Blog posts written by Toby about things he creates or finds interesting.https://tobysmith.uk/blog/en-gb2026 Toby Smith. All rights reserved.Sat Sep 12 2026 19:10:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)contact@tobythe.dev (Toby Smith)7200https://tobysmith.uk/blog/hub-to-lab-backup/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/hub-to-lab-backup/How & why I've started mirroring all of my GitHub repositories to GitLab.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/exporting-grammarly-as-markdown/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/exporting-grammarly-as-markdown/gramdown is a CLI tool that converts Grammarly exports to Markdown, solving the problem of exporting your Grammarly documents in a format that you can actually use.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/serving-compressed-static-assets/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/serving-compressed-static-assets/How I serve my static frontend build asserts in a compressed format, without having to compress them at request time.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/my-deployments-in-2024/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/my-deployments-in-2024/Now that 2024 is firmly underway, I thought I'd reflect on where and how I host (and deliver) my more modern projects and what I foresee going forward.Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/reverse-flex-directions/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/reverse-flex-directions/Until now, I'd never found a good use for the flex-direction: column-reverse CSS values. I always felt it was odd that you would want to declare your markup in a specific order, only to have your users see it completely the opposite way around. Yet there's at least one use for it that can actually help to make your content more accessible.Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/fs-promises/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/fs-promises/OK, I know I'm very late to the party on this, but I've only recently discovered fs.promises - and they're great!Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/repository-standards/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/repository-standards/Saved in a repo in my GitHub account, I now have a markdown file containing all my preferences for producing a project of any type. Here's why, and why you should to!Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/npm-publish-latest-tag/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/npm-publish-latest-tag/In my last post, I detailed my typical CD pipeline for deploying npm packages. At the end of the article, I outlined a caveat to bear in mind when using it - now I think I've fixed it.Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/npm-package-from-github-release/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/npm-package-from-github-release/A guide for automatically publishing npm packages from the creation of GitHub Releases by leveraging GitHub Actions.Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/prettier-config/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/prettier-config/Use this technique to ensure that all your projects share the exact same Prettier configuration - with a few extra tips and tricks.Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/top-level-assets/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/top-level-assets/An easy way to manage top-level assets in your Angular project like favicons and robot.txt files.Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/custom-on-hover/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/custom-on-hover/Through no fault of Angular, you can't set the CSS of pseudo-elements or pseudo-classes in-line in HTML. So how can you set styles like on-hover colours dynamically?Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://tobysmith.uk/blog/graduated/https://tobysmith.uk/blog/graduated/After four years at The University of Plymouth, I have graduated with First-Class Honours!Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT