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Right, so, this started with me looking at context-mode, seeing a 98% context reduction claim, and immediately thinking: bull shite.
Third post in a little run about my-pi, my coding agent harness built on top of pi-coding-agent. There’s a pile of stuff in my-pi I have not written about, but these three felt worth the time: adding LSP, wiring in local SQLite telemetry, and this on...
This whole thing started with a chat with Kev, (Svelte Society co-founder), after a few beers at the CityJS after-party. I mentioned my-pi to him and his first question to me was “oh! does it have LSP built in?” I was immediately nerd-sniped!
I’ve been using the UserPromptSubmit forced-eval hook for months now. It’s part of my claude-code-toolkit plugin and it’s been working brilliantly.
Until about a week and a half ago, when Claude just started skipping it.
Right, so, I stumbled across this post by Karan Bansal about enabling LSP in Claude Code and thought “no way this actually works.” Turns out it does.
Here’s the thing - every time you ask Claude Code “where is this function defined?”, it does what yo...
Ok, so, I’ve built over 20 MCP servers at this point. Search tools, memory systems, doc scrapers, workflow builders. I’ve written about configuring MCP tools in Claude Code before, but one thing I’ve never actually covered is the bit that tripped me ...
Right, so, remember when I wrote about unlocking swarm mode with claude-sneakpeek? And then using Daytona sandboxes with it? Well, I said at the end of that first post that this would be short lived and I’d be switching once Anthropic shipped it offi...
This is the follow-up to Local Analytics with SQLite and SvelteKit. That post covered the infrastructure - batched writes, heartbeat-based live visitors, the production meltdown and rebuild. This one’s about actually removing the Fathom API dependenc...
So, remember that blog post I wrote about Claude Code skills being a coin flip? Where the “simple hook” approach gave me a whopping 50% success rate and I basically said “just invoke skills manually”?
Yeah, well, I wasn’t happy with that. Coin flips ...
So I got Claude Skills to register with Claude Code (sorted the YAML formatting issue), and the skills are now showing up when I ask Claude to list them. Job done, right? Nah! Turns out getting skills to actually activate reliably when you need them ...
So, this is my updated Zsh config! To be honest there’s little that’s changed over the years since I originally posted about this a good three years ago now in My Zsh Config. But! The changes are substantial enough for me to justify a new post. I ess...
I first heard about vitest-browser-svelte at Svelte Summit from a talk by Dominik G, one of the core maintainers of SvelteKit and Vite. He demonstrated how this new approach lets you test Svelte components in actual browsers instead of mocked environ...
Remember when I wrote about changing scrollbar colour with Tailwind CSS? Good times! 😅 Well, that post was ago and stuff don’t stay the same for long in modern web dev.
The sitch: I noticed my scrollbar styles were being applied when the mouse was ou...
I totally changed up the Svead package again. Svead the SvelteKit head package is used for SEO purposes, and back in May, I wrote a blog post about it and the changes I made to it (behind a @next flag). I was Quite jubilant because I’d actually manag...
The WSL Cursor setup, debugging your setup before you even code! I initially tried Cursor around 18 months ago when I saw something from Catalin about it. At the time I couldn’t get past launching it with the cursor . command.
With all the hype going...
Ok, it’s high time I write about the Svelte head component I made back in May 15, 2022 ( ago). I called it Svead because Svelte + Head = Svead, right? But after mentioning it to Puru he said it’s like Svelte + Mead 🍺! Much better!!
I have previous wi...
Ok, so I went over this in this in a post a while back. I was having issues deploying a SvelteKit app to Fly.io. The reasoning behind me wanting to use Fly is so that I can put the projects near where the users are, reducing latency and giving an all...
A couple of years ago I wrote a guide on setting up a web development environment on WSL using Fedora 35. I wanted to get an up to date version of Fedora to use in WSL so I went back to my guide and the link for the rootfs file was a 404 on the repo ...
Real quick! I’m in the process of migrating domains to Cloudflare. I moved scottspence.dev recently and noticed my Fastmail DKIM wasn’t configured correctly.
Cloudflare will import your DNS records when you add a domain to your account with their def...
Yesterday I switched my URL link shortener from Airtable to Upstash Redis. Airtable is great and I still use it for a couple of features on this site, the contact from being one of them. I am really enjoying using Upstash Redis for a lot of things no...
This is a how-to guide for adding a contact form to your SvelteKit site using Airtable to store the submissions and notify you when there is a new submission.
This is an update to the previous post I did on this, the recent changes to how you create ...
I came across this issue when adding real-time analytics to my site, essentially what I wanted to do was get some analytics data from a server endpoint and pass that to the page.
In SvelteKit you can have different ways to get data onto a page, which...
In this post, go over how to add environment variables to your GitHub Actions. I recently added environment variables to one of my GitHub projects recently and it stopped running.
In this case it was the environment variables for Fathom Analytics, wh...
I recently released a head component that can be used in Svelte projects and I wanted to add tests to it to make sure that it’s working as expected.
I decided to use Playwright to test the component as it comes with the SvelteKit CLI as a config opti...
I was playing around with Linode recently to try set up a PocketBase instance then I came across this guide on the PocketBase GitHub discussions.
The whole thing took around ten minutes and I now have a SQLite database I can read/write to.
In this guide I’ll be going through getting set up with the Universal React Query Library (URQL) in SvelteKit. There’s documentation you can check out for URQL itself if you need to go more in depth. This will be covering initialising the client and ...
Styling a scrollbar with Tailwind CSS for Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox. This is possible with vendor prefixes and pseudo-elements.
I touched on the configuration for this in the Change Text Highlight Color with Tailwind CSS post I did recently.
Here’s some of the issues I faced when deploying a SvelteKit project using Prisma to Vercel.
I was following along with the awesome guide put together by Matia, on authentication with SvelteKit using cookies. By far the most comprehensive guide cover...
Quick guide to getting Debian WSL set up for web development.
You can install Debian from the Windows Store and get started straight away with using it, but there’s a few things missing.
This is an updated guide on the post I did at the start of the year for setting up a web development environment on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This guide is intended for use to get set up with Fedora 35 on WSL.
This is my opinion...
I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this before but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here.
WSL moves pretty fast so a lot of the documentation ...
This guide has now been updated, take a look at Use URQL with SvelteKit for an up to date reference
Use the Universal React Query Library (URQL) in Svelte!
Having one place for all your social links is big business! Services like Linktree, ContactInBio, LinkBook, etc all offer the same sort of service. One location for all your social links.
This is a nice project as a proof of concept to get you set up...
For the past couple of weeks I have slowly been getting a more comfortable with Toast
The best way to do that would be to make a project with it, I decided to move my blog to Toast.
Ever since I first saw Sara Vieira’s slides form Vue London 2018 I’ve really liked the idea of writing a presentation in MDX.
Sara used something called MDX Deck and it’s pretty dope! You write your slides in Markdown and sprinkle in other nice bits ...
Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a look see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have installed.
As I’m all jazzed about using Cypress in WSL I thought I’d give it a go on Fedora.
So I had a play around with the openSUSE Leap 15.2 you can get on the Windows store and after familiarising myself with it decided to see if I could use it for web development.
Well, yeah, you can, that’s it, that’s the post!
So this post started off with me getting GUI apps running on my Windows WSL install of Pengwin, but has now turned into doing it without the need to fork over the readies for Pengwin as now you can do it with Ubuntu or Debian (possibly others) which ...
The Gatsby File System Route API was announced recently and I have been having a play around with it. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s something like the dynamic routing you get with Next.js. If you’re not familiar with that either then it’s a wa...
This is a very specific issue myself and anyone that uses Gatsby and React router for navigating between headers in their Gatsby sites.
The issue has been documented several times now and the advice I have followed is to add a resolutions to my packa...
I started adding videos to my YouTube channel in November 2018, this was mainly intended as an accompaniment to the blog post I did to Get your GraphCMS data into Gatsby.
A the time I was using a web cam I’d bought off of Amazon for around £17, the q...
My beloved HAVIT KB395L keyboard left Ctrl key has started cutting out intermittently. As a developer all my coding revolves around that key saving changes and copy pasting.
This means that my code now breaks with a random s in there where I thought ...
This is a follow up on the post I did about Getting Started with Linaria
The starter I worked on last time I made into a template so it can be used as the base of this project.
Here’s some of the reasoning and detail that went into making the React SEO Component.
There wasn’t a great deal I knew about Search Engine Optimization before I set about writing the Build a coding blog from scratch with Gatsby and MDX guide that I ...
I used CSS variables to make a theme switch, light and dark, I’ve done this in the past using styled-components but not attempted it via the CSS variables route.
With styled-components you defined your colour schemes or themes in a theme object then ...
I am a massive fan of both Vercel’s Now.sh platform and the Netlify platform.
This post has been in my drafts since the beginning of March 2019. At that time it was titled ‘Moving from Now to Netlify’ and it was mostly me being salty about the config...
I spent a couple of days now questioning how and what I write after reading a post from Richard Haines. In his post he mentioned how he stumbled across the Digital Garden idea.
Richard’s post led me to Chris Biscardi’s thoughts on that and in turn Jo...
Remember services like Bitly and TinyURL? Yeah, they still exist, shortening your URLs for you, they’ve been around for a long time too.
Bitly founded in 2008 and TinyURL founded in 2002 😱
I’m talking Fathom Analytics again, this time about tracking link clicks in my Markdown.
I have written about how to track custom events with Fathom previously and this is really an extension to that post.
If you’re having issues with the clicks not scrolling to link IDs see Not scrolling to ID
The main purpose for me documenting this is to demonstrate implementing a table of contents with smooth scroll to the anchors in a Gatsby project using MDX.
I’m going to go over globally styling the Gatsby Default Starter with styled-components v5, I’ve done this in the past with styled-components v4 but I’ve changed my approach and want to document it.
I’ll be swapping out the styles included with a CSS...
I have been a Gatsby user since around v0 May 2017, at that time was using a template called Lumen and it was just what I needed at the time. Since then I have have gone from using a template to creating my blog.
Over the years I have made my own Pro...
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I made a recruiter FAQ on my personal site for recruiters and created an online CV.
I’m a bit late to the party using the new React Context API, I did get to use it the other day at work, I also made a snippet to scaffold out a component for it.
I had followed a couple of guides explaining how to use it and neither of them as good a...
I’m a Windows user, I have been a Linux user as well but I have found that Windows is a bit less neck beardy for me, both have their pros and cons. One of the big cons with Windows for me was when I started learning web development.
I must say this was great to do and a nice little introduction to node and npm.
I got to doing this from finding it on GitHub I think I was looking for the Twitter icon in bootstrap whilst working on my Random Quote Generator I stumbled across the tw...
My first post using Jekyll, all I have done really is fork the awesome jekyll-now repo from Barry Clark and rename the repo and adjusted the _config.yml file.
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