Hey Y’all, So I spent this past thursday feverishly working on moving my blog from Gridsome and Netlify CMS over to Astro and StaticCMS and let me tell you what: It has been extremely rewarding. Gridsome and Netlify-CMS are Dead, Long Live Astro and StaticCMS I am not one to try and constantly change out how things...

Well, I am testing out this new astro setup, and using the Static JS CMS to edit my posts. Let’s see how this goes. Currently I’m going to test the draft flag? I may need to edit some code to see if that works correctly. LETS FIND OUT! Update: the draft feature now works…. I might also do something fun with this.

Chris Coyier had an interesting post on integration vs end to end testing. I made a reply that I want to kinda dig into a little bit. The Testing Pyramid is Weird I have always found the Unit, Integration, and End to End testing pyramid to be a bit… clunky? The names describe how much you are testing, which is...

So Cassie Evans tweeted this the other day: Frameworks obfuscate away & front-end dev spans so many specialities.When there's a 'discussion' on here it's common to see folks say 'learn the web platform'.Got me thinking. What's the most useful thing you've learnt about the web platform for YOUR area of expertise?—...

I think I now have a few people reading this, so I should update it more regularly, so let’s get some life updates in here. Upcoming Speaking Engagements THAT Conference at the end of July. MagnoliaJS in September. Plus some other ones might be around the corner too. Stay tuned. Recent Projects/Pens This Site is...

So a couple of months ago I purchased 2 of “The Key v2” as an impulse purchase. I got a link to it a couple of minutes before the link went out to everyone, and so I pulled a Phillip J. Fry. They arrived yesterday, and so i plugged one in. The joke about these keyboards is that they have 3 buttons: Control, C, and...

Yesterday we went to Hot Betty’s Breakfast Bar for lunch and I figured I’d write down some thoughts. Food The food was alright. I got the Chicken and Waffles and wasn’t blown away, but also it wasn’t terrible. The chicken was well cooked and had a good crispy fried outside, and a tender juicy inside. However, it...

I don’t have any brilliant insights to share today, or anything like that, I’m mostly just wanting to kinda put out some information because I feel like I should write more regular updates. I’ve recently started using centered.app to help me focus, and BOY HOWDY has it helped (please ignore that I am writing this...

This week I had the opportunity to make a Gutenberg block and there are a few things I learned in The process. @wordpress/scripts is your friend I was impressed by the energy and effort put into the build process for blocks. The automatic webpack 5 config, along with all the tooling also provided was very refreshing...

I found out that the JavaScript in operator is more versatile than I thought while on stream a couple of weeks ago, so let’s write a post about it so I can explain it to myself later. for Loops Let’s start with the place you might have seen the in operator before. There are 3 ways of doing for loops in JavaScript....

Look, let’s be honest. You aren’t really here for some earth shattering information. You saw a very clickbaity title that I made to troll Cassidy Williams and quite honestly, I don’t think she was ACTUALLY expecting this. As long as you are here though, I should write up some interesting links that I’ve found over...

At the behest of Dave Rupert in the Shop Talk Show D-D-D-Discord, I’m going to talk about my adventures in making an efficient and poorly designed typo-squatting knock-off of CSS-Tricks.com called CSS-Trickz.com, which turned into an experiment in how to make a cached and auto building site on Netlify, using their...