Blogs and tutorials
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15 May 2024
5 easy tips to improve your personal website performance
TL;DR: Add less.
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12 May 2024
How to prevent Prettier putting a full stop on a new line after a link
Ugh, what a minefield.
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24 Apr 2024
Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?
Remember Grunt files?
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11 Apr 2024
Your background images might be causing CLS
I broke the first rule of preventing CLS. Shame on me.
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27 Mar 2024
How I fixed my brutal TTFB
I was EMBARRASSED.
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11 Mar 2024
What is INP and why you should care
Your website performance is now trash until you optimize for INP.
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11 Mar 2024
My blog post workflow
Tools, apps, workflow, brain stuff.
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21 Feb 2024
The future of Jamstack is anti-capitalist
Down with capitalism. - Mike Neumegen
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20 Feb 2024
Ramblings about JavaScript scope, weird errors and frameworks
I did learn the thing. But I forgot to remember the thing.
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25 Jan 2024
How to deal with API rate limits
API rate-limiting is a minefield. Why are there no standards?
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20 Dec 2023
Twitter ruined your link previews: here’s how Cloudinary can help
Learn how to overlay text on your Open Graph images using the Cloudinary API and SDKs.
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18 Dec 2023
How to fix error: invalid character in entity name in RSS feeds
My RSS feed was broken for OVER A WEEK because I used an invalid character in the XML.
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14 Dec 2023
Fallbacks for HTTP 404 images in HTML and JavaScript
What if an image doesn’t exist anymore? What if someone accidentally deleted an image in your CMS? How do you detect and deal with this?
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5 Dec 2023
Everything I install and set up on a new MacBook as a web developer
Here are the developer tools, browsers, utility apps and other useful things I install on a new dev machine to help productivity.
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10 Nov 2023
A story about HTTP status codes and why you should read documentation
Recently, I wrote some bad code. But this highlighted the importance of correct HTTP status codes, and how I should really read documentation.
