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.
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.
Swift, Rust, Go, and the rest of tomorrow’s languages, can you marry modern thinking, build a community with simple as a core design goal, and save web development from itself?
The other day I had to work with some date formatting on iOS and Android and I end up using the great https://nsdateformatter.com website. I immediately missed the option to change the locale and seeing that it was open source I took my chance to contribute.
Lately I’ve been working on move my site, again, to Jekyll. Using directly the original Jekyll and keeping my customizations apart from the source I think that I accomplished what I wanted and at the same time I don’t will not have much problem to keep up with updates.