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Being on Instagram Jan 7. 2021 Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!	A heartfelt thank you! Dec 19. 2020 Money It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming! Thanks
Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and clicks on links in it	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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Article 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	Blog entry 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	Blog entry 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 Blog entry 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.	Article 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 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
Blog entry 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.
Blog entry 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...	Blog entry 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.	Nerd alert Blog entry Drupal, YouTube and Vimeo integration Feb 21. 2018 The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
Blog entry The new GFF HQ Feb 18. 2018 We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.	Blog entry The decline of GFF 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.	Nerd alert Blog entry 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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