Although Vercel's main focus is Next.js — a React framework, they are generally very friendly to other projects. Their analytics can be used even in a static site like Astro! — I use Astro in its default SSG mode. But this will definitely work with server side rendering too! 1. Enable analytics on your Vercel project Go to vercel.com and in the header of your project overview, click the little Analytics tab. You can enable your analytics there.

This feels like a browser Apple should have made. — Arc browser is an innovative browser that challenges Google Chrome on MacOS. It brings a breath of fresh air into the browser game that hasn't changed much in the last few years. I switched from Safari to the Arc browser two weeks ago. Here are its main features and what…

Programmers are really ingenious fellows who love coming up with weird names. Today I want to tell you about some of the most curious names for programming constructs I've encountered! — The Elvis operator We've all heard about the King of Pop and his iconic hairstyle. Well, this operator is named just after that. And once you see it, it never goes away. This operator is actually really useful! It takes two arguments and returns the left one if it contains a truthy value.

Do you ever get that feeling when you reach someplace totally new, that somehow you've been there before? — Developers around the world use Tailwind to go fast. It provides nicely named utility classes and sensible defaults. However, Tailwind is still pretty focused on low-level CSS. This allows you to craft your components but provides no component-level styling. This is where RippleUI comes in with the Bootstrap philosophy and…

Apple is well known for its emojis and they do a good job supporting them on Macs. Here I want to show you how I keep my favorites at hand. — You can always press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to access their Character Viewer. But after that, you have to find your emoji and click it. That bothers me the most since I have to take my hands off the keyboard, which just slows me down.

Tagged topics are a common feature in blogs. Simple text label works just fine — but I wanted to spice things up a little bit. With colors of course! — Let’s give each tag its distinct color. And because we are developers, let’s do it in code! Every time your user has to read something, it’s a tiny amount of friction. UX designers know this — they have been bypassing text labels with icons for years. My idea was, that…

How I used my Raspberry Pi to build a passive income — I got my Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB as a Christmas gift for last year. And as I’m fiddling with the little guy, I’m trying to come up with some sort of use for him. Back then, passive income was all the rage (even more than now), crypto was still up…

Recently I wanted to convert 3000+ tabler SVG icons into Astro components for my website. This also included adding Astro frontmatter into each file and exposing some of the SVG parameters. What I want to focus on are the filename transformations. What I need to do is this: some-icon-name.svg 👉…

Throw your MS Word out of the window already. This simple language is all you will ever need. — It really is the minmaxer king. If you are a developer, chances are a lot of things you are reading come from Markdown. Github Readmes Documentation Blog articles like this one! But aside from that.. not much. Try to ask a non technical person what does he think about Markdown…