Managing third party scripts
Party of the third party
Negotiating the friction between business and engineering teams over third party scripts. It's not easy.
Using TypeScript with 11ty
Type safety for the win
Making use of everyone's favourite JavaScript subset.. with 11ty! A quick quide to setting up your tooling.
Custom elements and Preact
Let the DOM do the work
Integrating Preact into other frameworks can be tricky. Let the DOM handle it via custom elements and their lifecycle methods.
Running Gatsby in an AWS Lambda
The Great Gatsby
If you're unable or unwilling to use some of the great services out there, it's fairly trivial to setup your own deployment pipeline.
I used 11ty and... It's awesome
A tale of many sites
More static site generators, or JAMStack projects, are cropping up by the day. Here's a quick look at how I built this site.
Partial hydration in Preact
How to reduce wasted bytes
Reducing the volume of javascript shipped to your users is an ongoing concern, here's one way of approaching this.