👋🎃 Hey, I'm Willow (aka GHOST)

I am a fullstack web developer from the UK.

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Self-hosting DNS

My journey of DNS, including self-hosting the resolver with Pi-hole and AdGuard Home, using paid services like NextDNS and AdGuard DNS, and public privacy-respecting resolvers.

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Home Assistant Green

My experience with the latest Home Assistant hardware from Nabu Casa

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Svelte London: SvelteKit & Pocketbase

Every side project starts out with a question: "What's the BEST tech stack" - how silly! there's no answer right... Meet Pocketbase, an open source go backend providing you everything you need for your app (except users).

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Building a SvelteKit Adapter for WinterJS

The stream will attempt to build an adapter for WinterJS, whilst showing off all the features of building SvelteKit adapters.

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Cloud Development Environments... but why?!

What is a Cloud Development Environment (CDE) and why would I ever need one?

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Exploring Svelte, Open Source, and Discord Bots with Willow (GHOST)

I am interviewed by Rob Ocel from the Modern Web Podcast. We talk about Web Development, Svelte, SvelteKit, Open Source, Discord Bots, and more.

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Moquettes

Moquettes have been used on public transport around the world for over 100 years. Find out what they are and why in this post...

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Sirens: Form Actions

Kev joins the Sirens again to chat about Form actions in SvelteKit and create a new form for speaker submissions on SvelteSirens.dev.

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Svelte with Brittney and Willow

Brittney and I go on Behind the Source by Mike Street to chat about Svelte, SvelteKit, and the Svelte Sirens.

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Threlte: Declarative Threejs for Svelte

In this Svelte Sirens stream Alex Warnes will teach us about Threlte: Declarative Threejs for Svelte.

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Build a cross platform app with Tauri

Tauri is excellent at building cross-platform lightweight desktop applications using web technology. This post covers what Tauri is, and what it can do.

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Upgrading SvelteKit

GHOST joins Brittney and Kev to update the Svelte Sirens website and showcase upgrading your SvelteKit projects

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Backblaze B2 Image Gallery

GHOST joins Oliver's Stream to helpout with his Backblaze B2 Image Galley with Svelte

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Routes for Svelte with Routify

Jake and I go on the Coding Cat Podcast to talk about using Routify and Svelte

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Astro & Svelte

Astro just hit 1.0! Fred K Schott joins us to answer questions on Astro and see how you can integrate Svelte.

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All About the Sirens

The Svelte Sirens go on Svelte Radio to chat about us!

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Working with reduced motion in Svelte

Working with reduced motion and Svelte transitions can be easy. In this post I cover how we can adapt our website for those who prefer reduced motion, and how to use svelte-reduced-motion to make your transitions accessible.

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Creating a RSS feed with Sanity and Svelte Kit

Read this post to learn how to leverage Svelte Kit endpoints, along with a CMS such as sanity to create a RSS feed for your blog.

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Exploring Routify in Svelte Kit

GHOST does her first talk on Svelte Sirens about how awesome Routify in Svelte Kit can be!

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Routify 3 with Jake and Willow

Jake and I go on Svelte Radio to talk about what's new with Routify 3 beta