I’ve been playing around w/ Fresh and Deno recently. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the first class TypeScript support provided by Deno, and Fresh’s decision to go all in on islands architecture demonstrates why the framework’s name is so fitting. Currently, I’m playing around w/ several live sites - this one connects w/ MongoDB and features GraphQL and this one does some number crunching (each deployed using Deno deploy). Given the years of experience I have w/ React, I have also enjoyed utilizing preact and learning about the differences between its lightweight approach and React’s full lifecycle.

Recently, my work as a consultant has involved an effort to re-architect our frontend website. Previously, the website was a static site, stored and served from an AWS S3 bucket, and it used React for its UI library. Nothing too fancy.

Today I began looking into alternative opearting systems. To make a ridiculously convoluted story short, I have a Mac tower that is in need of an OS. I may detail those attempt furhter in the future, but suffice it so say that both Windows and MacOS were not working w/ this particular machine.

This is the first post on my personal blog. This blog is powered by the Jekyll framework. It’s hosted on GitHub and utilizes simple Markdown and SASS.