Self Hosting Decap CMS

Recently I found myself wanting to rewrite The Irish Fighting Game Community’s homepage. Originally I had put it together primarily as a place to display our large number of discord servers but I found myself wishing for a solution with a blog posting element. So I set out to create a Hugo site with the functionality of the original react project but the functionality of a wordpress page (without all the bloat). Hugo obviously came straight to mind, with it’s lovely themes and easy posting abilities. But how was I supposed to let other people contributing without having to teach normies how to use git? ...

July 22, 2025 · 7 min

PostCSS Plugins in Vite & Ionic

Let’s install PostCSS Nesting (or any PostCSS Plugin) in our Vite based Ionic project! PostCSS Nesting over Native Nesting Native CSS Nesting is nearly here, but it’s going to be a little while yet before every user is able to render it, especially if you’re building an ionic app that targets “older” devices. So it’s probably wiser to continue using third party solutions for the forseeable future. I’ve always been a SASS user up until now, but the advantage of using PostCSS Nesting is that it uses the W3C CSS Nesting spec, so that when the time comes to target only devices that can handle CSS Nesting the switch should be as simple as uninstalling the plugins and deleting the config file. ...

August 3, 2023 · 2 min

CORS for Ionic 5 Apps

This guide is only for the GET method, but should get you on the right road for any method Why you need CORS for Ionic Capacitor apps When it came time to do my frame data JSON file fetching in Ionic 5 I was met with a sad realisation. I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the fact that Cordova apps use a loophole in CORS to allow fetching from any source at all. ...

March 4, 2021 · 3 min