PinnedPublished inLevel Up CodingTop 10 Tech Trends For 2021Tech trends for 2021 that you should track and try out to build your skills and your resume.Dec 30, 2020377Dec 30, 2020377
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Connecting Astra DB to Claude Desktop Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP)AI is pretty useless… Unless you contextualize it with your data. To do that we use a bunch of methods that fall under the category of…Dec 12, 202426Dec 12, 202426
How To Set Up Your Mirrorless/DSLR For Zoom/YouTube/Twitch/etc.I get asked a lot about what camera and lens I use and how I set it up when I shoot video for my YouTube channel. So I figured I’d write an…Sep 5, 202462Sep 5, 202462
Insanely Easy Local First AI ChatBot With Astro, Ollama and Vercel’s AI LibraryVercel has made a fantastic AI interface library that makes it super easy to create streaming AI interfaces that connect with any LLM. But…Jul 18, 2024332Jul 18, 2024332
Published inJavaScript in Plain English100% Free Vector Search with OpenLlama, Postgres, Node.js and Next.jsSo you want to try out vector search but you don’t want to pay OpenAI, or use Huggingface, and you don’t want to pay a vector database…Jul 2, 20244283Jul 2, 20244283
How To Mess Up a YouTube Tech Rankings VideoRecently I released a video ranking seventeen different React component libraries. Four hours later I pulled the video, dropped all…May 29, 20241674May 29, 20241674
React Compiler With React 18First off, no, the React Compiler isn’t part of React 19. React 19 is just the React library. It doesn’t make any build changes for you. So…May 20, 20241751May 20, 20241751
Published inStackademicRealtime Chat With Supabase Realtime is Supa-easyWhen you think of Supabase you probably think of their easy to use database, but they have realtime eventing system built-in as well. When…Apr 23, 2024582Apr 23, 2024582
Published inJavaScript in Plain EnglishIntroducing Declarative Routing for NextJS and React-RouterIn January 2024 the folks over at Flightcontrol wrote up a post on how they do routing for their NextJS App Router application, and it…Apr 8, 20241621Apr 8, 20241621
Does React Have A Cult Problem?As a React content creator I’m often surprised at the reactions to some of the videos I create. I’m often mystified when I talk about…Apr 3, 20241Apr 3, 20241
StyleX — Meta’s Solution To Scalable CSSUnderstanding what problems Facebook faced with CSS will help us understand more about the design decisions behind StyleX.Dec 5, 20231Dec 5, 20231
NextJS’s Amazing New Streaming Server ActionsOne of the most exciting new advancements in NextJS/React architecture isn’t in NextJS. It’s in Vercel’s AI library. Even there, it’s…Dec 4, 20232Dec 4, 20232
Converting Figma To React the Fast and Easy WayIf you think that AI is going to replace web developers, look no further than trying to turn a Figma prototype into a working React…Nov 29, 20235Nov 29, 20235
How Do I Obscure API Keys On The Client?Question: How do I obscure API keys on the client?Aug 3, 2023Aug 3, 2023
Why Not Just Fetch All The Data From The Client?Question: With my NextJS application, why not just fetch all the data from the client? Why do we need to fetch data on the server?Aug 3, 20233Aug 3, 20233
Does NextJS SSR Render Just the VDOM Nodes?One of the great things about running a coding YouTube channel are the amazing questions that I get that give me some insights into how…Aug 3, 2023Aug 3, 2023
Published inJavaScript in Plain EnglishApp Router Secret: Promises for Client Component PropsWe know that we can send objects, arrays, strings, numbers, dates and more value types as properties from a React Server Component (RSC) to…Aug 1, 20231Aug 1, 20231
Real-Time APIs Done Right With RSCsReal-Time databases on managed services are awesome, whether it’s Google’s Firebase, or its newest competitor, Convex, which has just had…Jul 24, 2023Jul 24, 2023
Published inJavaScript in Plain English5 Clever Hacks for React-Query and SWRUse React-Query or SWR to manage Web Workers, share global state, throttle UI updates and more!Jul 5, 20222Jul 5, 20222
