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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.
6 Strategies for Scaling Static Sites
Pre-rendering pages on a site (traditional SSG) is a great way to serve a small amount of content. But it’s difficult to scale this strategy. Here are a handful of strategies that can be used to maintain your productivity as your site grows.
11 Tasks Before Launching a Website
A punchlist of the last few tasks for developers to consider before launching a new website.
Organizing Documentation by User Mode
We rebuilt the Stackbit documentation site from scratch, reorganizing everything by expanding on the Divio documentation system.
Use Commit Hashes when Sharing GitHub URLs
Sharing GitHub commit hashes directly works for ephemeral uses, but there is a safer way for links that need to last.
Never Lose Copied Text Again!
If you’re constantly copying and pasting and losing what is on your clipboard, here’s the perfect solution!
Deleted 3 Apps Thanks to Raycast
Raycast has boosted my productivity while also covering the offerings of three applications I was using.
5 Nav Patterns to Help Users Find the Right Content Quickly
A series of strategies that you can use together to help your users find content quickly.
Transforming Unsplash Images
Unsplash uses Imgix to serve its images, which means you can transform the images before downloading.
Simplify Context Switching with Browser Tab Groups
Browser tab groups can help contextualize tabs to make it easier to jump back into a project after you’ve been pulled away.
Using Unsplash API to Seed Placeholder Data
With its large collection of (free) professional imagery and easy-to-use developer API, Unsplash is a great tool for generating contextual placeholder images for your application.