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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.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Qu'est-ce que l'hébergement web statique ?
18 Aug 2020
Avant de devenir développeuse, j’ai eu un site web personnel. Disons que c’était sur http://www.BestKatie.com. Je ne l’ai pas construit avec un constructeur de site web tel que Squarespace ou Wix.
What is a static site generator?
18 Aug 2020
In ancient times, I’d hand-write a folder full of .html-typed files and upload them to a directory katie on a web server, where they’d become my site’s “web pages.” I never want to do that again.
What is static web hosting?
18 Aug 2020
Long before becoming a programmer, I had a personal web site. I was definitely already a nerd. Let’s say it was at http://www.BestKatie.com. I didn’t make it with a site builder like Squarespace or Wix.
Heroku live previews for Gatsby + Sanity sites
17 Aug 2020
I said previously that I wouldn’t use Gatsby Cloud’s free tier for hosting the “live preview” instance of a Gatsby site coupled with Sanity CMS because I didn’t find its usage quotas generous enough for handing over to a content author.
Today I’ll show you how to deploy a Gatsby site in “develop” mode to Heroku so that you can host a lovely site at https://preview.yoursite.com.
Update: at GatsbyConf 2021, Gatsby Cloud seems to have lifted the quotas sufficiently on their free tier to hand a small site over to a content author.
According to my friends, anyway. I haven’t been back to try it myself.
But in case that saves you time…
Set plugin names and default visibility in Canvas course navigation menus
16 Aug 2020
David Tod taught the world to hide confusing plugins from faculty using Instructure Canvas’s API. Read on to find out how to rename plugins at the same time.
Continue ReadingHowToGraphQL.com Notes
09 Aug 2020
I stumbled into the Party Corgi Discord, a community of front-end web developers who produce a lot of written, audio, and video content teaching and learning the tech they use.
I happened to be online when the opportunity arose to study HowToGraphQL.com as a group, which is great because at work my team just got access to a new product that uses GraphQL (an HTTP-based communications specification), and I had no idea in the slightest how to use it until I started playing with Gatsby a month ago. I thought it’d be fun to follow others’ lead and take notes in public.
Rate-limiting API requests in Python with a decorator
28 Jul 2020
The other day, I needed to make sure that a Python script I’m writing doesn’t call a REST API any faster than it’s allowed to.
I wanted “DRY,” readable code, so writing “if-else” code around every call to a function from the requests module was out of the question.
Gatsby Cloud live previews for Sanity-based sites
21 Jul 2020
For most projects in this series, I haven’t talked about deployment of your Gatsby codebase to a web host because great official documentation already exists from hosts like Netlify.
However, this project isn’t entirely self-contained the way my other projects were. There are very specific pieces of data to put into “environment variables” for my project, so I’ll show you the step-by-step I do to deploy this site onto the internet.
Besides – we need to see the cool Instant Preview!
Educators and students - get Figma graphic design software free
17 Jul 2020
Figma is a really neat graphic design tool. I’ll let people who actually know what they’re doing tell you why.
I’m just here to say that if you have a “.edu” address or otherwise qualify, get it free while you can.
I’m also here to screenshot a few hard-to-find parts of the process.
PL/SQL Nested Queries
14 Jul 2020
I’m working on a middleware tool to extract “people of interest” from an Oracle database and convert the resulting data into JSON-formatted text ready to load into Instructure’s Bridge learning management system as users via Bridge’s API. Writing PL/SQL to extract the data with reusable “nested cursors” for maintainability was quite an adventure.
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