serverless

I work on a large team with amazing people like Simona Cotin, John Papa, Jessie Frazelle, Burke Holland, and Paige Bailey. We all speak a lot, as it's part of a developer advocate's job, and we're also frequently asked where we'll be speaking. For the most part, we each manage our own sites where we list all of this speaking, but that's not a very good experience for people trying to explore, so I made a demo that makes it easy to see who's speaking, at which conferences, when, with links to all of this information. Just for fun, I made use of three.js so that you can quickly visualize how many places we're all visiting.

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Every time I use the word "serverless", which is somewhat regularly lately, as we've had a few articles using the term lately and use the concept at CodePen for a variety of things, I get some version of:

CMON BRAH YOU'RE STILL USING "SERVERS".

And they aren't wrong. Yes, when you build things on the web, there are always servers involved. (more…)

In our previous proof-of-concept demo, we built a bare bones admin for generating a web page with the ability to edit some text on the page and set the site title and description. For this next demo, we build on our example and add rich text editing and image upload capabilities.

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Static Site Website Generators have been getting increasingly popular within the last 2 years. Much has been written (like this and this) and there have been many great open source projects and even funded companies launched to help you get up and running.

What if I told you that you could build a Static Site Generator with your own custom CMS without the need for a database? Not just that, but we can get to Hello World! in under 100 lines of JavaScript.

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