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  1. Eleventy: how to ex­clude draft col­lec­tion items from build pro­gram­mat­i­cally

    With its 0.11.0 re­lease, Eleventy of­fers a pow­er­ful fea­ture. Let’s see how to ex­clude draft col­lec­tion items from build out­put in Eleventy pro­gram­mat­i­cally, us­ing eleven­ty­Com­puted.

  2. Thank you, Next! Moving from Google to NextCloud for my con­tacts & cal­en­dar.

    A per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of a GNOME and Android user mov­ing from Google to a hosted NextCloud in­stance for im­proved pri­vacy of her con­tacts and cal­en­dar.

  3. Make your RSS feed dis­cov­er­able to feed read­ers

    How to add the nec­es­sary meta tag to make auto dis­cov­ery of RSS/Atom feeds pos­si­ble.

  4. Configure git to use a spe­cific SSH key for a repos­i­tory per­ma­nently

    How to con­fig­ure git to use a spec­i­fied SSH key for a repos­i­tory. Details a work-around in case of con­flicts with your SSH con­fig.

✨ Recent Articles

  1. Ligatures are not a good fit for the web.

    I talk about lig­a­tures in ty­pog­ra­phy and why I had to dis­able them on my site.

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  2. I’m mov­ing from Atom to RSS 2.0 feeds.

    Intriuged by the ‘Comments’ links I kept see­ing on some en­tries in my feed reader, I added one for my ar­ti­cles. In the process, I moved to RSS 2.0 feeds. Here’s why and my thoughts on the move.

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  3. Setting the record straight: Firefox is a crazy good browser and we have a moral duty to sup­port it.

    Seeing as I wrote about mov­ing to Vivaldi, Brave, and then back to Vivaldi, it’s only fair I write about my story be­hind the move back to Firefox.

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    Reactions: 15 likes 13 replies 8 re­posts

  4. How to re­duce taxes in the JavaScript ecosys­tem.

    What is JSDoc, and how you can use it to de­scribe your JavaScript code to make use of your IDE.

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    Reactions: 3 likes 2 re­posts

  5. A screenshot from brave.com showing Brave browser on macOS and a mobile device, both laid out on top of a purple-red gradient.
    Goodbye, Vivaldi. It’s time for a Brave ad­ven­ture.

    When Vivaldi fails to check all boxes, Ru con­tin­ues her find-a-browser jour­ney. She ex­plores Brave as an al­ter­nate to Firefox - will this be the one?

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    Reactions: 3 likes 3 replies 1 com­ment 1 re­post

  6. A screenshot of Vivaldi browser, showing its settings menu, with the theme configuration currently active.
    Two days away from Firefox: A Vivaldi ex­pe­ri­ence

    Upset with Firefox’s per­for­mance, I de­cided to trial other browsers on the mar­ket. Here’s my ex­pe­ri­ence with Vivaldi af­ter hav­ing used it for 2 days.

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    Reactions: 5 likes 14 replies 1 re­post

  7. Making ex­ter­nal links safe — JAMStack style

    Update on mov­ing from JavaScript to mark­down pro­cess­ing for safe ex­ter­nal links, and my ex­pe­ri­ence pub­lish­ing a mod­i­fied pack­age on npm.

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    Reactions: 5 likes 2 re­posts

  8. Blue locked door
    How I se­cure a cloud VPS

    Steps de­tail­ing how I as a front-end dev se­cure my cloud VPS - SSH con­fig­u­ra­tion, NGINX, and more!

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    Reactions: 7 likes 12 replies 2 re­posts

  9. Green leaf on a white background
    Keeping my­self mo­ti­vated to write

    Why I’m go­ing to pay for an­a­lyt­ics, and why I chose Plausible.

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    Reactions: 5 likes 2 replies 1 com­ment 2 men­tions

  10. How npm han­dles up­dates for pre-re­lease pack­ages

    Becoming frus­trat­ing my­self re­cently, I de­tail what I learnt about how npm han­dles <1.0.0 pack­age re­leases.

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    Reactions: 2 likes 4 re­posts