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    Personalisation at the edge, with no client side JavaScript

    Add personalization to static HTML with Netlify Edge Functions — no browser JavaScript required

    11 Aug 2022 8 min read

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    • The pink Jamstack logo that features a blocked white J shape on a pink background.
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    • An icon of a laptop with angled brackets on the screen.
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    Ben Holmes and me on a live stream, I'm pointing to Ben and he's in a rocket with a space helmet on. We're superimposed on top of the Astro website, with the Netlify logo in the bottom left.

    How to deploy an Astro site

    12 Jun 2022 9 min read

    • The Netlify logo in the green gradient.
    • The pink Jamstack logo that features a blocked white J shape on a pink background.
    • An icon of a cloud with an up arrow at the centre.
    A youtube thumbnail showing a screenshot of my stream in black and white, with a code example of an edge function and some emoji pointing hands. There is also the white panther logo and a netlify logo at jaunty angles.

    We're all living on it. But what exactly is The Edge?

    26 Apr 2022 7 min read

    • The Netlify logo in the green gradient.
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    A screenshot showing the new build hook has been added.

    How to deploy your Netlify site with an Elgato Stream Deck

    15 Feb 2022 4 min read

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    • The NodeJS logo in white, featuring the letters JS outlined by a hexagon.
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    A Netlify branded image with a dark green background with a radial gradient, with the text

    How to use really long environment variables in Netlify functions

    18 Jan 2022 4 min read

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    • The Contentful C logo in blue, yellow and red.
    A screenshot of the GitHub UI showing a link to set up a workflow yourself after clicking on the Actions tab in the UI.

    How to use GitHub actions and Contentful webhooks to show your latest blog posts on your GitHub README

    27 May 2021 4 min read

    • An icon of a cloud with an up arrow at the centre.
    • The NodeJS logo in white, featuring the letters JS outlined by a hexagon.
    • A yellow square with the black letters JS at the bottom right.
    A screenshot of one of my tweets that shows the twitter large summary card open graph image

    3 ways to use Puppeteer and Node.js to screenshot web pages and generate Open Graph images for socials

    17 Mar 2021 6 min read

    • The Contentful C logo in blue, yellow and red.
    • A yellow square with the black letters JS at the bottom right.
    • An icon of a cloud with an up arrow at the centre.
    • An icon of a blank piece of paper with the bottom right corner turned up.
    • The Netlify logo in the green gradient.
    A screenshot of the thingoftheday.xyz RSS feed in an RSS reader

    How to generate an RSS feed for your blog with JavaScript and Netlify functions

    8 Mar 2021 5 min read