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Journal

Notes from real projects - AWS, DynamoDB, Rust, home servers, and whatever open source tool I'm currently building.

Architect framework banner - everything you need to build Functional Web Apps 24th April 2023

DynamoDB Streams locally with arc.codes & Enhance

DynamoDB Streams don't work locally with Dynalite. I built an arc plugin that fixes that with DynamoDB Local and a polling middleware.

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The Neuralyzer in Men in Black 19th December 2022

A mistake the internet won't forget easily

A hungover deploy, a misconfigured cache header, and browsers that refused to forget. A cautionary tale about cache-control.

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Eleventy and WebC text only logos on a black background 17th December 2022

Eleventy 2.0 & WebC

I rebuilt two production sites with Eleventy 2.0 and WebC. Here's what I learned about HTML-first components and the gotchas to watch for.

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A picture of people sharing a pizza 15th December 2022

Sharing Enhance elements between projects

Sharing components across Enhance projects wasn't straightforward - so I built an arc plugin to handle it.

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Graphic of promotional image for the Back to the Future film 12th December 2022

Back to the Future

The web framework world is finally course-correcting. Remix and Enhance are putting web-first principles back where they belong.

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