Teaching herself to code meant working on projects late into the night, and only after putting in a full day on the job plus getting her son to bed. But, from running video games on the command line to building a GeoCities site, Shaundai Person had been programming computers her whole life -- without realizing it. Equal parts passion and determination helped her turn it into her new profession.

We’ve all experienced a map or two, in apps like Google Maps or locator apps for finding the nearest Impossible Burger. But have we ever stopped to wonder about how they actually work? And — even better — how we can use the power of Gatsby to quickly create a mapping app of our very own?

We've heard the serious concern from the community about our dedication to open source and our growing pains as an organization. I've shared my thoughts about all of it here in this blog post, and I'll continue to listen and learn from all of you.

Starting today there is a single source of truth for all things Gatsby. The new Gatsbyjs.com brings together the open source Gatsby (.org) and the Gatsby, Inc. (.com) sites in a unified domain so all Gatsby users are set up for success with the same resource. Unified Gatsby is a big step toward our goal of making Gatsby 1000x easier to use -- our guiding vision for the future of Open Source and Gatsby Cloud. We want to share this vision with our community, so today we are also offering a preview roadmap of the functions and features we'll be releasing in the next few months. We are also excited to announce a brand new right-fit pricing plan (including permanent free tier) for Gatsby Cloud to make sure every user has access to the ideal platform for building, deploying and collaborating on Gatsby sites.

On August 12th we will be making changes to community permissions in the GatsbyJS open source repo. Here's what will be happening, and why -- plus announcing some new community programs and contributor opportunities.

After first releasing Recipes in April, we learned a lot from early adopters, testers and community members creating and contributing their own Recipes (thanks!) for automating common Gatsby site building chores. In this second alpha release we applied these lessons as we completely rewrote many parts of Recipes to better achieve our vision of making Gatsby super easy to use, even for beginners.

Learn about July's product, community, and ecosystem updates. This includes new Gatsby Themes, a new enhanced WordPress integration, and an update to Incremental Builds.