You may not need client side JavaScript to add dynamic content from an API. In this article I will show the approach I recently took to embed YouTube playlists into an website created by a static site generator (Elventy), and how this approach lends itself to less JavaScript and progressive enhancement.

I've been learning TensorflowJS and Machine Learning, as an experiment, I thought I would implement a search across my current blog posts using sentence similarity on natural language, running in the browser.

Adding share links for all the various places users can share content from Twitter, 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!

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.