Declan Byrd

Long form writings that have been included in the journal.

• What I think about when I think about writing a blog post

  8 June 2022
  • #Brain dump

  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.

• Get your last played Spotify track using Netlify Graph

  9 March 2022
  • #Netlify Graph
  • #API

  How I used Netlify Graph to generate a serverless function that would fetch my last played track from Spotify while handling authentication.

• Checking conditions using Array.some()

  22 April 2021
  • #JavaScript
  • #TIL

  Today I leant how to use the some() method on an array to check if user input contained a list of keywords.

• Syndicating blog posts from an 11ty site to Dev.to using RSS

  2 April 2021
  • #RSS
  • #11ty

  How I syndicate the blog posts from my website to Dev.to by providing an RSS feed for my journal page.

• Responsive sizing with CSS

  20 July 2020
  • #CSS
  • #Responsive Design

  How to use css functions such as min() to create a fallback for clamp()

• My experience with Google foo.bar

  9 April 2020
  • #Python
  • #Code Challenge

  How I came across the invite only coding challenge created by Google to hire developers.