I'm a fan of monorepos and my current goto for managing them is NX. I also use Azure Functions regularly. NX makes it easy to use a .env file to manage environment variables, but Azure Functions uses a host.json file to manage settings. I wanted to be able to manage these settings via environment variables as well. Here's how I did it.

I use Azure a decent amount and I like Azure Functions. Recently, I was building a function for a partner to call as a webhook and when we were testing it the payload was always empty. For a sanity check, I used VS Code to port forward to my local machine and I had him call it instead. I received the data just fine. What. The. Heck.

I hate Wordpress. I know it's a "gold standard" for blogging, but I've never liked it. I've always found it clunky and slow. I've also never liked the idea of having to maintain a database for a blog. It's static content. I've seen a variety of static site generators over the years, but I've never been able to find one that I liked. They all felt overly complex as well.

It's been a bit. Since April 27, 2014 to be exact. But, I am regularly encountering technical challenges that I think are worth sharing.

So, I'm going to start blogging again.