Posts
- 03 Apr 2026
A new project, a colouring site!
Years ago ThemePassion was a WordPress review site. I held on to the domain name even though I had long retired the site because I always liked it and hoped I’d find a use for it. Fast forward to having a bit more time and a world of AI and I have created a new colouring site with the domain ThemePassion
For years my two daughters have loved creating cards for special occasions via colouring pages which I’d usually quickly search for online for the perfect one for each of them. It surprisingly often took longer than expected as you would find them on messy convoluted pages promising a colour page if you just downloaded / signed up for their email newsletter, which I often did, but it was often frustrating and then the actual colour page would be hidden behind a wall of text. ThemePassion won’t do this to you, what’s there is there for the taking with minimal hoop jumping.
- 03 Apr 2026
Hello
After a few years away (maybe a decade?), this site is back online.
The site is now a static Hugo site running on S3 and CloudFront for hosting with CDK deployment, GitHub for version control and content management. Things have become a lot simpler over the past decade especially with IaC and LLMs to do the boilerplate. Gone are the days of playing around with convoluted UI’s like cpanel (shutters).
- 15 Jan 2022
A local development environment with Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Working with Salesforce Marketing CloudPages can be painful—real painful. It takes away all the tools that make a developer productive and offers really nothing in return, but what if there was a way to take just a tiny bit of power back and work locally in your editor of choice? Well good news, there is. It may not make you like CloudPages any better, but it will make your life easier.