Your first step in this final post on Gatsby is to check out the previous posts to get caught up. Those posts can be found here, here and here. To get this templated content rolling first we will need to add some handy NPM packages and configuration…

Before releasing this hot new content, if you have not read my previous posts on Gatsby. Please, get caught up with us so you too can follow along. The posts can be found here and here. With the shell of a site, how do we go about modifying the…

Before we get going with this post if you have not read my previous post on Gatsby. Please, take a couple of minutes to get caught up. The post can be found here The goal of this post is to create a new Gatsby site, but we have to do some setup…

At one point in time as a web developer, the only objective was to get content out into the world at a particular URL for it to be consumed. In today's world of website development, the team has to consider much more. The content existing on a page…

The other day I was looking for the next backlog item to start working on. Once the item was identified, the team had a quick conversation to discuss to share our collective knowledge about the work item. Making sure that we were all on the same page…

What an exciting past couple of days. A brand new development machine was delivered to the doorstep after a 3-week wait for it to be built. The new toy is a Dell XPS 15, complete with 32 Gb of RAM, an Intel i7, and Windows 10 Pro. While this is not…

This is a continuation of a blog post series to talk about my path from mechanical engineering to software engineering. If you have not already done so, check out out part one and part two. I do not believe there is a perfect execution of a plan…

As we closed out part one of this series, I was working as a manufacturing engineer full time. Then, in the evenings going to night classes for a Master's degree in computer science. Before too long, I felt as though I was unable to make the impact…

I had recently graduated with Bachelors's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Physics. I was working as a Manufacturing Engineer at an organization that engineered, machined then assembled safety equipment for non-automotive applications. There was…

When I started this project I knew I was going to need some photography. But, I was not quite sure what to do at first nor was it all that important to get the blog off the ground. So, I kicked this off with nothing but screenshots. Now that…

How did I learn these lessons? I am certain that I am not unique in this aspect of life where I have a 6-year-old family member that is interested in video games. This person just so happens to be my nephew. One afternoon we were together the younger…

Until this point in time, I was falling back on the GitLab Pages domain. There is nothing wrong with this domain. It was as personal as my GitLab username. However, it was missing a personalization aspect that I want. So why not buy a domain and use…