I was having a hard time, figuring out, how to use cURL to retrieve Airtable records with their new token-based API. Granted, I am a slow—albeit eager—learner. But their API documentation wasn’t that much help with references like curl -X POST https://api.airtable.com/v0/{YOURBASEID}/{YOURTABLEIDORTABLE_NAME}. What’s that supposed to mean? Where does that go?

For future me, here is what I found.

view post “Using cURL to get records from Airtable”

view post “Humans, ey?”

I have recently migrated a bunch of websites, that were on Perch version 3.2 (a.k.a. the last “regular” release), to Perch Runway 4.x. It is not always an easy route, is what I have learnt.

view post “Perch “standard” to Perch Runway migration—the missing steps”

I enjoy using list() to disassemble arrays into named variables. Unfortunately it doesn’t like input arrays being too short. Here’s a small hack to account for that.

view post “Using PHP’s list() with varying length arrays”

There are a few posts about how to implement a custom alias for your actual Mastodon handle using different setups already. Here’s how to do that with a route in your Kirby config. No plugins required.

view post “Alias for your Mastodon handle—in the Kirby config.php”