A blog by David Soards about software development and whatever else he feels like writing about.https://blog.soards.me/https://blog.soards.me/posts/bringing-claude-codes-output-styles-to-pi/https://blog.soards.me/posts/bringing-claude-codes-output-styles-to-pi/Building pi-voice, a lightweight Pi extension for switching between concise, proactive, explanatory, and learning output styles.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/building-an-ecommerce-website-for-a-farm-to-table-business/https://blog.soards.me/posts/building-an-ecommerce-website-for-a-farm-to-table-business/Duck Duck Beet needed a way for their customers to order online and a homepage that would clearly explain their unique business to new customers. Woocommerce and Vector Art to the rescue.Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:21:39 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/building-decide-for-me-permissions-for-pi-with-jev/https://blog.soards.me/posts/building-decide-for-me-permissions-for-pi-with-jev/Building pi-jev-gate, a small Pi extension that combines local permission rules with Jev judgments.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/designing-a-ui-for-designers-but-also-non-designers/https://blog.soards.me/posts/designing-a-ui-for-designers-but-also-non-designers/My UX process behind the design of a digital signage content editor.Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:34:43 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/designing-the-comic-creator-mobile-app/https://blog.soards.me/posts/designing-the-comic-creator-mobile-app/The first step in creating a page of sequential art is to draw what is called a thumbnail. A thumbnail is a small image that shows the basic panel layout of a page and the general placements of the…Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:01:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-forms-for-vuejs-with-formspree/https://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-forms-for-vuejs-with-formspree/Add a form to a VueJS website using Formspree.Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify/https://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify/Setting up Wordpress as a Headless CMS for use with Nuxt and NetlifySat, 12 Sep 2020 18:06:53 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify-part-ii/https://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify-part-ii/Vue, Nuxt and TailwindTue, 15 Sep 2020 13:56:31 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify-part-iii/https://blog.soards.me/posts/easy-headless-wordpress-with-nuxt-netlify-part-iii/Deploying with Netlify and adding a build hook to our CMSWed, 16 Sep 2020 21:50:30 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/figma-config-2026-recap/https://blog.soards.me/posts/figma-config-2026-recap/A personal recap of Figma Config 2026, from Figma's product launch to AI workflows, PM onboarding, and designing trust at Waymo.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/make-a-custom-night-mode-toggle-w-react-css-variables/https://blog.soards.me/posts/make-a-custom-night-mode-toggle-w-react-css-variables/This post is the first in a short series where I will detail the things I learned while designing and...Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:48:09 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/make-a-flickering-neon-svg-animation-from-scratch-w-illustrator-react-emotion/https://blog.soards.me/posts/make-a-flickering-neon-svg-animation-from-scratch-w-illustrator-react-emotion/This is Part 2 in a short series where I am detailing the things I learned while designing and develo...Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:06:05 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/my-macbook-is-a-client-now/https://blog.soards.me/posts/my-macbook-is-a-client-now/Why I moved development to a dedicated Mac mini, and how Tailscale, SSH, Herdr, Zed, and Codex Desktop make the remote workflow practical.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/quicktip-break-vue-reactivity/https://blog.soards.me/posts/quicktip-break-vue-reactivity/Sometimes it is useful to copy a value and purposely break reactivity in VueJS.Thu, 07 Mar 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/radix-colors-with-tailwind/https://blog.soards.me/posts/radix-colors-with-tailwind/Using Radix Colors along with Tailwind makes handling dark mode much easier.Thu, 22 Feb 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/resize-image-on-save-in-django-before-sending-to-amazon-s3/https://blog.soards.me/posts/resize-image-on-save-in-django-before-sending-to-amazon-s3/How to dynamically resize an image on save before uploading it to your AWS S3 bucket. No Lambda function required.Fri, 25 Dec 2020 05:00:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-local-mysql-in-docker/https://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-local-mysql-in-docker/Quickly get an instance of MySQL running to use for local development without having to install MySQL on your system.Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-postgres-pgvector-in-docker/https://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-postgres-pgvector-in-docker/Quickly get an instance of PostgreSQL with pgvector running to use for local development of a RAG pipeline.Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-vps-on-hetzner-cloud/https://blog.soards.me/posts/setup-vps-on-hetzner-cloud/How to setup a secure VPS on Hetzner with SSH, firewall, reverse-proxy, git, Docker, and more.Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/switch-from-nginx-to-caddy/https://blog.soards.me/posts/switch-from-nginx-to-caddy/How to switch from NGINX to Caddy and simplify your server setup.Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:10:00 GMThttps://blog.soards.me/posts/use-more-system-fonts/https://blog.soards.me/posts/use-more-system-fonts/Why I used regular system fonts instead of web fonts for my new blog. They're easy. They're fast. And they can look really nice.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:10:00 GMT