It turns out configuring ESLint to use Stage 3 proposals is actually a massive pain, and sends you down a rabbit hole of Babel, assumed knowledge, renamed packages and half answered questions.

Adding share links for all the various places users can share content from X, to LinkedIn or Reddit and many more, can be a real pain. The Web Share API is growing in support, making sharing content on the web easier than ever. For browsers that don't support the API you can fall back to self generated share targets.

Some quick debugging tips that I came up with whilst building my personal blog.

I took a progressive enhancement approach to using frontend javascript for my blog, Web Components are the perfect fit here.

I work with React and painfully slow Webpack builds every day, using 11ty for my blog was a breath of fresh air. By using the 11ty starter projects and awesome courses and tutorials for help, I felt like I had superpowers!

I'm by no means a designer, but with a bit of research into color contrast and accessibility, making I was able to build out a design that I was happy with.

When I've started side projects in the past, I felt like I dug into code too quickly, without thinking about what I actually was building first, I wanted to try something a bit different this time.