How to add claps to your blog
Sat Jan 22 2022
Interactions are a content creators favorite thing, it allows you to know if your content is providing value....
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Adding Comments To My Blog
Sat Jul 17 2021
Comments are important to a blog, people love to engage but I did not want to pay for a service, or invade my readers with ads or tracking....
Authentication doesn't have to be hard
Tue Aug 23 2022
Authentication is a word almost every developer hates, but it doesn't have to be difficult anymore. Using Clerk allows you to add authentication to an...
Learn how to use Firebase & Clerk.dev (CRUD)
Thu Jan 06 2022
Here we are, the new year is upon us, and if you are like me, you have set some New Year’s resolutions for yourself. Possibly learning a new language,...
Force Reload Next.js Pages
Tue Oct 05 2021
Sometimes you need to just force reload a page in Next.js, lets look at a couple ways you can do this!...
How I setup Next.js Projects
Sat Oct 30 2021
I create 100s of Next projects a year, and I have a particular way of setting everything up. It might be for you, it might not....
Dealing with Date objects in Next data fetching
Wed Nov 10 2021
When working with Data objects in ServerSideProps or StaticProps Next.js doesn't like it because they don't serailize it for performance. So you are o...
Next.js - How to optimize fonts
Mon May 02 2022
When using 3rd party fonts we have to make sure they are optimized, in the times before Next.js 10.2 you had to manually optimize them for example:...
How to open a link in a new tab
Fri Oct 29 2021
Next Link has made links easier for developers, but what if you need to open a external link in a new tab?...
NextJS FaunaDB Crash Course
Fri May 07 2021
Welcome to my latest blog post, which is a crash course on NextJS and Fauna, in this blog post I am going to show you how to Create a Database, Read f...
How to reload an SSR page
Sat Apr 02 2022
When using SSR you might need to update the data that has been served. We are going to look at how we do that today....
How to handle page to page loading in Next.js
Tue Mar 22 2022
Here we are, the new year is upon us, and if you are like me, you have set some New Year’s resolutions for yourself. Possibly learning a new language,...
SSR VS SSG
Wed Aug 04 2021
I’ve heard and seen a lot of “What language should I pick first?” Questions in my time as a developer. It’s an interesting question that I seem to hav...
Using Next Middleware to access and use geolocation in a non dynamic route
Thu May 05 2022
Middleware is extremely powerful, accessing and using geolocation to provide your users with a custom experience has never been easier....