Growing link underline, in Tailwind CSS
Today I learned that Learn 11ty From Scratch opened up for free. Searching for the news, I found Ben Myers’ article “I Finally Understand Eleventy’s Data Cascade,” which reminded me how much I like...
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Jamstack live preview tooling (a Next.js Conf reaction list)
Vercel announced Next.js Live, real-time previews with live collaborative editing at Next.js conf.This seemed like a good time to list all the options I’ve explored over the past year. Next.js Live The...
View ArticleAdding Tailwind to a Jekyll site on Windows
I've been wanting to migrate one of my web sites from the Github Pages Jekyll to 11ty for a while so that I could use Tailwind CSS and facitate a redesign of the look and feel.In the end, I realized...
View ArticleOpen a Salesforce scratch org in a different browser with CumulusCI
Using Salesforce's CumulusCI to manage SFDX scratch orgs? I am. I was working from a machine where Firefox is the default web browser, and Firefox didn't play nicely with Lightning-mode editing of...
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Next.js Minimum Viable Build
Like with Gatsby for novices and dabblers, I need to work my way through Next.js, because I find it intimidating. Process Get a Netlify.com free accountSet up a Netlify.com site, connected to a GitHub...
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Jekyll doesn’t do components? Liar!
Hot take: anyone who tells you that Jekyll doesn’t support component-based design, and that you need a React- or Vue-based static site generator, is wrong.Any basic fragment-of-HTML “component” you can...
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Localhost HTML with Python on Windows
If you’ve ever tried to open a file c:\example\my_web_page.html in a web browser by putting file:///C:/example/webserver/my_web_page.html, you might have noticed that HTML <FORM>...</FORM>...
View ArticleSalesforce Apex lets you use external IDs
How did I miss this? Salesforce Apex lets you DML lookup and master-detail relationships by external ID.This is huge for actually letting me leverage the performance benefits of @testSetup and not...
View ArticleSvelteKit Minimum Viable Build
I’m wondering if SvelteKit could make it easy for me to build a UI onto an app to help me write “runbooks” for operational processes at work that happen every few weeks. So, first I have to figure out...
View ArticleCheck a URL with Selenium IDE
It took me a while to figure out how to get Selenium IDE to click a link, wait for the new tab's page-load to settle down, and validate the URL of the new page, but I did it.Overall, I'm pretty...
View ArticleUNPIVOT to key-value pair in Oracle SQL
I always forget how to use UNPIVOT, and so many documents are focused on numbers data, not generic key-value data. Here’s the thing I actually often need to do. Code Here’s my source table called...
View ArticleDownload every Salesforce object and field definition to JSON
I made a new codebase that makes it easy to download the definition of every object and field in a Salesforce org (part of its "metadata") onto your hard drive as a JSON file.Example usage: If they...
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