Not Another CV

People who've been following me for a while will know that a key feature of my site has always been the dynamically generated CV button on the homepage.

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JPFTFSS - Just Pay For The Faster Server Stupid!

I could also have called this article "How to Speed Up Rust Compilation on Google Cloud Build" but that wasn't as fun.

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The State of Twitter and an Update on mikevdv.dev

I've done a few blog posts about features that rely on Twitter built into this site, from Custom Twitter Embeds to WebMentions.

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Why I'm finally learning Rust

Javascript and its derivatives are immensely flexible.

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Creating a Mailing List with Mailersend

I've long since wanted to add a mailing list to the blog as a way that people could directly show interest in what was being posted.

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Building a Modern Release Process for Blog Posts

One of the earliest articles I ever wrote was about the posting process that my blog posts followed.

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Markdown That You Might Not Know

I write every one of my blog posts in Markdown.

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I made a daily web game

It seems like simple daily web games, à la Wordle or Framed, have been quite popular over the pandemic.

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Switching to Webmention Comments

A while back I introduced likes to the blog through the use of Webmentions and Bridgy.

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Improving Twitter Embeds using the Twitter API

For a long time now, I've been frustrated by how slow the official twitter embed is.

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Type Guards in Typescript

Often times when I speak to developers who have just started writing typescript, they have begun to understand static typing.

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