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Dev Snippets & Keyboard Shotcuts
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Migrating a Rails app from Webpacker to jsbundling-rails with Webpack
Recently at work I undertook a project to migrate a client's decade-old Rails app from using Webpacker to compile & bundle frontend assets, to using jsbundling-rails with Webpack. The app is big and fairly complex, and the project ended up taking much longer than I had originally anticipated.
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Hosting your Static Site on Cloudflare: Tips & Tricks
Over the last year or so I've been moving many of my static site projects (including this site) to the free tier of Cloudflare hosting, from their former homes at Netlify. Why Cloudflare I've been pretty happy with Cloudflare, and it's what I often
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Frontend Assets in Ruby on Rails Through the Years
As a Ruby on Rails developer at a consulting agency who works with a wide variety of legacy apps, there have been many times where I need to change the JavaScript or CSS in use on the site and have to start by figuring out where those assets are currently
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Tips for Running 11ty on Cloudflare Pages
This week I designed & built a new 11ty site to support an advocacy effort among primarily Canadian zine creators opting out of a major Canadian zine festival due to the founder's genocide denial. It's called Can't Zine. This is the first Eleventy site
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Settings in My Shell Profile that Just Make Sense
Here are some useful settings in my Zsh profile and a few other dotfiles. See also: some useful snippets for programming, and keyboard shortcuts I like and all my other tech resources posts. Docker stuff If you have an M-series (Intel) Mac, put this in your .zshrc right now to
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Frontmatter Templates for New Blog Posts
First posted: January 12, 2024 Updated 3-26-2024: Added timestamp to date to make my RSS feed better I have been thinking for a long time that it would be nice to have a script that would easily scaffold out the frontmatter for a new post on my blog (aka this
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Resources To Start a Blog
Theory * Everyone Should Blog, and That Includes You, a manifesto. * I recently read a post (sorry, have already lost the link) that emphasized that you should just pick a way to blog (a static site you built? WordPress? something else?) and then stop messing with it and just get writing.
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Adding Decap CMS to 11ty
I've been wanting a way to add posts in markdown to my 11ty site from my Android phone, without using a 3rd party CMS. I'm going to try out Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS) to do this, and tell you what I do to get it
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Using process.env variables in Eleventy
In Eleventy (the static site builder used to create this site), you can access Node environment variables (process.env.MY_VARIABLE) in your templates. Neat! But how? How to set up the variables for use in templates The Eleventy docs provide a code snippet to use: module.exports = { myVariable: process.
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Fetching & caching data from Airtable in my 11ty site
I've been seeing a lot of people blog about setting up a now page on their website. Kind of like an about page, a now page is a page on a personal website that tells you what that person is up to in their life. Some people blog
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Using Sanity CMS to host an image gallery for an existing 11ty site
I've seen a few tutorials now on using Sanity CMS with Eleventy, but they all assume I want to use the Sanity/Eleventy starter project, not an Eleventy site I already have. cassey.dev is built on Eleventy, and I don't want to start my whole