The blog and portfolio of Ryan Filler

Reflecting on 2020 and looking back on one year of blog posts.

Generating social share images with a serverless function and headless browser

All of my Inktober drawings from October 2020

Writing custom plugins to give extra powers to Markdown syntax using the Unified ecosystem

Building a CRUD site to host color palettes using Svelte, Routify, Sanity, and Netlify Functions.

Comparing and contrasting creating a basic widget in React, Svelte, and Vue

Three big limitations I've discovered while working with Svelte and Sapper

Exploring some of the more esoteric details about Svelte and Sapper

Lessons learned from using git-lfs (Git Large File Storage), which can be quite easy to mess up and equally as frustrating to fix.

Using RSS and Webhooks to syndicate posts from one Gatsby site to another.

Science Gothic is a very cool variable font, but it is over one megabyte in size. I am testing and comparing the most efficient ways to load and style custom web fonts.

Refactoring a component to use an html5 <details> element instead of ARIA and javascript.

Things I've learned about gatsby-config.js, gatsby-node.js, and NetlifyCMS

A short history of my previous Gatsby site, and why I'm choosing to start over from scratch in the new decade.

I switched my website back and forth between SCSS and Styled-Components four times. Here are some thoughts on why I couldn't make up my mind and why I eventually chose what I did.

Thoughts on CSS Grid from someone who learned about typographic grids for print in design school