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The archive of what I posted on Twitter, which I now self host due to a lack of trust in Twitter and some other reasons.

I'll soon begin refelcting all my Mastodon posts here too. I'm happier self-hosting or maintaining an archive of my content on URLs that I can own.

There are tools to help you do this too. Such as this one from the makers of Eleventy.

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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @djm_
@djm_ Ha ha.

The other thing later turned out to be Pinterest at least 5 years before Pinterest was Pinterest.

#WhereIsMyYacht?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
I've always found the split testing UI in @Netlify gratifying. But I'd never noticed the little bouncing padlock on locked branches letting me know that I can't adjust some weightings because maths.

Boing!

❤️ Love it.

Related: https://dev.to/philhawksworth/power-up-gatsby-sites-with-a-b-testing-on-netlify-fp4
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @philhawksworth
@Benghamine Also the thinking that it's ok to dismiss the passion project being enthusiastically described and demonstrated by a junior (or any, really) developer as being without merit because "there are things like this"... is missing the point by some margin.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @Benghamine
@Benghamine 100%
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019
One of my lingering regrets from early in my career was letting the feedback of “so, you’re just building another X?!” completely torpedo a side project of mine.

I was learning, energised, and convinced I was making something useful. This feedback from a mentor knocked me back. https://twitter.com/TaelurAlexis/status/1163676341557846016
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 20th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @Netlify Ok. So, can I ask in what was was the site crashing? Other than manually sharing specific URLs (which didn’t exist for all) as entry points to the site, what was leading users to 404s? What did a “crash” look like?

Prossibly related: what kind of site was this? (Site/SPA etc?)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @philhawksworth
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify If you’re curious and willing to explore further, I’d love to move this over to http://community.netlify.com where other people could help to figure it out, and we might be able to share the learnings with others who might have tripped up on something similar.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify I think I see. So some pages existed on one branch but not others? I’m also curious how users were being redirected differently. Netlify redirect rules would be specific to the branches too, unless there was something involved?

(I might not quite get the logic that was in place)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify Why were urls unique/different on different branches?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @smakosh
@smakosh @ThePracticalDev @gatsbyjs @Netlify Oh really? Did you ever get to the bottom of that? Netlify creates branch affinity so that each user should always be served by the same branch they were allocated. Did accessing the build on each branch url directly all work ok?
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @_prateekbh
@_prateekbh @Netlify @sarah_edo I'd suggest asking in http://community.netlify.com.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @Frankspin
@Frankspin @sarah_edo @gatsbyjs @Netlify Great question, Frank!

I think this is where so much of the art comes in to this kind of thing.

A lot depends, I think, on the type of site and publishing cadence you have. But it really helps if all content and code updates are based on a git publishing model.

Good blog idea.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @TatianaTMac
@TatianaTMac @DavidDarnes @zachleat @nejsconf @andybelldesign @Robb0wen 'AVID!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @zachleat
@zachleat @TatianaTMac @nejsconf @andybelldesign @DavidDarnes @Robb0wen It mostly happens when I'm in trouble. 😞
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @TatianaTMac
@TatianaTMac @zachleat @nejsconf @andybelldesign @DavidDarnes @Robb0wen Curses for being called Philip with its 2 disqualifying extra letters.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @notrab
@notrab @Netlify Aha. Gotcha. Not just creating the UI to populate, but pre-populating it too.

Seems handy to me, but I'm not sure I've seen it happening.

Can I suggest asking this question over in http://community.netlify.com? Smart people from support and the community are likely to chime in there
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019 replying to this from @notrab
@notrab @Netlify I think you'll be able to do what you want by adding some info to the netlify.toml file of the repo you are cloning. That can let you prompt of contextual variables in the UI

https://www.netlify.com/docs/deploy-button/#template-configuration
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 19th 2019
🧪 Don't run A/B tests in a way that harms your site's performance!

Create and measure real A/B tests for your @gatsbyjs sites with @Netlify.

No fuss.
No mess.
No performance degradation.

Here's a video and an explanation.

https://dev.to/philhawksworth/power-up-gatsby-sites-with-a-b-testing-on-netlify-fp4
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 18th 2019 replying to this from @peduarte
@peduarte I’m on Three for exactly this reason. It can be cheaper to buy a pre-paid sim while you’re there that gives you good data. It means you’ll have a different number but that’s not biggie if you use WhatsApp or similar and do lots of messaging.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 17th 2019 replying to this from @jaffathecake
@jaffathecake @charis “Motion sensor”
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 16th 2019 replying to this from @dizzyd
@dizzyd @sarah_edo No Dizzy.
Bad boy.
On your rug!
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 16th 2019 replying to this from @swyx
@swyx @sxywu @mysterhee What!!??! Fantasticl! So many congratulations.
(And this photo is off the charts wonderful!)
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 16th 2019 replying to this from @sarah_edo
@sarah_edo Tony.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 16th 2019 replying to this from @CodeFoodPixels
@CodeFoodPixels @sarah_edo Luke. Step away from the “add to basket” button.
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth • August 16th 2019 replying to this from @sarah_edo
@sarah_edo @smashingmag Adding “fashionista” to my list of skills on LinkedIn.
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