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The tying thread table and the accompanying article is among the most popular pages on this site. It’s about time for an update.

The publishing pace is not frightening on the Global FlyFisher, but I’m working on cranking up the frequency ... bit by bit

Another great Danish Fly Festival is over, and it was as always great being part of this excellent show.

I’m a good bit into upgrading the Global FlyFisher to the latest version of the publishing system. Meanwhile the old site is gasping

It's time for another of these major updates of the tech behind the Global FlyFisher

I asked an Artificial Intelligence-system to talk about a GFF article about the Muddler Minnow, and the result is truly mind-blowing!

For basically all the almost 30 years of its existence, I have been following the traffic patterns on GFF. I stopped about a year ago, and here is why.

For a painfully long time in August 2023 the Global FlyFisher was dead and gone. Our DNS-provider stumbled and took all their clients with them in the fall.

The site is back and in operation, but the downtime has led to some unfortunate errors, which I’m trying to fix as you read this

A couple of HL Leonard leaders were added to LeaderCalc thanks to Swedish Johan Algén

GFF is running on Drupal 7, and Drupal 7 is terminal. It’s destined to die. And upgrading is not an easy task, not least because version 10 is already there.

During Corona it has become quite common to have social gatherings online - Skype, Zoom, Teams ... you name it. Communal fly tying can be done in the same way

Maintaining a site with close to 18,000 pictures, 11,000+ video links and close to 3,000 articles means having a lot of stuff to keep up-to-date

Some years back I had to fish with the oldest and worst fly rod I ever owned... and you know what? It wasn't bad at all.

Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it

There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.

A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you're only in it for the catching, there's something you have misunderstood.

Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through

Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.

The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.

Russian Ramil Yamaliev has upgraded his fly photo ringlight, and improved its performance significantly

A rather far fetched transcript of an internet meme* actually quite well covers my book situation right now.

GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books