A couple of months ago I built an app for keeping track of Star Wars Unlimited game state, using web components without a framework. (Read more here: Star Wars Unlimited Base Counter). I was pretty happy with the result, but I fell into the trap (?) of using the shadow…

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I recently migrated my personal website from Next.js to 11ty, it was a great experience, which I will write more about in a later blog post. There was just one issue. The PageSpeed performance score actually went down. 😨 Link to PageSpeed.web.dev Mobile performance was looking great, a 4 x…

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Now and then I stumble upon some new CSS magic that I didn't know existed. Here are some of the new things I've found in 2024. align-content: center This is a really old one that I completely missed as I've gotten so used to using flexbox to align elements. I…

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At work I inherited a really old website running on React. The code was good but by old I mean really old; last commit was 3 years ago and most of the code was 5-6 years old… So I converted it to TypeScript and ripped out the old babel/webpack build…

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Using environment variables is a great way to store environment-specific values and secrets that should not be in the git repo. Let's say you have an API which runs on localhost locally but a different host in production. On the server Locally you need to add an .env.local-file in your…

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