Articles x103 External Publishers Articles I've written for various publications including: The New Stack, Smashing Magazine and CSS Tricks. NEW Mastra • Thursday, February 5, 2026 Announcing Workspaces: Safe, Controlled Environments for Mastra Agents Workspaces give your agents a place to actually do work, letting them read and write files, execute commands, search content, and follow reusable skills from configured environments. It's the difference between an agent ... Mastra AI NEW Mastra • Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Human-in-the-Loop: Where to Put Approval in Agents and Workflows When you’re building an agentic application, there are often multiple ways to structure it. Agents and workflows can be composed in different ways, and those choices usually feel natural long before you think about human... Mastra AI NEW Mastra • Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Human-in-the-Loop: When to Use Agent Approval Agents are useful because they can act autonomously. But autonomy without oversight can be a risky business. Agent approval lets you decide where to draw the line between actions an agent can take on its own and those wh... Mastra AI NEW Mastra • Wednesday, January 14, 2026 Composite Storage: Optimize for Performance, Scale, and Cost with MastraCompositeStore Mastra organizes storage into five specialized domains, each responsible for one type of data: memory, workflows, scores, observability, and agents. Mastra now supports configuring different storage providers per domain ... Mastra AI NEW Mastra • Thursday, December 11, 2025 Announcing Server Adapters: Run Mastra Inside Your Existing Express or Hono App Can you use Mastra with [insert name of tech here]? Usually, yes, it’s all part of our "open relationship" philosophy 💚. Whether it’s model providers, gateways, workflow runners, evals, memory, or storage, Mastra lets y... Mastra AI Express Hono NEW Neon • Wednesday, April 30, 2025 How to set up Neon Local with Docker Compose and JavaScript Postgres clients A practical guide to Neon Local with JavaScript and Docker Compose for local and production setups ICYMI we recently launched Neon Local. What is Neon Local? Neon Local is a proxy service that creates a local interface t... PostgreSQL Neon Docker NEW Neon • Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Oops-Proof Your Vibe Code With Neon: Because Mistakes Happen AI writes the code, but you call the shots—choose Neon for built-in database security. If you’re vibe coding an app, don’t leave the database choice up to the AI code generator. Take control and tell it you want to use N... PostgreSQL Neon AI NEW Neon • Thursday, March 13, 2025 Vibe Coding With AI to Generate Synthetic Data: Part 1 Exploring vibe coding with Anthropic: Can AI handle seed data generation? In this blog post, I’ll share my experience of vibe coding as I explore AI-driven synthetic data generation, the tests I ran, and the challenges I... PostgreSQL GitHub Actions AI NEW Neon • Tuesday, March 11, 2025 From Shared Chaos to Isolated Control with Neon A better way to build: spin up a Neon Twin and keep production untouched. Your traditional database is rock-solid for handling production workloads—reliable, resilient, and built to withstand just about anything. But whe... PostgreSQL Neon NEW Neon • Saturday, March 1, 2025 How to use self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions Take full control of your GitHub Action's runner environment with DigitalOcean In this guide, I'll walk you through setting up a Linux server on a DigitalOcean Droplet with Ubuntu installed, which you can use as a self-h... PostgreSQL GitHub Actions Linux NEW Neon • Saturday, February 15, 2025 How to Create a Reliable Testing Dataset with pg_dump and pg_restore A practical guide to extracting a test dataset from Postgres using pg_dump, pg_restore and psql As your Postgres database grows, you'll likely need a way to generate a smaller, 'good-enough' dataset that preserves the st... PostgreSQL GitHub Actions Neon NEW Neon • Monday, February 10, 2025 Automate Partial Data Dumps with PostgreSQL and GitHub Actions Your production database is tried and tested and likely bulletproof. Merely mentioning migrating to a new provider would likely set off multiple alarms, so don't, use a Neon Twin instead. In this post, I'll show you how ... PostgreSQL GitHub Actions Neon NEW Neon • Friday, November 22, 2024 Migrating Schemas Across Many Neon Projects Using DrizzleORM A practical guide to managing multiple databases per tenant with the same schema using DrizzleORM and Neon In this blog post, we’ll explain how you can use a combination of DrizzleORM, GitHub Actions, the Neon API, and a... PostgreSQL GitHub Actions DrizzleORM NEW Luzmo • Thursday, November 21, 2024 How to Build an AI Powered Analytics Search With Luzmo IQ In this post, I’ll show you how I added Luzmo IQ to an Astro site and hooked it up to a Postgres database to capture analytics data about visitors to my site. You can see all the code referenced in this blog post on the ... Astro Google Analytics AI NEW Neon • Tuesday, October 29, 2024 How to Set Up Nightly Backups to AWS S3 for Multiple Neon Projects This is the second post of a series on automating nightly backups for multiple Neon projects. In the first post, I covered how to configure AWS to set up the S3 buckets. In this post, I’ll explain how to set up nightly b... AWS PostgreSQL GitHub Actions NEW Neon • Monday, October 28, 2024 How to create an AWS S3 bucket for Postgres backups In this post, I’ll walk you through setting up an AWS S3 bucket to store Postgres backups. This is part 1 of a 2-part series on automating nightly backups for multiple Neon projects—a helpful approach if you’re managing ... AWS PostgreSQL GitHub Actions NEW Smashing Magazine • Thursday, September 12, 2024 How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex In this article, I’ll introduce you to Luzmo Flex, a new feature from the Luzmo team who have been working hard making developer tooling to flatten the on-ramp for analytics reporting and data visualization. With Luzmo F... GitHub Actions Google Analytics Slack NEW Smashing Magazine • Monday, September 9, 2024 How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show you... GitHub Actions Google Analytics Slack NEW Luzmo • Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Using Luzmo for Data Visualization in Astro: A Set-up Guide Building data visualizations from scratch can be both time-consuming and cumbersome, requiring significant effort to design and implement. Developing these capabilities in-house often involves complex coding, ongoing mai... Astro NEW Luzmo • Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Using Luzmo for Data Visualization in Next.js: A Set-up Guide Building data visualizations from scratch can be both time-consuming and cumbersome, requiring significant effort to design and implement. Developing these capabilities in-house often involves complex coding, ongoing mai... Next.js NEW Luzmo • Monday, July 22, 2024 Embedding A Luzmo Dashboard In Next.js Apps Using Clerk on Vercel When presenting customer data or visualizations in user-facing applications, security is super important. It's crucial to ensure that users can only access the data they are authorized to view. All authentication and aut... Next.js Clerk NEW Luzmo • Monday, July 15, 2024 How To Set Up Real-Time Monitoring in Slack with Luzmo Data analysis is crucial for identifying trends and patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed. By inspecting and analyzing data, businesses can uncover valuable insights that drive innovation, optimize operations, and r... Slack Google Analytics NEW The New Stack • Thursday, June 27, 2024 CSS-in-JS and React Server Components: A Developer Guide With React’s evolving ecosystem, particularly with Next.js shifting toward a “server-first” approach, applications using CSS-in-JS solutions like Emotion and styled-components are facing significant challenges. These CSS... React Next.js styled-components NEW The New Stack • Friday, June 21, 2024 How To Use GitHub Actions and APIs to Surface Important Data In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to write a GitHub Action that queries a data-centric software system — in this example, Google Analytics — to generate an automated Slack notification and message. In the example be... GitHub Actions Google Analytics Slack NEW The New Stack • Monday, June 17, 2024 How To Use Google Sheets as a Database With React via Next.js In this tutorial I’ll be explaining how to use Google Sheets as a database to store the results of a user poll. I’ve used this React Google Sheets approach for a number of marketing campaigns. I chose this method over a ... Next.js React JavaScript NEW The New Stack • Thursday, June 6, 2024 How To Schedule PostgreSQL Backups With GitHub Actions Learn how to schedule a GitHub Action that performs a full backup of data and schema from a Neon PostgreSQL database and uploads it to S3. In this article I’ll take you through how I created a scheduled GitHub Action tha... AWS PostgreSQL SQL GitHub Actions NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, May 29, 2024 Why We Need a Standard JavaScript ORM for SQL Databases Is Drizzle ORM the open source, SQL-friendly tool that JavaScript developers have been looking for to help with type safety? The need for standardization is all around us, but on occasion, the JavaScript ecosystem — or r... JavaScript TypeScript PostgreSQL SQL DrizzleORM NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Drizzle ORM Is SQL in a JavaScript Hat — and Wears It Well Drizzle ORM converts types from SQL to TypeScript, and can help JS devs work with relational databases in TypeScript environments. Drizzle ORM is described by its makers as “a headless TypeScript ORM with a head.” But wh... JavaScript TypeScript PostgreSQL SQL DrizzleORM NEW The New Stack • Thursday, May 16, 2024 Outer Excuses: Why JavaScript Developers Should Learn SQL SQL is the language of databases and if you’re a JavaScript developer using PostgreSQL, it’s beneficial to have a basic understanding of SQL. Hello. You’re a JavaScript developer, right? Would I also be right in assuming... JavaScript PostgreSQL SQL AI NEW Netlify Developers • Monday, May 13, 2024 Getting Started with React, Vite and Clerk Auth on Netlify Very many applications and interactive tools on the web require some sort of user authentication and authorization. Historically, adding such things to a project would greatly expand its complexity and risk. Happily thou... JavaScript React Clerk NEW Netlify Developers • Friday, May 10, 2024 How to use Sanity Portable Text with Astro Providing content editors with the ability to apply rich text formatting, be it in long-form content with styled headings, or providing emphasis in places of particular importance can greatly enhance a user’s reading exp... JavaScript Astro Sanity NEW StackBlitz • Monday, May 6, 2024 How to document design system components If you’re building a product, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the concept of design systems and component libraries. Using a predefined “set” of components allows users to more easily and more efficiently develop user i... Design Systems NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Automatically Generate Types for Your PostgreSQL Database SQL can be typesafe, in the JavaScript sense of the word. Paul Scanlon demonstrates why devs shouldn't be afraid to work with "raw SQL." I’ve been doing a lot of work in and around PostgreSQL for JavaScript developers la... TypeScript PostgreSQL SQL NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Global state management in React with Jotai Jotai is a global state management solution for React, explains Paul Scanlon in this tutorial about Waku developer Daishi Kato's project. If you’ve been using React for a while, you’ll no doubt have experienced scenarios... React JavaScript Waku NEW The New Stack • Thursday, April 18, 2024 Did Signals Just Land in React? "Signals" are used to manage client-side state, and recent developments suggest they could be useful in React. Paul Scanlon investigates. What Are Signals? Signals have been in development for around 10 years and are use... React JavaScript NEW Netlify Developers • Tuesday, April 9, 2024 How to use Sanity CMS with Astro The ability to select both the framework and the content management system that each have the best fit with the requirements of your project, the skills of your teams, and the needs of the users and maintainers, is a gre... JavaScript Astro Sanity NEW The New Stack • Tuesday, April 9, 2024 React Server Components in a Nutshell Paul Scanlon uses Waku to show how RSCs give React developers access to asynchronous server-side requests and data at the component level. Woah, there’s been a lot of noise about React Server Components (RSCs) lately and... React JavaScript Waku NEW The New Stack • Saturday, March 23, 2024 US Tech Cannot Comprehend the Digital Nomad Way of Life Hello all, I’m Paul. I’m a British citizen and tech nerd. I’m currently visiting and working remotely in Medellin (Colombia). Before this, I worked remotely from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia and Can... Op-ed NEW The New Stack • Monday, March 18, 2024 Say No to ‘Ship It’ Culture: Slow and Steady Wins the Race In this post, I’d like to share my thoughts on “ship it” culture — which could be polarizing! I’ve noticed the trend growing significantly in recent years and I can’t help but think it’s both damaging to developer growth... Op-ed NEW Netlify Developers • Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Adding resumability to Astro with Qwik Astro avoids shipping any JavaScript to the client by default. However, there are occasions when client-side JavaScript is necessary. While Vanilla JS remains a viable option, frameworks are often preferred for their abi... JavaScript Astro Qwik NEW The New Stack • Saturday, March 9, 2024 How to Build Embed Components with Astro, Qwik and StackBlitz Paul Scanlon shows how to use the StackBlitz JavaScript SDK, in this case to embed StackBlitz projects in an Astro website using MDX and Qwik. In this post, I’ll explain how to build a lightweight StackBlitz embed compon... JavaScript Astro Qwik StackBlitz NEW The New Stack • Thursday, February 29, 2024 How to Build Site Search with Astro, Qwik and Fuse.js How to build a site search using Astro’s content collections, static endpoints and Qwik’s Astro integration with Fuse.js. In this post, I’ll explain how to build a site search using Astro’s content collections, static en... JavaScript Astro Qwik Fuse.js NEW The New Stack • Saturday, February 17, 2024 JavaScript on Demand: How Qwik Differs From React Hydration Paul Scanlon explains resumability, Qwik’s approach to solving the beastly client-side JavaScript problem, and how it differs from React. In this post I’ll attempt to explain resumability, Qwik’s approach to solving the ... JavaScript React Qwik NEW Contentful • Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Simple data visualization using Astro and Contentful In this post I’ll show you how I created a time series chart to display tag usage from blog posts published on my site paulie.dev. I was curious to see what I’d been writing about over the last few years, where the cross... Astro JavaScript Contentful NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Take a Qwik Break from React with Astro Paul Scanlon compares React to Qwik using several examples (code included). He concludes that Qwik is worth exploring as a React alternative. Before we get going, a disclaimer: I love React but sometimes, I really don’t ... Astro JavaScript React Qwik NEW SitePoint • Thursday, January 18, 2024 Brighten Up Your Astro Site with KwesForms and Rive In this article, I’ll show you how to add KwesForms to your Astro site and then bring the form to life using custom events and Rive. Custom events can be used to control the different states of a Rive animation whenever ... Astro Rive KwesForms JavaScript NEW The New Stack • Friday, December 15, 2023 Recreating Shopify’s BFCM Globe Using react-globe.gl Developer Paul Scanlon shows how to recreate Shopify's 3D Thanksgiving globe, using a React component for globe data visualization. Did you see this year’s BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday) Globe from Shopify? I did, and ... JavaScript React three.js NEW SitePoint • Thursday, November 30, 2023 How to Create Animated GIFs from GSAP Animations In this article, I’m going to explain how you can convert animations created using GSAP into animated GIFs using modern-gif. On the links below, you’ll find a live preview and all the code I’ll be referencing throughout ... GSAP modern-gif NEW The New Stack • Thursday, November 23, 2023 How Qwik’s Astro Integration Beats Both React and Vanilla JS Paul Scanlon tests Qwik with Astro, and finds it's the best of both worlds — lighter than React and less verbose than Vanilla JavaScript. In this post I’ll be talking about the new @qwikdev/astro integration. I believe i... Astro JavaScript React Qwik NEW The New Stack • Tuesday, November 21, 2023 I’m in an Open Relationship with Remix Paul Scanlon takes the Silicon Valley ethos perhaps a little too far. He's in an open relationship with Remix, but swears React doesn't mind! If you’re not familiar with Remix, it’s an open source React-powered server-si... React Remix Vite Op-ed NEW The New Stack • Monday, November 6, 2023 How to Build a Server-Side React App Using Vite and Express A demo of server-side rendering and server-side data fetching without using a framework — showing what React-powered frameworks actually do. In this post I’ll explain how you can enable server-side rendering and server-s... React Vite Express NEW The New Stack • Wednesday, November 1, 2023 SPAs and React: You Don’t Always Need Server-Side Rendering The React docs suggest picking one of the popular React-powered frameworks that support server-side rendering (SSR) — but do you need SSR? As you may have noticed, the Start a New React Project section of the React docs ... React Vite NEW The New Stack • Tuesday, October 24, 2023 How to Use Astro with a Sprinkling of React Here's how to use Astro to incrementally adopt a “reduced JavaScript” approach to building websites. No more refactoring every component! The thought of migrating away from a React-based framework might seem a little sca... Astro React Netlify NEW Neon • Tuesday, October 3, 2023 Roll Your Own Analytics With Astro, Vercel Edge Functions and Neon In this post, I’ll explain how you can “roll your own” version of Google Analytics using Astro, Vercel Edge Functions and Neon. I’ve prepared a sample repository showing the implementation for a site built using Astro an... Astro Edge Functions Neon PostgreSQL NEW Smashing Magazine • Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Getting Started With Neon Branching Branches are a really nice (and safe) way to configure or reconfigure your database without fear of screwing up the production database. Let’s take a closer look at how branching works with Neon, and the good news is, yo... Neon Edge Functions NEW Neon • Tuesday, September 19, 2023 How to use Postgres at the Edge A closer look at how to use Neon's serverless driver with Vercel Edge Functions. In this post, I’d like to introduce Neon’s serverless driver which is suitable for use with Vercel Edge Functions. I’ll explain how to use ... Neon Edge Functions PostgreSQL NEW The New Stack • Saturday, June 17, 2023 How to Create a Multi-Region Node.js Lambda API In this post I’m going to show you how to build a multi-region Node.js Lambda API using Serverless Framework and pair it with a serverless multi-region CockroachDB database (full disclosure: I work for Cockroach Labs). B... Serverless CockroachDB AWS Lambda PostgreSQL NEW Cockroach Labs • Wednesday, May 17, 2023 The Art of Data Residency and Application Architecture In this post Rob and Paul explain how they built Silo, a fully functioning multi-region Next.js application combining CockroachDB multi-region serverless and a multi-region Node.js (Lambda) API backed by a Geographically... Next.js React React Query Tailwind CockroachDB AWS Lambda PostgreSQL NEW Cockroach Labs • Thursday, April 6, 2023 What is the CockroachDB Cloud API and why should you use It? In this post you’ll learn about the CockroachDB Cloud API and how I’ve used it to create an application Dashboard with Next.js. Using the API you can build a custom interface to meet your organization’s needs, or perform... Next.js React React Query Tailwind NextAuth CockroachDB NEW The New Stack • Sunday, March 19, 2023 The Distance from Data to You in Edge Computing How does data transfer work between the browser, the server, and the database? You may be surprised at the distances that data has to travel. In recent months I’ve been taking a closer look at how data transfer works bet... Next.js Serverless Functions SSR React JavaScript AWS Lambda Serverless PostgreSQL NEW Smashing Magazine • Tuesday, March 7, 2023 How To Create Dynamic Donut Charts With TailwindCSS And React In this article, Paul Scanlon shares a super lightweight approach to creating a Donut chart using conic-gradient(). There are no additional libraries to install or maintain, and there's no heavy JavaScript that needs to ... HTML JavaScript React Tailwind CSS SVG NEW Cockroach Labs • Friday, February 17, 2023 Converting Cloud Provider Regions Into Country Flags Learn how Paul created an Open-source JavaScript utility package to help convert Cloud Provider Region codes, into real locations and country flags. If you’ve ever worked with a database you have probably seen region cod... JavaScript CockroachDB NEW Smashing Magazine • Thursday, February 16, 2023 Putting Gears In Motion: Animating Cars With HTML And SVG SVG <animateMotion> provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. In this article, Paul Scanlon shares an idea of how to use it by animating race cars in an infinite loop as easy as one-two-thr... HTML SVG NEW Gatsby • Wednesday, November 16, 2022 What is Gatsby's Valhalla Content Hub? Welcome to the Gatsby 2022 Glow Up! (thanks to bytes.dev for coining that phrase!) This post is about how I've used Gatsby's latest creation, The Valhalla Content Hub, and teamed it with Remix to build my NYC Diary... ... Gatsby Remix NEW Gatsby • Monday, November 14, 2022 How to Use Function Props with Gatsby's Slice API As good as the Slice API is, it does come with one or two restrictions. To be clear, these are by design rather than an oversight. One such restriction I ran into was when I attempted to pass a prop of type function to t... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Gatsby 5 Upgrade. Say No to YOLO In this post Paul explains how he upgraded paulie.dev to Gatsby 5 and is now experiencing ~47% faster build times! ... Gatsby React NEW The New Stack • Monday, October 17, 2022 How to Use Google Sheets as a Database with React and Serverless Functions In this tutorial I'll be explaining how to use Google Sheets as a database, to store the results of a user poll. I've used this Google Sheets approach for a number of marketing campaigns. I chose this method over a more ... Gatsby Next.js Serverless Functions React JavaScript Tailwind NEW The New Stack • Saturday, October 8, 2022 How to Build SVG Line Charts with React, SSR and Tailwind CSS A tutorial on how to roll your own SVG Line Charts in React using Server-side rendering, with either Next.js or Gatsby. ... Gatsby Next.js Serverless Functions SSR React JavaScript SVG Tailwind NEW Smashing Magazine • Tuesday, September 20, 2022 What's New In Gatsby 2022? Gatsby has evolved quite dramatically in the last two years. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains what Gatsby can do today, and how he used some of the new features when upgrading his personal website from Gatsby 2 to ... Gatsby Serverless Functions SSR React JavaScript MDX Tailwind NEW Contentful • Tuesday, July 5, 2022 Building Rise of the Robots with Gatsby and Contentful Hi there! I recently built Rise of the Robots using Gatsby + Rive to demonstrate how Jamstack creativity and performance can co-exist without sacrificing page load speeds. ... Gatsby React Contentful Rive Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Monday, May 23, 2022 Building Rise of the Robots I’d like to Introduce Rise of the Robots. 🤖 A Gatsby + Rive + Contentful powered creative, performant, and accessible demo. Along with designing and building the demo, speaking at the live event and webinar, and writing... Gatsby React Contentful Rive Motion Graphics Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Wednesday, April 6, 2022 How to Migrate from Netlify Functions to Gatsby Serverless Functions on Gatsby Cloud In this post I'll explain how to migrate from Netlify Functions hosted on Netlify to Gatsby Serverless Functions hosted on Gatsby Cloud. ... Gatsby React Serverless Functions Gatsby Cloud NEW Gatsby • Thursday, March 31, 2022 How to Add Custom Fonts to Gatsby Using methods outlined in this post I'll be demonstrating how to add custom fonts to a Gatsby site in a more performant way. ... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Wednesday, March 23, 2022 How to Add Google Analytics gtag to Gatsby Using Partytown 🎉 On Wednesday Mar 2nd 2022 I watched Ersin Akinci's talk at GatsbyConf: Improve Your Lighthouse Score with Partytown and Gatsby... and I got super excited! ... Gatsby React JavaScript Partytown Google Analytics NEW Gatsby • Sunday, January 23, 2022 Performance Optimization for three.js Web Animations In this post I'm going to be discussing how to work with JavaScript animation libraries without negatively impacting your Gatsby site’s performance. ... Gatsby React three.js react-three-fiber NEW Gatsby • Thursday, January 6, 2022 Building GatsbyConf 2022 Hello! Paul here and I've been given a new assignment! I've been tasked with building the new GatsbyConf 2022 site - yikes! It's quite daunting, but I love it! Over the coming weeks / months I'll be updating this blog po... Gatsby React three.js react-three-fiber Contentful Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Friday, December 17, 2021 Fetch Data from the Unsplash API and render using DSG Learn how to use Gatsby's latest page rendering method DSG (Deferred Static Generation) to defer the creation of pages and keep your build times super fast! ⚡ ... Gatsby React DSG JavaScript Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Thursday, December 9, 2021 Fetch data from the New York Times API and render using SSG As I'm sure you know, Gatsby is absolutely brills for statically generating web pages using any type of data from any kind of data source. In this post I'll be explaining how to fetch data from the New York Times Archive... Gatsby React SSG JavaScript Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Sunday, December 5, 2021 Fetch data from the US National Weather Service API and render using SSR As you may have heard, the latest release of Gatsby, Gatsby 4 now supports SSR (Server Side Rendering) 🥳 This new addition to the way you can build with Gatsby is super exciting and to demonstrate how it works I've whip... Gatsby React SSR JavaScript Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Saturday, December 4, 2021 Become a Data Champion with Gatsby Data is hard right? I think so too, and with Gatsby there's more than one way to boil that egg so in this series of blog posts I plan to walk you through the various methods you can use and explain ways you might like to... Gatsby React JavaScript Tailwind NEW Gatsby • Thursday, December 2, 2021 Gatsby Plugin Not Working, But Why? I know where you're coming from and understand the frustration, so here's my top tips that might make using Gatsby plugins a little more palatable. ... Gatsby React Gatsby Plugins NEW Gatsby • Monday, November 22, 2021 Content Querying with Gatsby + Contentful In this post Paul explains how you can make use of Gatsby's useStaticQuery hook to query different kinds of Contentful data to use around your site! ... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Thursday, November 18, 2021 Deploy4Swag - Use the best Gatsby ever to get free goodies! Hello, good morrow and good day! Paul here and I'm back with another super, smashing, great, Gatsby swag giveaway! ... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Monday, November 15, 2021 A Quick Start Guide To Gatsby and Contentful If you're looking to build a website using Gatsby and Contentful you've come to the right place. In this guide you'll mainly be focusing on the sourcing of data and learning how gatsby-source-contentful works rather than... Gatsby React Contentful NEW Gatsby • Tuesday, November 2, 2021 How To Use The Contentful Rich Text Field with Gatsby Contentful's Rich Text Editor provides content creators with powerful text editing capabilities via the use of Contentful's "What you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) editor. ... Gatsby React Contentful NEW Gatsby • Thursday, October 28, 2021 Gatsby FuncJam `21 - The Winners From August through September Gatsby ran the internet's func'y-est ever community competition: FuncJam '21 -- And here are the winners! ... Gatsby Serverless Functions React NEW Smashing Magazine • Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Building An API With Gatsby Serverless Functions In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using Gatsby Serverless Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying it to Gatsby Cloud. ... Gatsby Serverless Functions React NEW Smashing Magazine • Friday, September 17, 2021 Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Serverless Functions And Stripe Gatsby Serverless Functions provide front-end developers a way to write and use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. If making money from Open-source is of interest to you and your site isn't buil... Gatsby Serverless Functions Storybook Stripe MDX Embed Motion Graphics NEW Smashing Magazine • Monday, July 26, 2021 Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station Gatsby recently announced the launch of “functions”. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains how to get the current location of the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits the Earth in realtime using Gatsby Serverl... Gatsby Serverless Functions React three.js react-three-fiber NEW Gatsby • Wednesday, July 7, 2021 How We Made the Gatsby 500 Bottles Giveaway I was keen to explore how Gatsby + Shopify might be adopted in a more incremental way. To test the water in a way that might be of interest to those curious to adopt Gatsby as a headless Shopify solution and perhaps do a... Gatsby Serverless Functions React three.js react-three-fiber NEW Gatsby • Thursday, April 15, 2021 Gatsby Cloud - Better, Faster... Greener? Gatsby sites are optimized to be smaller, sleeker and faster. When built and deployed in Gatsby Cloud they also use fewer data center resources, thanks to Incremental Builds. This efficiency is not just good for develope... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Tuesday, April 13, 2021 MDX Embedded Images with the All-New Gatsby Image Plugin A gatsby-plugin-mdx and gatsby-plugin-image demo, taking a deep dive into MDX frontmatter and how it can be used to store references to either local and / or remote images and render them anywhere in the MDX body. ... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Friday, April 9, 2021 Getting Started with Gatsby Source WordPress - Choose Your Own Adventure A step by step guide to setting up your first Gatsby + WordPress website using gatsby-source-wordpress -- choose your own adventure style! ... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Thursday, April 1, 2021 Shaping the Future of Headless WordPress Like many devs, Paul Scanlon avoided WordPress projects whenever possible — until he tried Gatsby’s new WordPress source plugin. His Future Shapes project demonstrates using WordPress as simply a data source to do bold n... Gatsby React NEW Gatsby • Friday, March 12, 2021 Voices of Gatsby - Looking for The Lighthouse Gatsby believes in cultivating inclusion and elevating the many members of our diverse community. Our new Voices of Gatsby series, publishing every other Friday, showcases and celebrates our users for who they are as the... Gatsby Op-ed NEW Gatsby • Thursday, January 28, 2021 Bottoms Up: Gatsby File System Route API + Bums = BumHub BumHub: A silly idea, butt a firm working process. Hello, I’m Paul and for my Silly Site Challenge I created BumHub: “The cheekiest way to explore GitHub.” I developed this site in public and kept a dev diary of my progr... Gatsby React GitHub REST NEW Storybook • Thursday, December 10, 2020 Storybook Addon - MDX Embed The MDX Embed addon allows you to embed 3rd party media content such as YouTube videos, Tweets, Instagram posts, Egghead lessons, Spotify, TikTok and many more into Storybook docs... ... Storybook React MDX NEW Gatsby • Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Hacktoberfest Spotlight A More ‘Polite’ MDX Embed Plugin Enabling the community to easily write and release plugins for use with Gatsby is an absolute hammer of an idea. It gives Gatsby enthusiasts like myself a way to easily get started with open source by providing a solid f... Gatsby React MDX NEW Gatsby • Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Gatsby Cloud is Your (Good) Friend If you’re a Gatsby open source enthusiast you’re probably aware of Gatsby Cloud. But W.T.Flip actually is Gatsby Cloud, and why would you choose to make it part of your workflow?... ... Gatsby Gatsby Cloud Gatsby Themes React Shopify NEW Netlify • Thursday, July 16, 2020 Add Playful Animated SVG Reactions to a Gatsby Blog In this blog post I'm going to discuss how to add user reactions to your Gatsby blog posts using a fun, open-source React UI component called react-svg-bubble-slider... ... Gatsby React GSAP SVG NEW Gatsby • Thursday, May 21, 2020 Gatsby Recipes, What's All the Fuss About? Gatsby Recipes were introduced just last month, as a new tool to automate common site building tasks. A Gatsby Recipe is a kind of task runner that can be authored in MDX and then executed from the command line using the... Gatsby Gatsby Recipes React NEW CSS Tricks • Thursday, May 21, 2020 Roll Your Own Comments With Gatsby and Fauna If you haven’t used Gatsby before have a read about why it’s fast in every way that matters, and if you haven’t used Fauna before you’re in for a treat... ... Gatsby React Fauna NEW Gatsby • Monday, April 20, 2020 Challenge Accepted, One Developer, 10 Projects, 100 Days of Gatsby Paul Scanlon took the #100DaysOfGatsby challenge quite literally: Each day for 100 days, he worked in and around the Gatsby ecosystem—writing a blog post each day to document his labors. Here is an overview of Paul's pro... Gatsby React
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