Journal: Articles
View the RSS feed for article posts in the JournalLong form writings that have been included in the journal.
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Theme Switcher
Building a theme switcher for my website.
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Basketball shoes
A list of (nearly) all the basketball shoes I have ever played in.
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How I Eleventy
Documenting a refactor that introduced a folder structure and configuration changes, which summarises how I Eleventy.
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Changelog: a better introduction
In this post, I'm going to attempt to take note of my thought process when writing an introduction for my website.
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Room for improvement
A to-do list of all the things that I would like to change or investigate for declanbyrd.co.uk throughout 2024.
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100 consecutive weeks of notes
Why I write week notes, what I've learned from writing 100 consecutive weeks of notes, and what I'd do differently.
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Auto-fill frontmatter with data from an API
Writing Node.js scripts to auto-fill frontmatter with the details about a book from an API.
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Using variables in VS Code snippets
Writing custom VS Code snippets to auto-fill front matter in markdown files.
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Building a Mastodon post archive
How I PESOS my Mastodon posts to my site to create an archive of my own social media feed.
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What I think about when I think about writing a blog post
A non-definitive collection of things that cross my mind when I think about writing a new entry (blog post) for the journal section of my website.
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Get your last played Spotify track using Netlify Graph
How I used Netlify Graph to generate a serverless function that would fetch my last played track from Spotify while handling authentication.
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Checking conditions using Array.some()
Today I leant how to use the some() method on an array to check if user input contained a list of keywords.
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Syndicating blog posts from an 11ty site to Dev.to using RSS
How I syndicate the blog posts from my website to Dev.to by providing an RSS feed for my journal page.
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Responsive sizing with CSS
How to use css functions such as min() to create a fallback for clamp()
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My experience with Google foo.bar
How I came across the invite only coding challenge created by Google to hire developers.