Social media posts about web design, development and personal stuff 2025-11-30T12:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk Juan Fernandes info@juanfernandes.uk 2025-11-30T12:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/bye-bye-apple/ After almost three years of being on the Apple eco system (MacBook, iPhone, iWatch and AirPods - I've had enough. The latest changes to iOS have broken so many things for me that just makes the iPhone useless. It's riddled with bugs and terrible UX. Not to mention so many broken UI elements too. Back to Android for me, this time I'm going to try a Samsung phone. #apple #AppleFail #ux 2025-11-26T11:48:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/companies-house-search-ux/ I hate to say it but the Companies House website search is atrocious. I would rather it returned no results rather than “useless and nothing to do with my query” results. #terribleUX #ux 2024-02-10T13:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/should-i-continue-with-my-monthly-notes/ I’m wondering if I should keep up with my monthly notes posts as over the last year they have contained mostly personal stuff, which I don’t mind sharing but I don’t know if those who read them also want more web design stuff. 2024-02-10T13:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/Should-I-continue-with-my-monthly-notes/ I’m wondering if I should keep up with my monthly notes posts as over the last year they have contained mostly personal stuff, which I don’t mind sharing but I don’t know if those who read them also want more web design stuff. 2023-11-03T18:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/meta-tags/ Do I still need to use these? I'm rebuilding my website and tidying up/removing code. <meta http-equiv="cleartype" content="on"><meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="True"><meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320"> 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/auto-posting-to-fediverse-broke/ Auto posting to fediverse broke with the change of instance, and I'm trying to get it working again 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/updating-ifttt-webhooks/ Following the tutorial (https://hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/) by Kelson once again to help me created the webhook needed on IFTTT.com to auto post streams from my website to the new mastodon instance I just moved to - hachyderm.io 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/tried-a-few-headless-cmss/ Spent sometime reviewing a few headless CMSs to make it easier to post short posts to social media and ended up going back to Forestry CMS - which has an uncertain future as the owners are working on a replacement version; Tina CMS. But it was so easy to set up, it was a no-brainer. 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/mastodon-instance/ I need to either move to another Mastodon instance or host my own. Busy me thinks I should just find one, but the tinkerer in me wants to self-host. 2022-11-17T18:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/stream-ifttt-reliance/ All my auto posts to social media rely on IFTTT, and I need to find a way of doing this without relying on another service. I've seen others use Netlify functions to achieve this; but I would struggle to get that working, and also I would need to work out how to get it to work if I ever moved my site to another host 🤔 #IndieWeb 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/stream-social-media-posts/ If this works, then this post from my website should auto post to Mastodon and Twitter. This is how I plan on owning my social media content. But any shitposts I will post directly on the socials. #IndieWeb 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/adding-a-cms/ Been looking to add a CMS to my website so that its easier to post to social media whilst on my phone. I looked at Netlify CMS but that was a no go because of CSP rules and needing to include JS files on my site. Trying out TinaCMS. #indieWeb 2022-08-06T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/indieweb-tweets/ A while back I started posting on social media by writing notes on my website and then syndicating them to social media networks. But I had no way of writing them on my phone before, but now I have an iPhone there’s an app that allows me to create new files on my gitlab repo. Yay. 2021-08-02T23:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/changelog-add-other-links-to-the-footer/ Saw a tweet about how websites with RSS should have a link to it in the header to save digging into code to find it and I also hate that, but I also didn't have any links to my RSS feed. Well I had a task to add these other links to my site and was going to wait until the redesign, but decided to redesign the footer slightly to include them. 2021-05-03T23:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/degoogling-is-the-same-as-jailbreaking-apparently/ Having recently got a DeGoogled mobile phone from /e/ OS and installing all the apps I used on my old phone, I discovered that the Freetrade app will not work because it considers my phone to be 'jailbroken' or running a customised version of the OS. "DeGoogling would indeed involve jailbreaking methods, so I'm afraid it is incompatible with the Freetrade app" - Freetrade Support Just a small prices to pay for wanting more control over your data and its usage. #PrivacyControl 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/bye-bye-gmail/ That's it - I have finally deleted my Gmail account. I've been using a self-hosted email address for a year now and slowly switching email addresses on websites I still use. Whenever I got an email sent to my Gmail account in the last year - I would decide if I'm still using that website/service and decide if I want to keep my account. If I still use it, then I'd change the email address to my new one, otherwise, I just deleted the account. So not only have I moved away from Gmail - I have also had a bit of a digital accounts cleanup. This week I requested and downloaded all my 14,570 emails and today I deleted my account. I have had that Gmail account since the Gmail beta days when it was invite-only. #PrivacyControl 2020-04-19T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/new-pallet-project/ Started on a non tech project today. My office is a mini loft above our garage, and it has these gaps for storage but we don't need it. Currently it has these rubbish wooden sliding covers. So I'm taking pallets apart and using the planks to cover it up. 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/performance-what-performance/ Just found an image on my clients' website (added by a third party) that weighs in at... wait for it... a whopping 39.4mb 😬 #performance #whatPerformance 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/switching-to-firefox-focus/ I've now switched my default browser to Firefox Focus - a privacy focused browser. No cookies, ads, tracking or history. I still use Firefox for browsing websites I trust. #privacycontrol 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/off-facebook/ My Facebook account has been deactivated for over a year and now I've now asked for it to be deleted. It doesn't happen straight away. Just need to get my parents to stop using Messenger. #privacycontrol 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/google-pay/ Turns out that removing your Google account from your phone will cause Google Pay to stop working which then reminded me that I need to find an alternative - any suggestions? I'm getting more & more tempted to get an iPhone - is Apple better than Google when it comes to privacy? #privacycontrol 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/estimote-lte-beacons-developer-kit/ My estimote LTE beacons developer kit has finally arrived (made to order) - so looks like I'll be tinkering with this at this weekend 🤓 2020-02-12T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/created-my-first-npm-package/ I've created my first NPM package and it was surprisingly easy to do. 🤓 Now I need to update the install instructions on the repo - I should probably test it first though! https://www.npmjs.com/package/eleventy-plugin-cloudinary 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/native-disclosure-element-work-in-instapaper-app/ Reading an article by Scott O'Hara, I was surprised to see the summary and details working perfectly in the Instapaper app on Android. Yay for native disclosure widgets. https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/09/03/details-and-summary.html 2020-02-05T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/firefox-focus/ For a privacy focused browser, like Firefox Focus - I was surprised to see Google as the default search engine. #privacycontrol 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/google-hangouts/ Almost ready to uninstall Google Hangouts from my phone. One out of two friends has switched to Telegram. #privacycontrol 2020-01-30T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/replacing-my-phone-s-os/ It's been a week since #naconf and Laura Kalbag's talk on privacy - I've been reviewing my own privacy since then. This is not my first foray into this, but now its time to take up a notch or two - I'll be replacing my phones OS with a privacy focused one - Lineage OS. #privacycontrol 2020-01-06T12:24:44Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/new-adventures-2020/ Really looking forward to New Adventures 2020 conference in a few weeks. Great way to start the year. Let me know if you're going. https://newadventuresconf.com/2020/ 2019-08-23T13:24:47Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/stream/version-2-of-my-website-went-live-last-week/ Last week I pushed version 2 of my website live. Not much has changed visually as the main change was replacing PHP and PerchCMS with Nunjucks, Eleventy (static site generator) and NetlifyCMS, as well it now being hosted by Netlify. Next phase will be design fixes.