Farai Gandiya

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Harare, Zimbabwe Joined on Mar 12, 2017 https://codelab.farai.xyz

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B.A in Computer Science from Wartburg College

Farai Gandiya

Feb 14

Improving Netlify's Default HTTP Cache-Control Headers for Immutable Assets

#webperf #netlify #http

3 min read

Designers and front-end folks! How do you name colors?

It should make theming easier as well since changing —text-pr...

Dec 21 '20

Designers and front-end folks! How do you name colors?

Give the raw colors a name (eg —ocean-teal) and assign that n...

Dec 21 '20

Against Namespacing Personal Sites

Yeah I’m thinking about this more than I should. I really don...

Sep 10 '20

Have you ever struggled with imposter syndrome? 👽

Not really. In my case I’m not very good yet and I still have...

Sep 4 '20

How I ran Django on my android phone ❌💻

They’ve loosened up a bit with interpreted languages though t...

Sep 3 '20

How I ran Django on my android phone ❌💻

That’s cool. I think it might work on iOS too with Pythonista.

Sep 2 '20

Where do you host your static sites?

GitHub and GitLab Pages since I couldn’t be bothered to set s...

Aug 30 '20

Static Site Generators are not for me! My Experience with Jekyll, Hugo and NetlifyCMS

It's just keeping them organized to begin with. Having to tro...

Sep 18 '19

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Farai Gandiya

Jan 17

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

8 min read

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Dec 17 '21

Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS

#webfeeds

2 min read

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Dec 16 '21

Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do

3 min read

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Oct 5 '21

Breadcrumbs In Hugo

#hugo #html

2 min read

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Oct 5 '21

Give Your Illustrations Dark Mode With This Simple Trick (SPOILER: It's a CSS Filter)

#darkmode #css

2 min read

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Oct 5 '21

Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect

2 min read

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Jun 27 '21

You Can Give A Website Dark Mode With Just One CSS Property

#darkmode #css #html

3 min read

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Jun 11 '21

Converting Video into Animated Images Using FFmpeg

#images #avif #av1 #webp

6 min read

Farai Gandiya

Apr 15 '21

Converting Video into Animated Images (and Other Videos) With FFmpeg (For The Most Part)

4 min read

Farai Gandiya

Apr 11 '21

I Now Have A Newsletter; See The First Email

1 min read

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Mar 30 '21

How I Optimize PNGs

2 min read

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Mar 23 '21

Adding Permissive CORS to Netlify

#netlify #cors

2 min read

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Mar 21 '21

Sticky Footer Using Flexbox With Just 4 CSS Declarations

#css #flexbox

2 min read

Farai Gandiya

Jan 2 '21

The img loading Attribute Won’t Lazy Load Unless JavaScript is Enabled

#lazyloading #images

2 min read

Farai Gandiya

Dec 21 '20

An ISO 8601 Date Snippet For VS Code

#vscode

1 min read

Farai Gandiya

Dec 21 '20

Setting A Custom Output Format in Hugo for Netlify (or GitLab Page's) _redirects File

#netlify #gitlabpages #hugo

3 min read

Farai Gandiya

Sep 13 '20

Tic Tac Fail: How I Tried (and Failed) to make Tik Tac Toe in an Hour

7 min read

Farai Gandiya

Aug 30 '20

How To Add Search To Your Static Site

#javascript #jamstack #html

6 min read

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Aug 23 '20

Making Word Clock, A Clock Which Tells The Time With Words

#eleventy #11ty #projects #javascript

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10 min read

Farai Gandiya

Jan 15 '20

My First Tech Interview

#techinterviews

6 min read

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Improving Netlify's Default HTTP Cache-Control Headers for Immutable Assets

Recent comments

Designers and front-end folks! How do you name colors?

Designers and front-end folks! How do you name colors?

Against Namespacing Personal Sites

Have you ever struggled with imposter syndrome? 👽

How I ran Django on my android phone ❌💻

How I ran Django on my android phone ❌💻

Where do you host your static sites?

Static Site Generators are not for me! My Experience with Jekyll, Hugo and NetlifyCMS

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS

Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do

Breadcrumbs In Hugo

Give Your Illustrations Dark Mode With This Simple Trick (SPOILER: It's a CSS Filter)

Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect

You Can Give A Website Dark Mode With Just One CSS Property

Converting Video into Animated Images Using FFmpeg

Converting Video into Animated Images (and Other Videos) With FFmpeg (For The Most Part)

I Now Have A Newsletter; See The First Email

How I Optimize PNGs

Adding Permissive CORS to Netlify

Sticky Footer Using Flexbox With Just 4 CSS Declarations

The img loading Attribute Won’t Lazy Load Unless JavaScript is Enabled

An ISO 8601 Date Snippet For VS Code

Setting A Custom Output Format in Hugo for Netlify (or GitLab Page's) _redirects File

Tic Tac Fail: How I Tried (and Failed) to make Tik Tac Toe in an Hour

How To Add Search To Your Static Site

Making Word Clock, A Clock Which Tells The Time With Words

My First Tech Interview