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…
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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.
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…