Blog Posts

When useEffect runs

Setting up Netlify Redirects with Astro

Importing SVG files as React components with Vite

Documenting knowledge: a guide to successful note-taking

Passing Markdown components to React or Preact in Astro

Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes. https://leaddev.com/communication-relationships/want-promote-knowledge-sharing-your-teams-standardize-way-you-take

Moose facts I learned a lot about moose and now you can too. https://dev.to/cassidoo/moose-facts-1l9j

Functional Programming 101 I wrote this blog posts for folks who don't know functional programming! https://github.com/readme/guides/functional-programming-basics

How to break the cycle of tech debt I wrote about the inevitability of tech debt and how to deal with it! https://leaddev.com/legacy-technical-debt-migrations/how-break-cycle-tech-debt

Customizing my Zsh Prompt I updated my Zsh prompt to have some fun colors, the date, and git information! https://dev.to/cassidoo/customizing-my-zsh-prompt-3417

Renaming a folder on the GitHub website I didn't actually know it was possible to rename a folder in a repo from GitHub, but here we are! https://dev.to/cassidoo/renaming-a-folder-on-the-github-web...

Make line breaks work when you render text in a React or Vue component I've run into this problem waaay too often. https://dev.to/cassidoo/make-line-breaks-work-when-you-render-text-in-a-react-or-v...

Use Unicode characters for bullet points in CSS using ::marker I learned this and had to write about it immediately! https://dev.to/cassidoo/use-unicode-characters-for-bullet-points-in-css-using-ma...

Being available: The secret to great leadership I wrote an article about being there for your communities and organizations! https://leaddev.com/leadership-skills/being-available-secret-great-leade...

Adding a lang attribute to your Next.js site I wrote this article up after having to solve this problem for myself! https://dev.to/cassidoo/adding-a-lang-attribute-to-your-nextjs-site-22db

Using Next.js 12 on Netlify Wrote up this post for folks new to the latest update of Next.js, version 12! https://dev.to/netlify/use-nextjs-12-on-netlify-20m1