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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Contacting companies

Jun 1. 2016
It's amazing how some companies manage to totally ignore all attempts to contact them. Why do they have email, contact forms and Facebook pages, if they don't reply when people use them?
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Newsletter revival

Feb 9. 2016
I'm working on a revival of the Global FlyFisher Newsletter, which was sent out for a short period many years ago.
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Image theft

Jun 10. 2015
We pride ourselves on many and good images. A lot of other people also like our images... some a little too much, actually!
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The Blue Marble

Dec 10. 2013
We have used an image of earth shot from space in our logo for 20 years. The picture has a fascinating 40 year story
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What's The Global FlyFisher worth?

Feb 3. 2012
An approach from a business that wanted to buy The Global FlyFisher made me wonder: what's a site like this worth? And don't worry... we didn't sell!
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A terrible day on GFF!

Jun 15. 2011
Regular visitors on GFF will have noticed an absence of the site the latest 24 hours or so... here's why.

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Since you got this far …


The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.

See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.