Stephen
@stephenmeehan.bsky.social
Web Designer/Developer, Manchester 🇬🇧
Most browser console errors are harmless noise. The danger is that they pile up until a real problem hides in plain sight. d3creative.uk/blog/browser...
That scary red console error? It is probably nothing
A YouTube embed throwing a compute-pressure violation looks broken but isn't. The real risk is what happens when fifty of them pile up.
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My @statamic cache had 1,400 URLs on a 300-page site - here's how I fixed it. d3creative.uk/blog/blockin...
My Statamic cache had 1,400 URLs on a 300-page site
Vulnerability scanners were caching themselves into existence. Here is the Nginx rule that stopped them, and the cleanup script after.
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Fixed an issue on a client website recently, the root cause wasn't immediately obvious - but after some digging, I added a fix and the problem went away. #statamic d3creative.uk/blog/statami...
My Statamic static cache hit 2.3GB. UTMs were the culprit.
Tracking parameters were caching the same pages thousands of times. One config change took the cache from 26,168 URLs back down to 1,200.
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The @statamic.com Control Panel only surfaces Statamic's own updates. Everything else, npm, PHP, Composer, lives in the command line. If you maintain Statamic sites, you forget to check. Often. I built a free addon to fix it.
Took a peek at Statamic 6 this afternoon, early days but I can already see a ton of updates and it looks fantastic. Looking forward to updating all my sites to v6. d3creative.uk/blog/statami...
Over 1,000 improvements! Here's what's new in Statamic 6.
A completely redesigned control panel, a modernised tech stack under the hood, and security features that replace popular third-party addons. Here's what changed and why it matters.
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Building an email drip campaign for a new service launch – deadline: end of month. 🤞 After looking at a few platforms, went with @mailerlite.bsky.social. The automation features are genuinely impressive. Anyone else using drip campaigns? Would love to hear what's working for you.
Admittedly late, loving Ted Lasso. Binged it for the last few weeks. Glad there’s gonna be a season 4.
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Spent the day making a form in a <dialog> validate without a page refresh using AlpineJS. Errors display inline next to labels. Got it working juuuust right. Form submits to Statamic.
Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography
Spent the day updating a @statamic.bsky.social website v3 > v5. Setup a new server running latest Ubuntu, which allowed me to upgrade php 8.1 to 8.4. Updated to Tailwind 4 too. It was a can of worms at times, lots (and lots) of dependency updates, things breaking locally, but satisfying work.