Hello! I’m Jamie

February 25, 2025

Vercel previews offer a great way to test PRs for a project. They have a predefined environment and don’t require any additional setup work from the reviewer to test changes quickly. Many projects also use end-to-end tests with Playwright as part of the review process to ensure that no regressions slip uncaught.

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February 4, 2025

Laravel is a mature, robust, and powerful web framework that makes developing PHP applications a breeze. In particular, I want to demonstrate how to create a website that can be used to convert videos online using queue jobs for processing and temporary URLs for downloading the converted files.

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January 4, 2025

Astro supports redirects out of the box when using an adapter, but only redirects to pages on the same site that Astro knows to exist. Although the Cloudflare adapter does support external redirects, supporting them is considered a "non-goal" according to the Astro roadmap. There does seem to be interest in adding external redirects to the Vercel adapter as well, but as of now this doesn't work.

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December 29, 2024

Back in February of 2016 I created this website using Hugo. I chose Hugo primarily because of its fast builds, but also because it was easy to use and author content with as it supported markdown. However, I've recently switched my website over to Astro and I'm going to talk about my experience with it and why I made the switch.

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October 25, 2024

Dialogs are a common component added to applications, whether on the web or in native applications. Traditionally there has not been a standard way of implementing these on the web, resulting in many ad-hoc implementations that don’t act consistently across different web applications. Often, commonly expected features are missing from dialogs due to the complexity of implementing them.

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August 2, 2024

Traditionally web applications have always had a less polished experience, both functionally and visually speaking, compared to native applications on mobile and other platforms. This has been improving over the years with the introduction of new web APIs and standards. One such new API that bridges that gap is the View Transitions API.

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