Recently I drew a Halloween doodle while I was out for a run. A few people asked me how I did it, so I thought that a guide would be helpful!
There are a few steps to getting a good result:
Picking the location
Planning the doodle
Creating the doodle
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This is a quick tip on how to truncate a Sanity block field to create an excerpt using GROQ.
When querying the field using a Sanity Client and GROQ, there is no inbuilt excerpt function, or even a truncate function, so we need to do the steps ourselves.
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A 33 km off-road trail run from the Corfiot sea side town of Roda, to the highest point on the island, Mount Pantokrator at (911 metres (2,989 ft)). A beautiful route, through olive groves, tiny villages, with views to die for, but took longer than estimat...
Recently I migrated my personal website to Next.js and thought I had everything working well with Netlify, however on deployment I noticed an issue with the API data...
Background
As part of my migration from Gatsby to Next.js I moved the .gpx data to a ...
Type narrowing is the process of moving from a less precise set of types to a more precise type or set of types. The aim of type narrowing is to reduce the types down to only the ones where the following methods or properties can be correctly accessed or c...
S - Single-Responsibility Principle (SRP) is the first design principal covered by SOLID principals.
SOLID is an Object oriented design principal. It stands for:
The principals were originally created and promoted by Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob).
S -...
I recently picked up 3d modelling after quite a few years away. I have not used Blender before so learning the basics involved many seaches and skimming videos to fine what I needed. This post is a quick guide to getting started with blender that I have cr...
When I first used Material UI, I struggled with a few concepts. I've written this quick overview to help get my head around it, and hopefully guide others to a quicker start.
I'm going to make a new project and then create some (horrible) styles!
Create ...
Javascript contains an Internationalisation API that you can use to format numbers to a user's locale. Setting the style to percent is all that is needed.
Note: A value of 1 will return 100% because 1x anything is 100%!
To specify the decimal places use ...
Javascript's Internationalization API allows you to format currency. It takes the locale and options to configure the currency we're using. The options require the style to be set to currency and a currency option to specify the unit type, as this is retur...
