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Published January 11th, 2023 11 minute read

In my continued effort to spruce up the site, I added a way to render 🔥 tips and callouts directly from markdown based content. This is all made possible via a CommonMark extension. Turns out it's pretty easy to do because we can extend another CommonMark extension to get most of...

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Published January 2nd, 2023 8 minute read

Although the Laravel framework has its own conventions, there are several others I tend to follow that (I think) make me more efficient, so I want to share them with the world. These are my personal “best practices” for conventions in Laravel models, Laravel Livewire components, and Tailwind CSS utility classes.

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Published January 8th, 2022 2 minute read

Hi folks! It's been over a year since an article was published on this site. Yes, I fell off the content treadmill a bit last year. Anyway, we're back! Did you have a good year? Hope so!

My year was fun. Although I shared little on the interwebs, it was filled with all sorts of good stuff. Programming and design things, but tons of living life kind of stuff, too.

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Published December 18th, 2020 4 minute read

The year is almost over, so get prepared for a flood of year-end posts! Okay, not really. However, there are three I'd like to write — a reading list recap (this one), a 2020 year in review, and a 2021 goal and learning list.

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Published December 10th, 2020 18 minute read

Webmentions are a protocol that allows sites to track when links are made to them and to receive notifications of those links. They are a neat way to keep tabs on the kinds of interactions related to a website or article, such as likes, retweets, comments, reposts, etc...

This article will explain how I added them to articles on my site, so you can too!

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Published December 4th, 2020 5 minute read

The ProblemAlthough I do most of my writing in Notion, I have to put posts into Statamic to publish them on my website. For more CSS-based demonstration posts, I needed a better way to display the code and the result. Sometimes code snippets aren't enough to get the point...

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