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Jan 20. 2019
A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies
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Jan 9. 2019
My books used to be ordered by black magic, essentially a system where I stuffed in new titles where there was space. Things have changed.
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Dec 8. 2018
The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019
Nerd alert
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Nov 24. 2018
Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
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Sep 15. 2018
Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!
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Sep 13. 2018
The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work
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Jun 11. 2018
No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.
Nerd alert
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Jun 10. 2018
It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.
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May 6. 2018
If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
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Apr 28. 2018
I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.
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Apr 16. 2018
My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.
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Apr 4. 2018
I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot
Nerd alert
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Feb 21. 2018
The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
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Feb 18. 2018
We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.
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Jan 21. 2018
Some books I just order, no hesitation. But when prices go above 200 US$ and postage follows close behind, my finger hesitates a bit over the buy button
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Jan 4. 2018
No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.
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Dec 10. 2017
Due to some odd circumstances, I ordered myself two copies of the same book.
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Nov 10. 2017
Three new books on saltwater flies seem to be a perfect item for the Christmas wish list for any saltwater fly angler
Nerd alert
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Jun 25. 2017
I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.
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Jun 3. 2017
Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.
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Jun 1. 2017
Meeting up with a bunch of people and tying flies together doesn't just provide good company, but also education - and an easy shortcut to new fly names
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May 24. 2017
It has been brought to my attention that my post about not postponing your fishing trips has caused a bit of friction in some relationships. I need to set a few things straight.
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May 10. 2017
I have recently had a pretty decent injection of fly tying material to my stock. I call it the mothers’ yarns because it came from my own mother and my mother-in-law.
Nerd alert
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Apr 30. 2017
Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly

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