Add a DuckDuckGo or Google search form to your site using Netlify redirects
A quick and easy way to provide a site search via DuckDuckGo (or Google if you must) using Netlify redirects (and no javascript).
About
My name is Dan Ott
I am a freelance web developer. I've worked professionally in the web development field since 1999, and full-time since 2007. I count myself as one of those lucky few people who actually enjoy what they do.
Elsewhere on the internet
You can find me on GitHub, on Twitter, on Pinboard, CodePen or, occasionally, on Flickr.
I also co-founded the Cleveland React Meetup Group in 2019.
Work
Professional
I've been an freelance developer for over ten years, specializing in front-end architecture and development. I have experience building sites using standards-compliant HTML and CSS, React (both SPA and integrated into existing legacy sites), and have built over 25 client sites using Craft CMS. Since 2007, I've worked almost exclusively with Sprokets, a collection of independent creative professionals.
Contact
I'm not currently accepting new contract work, but I'm always interested in what's going on. Hit me up any time at dan at this domain.
Some Recent Thoughts:
Multiple date formats in one Gatsby GraphQL query
Using some special magic, Gatsby can transform date fields in GraphQL queries into different formats. But what if you would like more than one format, and don't want to import an entire date formatting library?
CSS Naked Day!
A tweet from Eric Meyer invited us to revive the tradition of CSS Naked Day!
Styling React Components Talk
I recently gave a talk at our Cleveland React meetup group about different ways to style React components. I thought it'd be cool to share both the slides as well as the example code for the talk.
Practical React Hooks talk
In my hooks talk for the Cleveland React Meetup, I live-coded a conversion from a class-based app to one using hooks. I have published the code from the talk on GitHub.
This repo has branches containing each step along the way, from the basic class-based app to the completed thing.