https://www.donielsmith.com/ Recent content on Andrew Smith en-US Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/supabase-js-not-orm-or-query-builder/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/supabase-js-not-orm-or-query-builder/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT supabase-js constructs a restful API url for the server to make request to resources you are requesting. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/first-things-i-do-when-setting-up-a-supabase-project/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/first-things-i-do-when-setting-up-a-supabase-project/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT First things I do when setting up a Supabase project https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/integrating-supabase-storage-with-payload-cms-using-s3-compatibility/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/integrating-supabase-storage-with-payload-cms-using-s3-compatibility/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Integrating Supabase Storage with Payload CMS Using S3 Compatibility https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/supabase-full-text-search-in-python/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/supabase-full-text-search-in-python/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Doing full text search with Supabase inside of your Python project https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/your-database-is-the-source-of-truth/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/your-database-is-the-source-of-truth/ Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Your database is the source of truth and not your schema migrations https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/writing-more/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/writing-more/ Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT Write more, spend less time procrastinating https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2021-05-25-using-powershell-to-remove-a-directory-and-its-content/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2021-05-25-using-powershell-to-remove-a-directory-and-its-content/ Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT PowerShell is a wonderful piece of software once you start to learn the correct commands. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-05-11-how-to-use-dotenv-with-svelte-3/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-05-11-how-to-use-dotenv-with-svelte-3/ Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Separate your environment configuration by using dotenv, these can save you the hassle of having a configration object store inside of your project repository. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-22-creating-a-reusable-component-with-svelte-3/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-22-creating-a-reusable-component-with-svelte-3/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Svelte 3 has a small API surface and allows you to create components as simple as you want. You can also create complex components with a bit more effort. Reusable components is one of the goal's of all major frontend framework and Svelte is no stranger to this. When I talk about reusable components I mean components that you can define what action it should take and how it looks. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-21-props-vs-event-dispatcher-svelte-3/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-21-props-vs-event-dispatcher-svelte-3/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Depending on what other component libraries you've used, you may be used to handling events by passing callback functions to component properties, or using a special event syntax – Svelte supports both, though one is usually more appropriate than the other depending on your situation. This post explains both ways. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-12-multiple-zsh-config-in-iterm/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-04-12-multiple-zsh-config-in-iterm/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Having multiple zsh configs are useful when you need a different profile for work and home or in my case, for screen recording. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-03-11-switching-from-dropbox-to-onedrive/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2020-03-11-switching-from-dropbox-to-onedrive/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT The process of switching from one cloud storage provider to another. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/writing-process/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/writing-process/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT The steps I take when writing a post for my blog. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-12-11-how-to-bulk-delete-firebase-authentication-users/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-12-11-how-to-bulk-delete-firebase-authentication-users/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Deleting multiple users from the Firebase authentication system. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-01-12-protecting-routes-using-regex-in-amber-framework/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-01-12-protecting-routes-using-regex-in-amber-framework/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT How to protect your complex routes using regex in the Amber Framework. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-01-10-rendering-a-different-template-with-a-controller-in-amber/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2019-01-10-rendering-a-different-template-with-a-controller-in-amber/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT An explaination of how template rendering works in the Amber Framework. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2018/05/20/how-to-use-google-analytics-with-sapper/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2018/05/20/how-to-use-google-analytics-with-sapper/ Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Adding Google Analytics to any website should be pretty straight forward once you have the code snippet that Google provides you with. But when you want to dynamically populate the actual tracking id it gets a bit harder, especially when using a Universal Javascript framework. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2018/05/19/dynamic-imports-in-sapper/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2018/05/19/dynamic-imports-in-sapper/ Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT There are times that you will need to use a library that is purely client side in Sapper and some of these libraries make use of client side properties that are not available on the server. i.e. document https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/09/20/creating-a-twitter-tweet-box-with-svelte/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/09/20/creating-a-twitter-tweet-box-with-svelte/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT Today I want to go about creating a Twitter tweet box with Svelte. But before I start on this, I want to just point out some of the features that the official Twitter tweet box provides. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/08/29/how-to-do-web-scraping-with-cheerio/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/08/29/how-to-do-web-scraping-with-cheerio/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT This past weekend (13 August 2017) I started on a quest to get some data from a cinema website here in Accra, Ghana. I thought this would have been easy, since the data is available publicly. I immediately opened the Chrome web inspector to see some markup like I have not seen in years. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/08/02/getting-started-with-svelte/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/08/02/getting-started-with-svelte/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT Svelte is not a framework like the other conventional Javascript frameworks. Svelte is an Ahead Of Time (AOT) compiler, so in the end the code that get shipped is just plain old Javascript with minimal runtime overhead. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/03/19/refactoring-to-a-service-in-trails/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/03/19/refactoring-to-a-service-in-trails/ Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Since I started working with Trails, I have come to like its approach to a lot of things. I feel its what I have always been looking for in a Node web framework. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/03/10/social-auth-with-trails-using-hapijs-and-bell/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2017/03/10/social-auth-with-trails-using-hapijs-and-bell/ Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT This is my first time using Trails and I decided to follow to the guides. However as I continued I wanted to test it out on my own ideas. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2016/06/05/passing-attributes-down-with-ractivejs/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2016/06/05/passing-attributes-down-with-ractivejs/ Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT I really like RactiveJS and how the inner workings work most of the time. I recently ran into an situation where I needed a component to behave a particular way and this was a challenge at first but with the help of Rich Harris (creator of RactiveJS) I was able to find a solution. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/10/27/list-of-slim3-middlewares/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/10/27/list-of-slim3-middlewares/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT Recently folks have been asking about what middlewares are available for Slim 3. Although Slim 3 is still in RC stage, there have been a number of developers who have decided to create middlewares already. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/08/27/lazy-loading-controller-action/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/08/27/lazy-loading-controller-action/ Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT In many popular frameworks these days you can lazy load your actions in order to not invoke every action unless it is the one matched that should be dispatched. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/08/01/why-is-slim3-not-so-slim-anymore/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/08/01/why-is-slim3-not-so-slim-anymore/ Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT There is a common misconception that Slim 3 has plenty of files and is no longer slim. Slim 3 does indeed contain more files than Slim 2 and this has been the result of being more flexible and moving away from the Not Invented Here (NIH) philosophy. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/07/30/aura-di-service-aliasing/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2015/07/30/aura-di-service-aliasing/ Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT I have been working on a legacy application and wanted to remove the old process of how it lookup its services from file name and database entry to using a service locator container instead. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2014/04/11/slim-php-101-using-laravel-config-package/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2014/04/11/slim-php-101-using-laravel-config-package/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Over the past few years Laravel have become a popular full stack PHP framework and with its latest version (L4) the framework have been componentized. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2014/04/10/slim-php-101-how-to-use-multiple-view-parsers/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2014/04/10/slim-php-101-how-to-use-multiple-view-parsers/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT In this post we will go through setting up Slim to work with multiple view parsers, for this example we will look at using Slim's PHP view library and the Twig view library. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/11/20/why-no-promise-angularjs-1-2/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/11/20/why-no-promise-angularjs-1-2/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT In the latest version of AngularJS (1.2.0+) there seem to have been a change which will probably break most app which have in the past relied on the view unwrapping the promise object and showing the results directly in the view. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/07/23/using-schema-builder-with-cli-migrations/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/07/23/using-schema-builder-with-cli-migrations/ Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT The PHP Framework market landscape has changed recently with the anticipation of Laravel 4, the most expressive PHP Framework to have come out of the techworks. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/06/14/more-is-coming-for-modx/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/06/14/more-is-coming-for-modx/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Over the past few months some interesting development have been happening in the MODX community. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/04/01/yet-another-cms-f-thingy-called-modx/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/04/01/yet-another-cms-f-thingy-called-modx/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Some of you might have seen my many rants on Twitter about the state of MODX, I have grown weary and have now decided to fork it. https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/03/16/build-awesome/ https://www.donielsmith.com/blog/2013/03/16/build-awesome/ Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT This article is not about building the next rad web app, if you are after that then you might want to go check out some of Drew Wilson's work, otherwise continue reading.