Technical Articles

This collection of Articles that are technical in nature. They are likely to have themes Developers, Engineers, System Architects, etc. may find more interesting. If you have no interest in how a system works, then these Articles are probably not for you. However, if you like the Technical side, these articles should be great for you.

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Friday, 18 April 2025 | Dave Slack

Argument/discussion with an LLM/AI Chatbot

I had an interesting argument/discussion with an LLM/AI Chatbot called Google Gemini yesterday because it was wrong. It doubled down, then relented. Did it agree with me or concede because that’s what it’s taught to do?

Showing information on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – LLMs, NLMs, AI Chatbots do get it wrong

Friday, 4 April 2025 | Dave Slack

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – LLMs, NLMs, AI Chatbots do get it wrong

After using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a few months, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Models (NLMs) like OpenAPI ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, I’ve come to some interesting conclusions.

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Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Dave Slack

CI/CD or Continuous Integration / Continuous Development Workflow of a Web App

CI/CD or Continuous Integration & Continuous Development - How do we allow the people working towards a better a system, to do just that, without unnecessary blocks? I'll try to answer this question in this CI/CD article.

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Monday, 9 December 2024 | Dave Slack

References Section in JavaScript with Next.js

For this article you'll probably need some HTML, JavaScript and/or CSS knowledge, but if you don't have any you should still be able to follow along.

Showing information on Using Git Version Control in a Team & Branching Strategies

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | Dave Slack

Using Git Version Control in a Team & Branching Strategies

Git is a Decentralised Version Control System (VCS) that teams can and should use to manage the versions of a system, but there is so much more to it than just the version control. Let's look at how we might use Git as part of a team.

Thursday, 14 November 2024 | Dave Slack

WordPress - Remove category from Title & URL

WordPress has a few quirks that don't make any sense. An interesting one is it's use of Category as a prefix to a URL and title. This might make sense for a large ecommerce website but not for most websites. For this tip we'll remove them.

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Friday, 4 October 2024 | Dave Slack

Frontend UI libraries - Finding A Bootstrap Replacement

Over the years I’ve used many frontend UI libraries, toolkits, etc. Some great, some not so great. For a while now I’ve used Bootstrap and it’s perfect for most cases. I build a layout, create a design and Bootstrap allows me to do exactly what I need, then gets out of the way when I don’t need it

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Thursday, 26 September 2024 | Dave Slack

Going Headless: A Next.js API Consumer – Part 3

In this article we’ll look at the Frontend of the Headless system. We’ll go through how to get content from the CMS into Next.js and show it to a visitor to the page. This is the 3rd part of a 3-part Tutorial on going headless.

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Thursday, 19 September 2024 | Dave Slack

Going Headless: A CMS & Hosting Tutorial – Part 2

In this Article I’d like to show you 1 way to create a headless CMS. There are a multitude of different ways to create a headless system, this is the one I’ve chosen for performance and functionality. If you’re interested in the ‘what’ and ‘why’, have a read of the first part.

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