Journal
Notes from real projects - AWS, DynamoDB, Rust, home servers, and whatever open source tool I'm currently building.
Building a tiny Intel N100 home server
I built a silent, tiny home server for £250 using an Intel N100. It runs 24/7 on about 8 watts.
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Remove trailing slashes with CloudFront and 11ty
Trailing slashes and 11ty's folder structure caused redirect loops. A simple CloudFront function fixed it.
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Enhance CSRF package - now supports multipart form data
My Enhance CSRF plugin now supports multipart form data - meaning file uploads work with the csrf-form component out of the box.
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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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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 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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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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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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