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Build a contact form with Astro and Resend

I try to keep my email address from appearing on public websites to avoid spam. But I do like people to be able to contact me if they have something I might be interested in. The solution for this? A contact form!

Generate AI-powered related links for your Astro content

Showing related posts beneath a blog post is a great way to give your visitors more to read and encourage them to spend more time on your site.

I built a new app and I don't know how I feel about it

Much like almost every other developer on the planet, I have been trying to work out my relationship with coding agents. I have been using AI-assisted coding since the GitHub Copilot beta came out in 2021 (yes, that long ago) and have seen them evolve from being a fancy autocomplete to sidebar assistants to full-blown applications that don’t even show you the code (unless you want to see it).

5 quick tips for giving better presentations

I have been speaking publicly at developer conferences for over a decade and in that time I’ve seen plenty of other people giving talks. Everyone gives talks differently, and if you are a speaker or thinking about getting into it, I encourage you to work on developing your unique style as well as your content.

Things you need to do for npm trusted publishing to work

After the recent supply chain attacks on the npm ecosystem, notaby the Shai-Hulud 2.0 worm, GitHub took a number of actions to shore up the security of publishing packages to hopefully avoid further attacks. One of the outcomes was that long-lived npm tokens were revoked in favour of short-lived tokens or using trusted publishing.

How wrong can a JavaScript Date calculation go?

The Date object in JavaScript is frequently one that causes trouble. So much so, it is set to be replaced by Temporal soon. This is the story of an issue that I faced that will be much easier to handle once Temporal is more widespread.