n8n is a powerful workflow automation tool that helps connect different services and automate tasks, ideal for personal or small-scale use. 

Vibe coding is great, using some sort of AI assistance to help code your app, but it isn't entirely as straight forward as some think. People tend to think they can just open up an IDE such as cursor or windsurf and ask it to build something but that's not how to achieve success with it.

Vercel's AI SDK is a handy resource for building AI powered webapps but they don't have any examples on how to use it with Astro. So I thought I'd write this post to show how to set up a small chatbot in Astro that uses it.

Plausible is great but despite being a privacy friendly analytics tracker, sometimes it still gets blocked by blocklists who want to block all trackers, Proxying is the way to get around this.

We are excited to announce that after nearly 2 years of sustained effort since releasing Remix version 1 — 19 minor releases, over 100 patch releases, and thousands of closed issues and pull requests — we are releasing Remix v2 into the world today.

Plausible is great but despite being a privacy friendly analytics tracker, sometimes it still gets blocked by blocklists who want to block all trackers, Proxying is the way to get around this.

So, here's something that makes me feel old: React celebrated its 10th birthday this year!

Credit to Kent C. Dodds for this idea, ghost routes are a handy way to create a repeatable component route used by other child routes.

Just as you can use robots.txt to block search engines and various bots from crawling your site, you can do the same with OpenAI's GPTBot.

Earlier this week, Netlify officially killed The Jamstack Community Discord. It was a rather abrupt end, with little more than a week’s notice.

Sentry is great for error monitoring, and flexible. This post will show how to add Sentry to your remix apps so it's set up for error, performance, and replay monitoring.

Directus' Insights panels are a handy feature of the data studio, creating charts to see your data when you want to, but adding filters such as `daterange` and `groupBy` make it even more flexible.

AI models are fascinating, I've been building a few sites as well as extensions, etc that use chatGPT, Dall-e, and others to accomplish various tasks.

Being able to preview a new post is important, and when headless, it's even more important.

Let's get started on a nice way to proxy docker containers with let's encrypt and nginx

I've been using Google Analytics for years but decided to try new tools. But I just wanted to move onto a new Analytics tool that was faster and more private. What I eventually ended up choosing was Plausible.  Plausible is a powerful yet simple analytics platform. The simplicity is what got me happy about it.