Blog

• Ethical Analytics: Replacing Google Analytics with Plausible.io

  

  The web should be more than just Google and I'm ditching Google Analytics for Plausible, an excellent and ethical alternative.

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• Who is the better host for a NextJS site, Vercel or Netlify, and how next/image stole the show

  

  I go over the differences between Vercel and Netlify hosting for a NextJS site, and why I went with Vercel.

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• The easy way to add syntax highlighting to your NextJS blog using markdown-it and PrismJS

  

  I show you the easiest way to add syntax highlighting to your NextJS blog using the `markdown-it` plugin and `PrismJS`.

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• How to easily add an RSS feed to a NextJS site without writing XML templates

  

  I show you how to easily add an RSS feed for your NextJS site.

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• Google Analytics and Lighthouse: How to keep your 100

  

  I show you how to keep your 100% performance score in Lighthouse while integrating the Google Analytics library.

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• Fixing "Current page does not respond with a 200 when offline" from Lighthouse Audit

  

  I recently ran into an issue where lighthouse was telling me my site was not available when offline. Here's how I ended up fixing it.

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• Decoupled Drupal 8 Tips

  

  Tips for developing a decoupled application with Drupal 8 as your backend

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• The Hiatus Ends

  

  My moratorium on blogging has come to an end

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• Webpack code splitting with Create React App and React Router

  

  Learn how to leverage Webpack's native code splitting ability with Create React App and React Router

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• I was featured in Lullabot's recent Drupal 8 podcast!

  

  Lullabot produces a Drupal podcast, and I was featured on the episode talking about include a client-side framework in core.

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• Introducing Gotham, a Drupal 8 starter theme

  

  Gotham is a Drupal 8 starter theme aimed at giving developers a clean slate

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• Printing an Entity Reference field programmatically in Drupal 8

  

  Learn how to output the entity view of an Entity Reference field in Drupal 8.

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• Getting started with Drupal 8 Theming

  

  Learn how to set up custom Drupal 8 theme, and the new Twig system behind it.

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• Inline your critical CSS using Jekyll and Gulp

  

  Learn how to set up a Jekyll installation so that it inlines critical CSS in the head of the document while asynchronously loading the rest.

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• I'm joining Chapter Three!

  

  I've taken a new job in San Francisco joining Chapter Three

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• A no-javascript toggle content feature

  

  A way to show and hide content without using javascript.

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• Defining your content views

  

  When approaching responsive web design, it's incredibly important to define your content views. I explain what that means and how to go about doing so in this post.

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• How to structure your next Sass project

  

  I wanted to write a quick post about how I'm structuring my projects recently. I develop in Sass, so this is what this article will focus on, but the core can be applied to any preprocessor or even sites using basic CSS. (gasp!)

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