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My current macOS development setup guide, covering installing apps and configuring system settings

Every couple years I like to redesign my portfolio using the trending technologies in the web development community. This year I wanted to try out Next.js with App Router, Tailwind CSS and Content Collections.

I've recently been working with Next.js and React Server Components, which provides a nice way to build fullstack web applications quickly. One of the trickiest parts was working with forms and server actions, these are my notes on what I figured out.

I found some tricks with getting a Nomad dev environment working reliably on Mac, particularly a Apple Silicon Mac.

I was looking at a simple way to do GitOps with Nomad for my Homelab. Unlike the Kubernetes ecosystem, there doesn't seem to be many examples of GitOps workflows in Nomad.

Setting up webapps can be time consuming, particularly when the goal is to build a quick proof of concept of something

I like to change my color theme based on the environment I'm working in, this guide outlines how to setup single-click dark mode switching on macOS.

My notes on using devcontainers for frontend development

I wanted to install Linux on a portable SSD I had and make it bootable from my Macbook, so it needed UEFI support. I didn't find a nice method of doing it online, so I found my own way.

CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) allows access to resources from other domains, a good use case for this is a web app trying to fetch data from an API on another domain. These are my notes on setting up CORS with Python.