Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week

an analysis of Apple's contextual capabilities coming to a future version of Apple Intelligence in 2025

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week

Why I am both distributing and consuming content again via RSS

An examination of the question of do we need junior devs when we have AI code generation tooling

An app I'm now using to watch for when there are updates to docker images I use

GitHub Actions in 2024 Wishlist 🌱

What I wish for future improvements to GitHub's CI system

Checking for unsupported Node.js AWS Lambda Functions 🌲

A AWS Lambda function that will watch the rest of my Lambda functions to see if any are using an unsupported version of nodejs

A look at how GitHub is pricing out the average developer in exchange for the enterprise

A look at why web hosting platforms that are wrappers for cloud providers can be useful when shipping projects

A postmortem on my VS Code issue tracker data collection project

ESM Checker Post Mortem 🌲

A postmortem on my data collection project for ES Modules

List AWS Resources by Tags 🌲

How to use the AWS SDK V3 JS Client to list resources based on tags

AWS Services & Pricing Spectrums 🌱

Ramblings on the spectrum of the types of services AWS provides and how that relates the monetary cost of them

DynamoDB Cheatsheet 🌱

A cheatsheet of common functions called using the AWS SDK v3 DynamoDB DocumentClient

What tools I use on AWS 🌱

A walkthrough of the tooling I use to build projects on AWS

Rust Projects 🌱

A listing of projects I have built using Rust

Why I developed a reimplementation of the Netlify CLI in Rust 🌱

A look into developing a portion of Netlify's CLI in Rust

Setting up OpenID Connect authentication for GitHub Actions with AWS CDK 🌲

How to use OpenID Connect with GitHub Actions and AWS resources

Running GitHub Actions work in parallel with Jobs 🌲

How to use Jobs in GitHub Actions workflows

What software I use frequently and the support for it on Apple Silicon machines

Least-priviledge access for AWS Resources using AWS CDK 🌲

How to secure permissions quickly in AWS CDK Stacks with least-priviledge access

Keyboard shortcut automations with JS and Script Kit 🌱

How to enhance and automate workflows by writing keyboard shortuct enabled Script Kit scripts

AWS CDK Examples 🌲

A collection of repos I have made using the AWS CDK

Behind the scenes of creating a timelapse for the Stats page of the 2020 Advent of Code event

Getting Started with using Tailwind in Toast 🌱

How to setup a Toast site to be styled with TailwindCSS

Installing local node modules with npm 🌲

How to install node modules that are locally on your filesystem into another project

How to auto-enable darkmode OS-wide on Windows 10 with an open source utility

Debugging serde_json error paths 🌱

How to use serde_path_to_error to get more context into why a deserialization is failing

Implementing the Display trait in Rust 🌲

How to implement the Display trait for custom structs in Rust

Accessing your repo's contents within GitHub Actions 🌱

How to navigate into the repo within GitHub Actions using the GITHUB_WORKSPACE environment variable

A look in how as a Web Developer I was able to remix the manual for Mutable Instruments Plaits to be more refined for my taste

Notes for the book Working In Public by Nadia Eghbal

GitHub Actions Secrets 🌲

how to store secrets inside GitHub Actions

Caching in GitHub Actions 🌱

How to cache data between workflow runs in GitHub Actions

Analyzing JS Bundles with source-map-explorer 🌲

How to examine a JavaScript bundle that includes a source map to dig into what ends up in a bundle shipped to production

A look at a zsh function I wrote to quickly resize images using the imagemagick convert command

Searching Digital Gardens with Alfred 🌲

How to be able to trigger an alfred workflow to search through and easily navigate a digital garden

Automating blogpost creation with Plop 🌲

How I am automating creation of new posts on my site with Plop

ChefBrent Stream Highlights 🌱

Twitch content production streams by ChefBrent

A collection of topics to follow up on (or that have been already followed up)

Frequently Used GitHub Actions 🌱

Some frequently used GitHub Actions that may appear in many workflows

Types of GitHub Actions 🌱

Notes on the types of actions that are either written in JS or Docker

GitHub Actions Artifacts 🌲

A method to create artifacts from GitHub Actions runs

GitHub Actions Hierarchy 🌲

A top down hierarchy of GitHub Actions components

GitHub Actions Triggers 🌱

A listing of the events that can kick off a workflow in GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions Workflow Step Types 🌱

Various things that can be run as building blocks of GitHub Actions

A Collection of VS Code extensions I use and reccomend

Trigger actions and modify settings of OBS scenes and sources using a MIDI controller

GitHub Actions Job Outputs 🌲

A new feature of GitHub Actions where you can transfer data between jobs using outputs

My Streaming Setup 🌱

A look into my hardware and software used for my streaming setup

Tackling dark mode with TailwindCSS 🌲

With use of the tailwindcss-dark-mode plugin, you can add support for customizing the look and feel of your site between a light and dark mode

Gatsby & Tailwind: An Introduction 🌲

How to add the TailwindCSS library into a Gatsby project using PostCSS

Adding PurgeCSS to a Gatsby site with Tailwind 🌲

PurgeCSS will be able to greatly reduce the outputted CSS file to get rid of any classes that you do not use in your code

Scheduled Workflows in GitHub Actions 🌲

GitHub Actions scheduled workflows allow for a task to be done in GitHub Actions on a fixed schedule using a cron syntax

Deploying a site to Netlify with GitHub Actions 🌲

How to create a GitHub Action workflow to trigger deploys to Netlify whenever a commit to master is made

Running Tests in GitHub Actions 🌲

Using the pull_request GitHub Actions trigger, you can write workflows to run tests on pull requests

obs-virtual-cam provides an interface where you can take the video output and convert it into a virtual webcam for apps like Skype or Zoom

Creating a Twilio SMS Workflow for Follow-up Friday listings 🌲

How I used GitHub Actions and tools like Twilio to automate the process of adding items to a follow-up list

Creating a SMS bot to notify of upcoming events with GitHub Actions and Twilio 🌲

A guide on how to use Twilio and GitHub Actions to send weekly event alerts

Bundling NPM modules for use in GitHub Actions 🌲

How to bundle NodeJS with node modules to be used in a GitHub Action as GitHub does not include node modules automatically

Bundling a Rust library to WebAssembly with Webpack & wasm-pack 🌲

How to take rust code and compile and bundle it down into a webpack bundle

Array.shift optimizations in Firefox's JS Engine 🌲

A look into a JS optimization in Firefox that makes the array.shift method as fast as array.pop

Getting started building WASM modules with Rust & wasm-pack 🌲

An introduction on how you can write WebAssembly modules in Rust using wasm-pack

A retrospective for what I did in 2019

Using git commit in GitHub Actions 🌲

Tutorial on how you can use Git and have a GitHub Actions workflow make git commits on your behalf automatically

A post discussing Advent of Code 2019, a programming advent calendar with daily programming puzzles

Creating Open Graph Images with React & Gatsby 🌲

How I programatically create Open Graph images in react that can be then seen in places like Twitter, Discord, and other soical platforms

GitHub Actions Changelog Workflow 🌲

A look into a GitHub Actions workflow I made to scrape data from GitHub and present the data into a Gatsby site

How to selectively add what you want to stage for a git commit using the --patch flag

GitHub Actions: Small abstractions with massive scope 🌲

A high-level look at how one should use GitHub Actions

How I'm participating in Hacktoberfest 2019, A celebration of the Open Source community put on by DigitalOcean

A pathway to learn GraphQL with Gatsby 🌲

A look in how one can learn portions of the GraphQL Ecosystem with Gatsby progressively rather all at once

GitHub Actions: JS Actions 🌲

How to build a GitHub Action using Javascript

Building a PC live on Twitch 🌲

Recap of livestream of building my own PC live.

How I abstracted a Gatsby Site to a Gatsby Theme 🌲

A look into how I took a fully-functional Gatsby site and transformed it into a reusable theme

Livestreaming on Twitch 🌲

Intro article about me starting to stream on Twitch