posts

Explaining a pattern I’m using for client/server state management in dust.

I recently deployed another one of my little apps, written with Next.js. In this post, I discuss why my app is deployed on Fly instead of Vercel, even though Vercel is ”the native Next.js platform“.

I’m working on a habit/task tracking app called Habitsheets. As I’ve worked on it, thinking about “features I’d like in my ideal habit/task tracking app,” some ideas occurred to me that don’t seem common in other apps. This post is highlighting those features I wouldn’t mind seeing in other habit and/or task management tools.

I’ve been wanting an “SSO lab” for experimenting with Single Sign-On (SAML and OIDC) setups. My solution is a Keycloak instance running on Fly.io. This post is a brief tutorial for self-hosting your own Keycloak instance.

A script to scaffold new posts for my Astro blog.

Use D2 markup to author diagrams in your Astro MDX content.

Implementing Hugo-style aliases in Astro.

Switching my blog’s static site generator to Astro.

A brief overview of my MarkDownload fork, intended for Dendron users.

I’m happy to report that you no longer need JavaScript to see rendered KaTeX expressions and Mermaid diagrams in my blog posts! I wrote a script aftermath that post-processes my blog posts to compile the following at build-time: KaTeX, Mermaid, and D2.