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Celebrating 10,000 videos

Nov 13. 2019
Celebration So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough the 10K mark was a Davie McPhail video showing how to tie a muddler.
Read a bit more here
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10K videos!

Oct 8. 2019
Anniversary The number of videos on the Global FlyFisher video page is steadily closing in on 10,000!
A few facts here
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GFF on Instagram

Feb 7. 2019
Social The Global FlyFisher has long been on various social media, and is now on Instagram too
Find us here
Nerd alert
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Preserving old URLs

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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GFF on Pinterest

Feb 7. 2017
Social The Global FlyFisher has been on Pinterest for a while, and get quite a bit of attention there.
Find us here
Nerd alert
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A little about caching

Nov 15. 2016
A site as GFF needs some level of caching in order to be able to deliver pages fast without bogging down the server or database
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Does anyone proofread this crap?

Oct 4. 2019
Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through
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I'm on the air!

Sep 26. 2019
Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.
Nerd alert
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The magazine image system

Sep 10. 2019
The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.
Nerd alert
Blog entry

Lazy loading

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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When real life takes over

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
Blog entry

Three strikes...

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
Blog entry

Why I hate complexity

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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Do you like this site?

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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Green storage

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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