tl;dr: Rik discovers the joy of presenting his poems to the world in textual, audio and video formats

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tl;dr: Rik works out how to add Facebook share, and Twitter tweet, buttons to the RikVerse site - while not breaking any nasty Cookie laws

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tl;dr: Rik builds an online (£FREE) book store for all his publications

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tl;dr: Rik learns how to handle cookie consents in a legal and (hopefully) more fun way

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tl;dr: Rik adds a blog post reader to the new RikVerse website

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tl;dr: In which Rik investigates how to stop visitors to The RikVerse website receiving the dread “404 Not Found” error

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tl;dr: Rik begins building his new poetry website using all the goodness of Svelte, Page.js and Tailwind - with added font fun

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tl;dr: Rik takes on a long-overdue project - to rebuild his poetry website from the ground-up using modern, shiny tools and stuff

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tl;dr: Rik shows his love for the HTML5 canvas element by getting down and dirty with Hexo markdown and stuff

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tl;dr: Rik tries to work out a way to get a React context component involved with checking whether a user is logged in or out of an app, and has some modest success

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tl;dr: Following on from a rush of success at conquering React contexts, Rik experiments further to see if he can add a ‘reasonably sane’ localization strategy to his app

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tl;dr: Rik does some learning about React contexts, then builds himself a (very) simple proof-of-concept thingy which may turn out to be the ‘right way’ to do this sort of stuff

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tl;dr: some important thoughts (okay, Rik’s personal opinions) on the essential tasks that must be completed while setting up a new Amazon Web Services account.

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tl;dr: In which Rik experiments with Hexo - learning how to start a new blog project with it, tweak the default theme, add Disqus to the mix for the comment-shiny, build the site locally, and deploy that build to an Amazon Web Services S3 Bucket.

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