has been running a wonderful series of personal

website tours

this year.

The guest list features many of my favourite

and

indie web

creators such as

Tom Critchlow

,

Chris Aldrich

, and

Azlen Elza

.

I recently stopped in to show what this website looks like behind the Wizard of Oz curtain:

Tech Stack and Features

• Built with
  Gatsby
  , which uses
  React
  for rendering and
  GraphQL
  for data fetching
• All posts (notes, essays, books) written with
  MDX
  - allows me to write React components inside markdown files for extra JavaScript power ✨
• I use the CSS-in-JS library
  emotion
  for styling components
• Responsive footnotes implemented with
  Tufte CSS
  (no JavaScript required!)
• Bi-directional Links
  with
  gatsby-theme-brain
  , and page previews adapted from
  gatsby-theme-andy
• Tippy.js
  for tooltip popovers
• Images hosted on
  Cloudinary
  to avoid the long build times when using
  gatsby-image
• Deploys to
  Netlify
  directly from Github. Currently takes 4 minutes for the site to build and deploy. I have no idea if that's good or not, but I'll take it 🤷🏻‍♀️