Some years ago I had the view that databases were a persistence tool, that they hadn’t evolved in any significant way in the last decades and that they were a somewhat necessary evil. Today I use databases as a tool among others in my developer’s toolbox. I think there are a number of reasons why my views have changed.
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When you have a static website, there are a few things that you usually don’t have out-of-the-box. One such thing is search. You can argue that you don’t need it, but if you want it and your site isn’t that large, I’ll describe how I’ve set it up without an external service.
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I have an Asus RT-AC68U router at home. I’ve previously used the build-in update checker together with a notification script that ran on the router itself. Recently I noticed that I hadn’t got any update notifications in a long time, one of the downsides of silent failures. This is my custom code that looks for updates.
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So, I upgraded Cypress from 3.7.0 to 3.8.2 and ran everything locally - no problems. But the build failed both in GitHub Actions and Netlify. I now had two conflicting versions. When using Yarn, this can be solved with Selective dependency resolutions, by adding the following to package.json
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I was rewriting a WordPress site in Gatsby that had embedded tweets using an embed script (WordPress plugin). The product owner (my wife), required the new site to also show her tweets. I didn’t like the idea of an embed script (that would slow down the site and spy on visitors), so I started to look into Gatsby source plugins.
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