Lloyd Atkinson's Articles

I built a small collection of tools to automate repetitive tasks and make working on my website easier. - Tagged: Astro, Automation, Static Sites, Workflows, Tools

A pleasantly simple fix that reduced cold-start time from ~7 seconds to ~2.5 seconds. - Tagged: .NET, AWS

Reflecting on my year - Tagged: Year in review, Gardening, Programming, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia

The struggle to find meaning in meaningless work. - Tagged: Philosophy, Rant

A brief review of my experience self-hosting Git mirrors with GitWeb, cgit, and Forgejo - Tagged: Git, Homelab

Reflecting on my year - Tagged: Year in review, Gardening, Programming, Norway, Wales, Bulgaria

A short example of using Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server, and Docker Compose - Tagged: Containers, Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server

Fixing problems that shouldn't exist - Tagged: Cloudflare, SVG

What is the software industry playing at?

Bash scripts (or any type of script) can become unwieldy, fragile, and difficult to maintain - Tagged: Linux, Bash, Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Homelab

When being insufferable about screen brightness substitutes for having a personality - Tagged: Rant, Skepticism

My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review, Love, Marriage, Poland

I continued the tradition I started in 2021 of creating a fun Christmas project - Tagged: Christmas, Astro, React, Netlify, Azure Table Storage

Google exiting the domain registrar business, Netlify performance lagging... - Tagged: Cloudflare, Netlify, Hosting, Performance, Networking, Internet

Mr and Mrs Atkinson - Tagged: Marriage, Love

The case for almost always favouring the type keyword over the interface keyword - Tagged: TypeScript, Type Theory

How mismanagement at the organisation level caused the best team I've been in to disband. - Tagged: Rant, Burnout, Team Culture

Ensuring no capital letters in your routes and using kebab casing. - Tagged: .NET, ASP.NET Core, C#

My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review, Poland

I continued the tradition I started in 2021 of creating a fun Christmas project - Tagged: Christmas, Music, Astro, React, Netlify, Azure

Integrate with CI/CD builds and automations on a schedule - Tagged: GitHub, CI/CD, Webhooks, Scheduling

A terrible user-hostile browser feature is being misused, surprising no one. - Tagged: Security, Privacy, Dark Patterns

The correct way to prevent a duplicated canvas that occurs during development time - Tagged: React, React Hooks, P5

Part of my "Tiny Projects" series.

Are you passing arguments to NPM scripts from Powershell and finding some of them are not being passed?

Sometimes some tools, frameworks, or languages aren't that great.

Default exports lead to mismatched and confusing names.

An article I wrote on usage of Git unexpectedly featured on YouTube - Tagged: GitHub, Git, YouTube

To squash your commits or merge them as they are?

How I implemented a generic search component in Preact and Fuse for use with but not limited to Astro - Tagged: Preact, Fuse, Astro, Algorithms, Fuzzy Search

Creating a small CSS helper to highlight active media query breakpoints - Tagged: Responsive Design, CSS, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS

Use the Record type for objects with unknown properties.

Designing flexible and semantically correct design systems with polymorphic components - Tagged: Design Systems, TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Vue, React, Astro

Storypointing is a pointless exercise many agile/scrum teams follow - Tagged: Rant, Agile, Critical Thinking, No Estimates, Software Management

Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity - Tagged: .NET, C#, Finite State Machines, Workflows, Stateless

My thoughts and reflections on what I want to do as a software developer and how I want to do it - Tagged: Passion & Creativity, Rant, Burnout

Using GitHub Actions to add labels conditionally to a PR based on which files and directories changed - Tagged: GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Pull requests

Generating page redirects at build time for static sites without client-side code while maintaining SEO.

Mapped types are one of the many powerful types available in TypeScript.

A small experiment with F# and list replication - Tagged: Functional Programming, F#, HackerRank, Algorithms, Kata

.NET libraries I highly recommend for probably every project - Tagged: Software Design, .NET

Asking "Why?"

This is the first post on the site.