Projects

All the various web development projects I've worked on. Includes guides for implementing things yourself, as well as general findings I found helpful and wanted to share.

Remove 404 error for /service-worker.js in local development

2 min read   ‐   Mar 4, 2024

Various frameworks will show a 404 in the console for a /service-worker.js file, here's how to remove that lil jerk.

Add Vitest to a Next app

2 min read   ‐   Dec 9, 2023

Adding Vitest to a Next app and writing a simple test

Astro component for a GitHub contribution graph

7 min read   ‐   Dec 3, 2023

Using the GitHub GraphQL API to recreate their contribution graph in an Astro component with Tailwind CSS.

Astro component for a list of GitHub gists

8 min read   ‐   Dec 2, 2023

Using the GitHub JS client Octokit to fetch all gists for a user and render them using an Astro component.

Migrating my site from Nuxt to Astro

6 min read   ‐   Nov 25, 2023

The process of taking my site from Nuxt to Astro, and how content collections replaced Contentful.

Creating a Tailwind color picker

4 min read   ‐   Nov 24, 2023

A little helper function I found useful in a recent project that allows you to get the Tailwind color closest to a given CSS color value.

Generating open graph images with Netlify functions.

5 min read   ‐   Feb 28, 2023

How to leverage Netlify functions and Satori to generate open graph images for your site.

Building theconvergencebooks.com with Astro

2 min read   ‐   Jan 12, 2023

Migrating theconvergencebooks.com from Wix to Astro+Tailwind

Content search with Nuxt, Algolia, and Contentful

5 min read   ‐   Nov 3, 2022

Integrating Algolia into a Nuxt+Contentful stack.

Website internationalization and gatsby-plugin-i18n-config

4 min read   ‐   Nov 1, 2022

Notes on website internationalization for a Gatsby plugin that never was.

LaRocque.dev v1

3 min read   ‐   May 8, 2022

Building a portfolio site with Nuxt, Bulma, and Contentful.

Porting LaRocque.dev from Nuxt to Gatsby

4 min read   ‐   Jan 31, 2022

How to migrate a Nuxt app over to Gatsby.

Wifeapedia

1 min read   ‐   Jan 17, 2022

Building a wiki for TV show Wifeswap in Nuxt backed by Contentful.

Lambda sitemap generator

4 min read   ‐   Dec 20, 2021

How to make a modern sitemap with Netlify functions.

Gatsby v3 migration

3 min read   ‐   Dec 12, 2021

Migrating a Gatsby v2 site to v3 and pitfalls to look out for.

Greenhouse jobs board

3 min read   ‐   Dec 9, 2021

How to create a client-side Greenhouse jobs board inside a Gatsby site.

Brightcove

1 min read   ‐   Dec 5, 2021

An overview of what I built for brightcove.com.

Spartan.com rebuild

2 min read   ‐   May 1, 2020

Rebuilding Spartan.com from a legacy Angular app to Phoenix(Elixir) + Vue.