Like many folks, I kicked off this year promising myself to do better, greater things over the next twelve months. In that spirit, I’ve begun rebuilding my personal site as a showcase of my web application development skills. This blog documents the technical challenges and choices I encounter during this project.
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Utilizing Emotion, Tailwind, and Radix for Advanced Color Theming
I love colors. I love looking at them, selecting them, creating palettes and discovering new vibes. One of the goals I have for this site is to utilize it as a playground for design ideas that I have. I have bigger plans, but for the initial launch of this site I knew I wanted to ship it with both light and dark themes.
WPGraphQL JWT Authentication
The WPGraphQL plugin produces a public /graphql endpoint that can be queried for any published content. Because I want control over where my content is displayed and by whom, I have added JSON Web Token authentication to this site’s build process.