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title: "Journal - Martin Hicks"
description: "Technical writing by Martin Hicks, software developer and AWS consultant. Real problems from real projects - what I tried, what broke, what worked."
canonical: https://martinhicks.dev/articles/3
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# Journal

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

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## Articles

  19th December 2022

### [A mistake the internet won't forget easily](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/how-a-misconfigured-header-caused-an-unforgettable-problem)

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

[Read article →](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/how-a-misconfigured-header-caused-an-unforgettable-problem)

  17th December 2022

### [Eleventy 2.0 & WebC](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/eleventy-and-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.

[Read article →](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/eleventy-and-webc)

  15th December 2022

### [Sharing Enhance elements between projects](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/sharing-enhance-elements)

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

[Read article →](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/sharing-enhance-elements)

  12th December 2022

### [Back to the Future](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/back-to-the-future)

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

[Read article →](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/back-to-the-future)

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