If you have been following along this year, the theme of all blog-related work is to reduce the friction in the writing process. If not, check out this to get caught up. Some of the friction experienced in the past is keeping up with the pace of a…

I want to start very clearly. The following is not a post on how to get started with Docker and Gatsby. It is to document the path I took to containerize this blog. Given what I learned in the previous post, I started with a .dockerignore file that…

For the past couple of weeks, I have been honing skills in other areas of software development. With all new-ish adventures, there will be learning, with a high probability of banging one's head on the desk. The following is a story of the latter. My…

All of this is part of being a unique human. Everyone is different. There are tools that you use and do not work for others. The means of the person next to you may not work for you. One time management device I have been aware of for quite some time…

As we grow in our respective careers, there is always someone ahead of us to guide us. Just as our mentors helped get us to where we are, the class behind us needs mentoring. For me, this has caused division and stress in my career. I know mentoring…

It's always time to learn something new. If one can couple learning something new and removing a dependency, why not? The target for this learning? Remove react-bootstrap from this site, replacing it with vanilla CSS. In my day job, I have focused on…

The power of automating a task is one that I often overlook. Given the industry I am in automation is what I do. Day in and day out, automate this then automate that. But when you can quickly automate away some of the friction that you have been…

If you have been following along, you may have a sense that Gatsby has been fun for me. In a previous post describing how to use markdown files to create pages within a Gatsby site. From the perspective of reducing the friction in maintaining this…

As discussed in my review of the last year of blogging, the theme for this third year is to reduce the friction in the writing process. An area that requires time and effort is managing the site. There is difficulty in maintaining the shell of the…

There is nothing like learning something new just after you realize what was released broke several referenced URLs. After upgrading to the latest v4 release of Gatsby, a plugin to generate the blog post pages needed some drastic refactoring, as the…

Two years into writing for myself, how it feels like I have always been here. But, in the grand scheme, it is still a new practice to me. What I was initially worried about (spelling mistakes, having nothing to say, confidence in writing skills) have…

Earlier this evening I had an idea for a post. It has been some time since sitting down to write a post. Trying to get back into the routine, I grabbed my laptop and settled in. In the time since last writing, newer versions of Node have been…