You don't have to use graphql to query your Gatsby site's metadata
The Challenge The learning curve for GatsbyJS can be pretty rough. For me, a big part of that was feeling that you had to use GraphQL or…
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Updating to Tailwind Typography to style markdown posts
Last year I shared some CSS to style your markdown posts with Tailwind CSS . Earlier this year a Typography plugin was released for…
Read PostUsing GistPad to manage your GitHub digital gardens
I love GistPad - it has redefined how I think about working with a markdown based wiki in GitHub. VSCode is my preferred editor for…
Read PostPassword protect a Next.js site hosted on Vercel
Want to password-protect some or all of your Next.js site, but want to stick with a free-tier hosting plan? This blog post will walk…
Read PostTips for 1 on 1s during COVID-19
We're now at around week 10 of COVID-19 in NYC, and it looks like it'll be a major part of 2020, if not beyond. While the business of…
Read PostAbsolute imports with React
I'd like to say that all my time writing relative import statements like this has taught me some valuable lessons: However, I can safely say…
Read PostGetting a list of all performance counters ingested to Log Analytics
Log Analytics is a great product - easy to get data ingested, and easy to query it. It's also pretty easy to run up a sizeable bill (with…
Read PostSwapping implementations at compile time with craco and Create React App
The Problem When developing apps I'll sometimes want to mock a dependency for reasons other than unit testing: Simulating flaky behaviour…
Read PostRemark Slides Starter
After spending so long authoring technical blog posts/documentation in Markdown , it's a jarring transition to get dropped back into…
Read PostAdding a new field to a firestore collection
A quick example which shows how you can add a new field to every item in a collection. In this case, driven by the motivation to move away from the Timestamp data type and start working with unix time instead.
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