Brian Perry
Likes Computers

He likes other things too, but many of them involve computers.

Congratulations on visting one of the internet's many websites!

This specific one is mine. I use this site to document things I've been thinking about, things I've been learning, things I use, and things I really like.

I'm a front end developer who lives in the Chicago suburbs, I'm a member of the Drupal community, I often present at tech events, I have a super awesome family, and I really like Nintendo.

Latest Updates

Framework Detection with @netlify/framework-info

Updated Jul 12, 2021

I recently needed a way to detect which framework was being used to build a site. Not only does Netlify have a solid handle on how to do that, but they also open sourced their utility.

Documenting My Mac Setup

Updated Jul 1, 2021

Hey future self: this is what you do when you set up a new Mac

New Beaches, New Basements, and New Jobs

Updated Jun 30, 2021

It has been an eventful couple of weeks with a job change, some time off, and a flooded basement.

Editing a post using Codespaces on Safari iPadOS

Running GitHub Codespaces on an iPad

Updated Jun 19, 2021

GitHub Codespaces can provide a fully featured development environment on an iPad. Heres how I configured a Node environment to make updates to this site.