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Send Emails with GitHub Actions
One useful action that you can utilize no matter what content your repo has is sending email.
GitHub Actions Syntax
GitHub actions use YAML to configure your workflows. What gets ran, When it runs, What it runs on. Let's discuss YAML and the structure needed for GitHub actions.
What Are GitHub Actions
GitHub actions are an amazing tool that allows us to run code based on triggers inside of our repo. Their is a large and growing community of actions inside the marketplace to use with very little effort. Best of all they are free for public repositories, and private repos have a very generous free tier.
Today I learned `git diff feature..master`
Sometimes we get a little `git add . && git commit -m "WIP"` happy and mistakenly commit something that we just cant figure out. This is a good way to figure out what the heck has changed on the current branch compared to any other branch.
Create New Kedro Project
Getting up and going with a brand new [kedro](kedro.readthedocs.io) project is super simple, thanks to the help of the `kedro new` command. The ability to add an example pipeline from the start makes it that much easier to get going and have a template to follow for your own projects.
Do You Hoist
Do you have any use cases that you use hoising? Why? It seems like a really cool feature in any language that uses it, but I dont really notice it in use.
What is Kedro
Kedro is an open source data pipeline framework. It provides guardrails to set your project up right from the start without needing to know deeply how to setup your own python library for data pipelining. It includes really great ways to manipulate `catalogs` and `pipelines`. This article will cover the 10K view of kedro, future articles will dive deper into each one.
Custom Scrollbar Design
Getting a custom scrollbar on your site makes it stand out a bit compared to the very plain stock one that are on most sites. This is how I set mine up on my gatsby site.
Don’t waste your time learning everything
Stick to what you know, and learn a little bit of something new every day.
2020 waylonwalker.com rebrand
I documented the story of my 2020 waylonwalker.com redesign on my blog. This post walks through the tools and inspiration for the card design.
I just added react-headroom to my site
It was so easy to get a professional looking navbar with just 3 lines of code. This thing is so usable on mobile.
Should I switch to Zeit Now
Should I switch to Zeit Now. Netlify build times are starting to creep in.
What is something that you recently learned that you wish you would have learned or understood earlier?
What is something that you recently learned that you wish you would have learned or understood earlier?
