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My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
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APIs are for admins: texting your colleagues with Salesforce Flow (Cactusforce 2021)
15 Jan 2021
Thanks for coming to Salesforce MVP Narender Singh’s and my 6-minute lightning demo “APIs are for admins: texting your colleagues with Salesforce Flow” at Cactusforce 2021
Continue ReadingThe first JavaScript I ever wrote
08 Jan 2021
I dismiss my JavaScript skills all the time because it’s not my primary practice, but I was awfully proud of the first program I ever wrote, in late 2011. Would you like to see it?
Continue ReadingClean up old node_modules in Windows 10
05 Jan 2021
Deleting old node_modules folders is the new defragging.
How to use Jekyll SSG with Headless CMS
02 Jan 2021
Architecturally, getting API-based headless CMS to work with the Jekyll SSG is a bit nuanced.
Continue ReadingHow to break (and rebuild) the Jamstack
26 Dec 2020
How do I make the codebases behind my minimum viable build tutorials?
Continue ReadingHello World on Netlify Functions, Cloudflare Workers, & Vercel Functions
09 Dec 2020
Here’s my code for a quick “hello world” serverless function on Netlify Functions, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Functions. Here, a “serverless function” is a URL on the web that responds to HTTPs requests, doing some computation in the background before deciding exactly what the response should be, but for which I don’t have to write a lot of code about how the underlying web server works.
Continue ReadingPasswordless Auth0 and Netlify functions: backend
07 Dec 2020
Obviously the way to send a holiday letter to a limited audience is to make a PDF of it and attach it to a BCC email. But what would be the fun in that?. With immeasurable thanks to the ever-patient Sandrino Di Mattia from Auth0, who held my hand teaching me all of this, I now have passwordless Auth0 and Netlify Functions working together on the backend.
Continue ReadingAdd users to Netlify Identity with Postman
07 Dec 2020
I’ve been playing w/ Netlify Identity and just discovered that Postman-friendly HTTPS API endpoints for managing Netlify Identity are wide open to the whole internet (which kind of makes sense, since they expose the sorts of actions you’d normally expose with signup forms). However, they’re not clearly documented.
Continue ReadingA starter for Netlify Functions with 11ty
07 Dec 2020
I’m trying to set up a login-protected web site for my annual holiday letter to friends and family. Although I’m playing with Auth0 since Netlify Identity doesn’t yet support magic links, I’m pretty sure after reading “Manage Subscriptions and Protect Content With Stripe” that I’ll need to build a Netlify Function.
Continue ReadingWanted: mirrorless camera & lens for livestreaming
24 Nov 2020
I’m in the market for a camera/lens to upgrade picture quality while livestreaming / YouTubing. Any chance you have camera gear to sell me?
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