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Bread and butter from React and Rails, but currently exploring Linux System Administration and Cloud Solutions/DevOps.
Learning everyday. Follow along with my series on creating Chrome Extensions, Desktop Apps (soon), and PWAs.
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I learned today that my main blog posts should be called "Today I Learned"s. I'm surprised my last post was over two months ago. I've been working on my new Chrome extension project, Chorus, making features, fixing problems, and getting it ready for ...
TLDR: Fix a bug, package and upload to Developer Dashboard, fill forms, submit for review, and look at analytics after going live. In this post, we want to create and submit an initial release for the Chrome Web Store and upload it to Github. Before ...
Here's a recap of what we want to accomplish for the first feature: Either disable or remove all the Add to queue UI (on hover and via the dropdown: Enable or disable the first feature by clicking on the extension in the toolbar, which controls t...
Building a Youtube Add-on to Regain Control of Queue Playlist
TLDR: This article demonstrates how to use AppleScript to control Spotify and display song information in a tmux status bar. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables several terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. T...
TLDR: Write min. 2 posts per month. Does not have to be inciteful. Just stick to it and develop the habit.
I am going to start blogging this year. Yes, I have said this before, and it resulted in me writing a few posts, but that was way back in 2019-2020. I quickly wrote ~10 posts in a matter of weeks based on projects and things I had been working on. Alas, shortly after I got a job and writing fell to the wayside even though I was working on more projects and gaining more knowledge than ever. Funny that huh? I, like others, am of the mind that a post has to be inciteful and fully realized, thus developing the post idea, writing the draft, editing, etc becomes more of a chore. I want something more feasible and manageable this time. Not every post has to be illuminating, technical, or a snapshot of me at that point, but I do want it to be something I would want to leaf through a year from now, either as a resource or a reflection.
A blog has to be hosted somewhere so I am using Hashnode to host, write, and publish my blog. However, as I have a custom domain, I will be using cdrani.dev as the official site. The site is currently a copy of balbas.io which utilizes Astrojs. I like the design and don't want to waste time designing my own - this can be a future project down the line. Next.js will be used to deploy the site to my domain, and the posts will be pulled from Hashnode.
I want a minimum of 2 posts a month - the topics and content are not of import. I am setting a reminder to check in every 3 days. Additionally, I want to cross-post some posts to sites like dev.to, medium, etc. This is the year I build up a following across Twitter and the blogosphere.
By now you might have seen that I fully moved to Hashnode hosting. I am no longer just pulling content from Hashnode into the Astrojs app. The Hashnode API limits post retrievals to 6 posts per request. Additionally, the API doesn't support series (yet, hopefully), which is integral to how I want to separate the topics I want to explore.