Alan Norbauer
Alan Norbauer was a web developer in a past life but now lives in Los Angeles doing who knows what.
He's extremely relieved to no longer be living in Silicon Valley which almost killed his soul.
Alan is so old that you should call him "gramps." Alan enjoys bad music and bad novels. His politics are succinctly summarized by Divine. He still doesn't know how to use Snapchat or TikTok.
If you'd like to know a little about Alan's personal life you can take a peek at his facebook profile, or if you'd like to know way too much about his personal life you can watch this documentary on Youtube.
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Writing
From Next.js to Astro: A Page Size Comparison
A comparison of page size after rebuilding this site in AstroUpgrade your Development Environments with Devbox
A gentle guide to creating isolated development environmentsDisable JavaScript Source Maps
Why you should disable JS source maps when debugging codeFitting Text, Anywhere
How to fit text to fill a container, in the browser or on a serverRelay-style GraphQL
GraphQL best practices for 2023Groups in ZeroTier Rules
How to express group membership in ZeroTier rulesZeroNS: Painless DNS for ZeroTier
How to use DNS instead of IP addresses in your ZeroTier NetworkRun zrepl on TrueNAS
Run zrepl on TrueNAS in a way that survives reboots and OS updatesRun ZeroTier on TrueNAS
Run ZeroTier on TrueNAS in a way that survives reboots and OS updatesRun Proxmox Backup Server on TrueNAS
Run Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) on a TrueNAS bhyve VM67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know
Advanced browser parlor tricksCross-platform Node.js
An on-going guide to help you write better cross-platform Node.jsOver-engineering a bookmarklet
Making a bookmarklet using as much unnecessary tech as possible
