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VS Code: Dialog PopUnder Bug and how to live with it
29 Jun 2021 · 3 min read · vscode · login

VS Code: Dialog PopUnder Bug and how to live with it

Dealing with annoying display bugs

Azure: Context is king
27 Jun 2021 · 2 min read · azure · login

Azure: Context is king

Image by mohammad takhsh on Unsplash Intro A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it. The problem I hadn’t done anything in …

31 Mar 2020 · 3 min read · new-blog · cloudflare

Handle website redirects with Cloudflare page rules

In my last post, I mentioned that I’d hit a little snag when I was migrating my live site over to my new architecture. When I built my test site it always used a subdomain (beta.cirriustech.co.uk) so I never had …

27 Mar 2020 · 1 min read · new-blog · Hugo

New site now live!

Much later than planned, I’ve completed the cutover to my new Hugo static site in production, as written about in my last post. A number of factors delayed it. Mostly private, which I won’t go into here, but …

17 Jan 2020 · 1 min read · new-blog · static-websites

Say Hello World to Hugo!

In my recent posts, I spent a lot of time talking about Hugo and Static Websites in Azure. I’ve now finished converting the content from this existing blog over to Hugo, underpinned by: Azure Static Websites Azure …

Create an Azure Static Website in seconds with Azure CLI
29 Dec 2019 · 3 min read · azure · azure-cli

Create an Azure Static Website in seconds with Azure CLI

Image by Cloudypixel on Unsplash In my last post. I demonstrated how to create a static website using the Azure Portal. However, many of those steps are much quicker using the Azure CLI. For today’s post, …