Using Astro for a Combined RSS View and Generator / / No Comments Ok, before I start, let me just clarify this demo is kind of a remix of my earlier post about building an RSS aggregator in Astro. I did run into some interesting issues this time around though and I figured it was worth a share. At Webflow, our developer docs are separated into different sections per product. For most of our developer products, we’ve got changelogs. So for example, here’s the changelog for our Data APIs and here’s one for our MCP server. We try to be good stewards of our developer community and ensure we document everything as clearly as possible. Each of our changelogs has an RSS feed as well so if you’re using a feed reader, it’s an easy to keep... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Astro, Combined, Generator, using, View
Using Val Town to Get Me to the Movies / / No Comments My wife and I both love going to the movies, but sometimes a few months will go by without us making it out there. Mostly we just forget what’s coming out and don’t realize till it’s already on a streaming app. I thought it would be nice to build a tool that could help remind me of upcoming movie releases so we can make our theater going more of a consistent habit. To accomplish this, I used the The Movie Database APIs and Val Town. The First Version Before I even considered building a tool like this, I investigated the TMDB reference to see how easy it was to get upcoming releases. Turns out, there’ve got an endpoint just for that: Upcoming Movies If you carefully read... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Movies, Town, using
ColdFusion Wrappers for Bluesky and Mastodon / / No Comments It’s been a hot minute since I opened a repo for ColdFusion code, but I thought I’d package up my previous wrapper for Mastodon support, port over my BoxLang Bluesky module, and properly release the code on GitHub for folks who want it: https://github.com/cfjedimaster/coldfusion-social-wrappers Right now I’m using one repo for both Bluesky and Mastodon. Usually I’d separate them, but with the "support" being a grand total of one file each, I figured no one would mind getting the "extra" code if they only care about one. I’ll also note the code is very much focused on posting, not reading data, but part of the reason I wanted to package this up... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Bluesky, ColdFusion, Mastodon, Wrappers
Links For You (2/22/26) / / No Comments This is where I’d usually comment about how the past two weeks seemed to fly by in a blink, but I’m tired of saying that so… oh crap, too late. To be fair, part of the reason the time flew by this week was me being out of town for my first offsite with Webflow. I got to meet my boss, coworkers, and learn more about our company and what our plans are for the year. I’m really happy I joined Webflow and I’m looking forward to the future. It feels like it’s been a while since I could say that and damn do I appreciate having a good job. An AI Drama in Four Parts This is, to put it bluntly, a pretty crazy story about AI and automation gone wrong. Start off with "An... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2/22/26, links
Three Plug-N-Play CSS Libraries / / No Comments For probably over a decade, when I wanted to make a demo/site look nice and didn’t really care about making it unique, I’d go to Bootstrap. Bootstrap had a nice, clean look and as I was usually employing it for demos, or admin screens, I didn’t care if it looked like every other Bootstrap site. While Bootstrap was mostly simple, it’s also wordy as heck. Bootstrap has an insane love affair with div tags and even a simple Bootstrap page feels like the line number goes up 4X. Again, that’s fine, but I found myself wishing for something a bit simpler. That’s where the frameworks I’m sharing today come in. For the most part, these libraries require little... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: libraries, PlugNPlay, three
I threw thousands of files at Astro and you won’t believe what happened next… / / No Comments Ok, forgive me for the incredibly over the top title there. Yes, it’s clickbait, but I’m also tired after a very long week and feeling a little crazy, so just go with me here a bit, I promise it will be worth it. I was curious how well Astro could handle a large amount of data and I thought – what happens if I threw this blog (well, the Markdown files) at it and tried to render out a site? Here’s what I did wrong and what eventually worked (better than I expected). Round One I began by creating a soft link locally from my blog’s repo of posts to the src/pages/posts of a new Astro site. My blog currently has 6742 posts (all high quality I assure you). Each one looks... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Astro, believe, files, happened, Next, thousands, threw, Won't
Links For You (2/8/26) / / No Comments Happy Superb Owl Day! As my team didn’t even get close to the playoffs, I’ll be rooting for the Seahawks, but even more so, hoping for a fun game. Tomorrow I head out to Vegas for my first offsite with Webflow, and the first in-person company event I’ve been too since Auth0 nearly a decade ago. I’m looking forward to meeting my teammates in person and meeting new people. Now – to the links! Adding Touch to PowerShell A few months back, I traded in my Windows laptop (it was having horrible hardware issues) and moved back to Mac. I’ve gone back and forth over the years, and even when I was on Windows for my personal machine, my work laptop was usually a Mac,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2/8/26, links
Creating Reddit Summaries with URL Context and Gemini / / No Comments A while ago, the Gemini API added a feature to help work with URL content, URL Context. Previously you had to fetch and download the HTML of the page and pass it to the API. This feature allows Gemini to request content (with limits) from public web pages. I thought it would be interesting to test this against Reddit. In the past I’ve made use of Reddit’s APIs, but as they’ve pretty much destroyed access to those APIs, I thought this could be a good work around. Here’s a simple demo I built. My demo parses the Astro subreddit, specifically the new feed, and asks for a summary of items that seem to require a developer’s help, as well as items that may be critical... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Context, creating, Gemini, Reddit, Summaries