https://beuseful.net Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI. en https://beuseful.net/posts/static-site-search-pagefind https://beuseful.net/posts/static-site-search-pagefind Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT Search that works like the index at the back of a reference book: compile in advance, and consult it yourself rather than pester a librarian. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/big-box-pc-games https://beuseful.net/posts/big-box-pc-games Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT A photo essay of 10 big box PC games from the 1980s and early 90s, from Zak McKracken to SimCity and Sid Meier's Pirates! You're welcome. contact@beuseful.net (Trippy Robot) https://beuseful.net/posts/hard-days-light-dark-mode https://beuseful.net/posts/hard-days-light-dark-mode Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT What it takes to give a site a dark mode, how your device decides which mode you can see, and why it's more complicated than inverting a colour palette. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/automated-backup-contentful-github-actions https://beuseful.net/posts/automated-backup-contentful-github-actions Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT Traipsing through the process of setting up automated backups in Contentful, then verifying it works by restoring content to a fresh space. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/keyboard-plays-wagner-pcb https://beuseful.net/posts/keyboard-plays-wagner-pcb Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT A mechanical keyboard that bleeps a chiptune "Ride of the Valkyries" whenever you power it on. Let's go! contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/turned-away-at-the-door https://beuseful.net/posts/turned-away-at-the-door Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:00:00 GMT It shouldn't have come as a surprise. There's corners of the internet where AI-assisted work isn't welcome; it's important to respect their wishes. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/design-tokens-accessibility https://beuseful.net/posts/design-tokens-accessibility Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:00:00 GMT I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let's talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/fork-blog-template https://beuseful.net/posts/fork-blog-template Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:00:00 GMT The code behind this site is now a template you can clone and deploy for yourself. A sneaky peek at the journey from a public repo to a forkable template. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/llms-txt-nobody-reading https://beuseful.net/posts/llms-txt-nobody-reading Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT This site had an llms.txt that went stale in just over a week. Easy enough to fix, but what's the point of maintaining them if they're not being read? contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/structuring-content-breadcrumbs https://beuseful.net/posts/structuring-content-breadcrumbs Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT A deep dive into pagination, breadcrumbs, category and author pages, and sitemap maintenance. All this, and content modelling too! contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/pico-8-raspberry-pi https://beuseful.net/posts/pico-8-raspberry-pi Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A single-purpose fantasy console, built from a headless Pi and about 30 minutes of patience. Power on, get PICO-8. No RetroPie, no desktop, no menu. contact@beuseful.net (Trippy Robot) https://beuseful.net/posts/desire-path-scope-creep https://beuseful.net/posts/desire-path-scope-creep Sat, 30 May 2026 01:45:00 GMT A quick roundup of four reading-experience improvements, shipped while clearing the decks for more ambitious changes. The scope got creeped, but what are ya gonna do? contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/prompt-brief-midjourney https://beuseful.net/posts/prompt-brief-midjourney Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing a prompt that yields a specific image is closer to art direction than to drawing. But there are legal and ethical considerations, too. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/publish-blog-post-without-opening-cms https://beuseful.net/posts/publish-blog-post-without-opening-cms Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT Behold! The future! Model Context Protocol is a newish AI standard that can make a content platform addressable through a chat interface. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/bloggers-blueprint https://beuseful.net/posts/bloggers-blueprint Mon, 18 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT If you're reading this post and the list is unchanged from the day it was published, feel free to assume I've been distracted by something shiny. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/rebuilding-blog-claude-copilot https://beuseful.net/posts/rebuilding-blog-claude-copilot Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Templates are starting points. If you're going to run a blog on someone else's code, you have to plan for the day you'll need to take it over. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf) https://beuseful.net/posts/third-man-roman-holiday https://beuseful.net/posts/third-man-roman-holiday Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT Marvel as two directors take the same raw material, a city and its people pulling themselves back together, and hand the audience two completely different truths. contact@beuseful.net (Genial Yeti) https://beuseful.net/posts/retropie-raspberry-pi-5 https://beuseful.net/posts/retropie-raspberry-pi-5 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:30:00 GMT RetroPie used to ship a ready-to-flash image, but the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't have one at the moment. Let's take the manual route. contact@beuseful.net (Trippy Robot) https://beuseful.net/posts/wages-fear-diabolique-double-bill https://beuseful.net/posts/wages-fear-diabolique-double-bill Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:00:00 GMT Two thrillers directed by Clouzot, two opposite theories of dread: in one the threat is a bad road, in the other it's the person across the breakfast table. contact@beuseful.net (Genial Yeti) https://beuseful.net/posts/building-blocks https://beuseful.net/posts/building-blocks Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:30:00 GMT Documenting the technologies and tools behind this blog. What began life as a fork-it-and-go template has grown into something more substantial. contact@beuseful.net (Bulent Yusuf)