Thomas Gauvin

You've probably used MCP servers without even knowing it.

I was using Cloudflare Durable Objects to build a real-time app earlier last month and was running into a bug with my WebSocket connections...

Cloudflare Workers introduced support for static assets in September 2024 as part of the effort to unify Cloudflare Workers and Pages.

Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN) is probably the most known Cloudflare product - and with good reason, it provides great performance, global reach, and has a great free tier.

Over the past few years, I’ve had to measure website load times across the world.

This blog post is about experimenting with hosting PMTiles as static assets on Cloudflare Pages.

Open-source projects for mapping have gotten really, really good.

2023 was a year of deep technical learning and incremental progress in my role as product manager, as well as some launches of a few key projects.

I'm launching Penmark, an embeddable CMS for Markdown-based, GitHub-backed static sites.

React and NextJS provide a quick user experience with client-side navigation.

In the previous blog post, I discussed hosting a React application on Static Web Apps with a subpath.

When hosting a React application, you may be interested in hosting it with a subpath, such that you app is hosted at /.

For a recent project, I was trying to add the `[skip ci]` keyword to my Git commit messages to avoid the build process as documented by GitHub.

Recently, I read about the utility of SQLite for web servers and was intrigued by the possibility of using SQLite and an Azure Function to host an effectively free web application.

I often come back to guides to create new React and Express applications, so in this blog post I document how to create a simple React frontend and Express backend application.

Bindings are a powerful Azure Functions feature which provide native integrations to other resources or services, such as databases or storage accounts.

I wanted to host my blog on a separate domain and repository from my personal website to give it its own space.

In this blog post, we are going to build a Python web application from scratch, using the Flask framework and using Azure Blob Storage to store our pictures.

Storing environment variables locally rather than in the code can prevent an unsecure exposure of your access keys, and it's quite easy to do!