I haven’t been doing much maintenance to this website since I migrated to GatsbyJS, but recently Gatsby has announced its 2nd major release. This is a big step forward for this amazing static site generator and I didn’t want to wait much to use it’s cool new capabilities.
One small inconvenience of a static blog generator running without a CMS is that to create a new post in markdown you need to add manually the front matter in the top of the file. That’s why the first thing you should do after setting up your static site generator is to create a small script that automates the new post creation.
On every new iteration of my website I’m always happy to have taken the decision of using a static site generator instead of a big and fat CMS. This gives me the freedom to change the hosting easily and now I’m taking the opportunity to move to Netlify.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m Rebuilding my website with GatsbyJS. At the moment of writing this the migration is pretty much done. I spend the morning setting up a temporary domain, nginx and Digital Ocean to see how it would look and behave when deployed. There are still some things to improve but I think is a good time to pause and see how the experience has been.
This days, between watching WWDC sessions, I’m undergoing the renewal of this my personal website and blog.