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.
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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.
Styling markdown posts with Tailwind CSS in GatsbyJS
Applying Tailwind's reset to the Gatsby blog starter will leave the Markdown posts looking pretty spartan. Get them looking great again with a few @applys.
Allowing only specified users to access Cloud Firestore
I’ve been building a few apps recently that leverage Cloud Firestore for data storage. These are personal apps and don’t store anything…
Create React App, Emotion, and Tailwind CSS starter app
Get up and running fast with Create React App, Emotion, and Tailwind CSS by cloning the cra-tailwind-emotion-starter git repo: Tailwind CSS…
Keeping Application Insights Costs Under Control
Application Insights (now part of Azure Monitor) uses a pay-per-GB-ingested model, and charges $2.30 per-GB once you exceed the monthly free…
Should I Automate It?
Whenever you need to do something more than once it’s often tempting to invest in the process - either by making it easier to repeat or…
Understanding space usage in Azure Monitor logs
Data ingested to Azure Monitor logs is billed per-Gigabyte ingested. As a workspace will typically grow to have data coming from many…
Auto scale down all Event Hub namespaces with Azure Functions
A little over a year ago I lamented the lack of an auto-deflate feature for Event Hubs, and offered a way to programatically scale down your…
Overhead of Event Hub outputs with Azure Function Apps
In a world where you’re billed for what you use, it pays to really understand what exactly it is you are using. The pricing model of the…