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There are times when I've caught myself working on a problem only to find that I'm repeating myself, circling back round and attempting things I've already tried. Without taking a methodical approach to my work, my focus can become blinkered. To avoid this, I use a combo attack: To put it another way, I try...

Everyone's talking about ChatGPT, a language model optimised for conversations. In a shameless attempt to ride the gravy train, I asked ChatGPT for some help in writing a blog post. Me: I need to write a blog post ASAP. Can you help? ChatGPT: Sure, I'd be happy to help! What would you like the blog...

Just interested in the code? Cut to the chase. GitHub and GitLab are competing services providing source control products based on Git. Source control enables us to keep track of all of the code changes we make to a project so that we can roll them back in the event of a problem. Seeing the...

As part of our drive to double-down on software and provide a great experience for our customers, we've been reviewing our hosting infrastructure. We recently talked about how our WordPress clients enjoy security and redundancy, and we want to continue to provide that same great experience for the various web apps that we host. In...

We recently posted about the font loading solution we use on our websites. Further to implementing this technique we noticed that, on this very site, some of the fonts weren't quite rendering correctly. Look at the examples below. The font rendering issues were slight but there was a definite problem with uneven character weighting in the Google...

As developers, we have a seemingly endless supply of tools at our disposal thanks to the hard work and generosity of the wider development community who, by and large, share their hard work in the hope of making their peers' lives that little bit easier. At Go Tripod we're always on the lookout for new...

We're in the early days of planning out a web design-and-build project with a new client. A key part of this process is the creation of a site map. The Site Map In its simplest form, a site map is a pictorial representation of the pages required of a website. With smaller websites this list...

Back in February I wrote about a font-loading technique I'd implemented on a new project, but there was a problem with it - the script ran on every page load meaning the browser cache was never used to serve the fonts. There are many variations on the same theme with some using session cookies to...