Want to try building your first Gatsby site? Gatsby Software Engineer Obinna Ekwuno and Senior Software Engineer, Documentation, Megan Sullivan are leading Getting Started with Gatsby, sponsored by Contentstack.  The free half-day workshop covers core concepts behind using Gatsby, like querying data with GraphQL and working with a headless CMS. You’ll learn how to optimize for accessibility, routing and creating pages programmatically...And how to leverage the vast Gatsby ecosystem of starters, plugins, and themes to quickly create a fast, secure, scalable website -- and deploy your site to live hosting for free, in minutes!

When Covid-19 hit the U.K. last spring, the Royal College of Art’s traditional graduating student shows were shut down. With a little help from Gatsby, though, the school worked with MTJ.io to quickly create a brand new digital discovery platform --  a museum’s worth of virtual galleries -- so that the shows could go on(line) in time.

On the first day of my first tech job, I was terrified. I tried hard to learn everything at once and do it all perfectly, but by the end of my first week I was certain I was going to be fired anyway. That didn't happen, though, and things got steadily better and less terrifying. Looking back, I can see there were things that helped me get through the early days. Here are the tips that helped me survive -- and how you can too if you’ve just landed your first tech job!

Gatsby's plugins, starters, and themes let you assemble websites like Lego models, without ever touching React. But you can learn React deeply with Gatsby! Start with this Gatsby + WordPress mobile photoblog project (no prior React knowledge needed), then remix and expand it as your knowledge of React, GraphQL, and the Gatsby ecosystem grows!

Hashim Warren • February 18th, 2021

Tech’s primary verbal language is English, which can create a barrier for developers in countries where it’s not the main language. Alfredo Navas describes the importance of developer communities where these technologies can be shared, and supported, in the native language — and how to go about building them.

Every web page we visit comes with its own carbon footprint, and these can be astonishingly large. The good news: there are low-lift ways we as developers can reduce carbon emissions related to our websites, and this starts with building static sites. The even better news: not only is this good for our lovely planet -- it is also great for your business and bottom line!