https://tradik.com/blog/ 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z https://shipyard.tradik.com/blog/install-shipyard-on-raspberry-pi/ 2026-10-03T00:00:00Z 2026-10-03T19:42:54Z

Shipyard is one static binary and one SQLite file. A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 runs it comfortably.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/api-reference-next-to-the-guides/ 2026-10-03T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

1.8.69 reads JavaScript, TypeScript declarations, Go, PHP, Python and OpenAPI files into pages of the same site as your guides, with examples that run in the browser and a Try it console for every endpoint.

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/migrating-from-native-xslt/ 2026-10-02T18:00:00Z 2026-10-02T18:00:00Z

On 17 November 2026, Chrome 158 stops running XSLT (the dates and the reasons). Two kinds of pages break: pages whose JavaScript calls new XSLTProcessor(), and XML documents the browser rendered through <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>. This is the hands-on part: how to find both i

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/release-1-3/ 2026-10-02T12:00:00Z 2026-10-02T12:00:00Z

Two releases today. @tradik/xslt3 1.0.0 is a new package: XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 in JavaScript, which also runs XSLT 2.0 stylesheets. And @tradik/xslt-processor 1.3.0, the browser XSLTProcessor replacement, can now hand a 2.0 or 3.0 stylesheet to it when you ask. Nothing changes for anyone who doesn

https://shipyard.tradik.com/blog/problems-shipyard-solves/ 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z 2026-10-03T19:42:54Z

One person can write software for fifty repositories. Keeping fifty repositories maintained, released and explained is a different job. These are the problems…

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/xslt3-in-javascript/ 2026-10-01T11:00:00Z 2026-10-01T11:00:00Z

Every browser that ever ran XSLT ran version 1.0, the 1999 recommendation. Chrome and Safari used libxslt, Firefox its own TransforMiiX. XSLT 2.0 arrived in 2007 and 3.0 in 2017, with grouping, regular expressions, real functions, maps, JSON and a much stronger XPath, and the browsers never followed

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/xslt-removal-impact/ 2026-10-01T10:00:00Z 2026-10-01T10:00:00Z

Chrome's case for removing XSLT rests on two numbers: about 0.02% of page loads use XSLT, and less than 0.001% use the xml-stylesheet processing instruction (the background is here). Put that way it sounds like nothing. It is worth looking at what sits behind it before deciding that it doesn't conce

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/chrome-is-turning-off-xslt/ 2026-10-01T09:00:00Z 2026-10-01T09:00:00Z

On 17 November 2026, Chrome 158 reaches the stable channel, and XSLT stops working in it. A page that calls new XSLTProcessor() gets a ReferenceError. An XML file that starts with <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="…"?> shows up as raw XML instead of the HTML its author

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/two-ways-to-read-an-article-aloud/ 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

1.8.65 adds a Listen button that uses the reader's own voice engine, and build-time MP3 from a TTS API you choose, with a podcast feed and a plan for when the API is down.

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/release-1-2/ 2026-09-30T18:00:00Z 2026-09-30T18:00:00Z

Version 1.2.0 went out on 30 September 2026, and 1.2.1 followed a few hours later. The second one exists because of a bug in our own tests, and we will get to that. First, what 1.2 is about: making the JavaScript XSLTProcessor behave like the one Chrome is about to switch off, on the inputs real sty

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/most-websites-are-documents/ 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

A phone downloads 486 KB of this site's home page, and 24 KB of it is what the generator wrote. The rest is choices. The case for static sites, measured.

https://xslt-processor.tradik.com/blog/xslt-1-0-surprising-rules/ 2026-09-29T12:00:00Z 2026-09-29T12:00:00Z

XSLT 1.0 is a short specification, and people who have written stylesheets for years still get caught by parts of it. We know, because writing a processor that matches Chrome meant finding every one of these the hard way: the 1.1 releases of @tradik/xslt-processor fixed dozens of them. Here are the

https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-ig4-lpss-touchpad/ 2026-09-16T00:00:00Z 2026-09-16T08:28:55Z

A touchpad that died on every resume turned out not to be a suspend bug at all. FreeBSD never started the I2C controller the touchpad is wired to, for three separate reasons.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/the-build-said-nothing/ 2026-09-14T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

1.8.62 fixes fourteen things that never errored: pages dropped without a word, a 404 in the wrong language, a header that refused geolocation.

https://tradeweather.co.uk/laundry-drying-window/ 2026-09-12T00:00:00Z 2026-09-14T00:13:25Z

Drying washing on a line is a weather-sensitive job with no product datasheet. Rain, relative humidity, wind and temperature decide it, which makes it a clean test case for the generic template engine. The laundry profile has no hard limits from a manufacturer, so it never produces STOP on its own.

https://tradeweather.co.uk/what-to-record-when-weather-stops-work/ 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T23:42:01Z

Standing down a gang because the weather turned is a normal part of the job. Whether it becomes an entitlement or a cost lands almost entirely on what got written down that morning, and by whom. The asymmetry If the main contractor's programme slips and you have nothing in writing, the default assum

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/the-client-wants-to-fix-a-typo/ 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

1.8.60 is about the work an agency does between builds: letting a client fix their own headline, and a GTM install that was only ever half there.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/the-paragraph-you-clicked-is-not-in-the-file/ 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Click-to-edit is easy to build and hard to make safe. Here is the rule that decides which paragraph a click means, and why the editor sometimes refuses to guess.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/what-breaks-if-i-change-this/ 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

We built an incremental build for 1.8.60. It made a five-thousand-page site five per cent faster. Here is why we shipped it anyway, and what it is actually for.

https://tradeweather.co.uk/why-one-forecast-is-never-enough/ 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z 2026-09-14T00:12:55Z

A monocouche render needs the wall to stay above 5 °C and dry for the cure period the manufacturer specifies. On an exposed coastal site, one provider showed a dry Tuesday and the other showed 2 mm of drizzle from 14:00. Both were "right" within their own error bars. TradeWeather stores bo

https://tradeweather.co.uk/reading-a-datasheet/ 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T11:45:48Z

Manufacturer instructions are written to be followed, not to be read quickly, and the places people misread them are consistent. Here are the four that come up in nearly every dispute. One: application limits are not cure limits A datasheet usually gives two different windows, and they are easy to b

https://tradeweather.co.uk/dew-point-not-air-temperature/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T23:42:01Z

The most common avoidable coating failure is not applying in the rain. It is applying to a surface that is about to go below dew point. The rain version is obvious and everyone avoids it. This one happens on a clear evening with a pleasant afternoon behind it. What dew point actually tells you Dew p

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/one-sitemap-per-site-does-not-scale-to-forty-clients/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

An agency has a different relationship with sitemap.xml than a site owner. Split sitemaps answer 'is it indexed' per section, without forty dashboards.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/the-build-was-green-and-the-site-was-wrong/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Almost every fix in four releases came from one place: a third-party crawler, weeks after a build that reported success. What those failures had in common.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/duplicate-pages-your-crawler-cannot-see/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

A site audit finds copied pages by comparing words. The pages that actually compete with each other share an intent and almost no vocabulary, and word comparison is blind to them.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/whats-new-in-mddb-2-14/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

MDDB 2.14 speaks the stateless MCP revision without dropping the old one, and fixes three ways retrieval was quietly returning the wrong document first.

https://tradeweather.co.uk/climate-and-your-programme/ 2026-09-06T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T23:45:56Z

Very few of the places this product is used have severe weather by world standards. What they have are climates that punish the programme rather than the day: mild and damp on the Atlantic edge, hard winters and hot summers further east, and a shoulder season either side where nothing stops the job

https://tradeweather.co.uk/why-plumbers-need-weather-windows/ 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T11:45:48Z

Ask a plumber whether the weather affects the job and you will get a short answer. Emergency work does not wait for a forecast, and most of the day is spent indoors. Both true. Then look at what actually goes wrong on plumbing jobs and how much of it is moisture and temperature. Sealant is a wet tra

https://tradeweather.co.uk/insurance-will-not-cover-failed-render/ 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z 2026-09-13T23:42:01Z

Every renderer has heard the story, and most have lived a version of it. A wall goes on late in October, the forecast said dry, the temperature dropped to two degrees overnight, and in March the client rings about crazing and hollow patches on the north elevation. A five-figure bill for scaffold, la

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/why-your-rag-returns-the-wrong-document/ 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

A ten-document corpus, one ordinary question, and a semantic search that ranks the right answer nowhere. What actually fixed it was not a parameter.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/why-a-static-site-cannot-tell-you-the-year/ 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

A generator that reads the clock cannot promise the same bytes twice. Which is why the copyright year in your footer is a harder problem than it looks.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/the-loop-that-was-not-waiting-for-memory/ 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

Two optimisations to MDDB's vector loop predicted 33% and delivered 1.5%. The benchmark had been saying why for months, in a column nobody read as a diagnosis.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/rss-is-the-wrong-number/ 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

A report said MDDB grew from 42 MB to 153 MB under load. The observation was probably right and the conclusion wrong — and the difference is one field you already have.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/whats-new-in-mddb-2-12/ 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

MDDB 2.12 adds code-aware retrieval, collection search profiles, faster bulk indexing, safer defaults and clearer production diagnostics.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/whats-new-in-mddb-2-13/ 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

MDDB 2.13 runs its test suite on Windows, makes vector comparison 3.7–6.3× faster on amd64, and fixes two ways a restore could destroy the database it was restoring.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/which-algorithm-should-i-use/ 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

MDDB now profiles a collection and recommends search settings from its document length, vocabulary, vector coverage and extracted symbols.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/your-vector-search-rewards-duplicates/ 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

A runbook copied for four environments can occupy four result slots. MDDB uses MinHash overlap to reduce that repetition after ranking.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/the-collection-knows-how-to-be-searched/ 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

Retrieval settings and answer formatting used to live in every client. In MDDB 2.12 they live with the data, so a new consumer gets them right without being told.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/what-breaks-if-i-change-this/ 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

MDDB 2.12 indexes what a code file declares, uses and imports, then answers the relational questions grep cannot: what depends on this selector, which pages load this script, what is nobody using any more.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/migrating-from-wordpress-keeping-urls/ 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

A WordPress migration must preserve more than posts: original URLs, category and date archives, menus, comments and language structure all affect old links.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/ai-agent-should-not-read-5000-tokens-for-one-css-value/ 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Giving an agent access to your project is half the problem. If changing one CSS value means rewriting a whole file, its context goes on learning nothing.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/local-preview-should-not-lie/ 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

SSG's local preview applies generated redirects and headers, reloads them after builds, and keeps browser caching from hiding files while they are edited.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/who-is-allowed-to-talk-to-your-mcp-server/ 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

An MCP server that edits templates and opens pull requests is not just another dev endpoint. The moment it listens on HTTP, authentication is not optional.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/multilingual-without-losing-the-page/ 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Translating the words is the easy half. The hard half is that /o-nas/ and /en/about/ are the same page, and nothing in a file tree says so.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/building-a-planet/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Three feeds into one took a config block. The interesting part was the four decisions under it: whose format wins, what to drop, what a dark source means.

https://tradik.com/blog/from-nextjs-to-ssg/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z 2026-08-07T21:35:48Z

tradik.com ran on Next.js with a static export: a React toolchain and a node_modules tree to publish nine pages that never change. It now runs on spagu/ssg — Markdown and YAML in, HTML out.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/making-builds-faster/ 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

The plan was SIMD and PGO. The profiler said two thirds of the build was syscalls from listing one directory per post. Fixing that made it 5.25x faster.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/ai-in-content/ 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Ask an AI a question from inside a Markdown file and bake the answer into the page — once, at build time, cached. No key in the browser, no spinner.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/related-posts/ 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

Five related articles is one template line, one config block, or a small pipeline — depending on whether you want keyword overlap or actual meaning.

https://ssg.tradik.com/blog/mcp-development-server/ 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T19:18:41Z

ssg mcp turns your AI assistant into two coworkers: a designer that edits templates and a content manager for Markdown. Each knows what it may not touch.

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/wordpress-plugin/ 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

There's a decade of knowledge sitting in your WordPress. Product announcements, how-to guides, changelogs, that one post from 2019 that still answers half of your support tickets. And when you plug an AI agent into your company, the first thing it asks is, effectively: where's the knowledge? The MDD

https://mddb.tradik.com/blog/mddb-2-11-4/ 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T22:21:31Z

We spent the last cycle reading a lot of feedback — not just about MDDB, but about what people using vector databases in general keep running into. A few themes came up again and again: "I want to put multiple customers on one instance without building isolation myself", "my RAG answe

https://shipyard.tradik.com/blog/starting-shipyard/ 2026-01-12T00:00:00Z 2026-10-03T19:49:51Z

Shipyard runs a software portfolio from one place. It watches the repositories you select, builds approved issues into pull requests and ships releases on a…

https://tradik.com/blog/good-fast-and-cheap/ 2020-05-18T08:45:39Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Cheap and good is long, cheap and fast is ugly, good and fast is expensive, and the middle of the diagram is marked NO. A budget conversation in one image.

https://tradik.com/blog/ways-to-upload-files-into-a-git-repository/ 2020-04-14T17:05:45Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Web editor, GUI client, command line or an IDE — the same commit made four ways, and which one suits a one-line fix versus a whole theme.

https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-12-1-default-shell-for-jexec/ 2020-04-01T12:33:18Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

chsh, .profile and a path argument all fail to give jexec a different shell. Reading jexec.c shows why, and where the hardcoded /bin/sh comes from.

https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-jails-extending-jls/ 2020-03-31T11:06:43Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

jls reports the parameters a jail was defined with, not what it is doing now. A small script adds process counts, users and live state to the same table.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-portainer-on-a-remote-machine/ 2020-03-25T15:18:13Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Portainer's setup screen is served on port 9000 and expects a browser. An SSH tunnel puts that screen on your own laptop, with no X server on the box.

https://tradik.com/blog/trigger-a-jenkins-job-from-bitbucket-pipelines/ 2020-03-03T13:54:56Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Two Jenkins plugins, a parametrised job and one curl line in bitbucket-pipelines.yml — passing the commit hash across without a webhook in sight.

https://tradik.com/blog/mattermost-5-19-on-freebsd-inside-a-jail/ 2020-02-16T23:49:58Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Self-hosting Mattermost from the FreeBSD port: the jail, the database user, TLS with Let's Encrypt behind Cloudflare, and a working server in five minutes.

https://tradik.com/blog/svn-e175002-received-fatal-alert-protocol-version/ 2020-02-08T15:41:03Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Jenkins could not check out from Subversion behind Cloudflare. The alert is a TLS version mismatch between SVNKit and a repository set to TLS 1.3.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-a-master-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos-8/ 2019-11-18T22:00:12Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

The CentOS 8 walkthrough, where podman replaces docker and firewalld behaves differently — every command from a clean install to a joined worker node.

https://tradik.com/blog/filebeat-custom-nginx-logs-on-freebsd/ 2019-11-09T22:50:23Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Filebeat's Nginx module expects the default log format. Changing the grok patterns, adding a field and loading the ingest pipeline so Kibana parses your own.

https://tradik.com/blog/kubernetes-vs-docker-swarm-simple-comparison/ 2019-11-02T16:04:42Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Installation, scaling limits, load balancing, rollbacks, updates and logging, side by side — where Swarm is simpler and where Kubernetes earns the effort.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-a-master-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos-7/ 2019-10-26T10:03:43Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

From the virtualisation flags a node needs to a working master: firewall rules, swap, kubeadm init, the pod network and joining the first worker.

https://tradik.com/blog/inside-an-apc-apcrbc124-ups-battery-cartridge/ 2019-10-24T10:39:03Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Eleven photographs of an APCRBC124 taken apart: the glued sticker plate, the connector holder and the two 12V sealed lead-acid cells behind it.

https://tradik.com/blog/hp-2620-24-poep-firmware-upgrade/ 2019-10-20T22:55:33Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

The switch keeps a primary and a secondary image, so an upgrade has a way back. Finding the right SWI file for a J9625A and flashing it from the GUI.

https://tradik.com/blog/hp-2620-24-poep-time-and-date/ 2019-10-20T22:39:35Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Three ways to give an HP 2620-24-PoEP the right time: an NTP server found with dig, SNTP unicast, or typing it in by hand over the console.

https://tradik.com/blog/release-process-with-trunk-tags-and-branches/ 2019-03-27T17:12:53Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Who owns trunk, what a tag is for, and where a developer's branch fits — the repository layout behind a release, drawn as one diagram.

https://tradik.com/blog/captcha-simple-way-to-protect-your-website/ 2019-03-24T11:03:57Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Why an unprotected form is a target, the six habits that keep bots out, and reCAPTCHA v3 on a WordPress site in about ten minutes.

https://tradik.com/blog/colour-coding-error-categories/ 2019-03-19T23:36:15Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Three severities, three colours, and one sentence each saying what the reader is expected to do about it. The whole convention on one screen.

https://tradik.com/blog/deployment-process/ 2019-03-19T22:16:30Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

The four environments a change moved through before it reached a client, and the URL each one answered on. One diagram, drawn in 2019.

https://tradik.com/blog/google-data-studio-report-level-date-settings/ 2019-03-04T16:31:09Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

A date selector that refuses to go report-level usually has a hidden element fighting it. Ctrl+A finds it in seconds, page by page.

https://tradik.com/blog/hello-gutenberg-goodbye-classic-editor/ 2019-01-06T20:30:54Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Gutenberg turns a WordPress post into blocks. Good for new designs, awkward for the thousands of posts already saved in the old editor.

https://tradik.com/blog/wordpress-5-0-editor-encountered-an-unexpected-error/ 2018-12-09T19:26:28Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

WordPress 5.0 auto-updated, took the classic editor with it, and drafts stopped opening. What the error actually is, and how to get editing again.

https://tradik.com/blog/mysql-8-0-first-performance-numbers/ 2018-08-13T23:10:29Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

MySQL 8.0.11 measured against 5.7 on 50,000-row tables: 2% faster, 2% less I/O, more memory — and an apr-util build that needed a patch.

https://tradik.com/blog/new-development-servers/ 2011-11-07T14:46:04Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Hardware to build and test on: development servers in south-west Germany, for new technologies and the exchange products that ran on them.

https://tradik.com/blog/company-startup/ 2010-01-28T22:01:47Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Company number 7139005, registered on 28 January 2010. The first post on the tradik.com blog, and the day the company started.