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I could dedicate my life to encouraging people to tell stories and play games. That would make me happy, but these are drastically undervalued things, despite being a hallmark of the human experience.
November 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM UTC
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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Astro Server Island for latest Bluesky post (heavily cached!)
Hopefully later, I'll come back and do a full write up, but in the meantime, here's a video of creating an Astro Server Island to show your latest Bluesky post. This is what powers my "latest from bluesky" widget on the homepage of this site.
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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