Simon MacDonald

Father, Software Engineer, Comic Enthusiast, Coffee Lover and Head of Developer Experience at Begin.com

Ottawa, ON 🇨🇦 Joined on Feb 23, 2017 https://simonmacdonald.com

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Simon MacDonald for Begin

Mar 8

A React Developers Guide to Writing Enhance Components

#enhance #react #webdev

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Simon MacDonald for Begin

Jan 31

Removing React is just weakness leaving your codebase

#react #webdev #webcomponents

8 min read

Simon MacDonald for Begin

Aug 18 '23

Shadow DOM: Not by Default

#webcomponents #shadowdom

6 min read

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Jul 26 '23

Introducing Enhance Movies

#webdev #enhance #webcomponents

3 min read

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May 10 '23

Why you should roll your own auth

#webdev #enhance #auth

2 min read

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May 1 '23

Supporting Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

#webdev #enhance #posse #indieweb

3 min read

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Apr 19 '23

Webmention Support in Enhance Blog Template

#webdev #enhance #webmentions #indieweb

5 min read

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Apr 14 '23

Making the leap to AWS with Architect

#aws #architect

3 min read

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Mar 30 '23

Adding Comments to the Enhance Blog Template

#webdev #enhance #webcomponents

9 min read

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Mar 17 '23

Introducing the Enhance Blog Template

#webdev #enhance #webcomponents

4 min read

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Mar 8 '23

Enhance API Routes and OpenAPI

#webdev #enhance #webcomponents #openapi

5 min read

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Feb 22 '23

Why does everyone "suddenly" hate Single Page Apps?

#webdev #spa

5 min read

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Feb 10 '23

Why we Server Side Render Web Components

#webdev #javascript #ssr

22 min read

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Jan 24 '23

I just wanted to buy pants. How excessive JavaScript is costing you money

#webdev #javascript

6 min read

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Jan 20 '23

Using Fast Components in an Enhance App

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance #fast

2 min read

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Jan 17 '23

Converting Lit Components to Enhance

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance #lit

5 min read

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Jan 6 '23

On the twelfth day of Enhancing: Debugging

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

1 min read

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Jan 5 '23

On the eleventh day of Enhancing: Environment Variables

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Jan 4 '23

On the tenth day of Enhancing: Deploying your app

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Jan 3 '23

On the ninth day of Enhancing: Externalizing Scripts

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

4 min read

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Jan 2 '23

On the eighth day of Enhancing: Progressively Enhanced Forms

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

4 min read

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Jan 1 '23

On the seventh day of Enhancing: Forms

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

3 min read

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Dec 31 '22

On the sixth day of Enhancing: Head component

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Dec 29 '22

On the fifth day of Enhancing: Enhance Styles

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Dec 29 '22

On the fourth day of Enhancing: Composing elements

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Dec 28 '22

On the third day of Enhancing: API routes and the Store

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Dec 27 '22

On the second day of Enhancing: Your first page and component

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

3 min read

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Dec 26 '22

On the first day of Enhancing: Getting Started

#enhance #webdev #webcomponents

2 min read

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Dec 15 '22

Using Lit Components in an Enhance App

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance #lit

4 min read

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Dec 6 '22

Enhancing Vanilla Web Components

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance

5 min read

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Nov 29 '22

Using External Web Components with Enhance

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance

2 min read

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Nov 18 '22

Rendering Markdown with Enhance

#webdev #webcomponents #enhance

5 min read

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Jan 27 '22

Rebuilding my personal website: Getting Started

9 min read

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Jan 6 '22

Fat Functions are an Anti-Pattern

#aws #lambda #javascript

5 min read

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Dec 6 '21

Introducing the Begin Book Club

#bookclub #dynamodb

2 min read

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Nov 12 '21

Tale of the Tape: Highlight.js vs Shiki

4 min read

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Nov 11 '21

Adding dark mode to the personal website template

4 min read

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