Password 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 through…
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Tips 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…
Absolute 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…
Getting 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…
Swapping 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…
Remark Slides Starter
After spending so long authoring technical blog posts/documentation in Markdown, it’s a jarring transition to get dropped back into…
Adding 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.
Link Roundups
I'm now sharing link roundups - interesting stuff I've seen and you might find interesting.
Adding cover images to your Gatsby blog
If you'd like your blog posts to have a cover image show up on the post list and (or!) the post page, this guide will let you get responsive images that are also a11y approved.
Migrating from Jekyll to Gatsby
After some tinkering with GatsbyJS, I was pretty excited about moving my blog over from Jekyll - great performance, SEO and accessibility out of the box were one reason, and the fact I know far more React/JS than Ruby was another. This post covers my experiences, as well as a few shortcuts that helped make the transition relatively painless.