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Here's a collection of articles I've written that have been officially published 🕺

smashing-magazine-logoSmashing Magazine
26-Jul-2021
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station
Gatsby recently announced the launch of “functions”. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains how to get the current location of the…
Gatsby
Gatsby Functions
React
Three.js
react-three-fiber
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gatsby-logoGatsby
7-Jul-2021
How We Made the Gatsby 500 Bottles Giveaway
I was keen to explore how Gatsby + Shopify might be adopted in a more incremental way. To test the water in a way that might be of interest…
Gatsby
Gatsby Functions
React
Three.js
react-three-fiber
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gatsby-logoGatsby
15-Apr-2021
Gatsby Cloud: Better, Faster... Greener?
Gatsby sites are optimized to be smaller, sleeker and faster. When built and deployed in Gatsby Cloud they also use fewer data center…
Gatsby
React
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gatsby-logoGatsby
13-Apr-2021
MDX Embedded Images with the All-New Gatsby Image Plugin
A gatsby-plugin-mdx and gatsby-plugin-image demo, taking a deep dive into MDX frontmatter and how it can be used to store references to…
Gatsby
React
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gatsby-logoGatsby
9-Apr-2021
Getting Started with Gatsby Source WordPress: Choose Your Own Adventure
A step by step guide to setting up your first Gatsby + WordPress website using gatsby-source-wordpress -- choose your own adventure style…
Gatsby
React
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gatsby-logoGatsby
1-Apr-2021
Shaping the Future of Headless WordPress: A Gatsby Demo
Like many devs, Paul Scanlon avoided WordPress projects whenever possible — until he tried Gatsby’s new WordPress source plugin. His Future…
Gatsby
React
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gatsby-logoGatsby
12-Mar-2021
Voices of Gatsby: Looking for The Lighthouse
When excited about a new project it's natural to dive in and start writing code. As developer Paul Scanlon learned during a previous career…
Gatsby
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gatsby-logoGatsby
28-Jan-2021
Bottoms Up: Gatsby File System Route API + Bums = BumHub
BumHub: A silly idea, butt a firm working process. Hello, I’m Paul and for my Silly Site Challenge I created BumHub: “The cheekiest way to…
Gatsby
React
GitHub REST
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storybook-logoStorybook
10-Dec-2020
Storybook Addon - MDX Embed
The MDX Embed addon allows you to embed 3rd party media content such as YouTube videos, Tweets, Instagram posts, Egghead lessons, Spotify…
Storybook
React
MDX
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gatsby-logoGatsby
13-Oct-2020
Hacktoberfest Spotlight A More ‘Polite’ MDX Embed Plugin
Enabling the community to easily write and release plugins for use with Gatsby is an absolute hammer of an idea. It gives Gatsby enthusiasts…
Gatsby
React
MDX
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gatsby-logoGatsby
1-Sep-2020
Gatsby Cloud is Your (Good) Friend
If you’re a Gatsby open source enthusiast you’re probably aware of Gatsby Cloud. But W.T.Flip actually is Gatsby Cloud, and why would you…
Gatsby
Gatsby Cloud
Gatsby Themes
React
Shopify
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netlify-logoNetlify
16-Jul-2020
Add Playful Animated SVG Reactions to a Gatsby Blog
In this blog post I’m going to discuss how to add user reactions to your Gatsby blog posts using a fun, open-source React UI component…
Gatsby
React
GSAP
SVG
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gatsby-logoGatsby
21-May-2020
Gatsby Recipes, What's All the Fuss About?
Gatsby Recipes were introduced just last month, as a new tool to automate common site building tasks. A Gatsby Recipe is a kind of task…
Gatsby
Gatsby Recipes
React
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css-tricks-logoCSS Tricks
21-May-2020
Roll Your Own Comments With Gatsby and Fauna
If you haven’t used Gatsby before have a read about why it’s fast in every way that matters, and if you haven’t used Fauna before you’re in…
Gatsby
React
Fauna
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gatsby-logoGatsby
20-Apr-2020
Challenge Accepted, One Developer, 10 Projects, 100 Days of Gatsby
Paul Scanlon took the #100DaysOfGatsby challenge quite literally: Each day for 100 days, he worked in and around the Gatsby ecosystem…
Gatsby
React
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