La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham LAX Review
My family and I recently travelled to Los Angeles to take a Mexican Riviera cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line. We had a great time and I will write more about our trip but I thought I would start with our pre-cruise hotel, the [La Quinta Inn && Suites by Wyndham
Using GitHub to Edit Your Blog
Moving to Astro and hosting my website using GitHub and Cloudflare pages meant that I no longer have easy access to a graphical interface, like WordPress, to add and edit new posts on the website. It means I have to do most of my writing on my main computer where
Astro Partial Dynamic Routing Matching
I am working on a website redo for a website I run making plans to move it from ClassicPress/WordPress to Astro but that website has a significantly more posts and will be using server side rendering. I was having some issues with routing, mainly the issue is the posts structure
Website Rebuild - Astro SSG vs. SSR
One of the things I really like about Astro is the options you get. Astro is a fantastic static site generator (SSG), which is what I use here, but it also provides you with the ability to run using server side rendering which is more like a traditional server model
Website Rebuild - Comments are Dead
At one time the whole point of creating a blog was to engage with your readers in discussion in the comments section. Times have changed. Now comment sections have turned into giant dung heaps of vitriol. One only needs to look at the discussion that takes place on the majority
Website Rebuild - Learning Markdown
One of the things that has been a learning curve for me with this website rebuild is the switch to using Markdown. I have been using HTML since 1995 and to be honest it has been a bit of a challange to not write posts using HTML. In WordPress/ClassicPress I
Is Web Hosting Dead?
Over the years I have hosted websites on many different web hosting providers. From simple shared hosting plans to having my own dedicated web server but in this move to Astro this website is now not really hosted anywhere, instead it is hosted everywhere. In this case everywhere Cloudflare has
Website Rebuild - Getting Content Out of WordPress/ClassicPress
One of the first steps I had to sort out in deciding to move from WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro is how do I get the content out of WordPress/ClassicPress to a format that Astro would be able to deal with. Fortunately Astro accepts content in markdown so a quick search for
Website Rebuild - WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro
This has been in the works for awhile, but it was finally time to move from ClassicPress to Astro. The site is not complete yet, but I have ported the posts and several pages over and I feel confident that most of the content is here. I am still in
Cloudflare Email Routing Fixed
TL;DR: Cloudflare needs to disable IPv6 that they use to communicate with the Gmail servers to stop Gmail from bouncing all routed email. Don't let Cloudflare support tell you that email routing to Gmail addresses is your fault. Support tried to brush me off and tell me that the problem was