Howdy, I'm Bryan
I educate folks about the web and technology.
You may have heard of me, but probably not (I'm not that arrogant). I'm a developer educator that has been working on the web for over 18 years. I've done everything from video production, to leading development and design teams, to building the frontend for enterprise, content-heavy websites.
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Latest posts
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Type-safe environment variables in Astro 5.0
Astro’s 5.0 beta has released a stable version of its astro:env module. This allows for developers to configure a schema for their environment variables and then take advantage of new feature this opens.
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New Website, but really is it?
Launched a new version of the website... it's still pretty much the same, but way less complicated
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Netlify Durable Cache: Caching for a third-party world
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at setting up Netlify’s Durable Cache on a third-party API with (artificially) slow returns. We’ll use a proxied dev.to API, throttle it a bit, and see the effects of durable caching on the responses. We’ll also build a function to clear specific authors from the cache to get the most up-to-date information without a full rebuild.
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Integrating Astro.js Starlight Documentation into a Next.js Project Using Proxies
Using Astro Starlight is almost a dream, but documentation sometimes lives separately from a main project site. In this tutorial, we'll tackle adding Starlight as a subroute to a Next.js site with proxies
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Jamstack is meaningless
Right at the top, let’s say what’s in the title… The name Jamstack is meaningless… but then again, so is MACH … and composable… and headless… and Developer experience… and serverless…, but also, they’re all hugely important Meaningless and hugely important seem to be almost diametrically opposed, so let me take a step back and explain