#100DaysOfGatsby 2021: The Finish Line
By Michelle Gienow on April 12th, 2021
It’s the 12th of April, a day which represents two milestones: the 100th day of 2021, and also the finish line for this year’s #100DaysOfGatsby Challenge.
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By Michelle Gienow on April 12th, 2021
It’s the 12th of April, a day which represents two milestones: the 100th day of 2021, and also the finish line for this year’s #100DaysOfGatsby Challenge.
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By Michelle Gienow on March 26th, 2021
Welcome to the fifth -- and final -- phase of #100DaysOfGatsby, Gatsby’s guided coding challenge for 2021!
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By Michelle Gienow on February 26th, 2021
Want to try building your first Gatsby site? Gatsby Software Engineer Obinna Ekwuno and Senior Software Engineer, Documentation, Megan Sullivan are leading Getting Started with Gatsby, sponsored by Contentstack. The free half-day workshop covers core concepts behind using Gatsby, like querying data with GraphQL and working with a headless CMS. You’ll learn how to optimize for accessibility, routing and creating pages programmatically...And how to leverage the vast Gatsby ecosystem of starters, plugins, and themes to quickly create a fast, secure, scalable website -- and deploy your site to live hosting for free, in minutes!
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By Michelle Gienow on February 24th, 2021
When Covid-19 hit the U.K. last spring, the Royal College of Art’s traditional graduating student shows were shut down. With a little help from Gatsby, though, the school worked with MTJ.io to quickly create a brand new digital discovery platform -- a museum’s worth of virtual galleries -- so that the shows could go on(line) in time.
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By Michelle Gienow on February 22nd, 2021
GatsbyConf is just a week a way! Francois is presenting a talk, “Using The Power Of Gatsby To Create A Network Of Blazing Fast Websites,” to demonstrate building out complex systems at scale — with a single Gatsby code base powering multiple websites. We caught up with him for a wide-ranging chat around his thoughts on the future of Jamstack and ways to keep ourselves thinking differently about building websites.
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By Michelle Gienow on February 17th, 2021
Tech’s primary verbal language is English, which can create a barrier for developers in countries where it’s not the main language. Alfredo Navas describes the importance of developer communities where these technologies can be shared, and supported, in the native language — and how to go about building them.
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By Michelle Gienow on February 11th, 2021
When Facebook needed to build an information onramp for Diem, their soon-to-launch global digital payment system, they turned to Boulder, Colorado-based Dfuzr Industries -- and Dfuzr turned to Gatsby.
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By Michelle Gienow on February 10th, 2021
Full stack developer and tech educator Arisa Fukuzaki will be speaking at GatsbyConf on March 2nd! Her presentation “Finding My Developer Happy Path with Gatsby x Contentful" will demonstrate how this combination makes deploying a new project a fast, pleasant developer experience. We caught up with Arisa for a quick pre-conf chat about her experiences using Gatsby
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By Michelle Gienow on February 8th, 2021
Joel Varty, president of Agility CMS, will be speaking at GatsbyConf on March 2nd! His presentation "Architecting Fullstack Solutions in a Jamstack World" will show why Jamstack architecture is more than just a frontend and discuss the kinds of solutions that Jamstack is great at solving. Joel will also demonstrate how you can add existing APIs onto your Jamstack solution -- and how you can build new APIs to solve unique customer problems. We caught up with Joel for a quick pre-conf chat about Gatsby and the Jamstack.
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By Michelle Gienow on February 4th, 2021
When it comes to WordPress, going headless refers to keeping the familiar WordPress interface for collaborating on content creation, editing and updating. However, behind the scenes, you’ve ditched the cumbersome WordPress theme layer for faster and more efficient architecture powering how your content gets built, deployed, and presented to viewers.
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By Michelle Gienow on January 26th, 2021
They came, they coded, they were seriously silly. Over 900 people registered for the first-ever Gatsby Silly Site Challenge, and 134 entries ultimately crossed the finish line. So much whimsy, creativity and laugh-out-loud humor from these widely varied projects meant naming the top twenty a difficult, though hilarious, task.
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By Michelle Gienow on December 21st, 2020
Studies show that Generation X-ers get hired 33% less often than younger candidates with comparable skills and experience. Even once we do land an interview, there can often be a queasy sense of not quite fitting in -- culturally, if not skills-wise. But we all need to get past the discomfort when encountering someone who is different, whether due to age or any other factor, because studies also show that that a diverse organization is a stronger, more creative organization.
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By Michelle Gienow on October 1st, 2020
It’s the first day of October, so you know what that means...it’s officially time for Hacktoberfest!
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By Michelle Gienow on September 3rd, 2020
Raleigh Bicycles online presence had a need for speed. The original Raleigh website suffered from slow pageloads and was prone to crashing during traffic spikes, with few options for developers to improve it. Oberon used Gatsby to create a modern and performant site to help Raleigh's customers get wheels.
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By Michelle Gienow on July 20th, 2020
After learning that many existing menstrual cycle tracker apps were sharing user data with third parties, Benedicte Raae decided to build her own. In her Gatsby Days Reconfigured presentation, the co-founder and senior developer of Lilly Labs, shows how to build a secure progressive web app with Gatsby and Userbase for end to end encryption.
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By Michelle Gienow on July 16th, 2020
For his groovy Gatsby Days Reloaded presentation, Trevor Blades delves into Gatsby’s wide-ranging plugin ecosystem for a look at some of his personal favorites: plugins that particularly enhance the local development experience.
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By Michelle Gienow on July 15th, 2020
Little Caesars knew their first-ever Super Bowl ad would drive a huge spike in online orders from hungry customers. To ensure their website was ready for prime time, the third biggest pizza delivery company in the world built their new e-commerce platform using Gatsby.
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By Michelle Gienow on July 14th, 2020
Design systems depend on solid documentation. If your docs fall down, your system probably will too. Adekunle Oduye presents a practical system for building living documentation for your design system -- one where docs are part of the development process, not an afterthought -- with a Gatsby starter and Storybook.
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By Michelle Gienow on April 7th, 2020
At Gatsby Days LA 2020, Kyle Boss, web developer at Tinder, explains how Gatsby enables developers to set up and use React as a front end for WordPress—avoiding the use of PHP almost entirely.
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By Michelle Gienow on June 8th, 2019
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