<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rodney Lab</title><description>Rodney Lab</description><link>https://rodneylab.com/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>Creating C++ Sphinx Docs: using Doxygen and Breathe 📚</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/creating-c++-sphinx-docs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/creating-c++-sphinx-docs/</guid><description>Creating C++ Sphinx docs 📚 using Sphinx with Doxygen and Breathe to create documentation of a C++ game’s APIs with CMake 🖥️.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:15:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parsing JSON Game Data: Read JSON in C++ GameDev 🕹️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/parsing-json-game-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/parsing-json-game-data/</guid><description>Parsing JSON Game Data 🕹️ using the nlohmann C++ 11 library to read stored game config data in 🖥️ C++ GameDev using CMake.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:02:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CMake Doxygen Site: Create GitHub Pages Hosted C++ Docs 📚</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/cmake-doxygen-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/cmake-doxygen-site/</guid><description>CMake Doxygen Site 📚 example creating C++ project docs using CMake and GitHub Actions to generate an updated 👓 docs site on each push.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:16:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>raylib SDF Fonts: Rendering Sharp, Scaled Text 👓</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/raylib-sdf-fonts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/raylib-sdf-fonts/</guid><description>raylib SDF fonts 👓 using Signed Distance Fields for rendering scaled text and pixelated fonts sharply in raylib Game Dev 🔎.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:43:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Godot Rust CI: Handy GDScript &amp; Rust GitHub Actions 🎬</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/godot-rust-ci/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/godot-rust-ci/</guid><description>Godot Rust CI 🤖 Game dev GitHub actions to add to your Godot Rust GDExtension game for linting GDScript and 🦀 Rust code on each commit.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:00:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Godot Rust gdext: GDExtension Rust Game Dev Bindings 🤖 🦀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/godot-rust-gdext/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/godot-rust-gdext/</guid><description>Godot Rust gdext 🤖 using Godot 4 Rust bindings via the the gdext crate for adding  🦀 Rust GDExtension shared libraries to your Godot game.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:18:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying Godot 4: Free &amp; Open-source Video GameDev 🕹️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/trying-godot-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/trying-godot-4/</guid><description>Trying Godot 4 🕹️ beginner resources for getting started with Godot game dev: learning about 🤖 Godot scenes, nodes &amp; signals.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:08:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ratatui Audio with Rodio: Sound FX for Rust Text-based UI 🔊</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/ratatui-audio-with-rodio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/ratatui-audio-with-rodio/</guid><description>Ratatui audio with Rodio 🔊 adding sound effects to a 🦀 Rust Text-based user interface or Terminal app using the Rodio crate.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:50:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ratatui for Terminal Fireworks: using Rust TUI Canvas 🎨</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/ratatui-for-terminal-fireworks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/ratatui-for-terminal-fireworks/</guid><description>Ratatui for Terminal Fireworks 🧨 cooking up a fireworks or confetti show in the Terminal using Rust Text-based UI (TUI) tooling 🖥️.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 09:42:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying Ratatui TUI: Rust Text-based User Interface Apps 🖥️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/trying-ratatui-tui/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/trying-ratatui-tui/</guid><description>Trying Ratatui TUI 🧑🏽‍🍳 building a text-based UI number game in the Terminal 🖥️ in Rust with Ratatui immediate mode rendering.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 16:27:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using egui for Bevy ECS Introspection with Macroquad Rendering 🧐</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-egui-for-bevy-ecs-introspection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-egui-for-bevy-ecs-introspection/</guid><description>Using egui for Bevy ECS Introspection: adding DevTools to a Rust Macroquad game, using Rapier physics and Bevy ECS, without Bevy itself.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 14:11:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Macroquad Rapier ECS: Using Bevy ECS in Macroquad Game 🦀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/macroquad-rapier-ecs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/macroquad-rapier-ecs/</guid><description>Macroquad Rapier ECS 🦀 Rust game dev — using bevy&apos;s 🧩 Entity Component System in a Macroquad game with Rapier physics.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 13:34:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unreal Engine 5 macOS: UE5 C++ Game Dev 🎮</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-5-macos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-5-macos/</guid><description>Unreal Engine 5 macOS 🖥️ running Unreal Engine 5.4 on macOS using VS Code for C++ editing and build tasks for your UE5 game 🎮.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 10:03:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rapier Physics with Units of Measurement: Utilize Rust Types 📏</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rapier-physics-with-units-of-measurement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rapier-physics-with-units-of-measurement/</guid><description>Rapier Physics with Units of Measurement 📏 leveraging the Rust type system for SI units for Rust game dev physical properties ⏲️.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:21:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rapier Physics with Macroquad: Rust Game Physics 🎱️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rapier-physics-with-macroquad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rapier-physics-with-macroquad/</guid><description>Rapier Physics with Macroquad 🗡️ building a basic game physics simulation in Rust using rapier physics and Macroquad for rendering 🖥️.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:28:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Macroquad egui DevTools: Rust Game Debugging UI 🖱️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/macroquad-egui-devtools/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/macroquad-egui-devtools/</guid><description>Macroquad egui DevTools: adding a visual 🐞 debugging user interface for developers to Rust Macroquad game using ⚡️ egui.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:52:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Jolt with flecs &amp; Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection 🔎</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-jolt-with-flecs-dear-imgui/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-jolt-with-flecs-dear-imgui/</guid><description>Using Jolt with flecs &amp; Dear ImGui 👀 to add game physics introspection to a raylib game, with pause and stepping for dev tools debugging 🐜.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:26:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jolt Physics raylib: trying 3D C++ Game Physics Engine 🎱</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/jolt-physics-raylib/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/jolt-physics-raylib/</guid><description>Jolt Physics raylib ⚡️ trying Jolt C++ game development physics library with raylib in a 3D hello world 🎱 bouncing sphere example.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:37:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using raylib with Dear ImGui: Game Dev Debugging UI 🐜</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-raylib-with-dear-imgui/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-raylib-with-dear-imgui/</guid><description>Using raylib with Dear ImGui: how you can use Dear ImGui to create an immediate mode 🐜 debugging interface for your CMake raylib game 🎮</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:48:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rust Game Physics Engines: PhysX, Rapier, XPBD &amp; Others 🎱</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rust-game-physics-engines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rust-game-physics-engines/</guid><description>Rust Game Physics Engines ♚ a look at choices for Rust game development 2D &amp; 3D physics engines including PhysX, Rapier and XPBD 🎱.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UE5 C++ Logging: Unreal Engine Custom Logger &amp; UE_LOGFMT 📝</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/ue5-c++-logging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/ue5-c++-logging/</guid><description>UE5 C++ Logging: creating custom logs for easier filtering in Unreal Engine 5 and using UE_LOGFMT as a replacement for printf interpolation.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:37:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>C++ Game Utility Libraries: for Game Dev Rustaceans 🦀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/c++-game-utility-libraries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/c++-game-utility-libraries/</guid><description>C++ Game Utility Libraries: dependencies for C++ game dev, with Rust 🦀 equivalents for clap, dbg! &amp; more, for Rustaceans working in C++.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:07:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>C++ Game Dev Libraries: raylib &amp; Flecs 💪🏽</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/c++-game-dev-libraries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/c++-game-dev-libraries/</guid><description>C++ game dev libraries 🎮 a look at the lightweight raylib C/C++ game development framework and Flecs entity component system.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:03:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UE5 AI Hearing C++: Unreal Engine Perception Example 🎮</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-5-hearing-ai-c++-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-5-hearing-ai-c++-example/</guid><description>UE5 AI Hearing C++ 🎮 example Unreal Engine 5 AI hearing perception code for allowing NPCs to react to 🙉 audio stimuli.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:42:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deploying your Rust WASM Game to Web with Shuttle &amp; Axum 🚀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deploying-your-rust-wasm-game/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deploying-your-rust-wasm-game/</guid><description>Deploying your Rust WASM Game to the Web 🎮 how you can use Shuttle to host your newly created 🦀 Rust game built with Axum web server.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:05:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rust Entity Component Systems: ECS Libraries for Rust Game Dev 🧩</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rust-entity-component-systems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rust-entity-component-systems/</guid><description>Rust Entity Component Systems 🧩 a look at ECS choices for Rust game development, including Bevy ECS, Specs and 🦀 Rust bindings for Flecs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:37:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unreal Engine with Neovim: Config for Game Development 🎮️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-with-neovim/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/unreal-engine-with-neovim/</guid><description>Unreal Engine Game Development using Neovim 🎮 how you can configure Neovim or the VS Code Vim plugin to work with Unreal Engine.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:30:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CMake Coverage Example: with GitHub Actions and codecov.io ☑️️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/cmake-coverage-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/cmake-coverage-example/</guid><description>CMake Coverage Example ☑️ adding C++ code coverage tests using CMake with GitHub Workflow integration for pushing to codecov.io 📈.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 04:15:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rust for Gaming: Rust Game Development Engines 2024 🎮️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rust-for-gaming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rust-for-gaming/</guid><description>Rust for Gaming 🎮 Rust Game Development Engines as of 2024, using Rust in mainstream engines like Godot and 🦀 Rust alternatives like Bevy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:59:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying egui: building a Cistercian Clock with Rust GUI ⌚️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/trying-egui/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/trying-egui/</guid><description>Trying egui 🖥️ building a Cistercian clock in 🦀 Rust with the egui immediate mode library inspired by Dear ImGui.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:34:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Related Content: using References in Posts &amp; Docs 👨‍👧‍👦</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-related-content/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-related-content/</guid><description>Astro Related Content: adding “you might also like…” style related content to your Astro blog or documentation site with references 💡.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:56:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Markdoc: Readable, Declarative MDX Alternative 📚</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-markdoc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-markdoc/</guid><description>Astro Markdoc 📚 trying Stripe’s customizable, readable, declarative Markdown extension designed for 🖋️ creating documentation content.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:29:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Picture Component: adding Responsive Images 🖼️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-picture-component/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-picture-component/</guid><description>Astro Picture Component 🖼️ using Astro in-built tooling to add next-gen (WebP &amp; AVIF), responsive images to your 🚀 Astro Markdown blog.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:25:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Lightning CSS with Deno: Bundle &amp; Transform ⚡️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-lightning-css-with-deno/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-lightning-css-with-deno/</guid><description>Using Lightning CSS with Deno ⚡️ transform modern CSS to work in old browsers, use CSS @import performantly and minify CSS at 🥏 warp speed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:10:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying out Leptos: Fine-grained Reactive Framework for Rust 🦀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/trying-out-leptos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/trying-out-leptos/</guid><description>Trying out Leptos 🔥 fast, fine-grained reactive full-stack framework for 🦀 Rust, which hydrates your content using WASM.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:25:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Form Example with 10 Mistakes to Avoid 🛟</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-form-example-with-10-mistakes-to-avoid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-form-example-with-10-mistakes-to-avoid/</guid><description>SvelteKit form example 📝 code to get a contact form working with SvelteKit actions, and 10 tips to avoid common pitfalls 🍀</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:31:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Get Client IP Address: Remote User IP 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-get-client-ip-address/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-get-client-ip-address/</guid><description>Get Deno client IP address 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 how to get a remote user IP address for 🤖 spam bot detection from your Deno serverless backend or API.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:05:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh SVG Sprites: Optimized Icons 🔥</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-svg-sprites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-svg-sprites/</guid><description>Deno Fresh SVG Sprites 🦿 how you can add an optimized SVG sprite sheet with cache-busting to your Fresh site, reducing bytes shipped.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:52:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh Testing: End-to-end Site Tests ☑️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-testing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-testing/</guid><description>Deno Fresh Testing ☑️ how you can add end-to-end testing for HTML pages content and API routes to your Deno 🍋 Fresh app.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:44:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Session Cookies: going HttpOnly</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-session-cookies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-session-cookies/</guid><description>SvelteKit session cookies: accessing user-specific data in your SvelteKit app use session and HttpOnly cookies for added security.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:35:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Upstash as SvelteKit Real-time Game Database 💿</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/upstash-sveltekit-realtime-game-database/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/upstash-sveltekit-realtime-game-database/</guid><description>Upstash as SvelteKit Real-time Game Database 💿 how you can add a serverless database to a multiplayer ♟️ game built with Svelte.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:52:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Fontaine: Reduce Custom Font CLS ✍🏽</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-fontaine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-fontaine/</guid><description>SvelteKit Fontaine ✍🏽 how to eliminate or reduce font swap cumulative layout shift working with custom, self-hosted fonts in ❤️ SvelteKit.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:13:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rust Cloudflare Worker Logging 📋</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rust-cloudflare-worker-logging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rust-cloudflare-worker-logging/</guid><description>Rust Cloudflare Worker Logging 🌤️ a quick look at how you can log locally in a dev environment, and in the production using Logtail 📝</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:30:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rust Cloudflare Workers: Turnstile Example 🤖</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/rust-cloudflare-workers-turnstile-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/rust-cloudflare-workers-turnstile-example/</guid><description>Rust Cloudflare workers ☁️ Turnstile Captcha example of using serverless 🦀 Rust WASM with wrangler on the Cloudflare worker platform.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:02:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with Rust Cloudflare Workers</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-rust-cloudflare-workers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-rust-cloudflare-workers/</guid><description>Getting started with Rust Cloudflare Workers: how you can build your first serverless Rust app including REST requests and sending email.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:58:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit PostCSS Tutorial: use Future CSS Today</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-postcss-tutorial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-postcss-tutorial/</guid><description>SvelteKit PostCSS tutorial 💅 how you can use custom media queries, nesting rules and other 🥏 future CSS features from today.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:00:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Svelte Real-time Multiplayer Game: User Presence 🙋🏽</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/svelte-realtime-multiplayer-game/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/svelte-realtime-multiplayer-game/</guid><description>Svelte real-time multiplayer game 👋🏽 see who is online by adding presence or awareness to improve multi-user game 🧑🏽 user experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 04:28:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Svelte Login Form Example: Best Practices ✅</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/svelte-login-form-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/svelte-login-form-example/</guid><description>Svelte login form example 📝 signup and login forms for your Svelte app with password strength meter 🔐 and strong password auto generation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 13:34:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro PostCSS Example: Future CSS Today 💅</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-postcss-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-postcss-example/</guid><description>Astro PostCSS Example 💅 how you can add PostCSS to your Astro site and access future CSS features like 📐 custom media queries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 04:33:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Font Fallbacks with Capsize: reduce CLS 📏</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-font-fallbacks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-font-fallbacks/</guid><description>Astro Font Fallbacks ☄️ how you can use Capsize to reduce layout shift from font swapping when optimizing your site for 🧑🏽 user experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 13:14:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro JS Middleware Example: Request Logging 📝</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-middleware-example/</link><guid 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real-time ♟️ game or instant 💬 chat with serverless WebSockets.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 07:22:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Forms: Grammar Check App 📝</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-forms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-forms/</guid><description>SvelteKit forms ❤️ use SvelteKit endpoint APIs to build a spelling, punctuation &amp; grammar check app, with client and server form handling 📝</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 05:17:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Stylelint: Lint Deno Fresh CSS 🛁</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-stylelint/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-stylelint/</guid><description>Deno Stylelint 🛁 lint CSS styles in your 🍋 Deno Fresh project using custom or recommended rules and the Deno file and system APIs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:52:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh Responsive Images: Resize 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can generate video transcription files for free locally with OpenAI trained transcription 🤖 tech.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:57:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro QR Code Generator: with Svelte Actions 🦸🏽</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-qr-code-generator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-qr-code-generator/</guid><description>Astro QR Code Generator 📲 how you create an Astro SSR app for generating QR Codes for free with ❤️ Svelte Actions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:22:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Cookies API: Cookies on HTTP Requests 🍪</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-cookies-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-cookies-api/</guid><description>Astro Cookies API 🍪 how you can set and get cookies, passing data between client and server on your 🚀 Astro SSR site.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:47:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Comment Form: with Turnstile &amp; Prerender 🚀</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-comment-form/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-comment-form/</guid><description>Astro Comment Form 🚀 how you can add a comment form to your static Astro app using Hybrid Rendering and a Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha 🤖.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:11:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh RSS Feed: own your Content 📜</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-rss-feed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-rss-feed/</guid><description>Deno Fresh RSS Feed 📜 how you can set up a resource route in Deno Fresh to serve your XML RSS feed with caching on Markdown blog.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:32:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh Getting Started: Islands, APIs &amp; Testing 🏝️</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-getting-started/</link><guid 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security scans hassle free.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:06:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with Deno Fresh &amp; the Platform 🍋</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-deno-fresh/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-deno-fresh/</guid><description>Getting started with Deno Fresh 🍋 how to get going fast with Fresh, from setting up tooling to using the platform &amp; deploying your new site.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:38:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deno Fresh Stack: fast SSR with Web Standards</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/deno-fresh-stack/</guid><description>Deno Fresh Stack: how I built a lightning fast new SSR site with Deno Fresh, vanilla CSS a lot of Web Standards and a touch of Rust WASM.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:12:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Husky Git Hooks: CI Tooling</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-husky-git-hooks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-husky-git-hooks/</guid><description>Astro Husky Git Hooks: how to set up astro check, prettier formatting and conventional commit git ci tooling with Astro.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:33:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Vanilla-Extract Styling: CSS in TypeScript</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-vanilla-extract/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-vanilla-extract/</guid><description>Astro vanilla-extract: how to set up vanilla-extract in your Astro project for zero runtime overhead styling, theming, contracts and more.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:41:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Sitemaps: Add Post and Page XML Sitemaps</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-sitemaps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-sitemaps/</guid><description>Astro sitemaps: how to take 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Local Edge Functions: Edge on Localhost</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-local-edge-functions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-local-edge-functions/</guid><description>SvelteKit local Edge Functions: how you can bring the Netlify Edge to your localhost dev server for an improved developer experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:26:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Svelte CSS Image Slider: with Bouncy Overscroll</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/svelte-css-image-slider/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/svelte-css-image-slider/</guid><description>Svelte CSS image slider: how to create a CSS :hover preview image gallery with mobile bouncing overscroll using future CSS and SvelteKit.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:02:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using fetch with SvelteKit: Get Data from an 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and files like PDFs and JSON data alongside your Astro site’s static HTML pages.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:57:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fastify GraphQL API Stack: with Mercurius &amp; Nexus</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/fastify-graphql-api-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/fastify-graphql-api-stack/</guid><description>Fastify GraphQL API Stack: node API stack using TypeScript, Mercurius for GraphQL, Nexus, Prisma with PostgreSQL and uvu for fast testing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:46:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying out Deno Fresh: new Fast Framework for Web</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/trying-out-deno-fresh/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/trying-out-deno-fresh/</guid><description>Trying out Deno Fresh: first look at the new, fast web framework from the Deno team with Island hydration and zero JS by default.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:51:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro JS 404 Page: Create Not Found Error Pages</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-404-page/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-404-page/</guid><description>Astro JS 404 page: how you can set up a page not found page on your Astro project, so visitors don&apos;t see your host&apos;s default 404 page.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:15:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro JS Location Map: using Leaflet &amp; Svelte</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-location-map/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-location-map/</guid><description>Astro JS Location Map: how you can use the Leaflet library to add a location map on your Astro site with Svelte. 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No framework needed!</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Port: Changing Dev &amp; Preview Server Ports</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-port/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-port/</guid><description>SvelteKit port: how you can change SvelteKit default dev &amp; preview server ports and also modify behaviour when 5173 is already in use.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:52:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Svelte Shy Header: Peekaboo Sticky Header with CSS</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/svelte-shy-header/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/svelte-shy-header/</guid><description>Svelte shy header: how to add a vanishing, sticky peekaboo header that reappears when the user scrolls up using Svelte and CSS to your site.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:54:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Temporal API Duration: Working with Time Periods</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/temporal-api-duration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/temporal-api-duration/</guid><description>Temporal API Duration: how you can use the new Temporal API to make working with and manipulating durations and time periods easier.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:23:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit SSG: how to Prerender your SvelteKit Site</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-ssg/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-ssg/</guid><description>SvelteKit SSG: Static site generation with SvelteKit, how you can prerender an entire site or just pick certain pages for static generation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:31:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Content Security Policy: CSP for XSS Protection</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-content-security-policy/</link><guid 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new JS API</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/temporal-api-cheatsheet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/temporal-api-cheatsheet/</guid><description>Temporal API Cheat Sheet: a quick guide to new JavaScript Temporal API including code snippets and example use cases.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 03:35:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro JS Disable Telemetry: stop Astro Data Collection</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-disable-telemetry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-js-disable-telemetry/</guid><description>Astro JS telemetry disable: how you might address surveillance capitalism concerns by disabling data collection on the Astro CLI.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 16:23:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Turbolinks: fast AstroJS Navigation</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-turbolinks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-turbolinks/</guid><description>Astro turbolinks: 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro RSS Feed: add a Blog Feed to your Astro Site</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-rss-feed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-rss-feed/</guid><description>Astro RSS feed: how you can add an RSS feed of your blog posts to your Astro site: useful for GitHub Actions and follower subscriptions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 13:28:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Blog: Astro Markdown Blog Starter</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-blog-markdown/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-blog-markdown/</guid><description>Astro blog Markdown: starter for fast Astro blog with partial hydration and a spot of Svelte speed. Create a new blog site in minutes.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:22:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Landing Page Form: Netlify Serverless Contact Form</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-landing-page-form/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-landing-page-form/</guid><description>Astro landing page contact form: how to use Netlify serverless functions with Telegram bots to add a contact form to your Astro landing page.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:08:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Svelte Each Blocks: Const Directives &amp; Destructuring</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-svelte-each-blocks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-svelte-each-blocks/</guid><description>Using Svelte each blocks: how to loop on array-like objects in Svelte + simplify your code using const &amp; style directives and destructuring.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:33:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit SVG Icons: using Iconify and Icônes with Svelte</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-svg-icons/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-svg-icons/</guid><description>SvelteKit SVG icons: how you can easily get SVG icons in your ❤️ Svelte app from just about any library by adding just one single dependency.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:51:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Accessibility Testing:  Automated CI A11y Tests</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-accessibility-testing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-accessibility-testing/</guid><description>SvelteKit Accessibility Testing: see how you can use Playwright to run automated axe accessibility &amp; htmlcs tests in your Svelte CI workflow.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:15:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Self-Hosted Fonts Workflow: Astro Font Optimization</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-self-hosted-fonts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-self-hosted-fonts/</guid><description>Astro self-hosted fonts workflow: optimize how you add self-hosted Google fonts to your Astro project, shaving up to 80% off your font files.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:40:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Astro Scroll to Anchor: Smooth Scroll to Heading</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/astro-scroll-to-anchor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/astro-scroll-to-anchor/</guid><description>Astro Scroll to Anchor: how you can accessibly add smooth scroll to anchor to your Astro app using CSS. We also add hiding shortcut links.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:17:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why I moved to Astro from Gatsby</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/why-i-moved-to-astro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/why-i-moved-to-astro/</guid><description>Why I moved to Astro: a quick look at why I am using Astro JS over Gatsby JS for new static sites and what&apos;s good about building with Astro.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with Astro: Build React &amp; Svelte Islands</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-astro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-astro/</guid><description>Getting started with Astro: using your existing React or Svelte skills to build island architected, partially hydrating fast, modern apps.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:36:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Readable and Writable Svelte Stores: when to Use Each</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/readable-writable-svelte-stores/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/readable-writable-svelte-stores/</guid><description>Readable and writable Svelte stores: a look at a couple of use cases to explain when you would prefer one or the other for your app state.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:43:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit FAQ Page SEO: add JSON-LD Schema</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-faq-page-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-faq-page-seo/</guid><description>SvelteKit FAQ Page SEO: how you can use ❤️ Svelte&apos;s SEO friendliness to create a FAQ page with JSON-LD SchemaOrg SEO meta loved by Google.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:03:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using FIDO U2F for GitHub SSH: using Secure Keys</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-fido-u2f-github-ssh/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-fido-u2f-github-ssh/</guid><description>Using FIDO U2F for GitHub SSH: how you can use secure keys to push code to your GitHub repository. We also see how to harden your SSH config.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:48:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit S3 Multipart Upload: Video Cloud Storage</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-s3-multipart-upload/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-s3-multipart-upload/</guid><description>SvelteKit S3 Multipart Upload: how you can upload large files, such as video to your S3 compatible storage provider using presigned URLs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:43:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Tooling:  7 Tools to Streamline your CI Workflow</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-tooling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-tooling/</guid><description>SvelteKit tooling: we look at 7 tools you can add to streamline your Svelte continuous integration (CI) and development processes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:58:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit CSS Stylelint: Lint Vanilla Styles</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-css-stylelint/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-css-stylelint/</guid><description>SvelteKit CSS Stylelint: how you can lint vanilla CSS within your Svelte source files using Stylelint accessibility and best practice rules.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:27:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit FIDO U2F Login: Multifactor Authentication</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-fido-u2f-login/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-fido-u2f-login/</guid><description>SvelteKit FIDO U2F login: how you can add multi factor authentication (MFA) to the front end of your Svelte app for added login security.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:16:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit S3 Compatible Storage: Pre-signed Uploads</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-s3-compatible-storage/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-s3-compatible-storage/</guid><description>SvelteKit S3 compatible storage: how you can upload files to your cloud storage provider from your Svelte app using pre-signed URLs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:19:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cloudflare Developer Challenge: Adding Rust to SvelteKit</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/cloudflare-developer-challenge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/cloudflare-developer-challenge/</guid><description>Cloudflare Developer Challenge: using SvelteKit, Rust and my other favourites like vanilla-extract and workers, to create an API as a service.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:09:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Static Site HTTP Headers</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-static-site-http-headers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-static-site-http-headers/</guid><description>SvelteKit Static Site HTTP Headers: adding custom HTTP headers to your static SvelteKit site hosted on Cloudflare Pages, Render or Netlify.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:07:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Simple Svelte Responsive Image Gallery</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/simple-svelte-responsive-image-gallery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/simple-svelte-responsive-image-gallery/</guid><description>Simple Svelte responsive image gallery: create a ribbon gallery, using Svelte dimension bindings to maintain the aspect ratio of all images.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:02:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to make Android VoIP Calls with Telnyx</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/how-to-make-android-voip-calls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/how-to-make-android-voip-calls/</guid><description>How to make Android VoIP calls with Telnyx: how you can make and receive calls using SIP functionality in GrapheneOS for with added privacy.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:39:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Local Storage with Svelte Stores in SvelteKit</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-local-storage-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-local-storage-sveltekit/</guid><description>Using Local Storage in SvelteKit: taking the example of setting a site theme, explore how to combine the Local Storage and Svelte Store APIs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:33:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using vanilla-extract with SvelteKit: Styles with TypeScript</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-vanilla-extract-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-vanilla-extract-sveltekit/</guid><description>Using vanilla-extract with SvelteKit: how you can make zero-runtime stylesheets with the new TypeScript friendly preprocessor in Svelte.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:22:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Infinite Scroll: Instagram API Tutorial</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-infinite-scroll/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-infinite-scroll/</guid><description>SvelteKit infinite scroll: see how you can use Svelte stores and a reactive function to implement an infinite scrolling Instagram feed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Use Vim Keyboard Shortcuts on your Blog</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/vim-keyboard-shortcuts-blog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/vim-keyboard-shortcuts-blog/</guid><description>Use Vim keyboard shortcuts on you blog: how to make it easy for Vim users to jump around your Svelte blog site with a keyboard and no mouse!</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:19:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Secure Dev Server: go HTTPS</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-secure-dev-server/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-secure-dev-server/</guid><description>SvelteKit secure dev server: see how simple it is to spin up an https dev site using the SvelteKit CLI for developing and testing Svelte apps.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:58:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit hCaptcha Contact Form: Keeping Bots Away</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-hcaptcha-contact-form/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-hcaptcha-contact-form/</guid><description>SvelteKit hCaptcha contact form: see how you can scare bots away from your Svelte site using a privacy focussed captcha service.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:05:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit GraphQL Type Generation</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-graphql-type-generation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-graphql-type-generation/</guid><description>SvelteKit GraphQL type generation: how you can generate TypeScript types automatically from your GraphQL API endpoint using a codegen tool.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:03:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using uvu for TypeScript API Testing</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-uvu-typescript-api-testing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-uvu-typescript-api-testing/</guid><description>Using uvu for TypeScript API testing: we take a look at integrating a fast test runner into your backend continuous integration workflow.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:06:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit GraphQL Queries using fetch Only</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-graphql-queries-fetch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-graphql-queries-fetch/</guid><description>SvelteKit GraphQL queries using fetch only: how you can drop Apollo client and urql dependencies altogether, keeping your Svelte app lean.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:31:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Create Local PostgreSQL Databases using Supabase CLI</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/create-local-postgresql-databases-supabase/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/create-local-postgresql-databases-supabase/</guid><description>Create local PostgreSQL databases quickly to speed up developing your Prisma, Express or Fastify app or API using the Supabase CLI.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:10:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Rust Cloudflare Workers: Serverless hCaptcha</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-rust-cloudflare-workers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-rust-cloudflare-workers/</guid><description>Using Rust Cloudflare Workers: how to run fast and secure Rust code from a Cloudflare Worker endpoint - hCaptcha serverless function example.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:42:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tracking Page Views in SvelteKit: Intersection Observer</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/tracking-page-views-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/tracking-page-views-sveltekit/</guid><description>Tracking page views in SvelteKit: how you can add a view counter to your blog posts using the Intersection Observer API as a view trigger.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:44:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Svelte Social Icons: Easy SVG Logos in SvelteKit</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/svelte-social-icons/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/svelte-social-icons/</guid><description>Svelte Social Icons: use this handy package to add and customise beautiful SVG social media brand icons in your Svelte app.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:02:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Dynamic Image Import: Add Images to Templates</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-dynamic-image-import/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-dynamic-image-import/</guid><description>SvelteKit dynamic image import: how you can import and cache responsive images into a template on your Svelte app using vite-imagetools.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:53:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Netlify Functions with SvelteKit</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-netlify-functions-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-netlify-functions-sveltekit/</guid><description>Using Netlify Functions with SvelteKit: learn how you can continue using your existing Netlify functions when you move your site to SvelteKit.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:17:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Next-Gen Background Image</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-next-gen-background-image/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-next-gen-background-image/</guid><description>SveleKit Next-Gen Background Image: see how you can automatically generate a Next-Gen background image with a safe fallback in SvelteKit.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 03:54:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Image Plugin: Next-Gen Images in Svelte</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-image-plugin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-image-plugin/</guid><description>SvelteKit Image Plugin: how to use the vite-imagetools plugin to bring responsive images in next-gen formats, like WebP, to your Svelte App.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:20:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lazy Loading iframes in SvelteKit: Ace Core Web Vitals</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/lazy-loading-iframes-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/lazy-loading-iframes-sveltekit/</guid><description>Lazy loading iframes in SvelteKit: we see how Core Web Vitals from Google make optimising your Svelte site important to rank.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:25:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Hosting: Free Static Site with Render</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-hosting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-hosting/</guid><description>SvelteKit Hosting: see how you can host your static SvelteKit site for free with Render taking advantage of their CDN and SSL certificates.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:16:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Add Data into Gatsby GraphQL: Webmentions Example</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/add-data-gatsby-graphql/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/add-data-gatsby-graphql/</guid><description>Add data into Gatsby GraphQL: using Webmentions as an example we see how you can pull in external data and access it via GraphQL in your app.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:23:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>stylelint for SvelteKit: Keep your SCSS Code Consistent</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/stylelint-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/stylelint-sveltekit/</guid><description>Stylelint for SvelteKit: keep you Svelte code consistent and make sure your CSS and SCSS code follows your team&apos;s style guide to the letter!</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:01:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Blog SEO: Climb the Search Results Page</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-blog-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-blog-seo/</guid><description>SvelteKit Blog SEO: updated template for creating a Svelte in Markdown (MDsveX) blog site with Twitter, Open Graph and SchemaOrg meta.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:34:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Highlight Search Results using Web APIs in Gatsby</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/highlight-search-results/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/highlight-search-results/</guid><description>Highlight search results: using a concrete example with a static site generator we highlight site search results to improve user experience.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:02:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Favicon: How to add a Favicon</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-favicon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-favicon/</guid><description>SvelteKit favicon: How easily to add a favicon to your Svelte app so your brand logo gets displayed in the users&apos; browser tab.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:07:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Use Apollo Client with SvelteKit to Query a GraphQL API</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/use-apollo-client-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/use-apollo-client-sveltekit/</guid><description>Use Apollo Client with SvelteKit to Query a GraphQL API: we use the GitHub API to query our repos and learn a bit of SvelteKit along the way.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:34:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fast JS Search on Gatsby: Roll Your Own Site Search</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/js-search-gatsby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/js-search-gatsby/</guid><description>JS Search on Gatsby: keep your Gatsby site static by rolling your own fast site search  and eliminate the need for external search services.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:51:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MDsveX rehype Plugins: Pimp your Blog Posts</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/mdsvex-rehype-plugins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/mdsvex-rehype-plugins/</guid><description>Video on MDsveX rehype plugins where we look at adding automatically generated tables of contents to your SvelteKit blog posts, as an example.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adding Schema.org Markup to your SvelteKit Site</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/adding-schema-org-markup-to-sveltekit-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/adding-schema-org-markup-to-sveltekit-site/</guid><description>Adding Schema.org markup to your SvelteKit site: we look at how to add SEO Structured Data, understood by search engines, to your Svelte site.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:28:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit PWA: Installable App with Offline Access</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-pwa/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-pwa/</guid><description>SvelteKit PWA: how to build your MDsveX blog as a Progressive Web App in SvelteKit which is installable, available offline.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:14:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit File Based Routing Explained</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-file-based-routing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-file-based-routing/</guid><description>SvelteKit File Based Routing: in this video we look at a concrete example of adding blog post redirects to help explain filesytem routing.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open Graph SEO in SvelteKit: Custom Share Images</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/open-graph-seo-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/open-graph-seo-sveltekit/</guid><description>Open Graph SEO in SvelteKit: adding optimised images for Instagram, WhatsApp and other app page shares from your SvelteKit site.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 04:36:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Accessible Text on Images: Nail the Contrast Ratio</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/accessible-text-on-images/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/accessible-text-on-images/</guid><description>Accessible Text on Images: place your text on a semi-transparent background overlay but what alpha do you need for the text to be accessible?</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:17:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit SEO: Search Engine Optimization Metadata</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-seo/</guid><description>SvelteKit SEO: how to use SvelteKit to add search engine optimisation metadata so that social images appear when visitors share posts.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:47:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Use Serverless Rust with Netlify Functions and Gatsby</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/use-serverless-rust-with-netlify-functions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/use-serverless-rust-with-netlify-functions/</guid><description>Use Serverless Rust with Netlify Functions on your Gatsby Site to bring Rust&apos;s speed and security benefits to your site&apos;s cloud functions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:16:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Tutorial: Build a Svelte MDsveX Blog Site</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-tutorial-mdsvex-blog-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-tutorial-mdsvex-blog-site/</guid><description>SvelteKit Tutorial: Learn how to build an accessible, fast and secure static Svelte blog site using SvelteKit and Svelte in Markdown (MDsveX).</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:12:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby Functions on Netlify: Telegram Contact Form Bot</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-functions-netlify/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-functions-netlify/</guid><description>Gatsby Functions on Netlify: create a Telegram Bot to message you when someone uses your site contact form using Gatsby Functions on Netlify.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:22:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SvelteKit Blog Starter: Climate MDsveX Starter for Svelte</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-blog-starter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/sveltekit-blog-starter/</guid><description>SvelteKit Blog Starter: Climate MDsveX blog starter code to help you get your new Svelte blog up and running with markdown in Svelte support.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:31:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby Cloud Functions reCAPTCHA: Build a Contact Form</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-cloud-functions-recaptcha/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-cloud-functions-recaptcha/</guid><description>Gatsby cloud functions reCAPTCHA: build a site contact form using brand new serverless Gatsby Cloud functions and the new invisible captcha.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:15:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Use Netlify to Host your SvelteKit Site</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/use-netlify-to-host-your-sveltekit-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/use-netlify-to-host-your-sveltekit-site/</guid><description>SvelteKit is a new, fast site generator.  Netlify is a leading site hosting service.  We look at how to use Netlify to host your SvelteKit site.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:52:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Set the lang Attribute in Gatsby: Improve Site Accessibility</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/set-lang-attribute-gatsby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/set-lang-attribute-gatsby/</guid><description>Learn how to set the lang attribute in Gatsby to improve your site accessibility.  Here&apos;s 3 ways for you to fix the this Lighthouse error.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 10:33:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with SvelteKit: 10 Tips</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-with-sveltekit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/getting-started-with-sveltekit/</guid><description>Getting started with SvelteKit: 10 tips I learned building fast Svelte sites from tooling to integrating SEO components and Netlify config</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 04:43:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Gatsby Themes: 100 Days of Gatsby</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/using-gatsby-themes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/using-gatsby-themes/</guid><description>For the final challenge of #100DaysOfGatsby, I published my new Gatsby Theme. Let&apos;s look at using Gatsby themes and their power.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 14:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What&apos;s New on Gatsby Cloud: Serverless Functions &amp; More</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/whats-new-on-gatsby-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/whats-new-on-gatsby-cloud/</guid><description>What&apos;s new on Gatsby Cloud? With all the new enhancements in Gatsby v3, you might have missed the new Gatsby Cloud features, like serverless.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 06:39:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Should you Worry about FLoC? How to Opt your Site out</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/should-you-worry-about-floc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/should-you-worry-about-floc/</guid><description>Should you worry about FLoC from Google? How can you opt your own Gatsby site out of FLoC? Also, what is FLoC all about anyway?</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:16:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby Shopify Bulk Loader: 100 Days of Gatsby</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-shopify-bulk-loader-100-days-gatsby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-shopify-bulk-loader-100-days-gatsby/</guid><description>Gatsby 100 Days Challenge 4: Shopify. This time we build out a Shopify store using the new Gatsby Shopify bulk loader API.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSS only Carousel in Gatsby: Slider with Scroll Snap</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/css-only-carousel-in-gatsby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/css-only-carousel-in-gatsby/</guid><description>CSS only carousel in Gatsby: see a lightweight implementation of the carousel pattern which is super useful and not only for online stores.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:20:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby 3 Scroll to Anchor in your MDX Blog Posts</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-3-scroll-to-anchor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-3-scroll-to-anchor/</guid><description>Gatsby 3: scroll to anchor - see how easy it is to implement scroll to anchor in your MDX Gatsby 3 blog in this short post.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:40:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Firewall Block Lists Compared: 10 Top Lists</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/firewall-block-lists-compared/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/firewall-block-lists-compared/</guid><description>Firewall block lists compared: which are the best block lists to use with pfSense, Pi-hole, pf, LuLu and other firewalls, like your VPN</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:38:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Stay Private when you Register for Webinars</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/stay-private-when-you-register-for-webinars/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/stay-private-when-you-register-for-webinars/</guid><description>Stay private when you register for webinars. Let&apos;s look at how to keep your email safe from marketing companies when you sign up.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:03:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why use a Personal Private VPN Server?</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/why-use-personal-private-vpn-server/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/why-use-personal-private-vpn-server/</guid><description>VPNs are great for improving online privacy.  Why should you take it to the next level with a personal private VPN server?</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:53:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Improve Email Server Security: 7 Tips</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/improve-email-server-security/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/improve-email-server-security/</guid><description>7 top tips to improve email server security so you can protect your reputation and ensure carefully crafted content is not sent to spam.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:06:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby 100 Days Challenge 3: WordPress &amp; SEO</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-100-days-challenge-3-wordpress-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-100-days-challenge-3-wordpress-seo/</guid><description>Gatsby 100 Days Challenge 3: WordPress &amp; SEO. First opportunity to see if Gatsby 3 is as fast as the hype lets on. 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So what is the use case for OpenBSD?</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:05:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How To Set up Cloudflare Warp on OpenBSD</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/how-to-setup-cloudflare-warp-openbsd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/how-to-setup-cloudflare-warp-openbsd/</guid><description>How to Set up Cloudflare Warp on OpenBSD for fast, secure and private internet access for your mobile, computer and other devices.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:00:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby Coding Challenge 2021: Styling &amp; Forms</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-coding-challenge-2021-styling-forms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-coding-challenge-2021-styling-forms/</guid><description>Gatsby Coding Challenge 2021 — keep up with Rodney Lab&apos;s progress in 100 Days of Gatsby Code 2021 as he builds a site for AudioCore.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:19:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gatsby Site Accessibility: 3 Quick Gains</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-site-accessibility-3-quick-gains/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/gatsby-site-accessibility-3-quick-gains/</guid><description>Here&apos;s 3 quick &apos;n easy steps web developers can take to get going on improving their Gatsby site accessibility.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:49:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Enable Encrypted DNS on iPhone iOS 14</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/how-to-enable-encrypted-dns-on-iphone-ios-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/how-to-enable-encrypted-dns-on-iphone-ios-14/</guid><description>Protect your online privacy: find out how to enable encrypted DNS on iPhone 14.0.  Also, we look at what DNS is and why it matters for privacy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:45:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>100 Days of Gatsby Code 2021 Challenge</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/100-days-of-gatsby-code-2021/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/100-days-of-gatsby-code-2021/</guid><description>100 Days of Gatsby Code 2021 Challenge is a great chance to try out new Gatsby v3 features like WordPress Integration and new Image Plugin.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Rodney Lab Site Live</title><link>https://rodneylab.com/new-rodneylab-site-now-live/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rodneylab.com/new-rodneylab-site-now-live/</guid><description>New Rodney Lab site, built optimizing accessibility, speed and security using Gatsby, React and GraphQL is now live.  Let us know your opinion on the new site.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2020 08:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>