Jeremy Davis
Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
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Posts from July 2024

A key trick that makes search fast

It's interesting to think about internals sometimes

Recently I added a basic search page to my blog. This is a pure static site, hosted on Github Pages, so there's no Solr or Algolia here. Just some clever JavaScript (Lunr.js) acting on data generated by Statiq. Setting that up made me think about the internals of how a search can work efficiently, and I figured others might be interested in this...

General ~5 min. read

What happens if you duplicate field names?

We're told not to get into this state, but why?

Data Template inheritance. Most of the time it's great and a powerful tool to help you define your content schema effectively. But there are a few places where it can trip you up - and one of the interesting ones is duplicated field names. I found myself chatting about what actually happens and how this might affect PowerShell scripts and headless code recently, and it seemed worth writing down...

Automating Git

Because sometimes it's helpful to have code to push for you...

I've written a few times before about trying to smooth out the rougher edges of the process of blogging with some custom tooling. Both the site generator I'm using these days, and the simple editor tool I hacked together to suit my writing process. I realised recently that one of those rough edges that remained in the process was the need to manually commit my writing to source control, so I wondered what it might take to wire that into my editing tool...

C# Git ~5 min. read