year or so. With Bootstrap 5 on the horizon, and WordPress and PHP constantly moving forward, I don’t want to be stuck in a potential development dead-end using Understrap. … Continued

WP Tempus Dominus Auto

Usually when I blog about programming, it’s Perl stuff, but here’s something that’s mostly Javascript (with a little PHP to act as a shim for WordPress). It’s a script to use Tempus Dominus as a date/time picker for HTML 5 date and time form inputs on Bootstrap/jQuery-based sites. It lets you do stuff like this: … Continued

Zydeco::Lite

Today I released Zydeco::Lite, a re-implementation of Zydeco but just using standard Perl syntax. So for example, class { … } becomes class(sub { …});. This has the advantage of much faster compile time, similar run time speed, fewer dependencies,…

Web Scraping with Zydeco

So I like to keep local copies of my blogs.perl.org blog posts as Atom entries, but noticed yesterday that I had a few gaps in my collection. The Atom feeds offered by blogs.perl.org only have the most recent articles though,…

Connected Numbers

I was recently shown this puzzle: There are some things I found a little unclear about it. For example, should the following two circles count as being connected? There is a line between them, even if it’s interrupted by a circle. And what about these two circles? Are they connected? Again, there’s a diagonal line … Continued

Sainsburys Website

I’ve been doing my grocery shopping online on and off since about 2000 or 2001 and I believe Sainsburys was the first supermarket I’ve used for it, and I did stick with them for a while. Mostly now I use Tesco, though I’ve used Waitrose, Ocado, and ASDA too. Today I found myself ordering from … Continued

Implementing GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU law that forces pretty much all sites to display that annoying “please accept our cookies” message which you see everywhere. For those of us in the UK, Brexit is likely to slightly modify the law, but only slightly. So we have to deal with it. I … Continued

Redesigned Website

I’ve redesigned my website (toby.ink). It now uses WordPress with a Bootstrap 4 theme. It’s also on a brand new VPS which I’m hoping to move all my small personal sites to because my old VPS is still running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS! Hopefully I’ll be posting a lot more than I used to.

Announcing Zydeco

Technically, I already announced it, but now I’ve renamed it. MooX::Pression is now called Zydeco. Moops had a memorable name, and I think the naming really helped it gain a following. MooX::Pression was just meh. So now it’s Zydeco. Zydeco…