Thomas Gauvin

How to setup a subdomain for a Github Pages static site with Namecheap

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 03:01:00 GMT

I wanted to host my blog on a separate domain and repository from my personal website to give it its own space. Here's how I setup my subdomain to point to my separate blog repository.

How to skip build and deploy for GitHub Pages

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:42:44 GMT

For a recent project, I was trying to add the `[skip ci]` keyword to my Git commit messages to avoid the build process as documented by GitHub. As it turns out, this doesn't work for the classic GitHub Pages configuration, and requires a configuration with GitHub Actions.

Welcome to my Blog

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:02:06 GMT

How to store environment variables for local development

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:07:00 GMT

Storing environment variables locally rather than in the code can prevent an unsecure exposure of your access keys, and it's quite easy to do! Here's how to store and use environment variables locally.

Building a micro web application using Azure Functions and SQLite

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:37:44 GMT

Recently, I read about the utility of SQLite for web servers and was intrigued by the possibility of using SQLite and an Azure Function to host an effectively free web application. Since an Azure Functions app comes along with an Azure Files storage account by default, the Azure Function should be able to store and read an SQLite file.

Building a photos application in Python Flask with Azure Blob Storage

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 01:33:00 GMT

In this blog post, we are going to build a Python web application from scratch, using the Flask framework and using Azure Blob Storage to store our pictures.

Launching my side project, Penmark CMS (what it is, why I built it, and how)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 01:33:00 GMT

I'm launching Penmark, an embeddable CMS for Markdown-based, GitHub-backed static sites. Penmark is the fruit of months of work coming up with a better editing experience for my own blog, and I decided to package it into a product that anyone can easily use with their own blogs and content sites!

How to resolve scripts not loading on page navigation for React and NextJS

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:33:00 GMT

React and NextJS provide a quick user experience with client-side navigation. However, this can break injected scripts that don't rerun on page navigation. To resolve these, we can consider a few alternatives that help work around the client-side navigation limitation.

Looking back on 2023: Learning to ship

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:33:00 GMT

2023 was a year of deep technical learning and incremental progress in my role as product manager, as well as some launches of a few key projects. I'm looking back on all the milestones and lessons learned of 2023.

Building Geofetcher: a global website speed tester

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:35:00 GMT

Over the past few years, I’ve had to measure website load times across the world. To date, that’s meant spinning up virtual machines, logging in, and executing scripts or using performance testing applications like JMeter to get the response times of applications. That’s a cumbersome process...

Dynamic Output Bindings with Azure Functions

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:02:06 GMT

Bindings are a powerful Azure Functions feature which provide native integrations to other resources or services, such as databases or storage accounts. While bindings are usually static, it is possible to have dynamic binding in C#. This is how.

Hosting a Blazor application with a subpath on Azure Static Web Apps

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:42:44 GMT

In the previous blog post, I discussed hosting a React application on Static Web Apps with a subpath. In this post, we explore hosting a Blazor app with a subpath as well!

On Neon database: The architecture behind serverless Postgres

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:37:48 GMT

All the ways you can cache on Cloudflare (and how granular caching makes apps faster)

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN) is probably the most known Cloudflare product - and with good reason, it provides great performance, global reach, and has a great free tier. But...

How to create a React frontend and Express backend app

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:22:41 GMT

I often come back to guides to create new React and Express applications, so in this blog post I document how to create a simple React frontend and Express backend application.

Hosting a React application with a subpath on Azure Static Web Apps

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:42:44 GMT

When hosting a React application, you may be interested in hosting it with a subpath, such that you app is hosted at /. In this article, we cover how to host a React application on Azure Static Web Apps with a subpath.

Add maps to your web app with Protomaps and Cloudflare

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:33:00 GMT

Open-source projects for mapping have gotten really, really good. Recently, some of the folks on Cloudflare's community Discord recommended using Protomaps for hosting and displaying maps. While I'm no expert in the web maps ecosystem...

Host Protomaps as static files on Cloudflare Pages for free with Service Workers

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:35:00 GMT

This blog post is about experimenting with hosting PMTiles as static assets on Cloudflare Pages. I'm working on a simple pmtiles styling project (pmtiles-styling.pages.dev), and I wanted to be able to host the entire project on Cloudflare Pages (without having to rely on server-side compute)...

How to host React, Angular, Vue and other single-page applications on Cloudflare Workers with static assets

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:06:59 GMT

Cloudflare Workers introduced support for static assets in September 2024 as part of the effort to unify Cloudflare Workers and Pages. That means that it's now possible to...

How the Model Context Protocol works: A Visualization

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

You've probably used MCP servers without even knowing it. It's sort of magical, it just works. But do you really understand how it works at the protocol level?

Debugging WebSocket Hibernation with Cloudflare Durable Objects (and What I Learned)

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:41:42 GMT

I was using Cloudflare Durable Objects to build a real-time app earlier last month and was running into a bug with my WebSocket connections...