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In this post I'll be showing you how to set up Borg Backup to backup the important files on your VPS or local work station to a remote repository. For this tutorial I'm going to be using borgbase.com as the remote repository provider but there are ot...

In this post we'll be looking at adding a comment system for our blog posts in Cockpit. The system will allow comments on our blog posts, nested replies, comment moderation, basic spam protection and even markdown support! If you haven't read Parts ...

In this post of our Nuxt Cockpit Static Blog series we'll be looking at how to add a basic contact form to our static site so we can receive enquiries from users. The form will have both client and server side validation. We'll also take a look at so...

In this post of our Nuxt Cockpit series we'll be looking at how to add basic live search functionality for our blog posts so that readers can quickly find what they're looking for. To achieve this we'll be using an awesome service called Algolia. If ...

This is just an additional post for our Nuxt Cockpit series looking at handling pagination for our blog posts when we statically generate our site. If you haven't read Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this guide you can find them here: Part 1: Setup Part 2: Dyna...

In this post we'll carry on from the previous one regarding sharing cookies with a subdomain and use what we learned to build a simple referral system to track who has referred users when they register on the site. This post is a continuation of Shar...

Sometimes it can be useful for a subdomain such as app.example.com to have access to the cookies that are set by example.com. A situation where this could be used would be for a very simple referral tracking system, where example.com sets a cookie if...

I had lost count of the number of times I've previously deployed new code to production, cleared browser cache and still been unable to see the changes. The reason being that Cloudflare was caching these files and still serving the old files. Luckily...

When running Nuxt's "npm run generate" command I kept getting a warning stating that the javascript vendor bundle was too big on my static blog and that it was above the recommended 300kB size limit. Let's have a look at trying to reduce the size of ...

This post demonstrates a reasonably simple way to automatically deploy and run code builds for your sites using webhooks and GitHub (you can use GitLab or whatever your preference is). We will create a webhook that is fired when we push updates to ou...