Terraform list comprehensions are very powerful! They can be useful to craft custom outputs.
It took me some time to really grok the way these work. Hopefully, this can help someone else out in the future.
Gatsby is not just a static site generator. It is a static Progressive Web App generator.
Using the plugin gatsby-plugin-manifest, we can easily add a web app manifest to our site.
I had noticed that this new website was not showing up in Google results. I should probably set up all of the Gatsby SEO features!
Neuomorphism!
What's that? I've stumbled across this new design style in the usual places. Specifically this Medium post goes deep into the details on the new style.
I wanted a photo gallery for my Gatsby site.
I gave gatsby-theme-gallery a try, and it looks good.
Its sharp, and dark, and themeable, and responsive.
I added a handful of photos, and it looked great.
Except!
The ordering is backwards! Old photos are at the top, new ones are at the bottom. That is a show stopper. Checking out the source the sort order is hard-coded, and not customizable.
Seems like we need to build our own gallery!
After much todo and from-scratch blog building, we've got something that looks like a blog!
But how does it work? Let us investigate...
Gatsby as a framework is designed to handle traversing a graph of pages. That is a non-trivial abstraction! It means that the Gatsby framework is transparently handling routing and rendering for us.
Gatsby is really impressive!
Deploying automatically with Amplify was way too easy. Check out this Guide.