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My writing process after 5 years of blogging

Four years on a 4-day workweek

A behind-the-scenes look at my blog

Automatically create social card images for your Astro blog

Getting started with Cursor AI

Building a digital garden with Obsidian and Astro

2024 in review: starting my hiking blog

My Digital Garden Philosophy

Creating a Map component with React using Google Maps and Mapbox

Using GraphQL Fragments in Relay: co-locating fragment spreads

Adding comments to my Astro blog using Netlify Forms

Handling images in my Astro blog

Hardcover's Book API: A great Goodreads alternative

2023 in review: Looking forward to 2024

2021 in review: my second year of blogging

Writing a script to cross-post to DEV.to

Publishing from Ulysses to my Astro blog

How to build an inline edit component in React

Generate custom social card images for your Gatsby blog

How to build a table of contents in React

How to add comments to your Gatsby blog

Jest partial matching on objects, arrays and functions

Unit testing Node.js fs with mock-fs

How to write to files with Node.js

Automate file renaming with Node.js scripts

2020 in review: My first year of blogging

How to rename all md files to mdx

How to render SVGs in Preact

How to add search to your Gatsby site

How to build an accessible search bar component in React

How to unit test your Gatsby blog with React Testing Library

Meta tags: All you need to know for your Gatsby blog

Apollo pagination tutorial: using fetchMore()

5 ways to improve your Gatsby code blocks

Using the DEV API to add DEV.to comment counts to my blog

I made my Gatsby blog open source: a feature walkthrough

Using CSS-in-JS with Preact

Attempts at my fifth pull request to Forem

Reflecting on a week off from the internet

Embracing digital minimalism by doing a digital declutter

Raising my first pull request to Forem

Redux vs Recoil: which should you use?

React state management with sweet-state

Getting started with state management using Redux Toolkit

Getting started with state management using Redux

Getting started with state management using useReducer and Context

Creating a mobile-friendly navigation component in under 100 lines of code

How to restart your Ruby on Rails database

Mocking fetch requests in Storybook

How to add a canonical URL to Jekyll posts

How to loop through and render collections in Jekyll

Setting up web monetization on your Gatsby blog (with RSS)

Building a web-monetized RSS reader using Blitz.js

Exploring how a new model and UI is created in Rails using `rails generate scaffold`

Getting started with web monetization in React

How to set up your Rails + Preact app's routing

Understanding the shallow function in Enzyme

Jest code coverage report explained

What I learned from achieving a 16 week writing streak

Using the functional updates pattern with React hooks

How to mock React hooks using dependency injection

Setting up Storybook for Preact with TypeScript

A quick start guide to creating an app with Preact, TypeScript and Ruby on Rails

How to get preact-router working with Netlify

Cloning an item on drag using interact.js

Getting started with styled-components in React

Nevertheless, Emma coded

Seven things I learned at ReactConf AU 2020

Storing values with the useRef hook

How to access props in mapDispatchToProps

A guide to mocking functions and modules with Jest

Use memoization in your code to reduce unnecessary re-renders

Analyze your React app’s bundle size and reduce it using code-splitting

Setting up Steam Authentication using OpenID

Linting, committing and pushing your code in one magic command

3 Things I Learnt Feature Leading for the First Time

Testing your Trello Power-Up hosted on GitHub Pages