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Danish Fly Festival 2019

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

Lazy loading

Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded

No tsundoku here!

I slowly stopped buying fishing books because I realized that I was in danger of turning into a victim of tsundoku.

Tsundoku is a Japanese word that means piling up books and never reading them. Ki...

When real life takes over

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

Three strikes...

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.

Why I hate complexity

It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.

Do you like this site?

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...

Not a single cast

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.

Green storage

My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.

Caught between a book and a hard place

I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot

Drupal, YouTube and Vimeo integration

The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site

The new GFF HQ

We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.

That book thing, again...

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

The decline of GFF

No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.