Scott Spence's Blog

I made a starter blog with SvelteKit and GraphCMS, I’ve been doing a couple of small projects with it and I really like it!

I got my new hardware from GraphCMS today and wanted to stream the setup of a Windows PC for web development.

I came across this issue today when trying to set up OBS on a new machine where trying to add a display capture and there was no output for the screen.

Render is pretty neat!

The Gatsby offline plugin is really handy right up until you don’t want it any more!

I had a play around with Svelte the other day and wanted to make a few notes and comparisons to React, React being a point of reference for me and hopefully others.

I was tagged into a conversation over on James Q Quick’s Discord about growth over the last year and it wasn’t until I sat down to write about it that I realised I’ve done quite a bit over the last 12 months now.

I have always liked using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I’d routinely trash installs then reinstall them from the Microsoft store and have become quite adept at setting up new instances with everything I need to get back to coding as quickly as ...

When using Tailwind CSS in a Toast project I got a CSS warning semi-colon expected css(css-semicolonexpected) when trying to use the Tailwind @apply directive.

For the past couple of weeks I have slowly been getting a more comfortable with Toast The best way to do that would be to make a project with it, I decided to move my blog to Toast.

I was directed to direnv by Chris Biscardi when I was trying to use some environment variables in my Toast site.

In this post I’m detailing how I set up my domain with ProtonMail and Vercel, this is mainly the CLI commands that are needed to get set up with ProtonMail and Vercel.

Ever since I first saw Sara Vieira’s slides form Vue London 2018 I’ve really liked the idea of writing a presentation in MDX.

A sitemap is an important for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) because it makes it easier for Google and other search engines to find your site’s pages.

The Logitech G915 Ten Keyless (TKL) has been a bit difficult to get hold of recently.

I’m a bug writing machine, all developers are!

This isn’t a guide, this is me documenting the how and why for a proof of concept project I worked on.

I’ve been using the Windows Terminal now since the summer, it’s great and I now prefer it over Hyper which was my preferred terminal.

I have been having a blast playing around with configuring Fedora 33 in Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux, I didn’t know you could straight up import a Linux distro and use it.

This is a specific use case for installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu on WSL.

Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a look see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have installed.

Ok this is a little snippet I’ve got set up to query data from the GitHub GraphQL API.

For the past couple of weeks now I have been getting familiar with Preact and the Preact CLI.

Create a Video overlay with React hooks.

Create a simple Node API on Vercel Serverless functions in under 20 minutes.

As a developer you spend a lot of time in the terminal so it’s important to be happy and as productive as possible whilst you’re in there.

So I had a play around with the openSUSE Leap 15.2 you can get on the Windows store and after familiarising myself with it decided to see if I could use it for web development.

So this post started off with me getting GUI apps running on my Windows WSL install of Pengwin, but has now turned into doing it without the need to fork over the readies for Pengwin as now you can do it with Ubuntu or Debian (possibly others) which ...

Sooooooo, so, so, so, Zsh is pretty neat, right?

The Gatsby File System Route API was announced recently and I have been having a play around with it.

Ok, so this is another one of those “let’s use a new CSS-in-JS library on a Gatsby default starter project” post.

This is a very specific issue myself and anyone that uses Gatsby and React router for navigating between headers in their Gatsby sites.

I have delivered this talk several times now but not actually written about it.

I started adding videos to my YouTube channel in November 2018, this was mainly intended as an accompaniment to the blog post I did to Get your GraphCMS data into Gatsby.

Here it is kids!

I recently started monetising my blog, (don’t worry there’s no paywall!)

Yo!

For as long as I have been learning web development () I have been taking notes.

I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux, here’s how it went.

Unprecedented times, 2020 has been something else, and hopefully something none of us will have to live through again.

My list of VS Code extensions I use in my daily development workflow.

My beloved HAVIT KB395L keyboard left Ctrl key has started cutting out intermittently.

Now that Windows Subsystem Linux has finally arrived I think it’s time to refresh my notes on it from the last post I did back at the end of 2018. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-win10 Keep reading

This is a follow up on the post I did about Getting Started with Linaria The starter I worked on last time I made into a template so it can be used as the base of this project.

Virtual Box Guest Additions can be a bit of a pain to set up sometimes.

Fathom Analytics, a great tool to use for your site analytics without the compromise of giving your visitors data to Google.

I had a work colleague introduce me to Linaria last week and I’ve used it on a project and I quite like it.

I built my first PC, here’s how it went and what I learned.

A curated list of hints and tips for using styled-components.

Use the same frontmatter block all the time for your blog posts?