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Cannot Divide by Zero in Peak Picture Partial

Cannot Divide by Zero in Peak Picture Partial

When assets don't contain valid images that can be processed by Glide (which can happen by migration or by not setting up proper sanitation rules for asset field uploads), a white screen of death due to a division will occur. This happened to me in various scenarios * A migration of

Applying a Growth Mindset (Doodle)

Applying a Growth Mindset (Doodle)

In an attempt to retain more of the information I'm consuming, I started to doodle on my iPad while listening to the Huberman Lab episode on How to Enhance Performance & Learning by applying a Growth Mindset. While I'm not too excited about the result, I deeply enjoyed the process because

Apple Mail account settings for Gmail, with the mapping of the Trash Mailbox to Gmail's Gmail/Bin folder highlighted

When Gmail Messages deleted in Apple Mail keep coming back

For the last coupe of weeks I had this weird behavior that whenever I deleted a message from my Google Workspace inbox through Apple Mail on Mac, these messages never disappeared from the web interface. And after fetching new messages, they also crept back into Apple Mail. Looking into the

CSS Code snippet showing how the image-set function is used to serve an AVIF background image to browsers that support it

Using the AVIF format for CSS background images

Today I learned that browser support for the AVIF image format has become excellent, with every major browser except Edge supporting it. As I'm implementing a design with a big background image, this is great. At half the size of the JPEG, it offers way better quality. (WebP wasn't noticeably

Workaround for Email Validation Issue in Statamic

Through a failed Horizon job I found out about the following: A user had entered an email address with an accidental space before the @ symbol. This caused the email to not be able to be sent and the Horizon job to fail. Apparently, according to some email spec, spaces are

A First Quick Look at Cosmos.so – and Why I'll Stick with MyMind

A First Quick Look at Cosmos.so – and Why I'll Stick with MyMind

A quick look at a Cosmos, an new Pinterest-like capture system targeting creative professionals.

Install a Starter Kit from local repo to get the latest Peak working in Statamic 4 beta

I needed to do this to install the latest Statamic Peak into the Statamic v4 beta. * Clone the Starter Kit (read: Statamic Peak) Repo locally * I also had to update Peak's dependencies in starter-kit.yaml to beta dependencies: studio1902/statamic-peak-browser-appearance: '2.0-beta.2' studio1902/statamic-peak-commands: '2.0-beta.4' studio1902/statamic-peak-seo:

Set sensible validations for Statamic image uploads

By default, Statamic asset fields don’t validate size or file type. Recently I’ve had a bit of trouble with large image files clogging up the Git repo and image color being off due to the client uploading hug Tiff files. To prevent this from now on I decided

Render first heading inside Statamic Page Builder as `h1`

Say you have a headline field on various Page Builder elements, and one as a set of in a Bard field. Both should visually look the same. Semantically, the first occurrence of any of these headlines on a given page should render as h1, every following as h2, without an

Remove Large Files from Git History

I recently had the case of a client uploading huge tiff files (some larger than 100 MB) into Statamic image fields. Obviously, I should make this impossible in the first place. Yet, here I was with these big files having been uploaded and auto-comitted by Statamic’s Git integration. While

My PKM App Stack for 2023

PKM, TfT, WTF Featured

My PKM App Stack for 2023

I am guilty of frequent app hopping. This year, though, that is going to change. I’m fully determined to pause the constant chase for an ever better tool. While I enjoy to check out new apps, move data back and forth — and back again — I’ve come to the

Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin

Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin

A video presentation about the fantastic Peak Starter Kit for Statamic CMS.

Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022

Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022

Resources around my talk about Statamic CMS at Frontend Meetup Freiburg.

Install & Configure Laravel Horizon with Statamic and Run it on Forge

Install & Configure Laravel Horizon with Statamic and Run it on Forge

Follow these steps to use Laravel Horizon for Job Queuing in Statamic CMS when hosted with Laravel Forge. This guide assumes that Redis is already installed via Forge. * Add Horizon to the project composer require laravel/horizon and publish its assets php artisan horizon:install * Allow one or more Statamic/

Bluetti PowerOak EB70 Power station and EB120 Solar panel

Towards a More Sustainable and Mobile Office

Earth is melting, energy prices are surging. Camping vacation is around the corner. I'm working 100% remote. Almost every day is sunny. Getting a solar panel and a power station seems like a good idea these days. I have absolutely no idea about either photovoltaics, batteries or electricity in general,

Rodeo with the Elephant – Why I'm back on Evernote

Rodeo with the Elephant – Why I'm back on Evernote

I've been an early user of Evernote, my first account dates back to 2009. I've stopped counting the times that I've left Evernote "for good" since then. Just as many times, I've decided to come back. It's a seemingly endless cycle of being annoyed by lack of innovation (Backlinks? Transclusion?

Our two kids looking out of the train while passing a Black Forest gorge

Ravennaschlucht from the train

Grateful to live in a place where it only takes you 30 minutes by local train to get up to a mountain lake and escape the heat.

Why I don't stay with Arc by The Browser Company... yet

Why I don't stay with Arc by The Browser Company... yet

Arc browser is an exciting new app made by The Browser Company. It's made with an enormous amount of love for detail, and they're inventing great new ideas. I won't cover these here, but instead focus on what is holding me back from really using Arc. I'm aware this is

Kunst am Hirzberg

Kunst am Hirzberg

Dear Diary, I had fun in kindergarten this afternoon.

Photo of Dreisam river in Freiburg, Germany

We live by the river

Spending Sunday afternoon at the Dreisam.

Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.

Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.

Fontshare is a fantastic collection of high-quality great free-to-use fonts.

Pont de l’Abîme

Pont de l’Abîme

The Pont de l’Abîme is a nice old bridge over the Chéran river in the Haute-Savoie region in France. Lovely spot to spend a night on the way south.

What Statamic’s SAVE_CACHED_IMAGES really does

I think I got SAVE_CACHED_IMAGES in Statamic wrong the whole time. I thought it's about whether Glide-generated images are kept when clearing caches. If got it right, this is what it really does: when set to true * All image presets defined in assets.php will be generated on

Setup Statamic Static Caching for super fast websites

Setup Statamic Static Caching for super fast websites

Setting up Static Caching in Statamic isn't too hard and brings a huge performance boost. Here are the steps I had to take to enable it both locally with Laravel Valet and on a production server managed through Laravel Forge. Enable and configure Nginx * Enable Static caching by setting STATAMIC_

Make Alpine 3 support legacy browsers

Make Alpine 3 support legacy browsers

Today I learned that AlpineJS 3.x uses queueMicrotask – and that that’s an API not supported in Firefox < 69 and Safari < 12.1 (see caniuse for full support information). Luckily, this can easily be polyfilled: if (typeof window.queueMicrotask !== "function") { window.queueMicrotask = function (callback) { Promise.resolve() .then(callback) .catch(