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Building a better guestbook for my site.

Last year I built an old school style guestbook for my website. This year I built it again, taking in all the lessons learned to make it even better....

Oct 28, 2022 | tech

File Based Routing Needs to Stop (Being The Only Option)

Frameworks like Gatsby and NextJS use file-based routing for "simplicity", but they need to offer a programatic routing method....

Sep 22, 2022 | tech

Configuring NetlifyCMS with JS instead of YAML

Wouldn't it be nice to have your NetlifyCMS configuration in JS rather than YAML? Here's how you can do that....

Jul 12, 2022 | tech

Migrating from Gatsby to NextJS

Instead of rebuilding my website this year, I migrated it from Gatsby to NextJS. Here's how that went....

Jul 9, 2022 | tech

Integrating Styled Components into Storybook

How to setup Storybook to work nicely with Styled Components custom theme....

Jan 27, 2022 | tech

Fuzzy Git Branch Checkout

If you use JIRA at work then your git branches likely look like PROJ-12345-description. Here's a little script you can use to checkout these branches quicker...

May 17, 2021 | tech

Keeping your Javascript project up to date

A few tips and tricks to keeping dependencies in your JS project fresh...

Apr 14, 2021 | tech

Building a Guest Book for my Site

I've always wanted to have an old school guestbook for my site. I finally built one using Netlify Functions and Github Gist....

Feb 17, 2021 | tech

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 3

With most of the site up, in this post I want to talk about landing pages and the my blogging workflow...

Feb 10, 2021 | tech

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 2

In my last post I talked about some of the decisions I made when building my site. In this post I'll talk about the architecture...

Feb 8, 2021 | tech

Building SunnyGolovine.com - Part 1

I recently rebuilt my personal website. In this part I'll talk about some of the decisions I made....

Feb 7, 2021 | tech