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Run NixOS builds in CI using GitHub Actions and nixos-generators to get ready-to-use LXC templates for Proxmox and other virtualisation solutions.

A quick solution using resolve.alias to help Vite find generated Panda CSS files outside of its entry folder.

This article looks into the recently released Radix Themes and how it relates to Radix Primitives. I compare it with other React component libraries, and discuss its customization capabilities, along with its potential trade-offs.

The principle of Separation of concerns is often misapplied to web technologies. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together in component-driven web development, to serve the styling concern.

Theme UI’s system color mode can color flash when responding to the prefers-color-scheme media query. Here’s a hack to prevent that.

Prisma doesn’t support PostGIS, but we can query spatial data using raw database access. This post explores PostGIS basics and the Prisma setup.

A reflection on analysis paralysis and the value of familiarity in a world of fast changing technology.

Errors thrown inside invoked promises will trigger the onError block, but invoked child machines require usage of the escalate action.

Prevent xstate machines async invocations from persisting after the test is done by using waitFor and keeping a reference to the actor.

Avoid copy pasting classes with a quick JavaScript function and use the PurgeCSS whitelist configuration option.

Use Gatsby’s Node API to process images in JSON files with gatsby-plugin-sharp and customize the shape of your data in GraphQL nodes.

Learning Git isn't about memorizing commands. It's about understanding version control. I suggest using a GUI instead of the CLI to do that.