Hi there, I'm Connor
I'm a software engineer, technologist, woodworking hobbyist, amateur musician, and dog dad living in Boulder, Colorado.
Posts
A mix of posts, notes, and rants of varying currency and completeness. See all
Goat Simulator IRL
This summer, my girlfriend and I took our second trip to Door County, Wisconsin, a tradition her family has kept alive since the 1940s. While there’s plenty to see, one of the coolest spots is Al Johnson’s, a restaurant famous for its goats grazing on the roof. The open face sandwiches are pretty great too, but the goats are the real draw.
Cloudflare Workers RPC
While prototyping some new features for this site, I stumbled upon some unusual code in a Durable Objects guide. Surprisingly, it covered functionalities I had not seen documented, at least not within the past couple of months. I had no idea you could directly call methods on Durable Object stubs! This discovery eliminates the need for cumbersome request routing boilerplate, trpc, and the often unnecessary low-level decisions. Simply obtain a handle to your object and call methods on it. Amazing. Source: C
Generating a Blog with Vite, MDX, and Remix
This site is built on top of Remix, which has many features that I absolutely love, but perhaps by favorite is its nested routing/route file name conventions/route module interface. It's the main selling point in my mind. Here's how it works: 1. Create a file conforming to the Route naming patterns (posts.my-post.tsx => /posts/my-posts) 2. Implement and export some or a subset of the Route Module "interface" 3. Done The Route Module is super powerful with 3 main exports: The power comes from how Remix uses