James 'Dante' Midzi articles - 47 total
Laravel is How Development Should Be
I have not been doing that much writing. Not because I've nothing to write about, no. It's because I...
How Svelte 5 Made Me Understand Nuxt
I have gone on a journey. A long winding journey. A journey I could not have foreseen. As it would...
You Don't Need The Flex
I find it very amusing that this is going to be my first post of the year. But it has bothered me...
Your Constant Quest For Productivity May Be Hurting You
I have been head down working on several things. During the time I found myself accomplishing a lot...
Say Hello To shrinkat - A Tiny URL Shortener
TLDR I made a link shortener. The goal was to learn the Pocketbase API and see if it could be viable...
Rendering External Markdown in Astro
It seems like I'm always writing the same article... 😂 I enjoy Astro, it's a good framework, but...
Why SvelteKit Will Be My Goto Moving Forward
Allow me to tell you a tale, take you on a journey of how I switched how I work completely and I am...
File-Based vs. Directory-Based Routing: Understanding the Difference
I don't know who did it, and why everyone is suddenly confused by this. What you are calling...
Typesafe - An Overused Term That Needs a Reality Check
This article is rant. Nothing more, nothing less. A rant. Of all the internet hype words, this one...
Automate Database Processes: Supabase Triggers
This article follows my Row Level Security one ... As I was doing my tests I came across an issue...
Fortify Your Database: Supabase's Row Level Security
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on stripping away complexity from my apps. In those...
Why Do We Obsess Over Speed So Much?
Over my time in the dev space I've noticed something I find worrying. There is this unnatural focus...
Speaking at Eleventy Meetup
If you have been following my articles for sometime, you know that I did a series on Eleventy This...
build, extract, refactor
Towards the midpoint of last year, I rediscovered one of the developers I found when I started my...
How to Display Dev.to Posts on an Astro Site
While I was talking time off it gave me the opportunity to go back and have a look at things that...
Main or Master: Where Do You Git-llegiances lie?
If you've been using github long enough, you'll recall a time where your primary branch was named...
HTML Entities - A Forgotten But Useful Spec
Let me paint you a picture: You've built your site/application, it looks real good in development....
Let's Learn 11ty Part 10: Bringing It All Together
In our last article we used external data to render posts on our site. If you noticed, we don't...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 9: Data Revisited
We are back again with more Eleventy. I said I would come back and explain and showcase some things...
3 Lessons I've Learnt While Building Sites
I've been building sites - actively that is - for several months now. Be it for clients, for...
The Importance of Balance
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was going to take a break from writing for a bit - the...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 8: Connecting A CMS
I would like to take you back to our blog section on our site. When we looked at collections we setup...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 7: Adding Tailwind
Before we begin This article was supposed to go up yesterday, as per my workflow. I...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 6: Plugins
In our last article we deployed our site. At this point, it is working quite well for a site. There...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 5: Deploying the Site
I've been debating what part of Eleventy to showcase next. My initial thought was to improve our...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 4: Data in Eleventy
Last time we did quite a bit of work on our site to make it come together. At this point, I think...
A Useful Git Command
As a developer version control is something that is most likely in your wokflow. If not, you should...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 3: Collections, Shortcodes, Macros
So far we have look at the basic aspects of Eleventy. Let's now delve deeper into more granular...
Sell Me On Typescript
I'm a Python developer and this strictly typed langauges this something I left after I finished my...
Let's Learn 11ty Part 2: Partials, Styling & Images
In the last article we setup the basis for our site. It's bare bones, but it is a valid site. We are...