Oh boy, did we learn a lot these past few weeks. Man, we really fell down the rabbit hole of security this time 'round, huh? With Gatsby…

When I first read through the challenge I thought to myself “Why the barnacles would I need a CMS for my insignificantly abysmal blog?” Of…

Speed is key to turnover–we've heard it countless times. The numerous times I've ditched a site just because it took longer than two seconds to load, maybe due to poor performance optimisation or a network error. I know you've done the same. Don't…

So I discovered this week that I don't wanna do SEO. Again, ideally things would be built baked in but I do love checking things off and seeing little green checkmarks, or in this case a green 100 score in Lighthouse for SEO. It was pretty easy to…

Accessibility is boring with a capital B-O-R-I-N-G. I suppose in an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with the issue of accessibility and everything we as developers create would automatically adhere to the a11y standards of accessibility. But…

Call me naïve but why do I need offline support for my blog website? Like literally no-one is going to download it to their home screens so why do I need to complete this seemingly redundant objective? I’ve been entertaining this thought throughout…

Hey hoes, Wowoweewoo. This has been a pretty intense one. So much so that I've managed to push this challenge out a few weeks. I really wanted to dive deep into the cloud platforms namely AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud but I won’t be doing a comparison…

Hello people who've made it thus far, I have accomplished this week's task–behold! A React component embeded within MD! Our signup form from challenge 4 ! In hindsight it was easy as pie. Only took a few days extra. Moving to MDX Anyone familiar…

Hola todos del mundo, This week the challenge was to import a third-party React library into my blog. Unlike last week, I felt this was more in my ballpark having previous played around with React and JSX. The challenge suggested Formik, a cool…

Hello world, again, This week the challenge was all about adding images to pages and showcasing the brilliantly, gorgeous gatsby-image API. To summarise the objectives for those unfamiliar, the tasks this week were to: add an image to markdown-based…

This week the challenge was to deploy my Gatsby blog to a CDN. I'm going to be honest and state that I've never actually deployed anything to the web before. I've pushed things to the internet via GitHub, blogs, forums but that has always utilised…

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