Hello! I’m Jamie

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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February 28, 2024

With the rise of CSS in JS libraries like Material UI and Chakra, developers have started creating dynamic and reusable styles using JavaScript; however, the performance implications of these libraries have led to the exploration of alternative solutions. One such solution is CSS Hooks, a library that offers a different approach to managing styles in web applications.

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February 2, 2024

Most APIs and applications that allow you to manage content have some form of deletion functionality. Sometimes you may want to make something recoverable after it’s been deleted, or perform the actual deletion later, and soft deletion is a way to accomplish this.

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