Using the excellent tutorial by @shanselman I can now also be found as [email protected] in the Fediverse!

For anyone interesting in adding this to their website: the PR that made this possible can be viewed here: https://github.com/vnglst/koenvangilst.nl/pull/137

Scotts tutorial can be found here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/use-your-own-user-domain-for-mastodon-discoverability-with-the-webfinger-protocol-without-hosting-a-server

I just upgraded my personal website https://koenvangilst.nl to Next.js 13 with React Server Components!

It’s like they say in the docs, not production ready, but I do like the direction it’s heading in: custom layouts per route are useful. And there’s also easy access to headers and cookies from anywhere now.

I never really enjoyed the getStaticServerProps and all their friends and server components simplify that.

I made an interesting and somewhat disappointing discovery today. I wanted to add a progressively enhanced dark mode to my website using a cookie and the `Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme` header.

With the new NextJS 13 app folder and React Server Component that seemed to work perfectly.

There is, however, a catch. By doing this I opt out of some performance benefits of NextJS: when using a headers it can no longer statically prerender my website.

https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/progressively-enhanced-dark-mode

During the pandemic, I worked on a side project to help parents create lessons for their kids, but it was too time-consuming. Now, with smarter AIs like GPT, I wanted to revisit the idea.

Imagine inputting the text and letting GPT generate questions for your kids to study. Plus, I could expand it with vocabulary lessons, programming syntax practice, and more. I wrote about it here and love hear your thoughts!

https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/ai-enhanced-learning

#AI #edtech #education

I just asked ChatGPT to do a basic spell and grammar check on some of my blog posts and website articles. It works pretty well, but the process of copying and pasting the paragraphs is rather time-consuming.

Does anyone know if there's a VSCode plugin available for this?

It would be even better if it could automatically create a pull request on GitHub for my repo like this: **https://github.com/vnglst/koenvangilst.nl/pull/125**

Say what you will about the source code of the Twitter algorithm, but their CI is pretty impressive:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/ci