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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.
3 Creative Uses for GitHub Issues
While GitHub’s primary offering is to host remote Git repositories, the features it has provided to support this offering open the door for non-traditional uses that can boost your productivity and perhaps save you from using additional services.
Global Content IDs to Minimize Risk in Changing URLs
Use a unique value within a URL and make the rest arbitrary. This way you have flexibility to change URLs without breaking functionality for your visitors.
Safely Changing a URL
This seems like a simple topic, and handling URL changes is generally fairly quick. But the wrong way can have a negative affect on SEO rankings.
Use Chrome Profiles to Manage Multiple Accounts in the Same Browser
Chrome profiles are a great way to separate work from personal accounts and avoid having to constantly sign in and out of web applications.
Use Netlify as a Shared Asset Host
When you need to share media assets across multiple sites, you can take advantage of tools you’re already using to make that process simple and convenient.
6 Reasons I (Still) Love 11ty
Two years after launching my site with 11ty, it’s grown considerably, and yet I’m still in love with the tool.
Using Notion as a Publishing Workflow
To minimize friction in publishing new blog content, I went through an experiment that used Notion as a publishing engine. After three months, I’m posting at a rate faster than ever before.
Custom XML Sitemap from a Catch All Route in Next.js
Building an XML sitemap in Next.js is a bit of an odd process. Here’s how I’ve done it by leveraging getStaticPaths methods from page components.
Automated Tweets after Successful Netlify Build
This is the (custom) workflow I use to automatically tweet after publishing new content to my blog.
Delete All Local Git Branches Except One
Delete all local git branches except main, master, or your current branch.