The Little Hub

2026

30 Sep

Moving The Little Hub Off Hugo

Why the site now builds with one Python script

If you're reading this, it was built by a single Python file I can read from top to bottom. Until this week The Little Hub ran on Hugo 0.72, a version from 2020. When I finally went through the old site properly, the Contact page was still showing lorem ipsum and the About page was Hugo's own...

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22 May

Replacing A Third-party Email Verification API With Something I Actually Own

Writing a faster email verification API

2025

31 Aug

Introducing FlowFall: A love child of Scrum and Waterfall

Scrum? Waterfall? Taking what works from both and throwing out what doesn't

20 May

Creating Motivation Via Projects

Getting back into things!

2023–24

No posts.

2022

8 Jun

Better Git Commits

Commit messages that show at a glance what was worked on, fixed and changed.

2021

2 Oct

Site Changes!

The site's theme moved from a modified Archie to a custom Skeleton CSS build.

21 Aug

Minifying Websites + Updates

Looking at a new project for this site, plus site changes towards a 1MB page.

22 Apr

Simple Projects

Small, scoped projects to learn, develop, and maintain skills.

2020

5 Dec

Taking Notes For Personal Or Work - Simplified

Taking notes is important, not just for work but also for personal projects.

28 Nov

Duplicating app installs between systems

A simple way to duplicate apps installed on one Linux system onto another.

1 Nov

Divi Button Event Tagger: Release

Version 1.0.0 of a WordPress plugin that tags Divi buttons with Google Analytics event data-vars.

11 Oct

Time to Learn JavaScript

It's been a long time coming but I finally have to jump into some JavaScript.

22 Aug

New Job

A personal post about changes happening in life: COVID, France, and a new remote job.

28 Jul

Migrating from WordPress to Hugo

Why I swapped from WordPress to Hugo, and used GitHub Actions to deploy it.

28 Jul

Nginx Configuration Testing

How to check where in your Nginx config something has gone wrong, and how to fix it.

7 Jul

Bash Scripts: Upgrade your terminal game

Upping my terminal game with some bash aliases and functions.

12 Jun

Linux Update Notifier

Simple bash program to mail you when there are system updates to do.

2 Jun

Snippet - Bash Function: Example Folder transversal

A quick snippet for passing arguments through a bash alias, via a function.

2 Jun

Work Flow Overhaul

My fully overhauled dev environment: editor, homelab servers and WSL.

2019

20 Aug

Simplifying Regex Matching

Regex can seem super complex, but once you break it down you can understand it a little better.

15 May

Fixing PHP when upgrading Ubuntu 16.10 to 18.10

Upgrading from Ubuntu 16.10 to 18.10 can break PHP. Here is how to fix it.

23 Mar

Pretty Json & Vim

JSON can be a mess to read in Vim. Here's how to pretty-print it.

19 Feb

Setting up Gunicorn as a service

Setting up Gunicorn as a service is super easy!