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

Fetch Data from the Unsplash API and render using DSG
Learn how to use Gatsby's latest page rendering method DSG (Deferred Static Generation) to defer the creation of pages
and keep your build…Gatsby
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DSG

Fetch data from the New York Times API and render using SSG
As I'm sure you know, Gatsby is absolutely brills for statically generating web pages using any type of data from any
kind of data source…Gatsby
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SSG

Fetch data from the US National Weather Service API and render using SSR
As you may have heard, the latest release of Gatsby, Gatsby 4 now supports SSR (Server Side Rendering) 🥳 This new
addition to the way you…Gatsby
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SSR

Become a Data Champion with Gatsby
Data is hard right? I think so too, and with Gatsby there's more than one way to boil that egg so in this series of blog
posts I plan to…Gatsby
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Gatsby Plugin Not Working, But Why?
I know where you're coming from and understand the frustration, so here's my top tips that might make using Gatsby
plugins a little more…Gatsby
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Content Querying with Gatsby + Contentful
In this post Paul explains how you can make use of Gatsby's useStaticQuery hook to query different kinds of Contentful
data to use around…Gatsby
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#Deploy4Swag - Use the best Gatsby ever to get free goodies!
Hello, good morrow and good day! Paul here and I'm back with another super, smashing, great, Gatsby swag giveaway! Read articleGatsby
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A Quick Start Guide To Gatsby and Contentful
If you're looking to build a website using Gatsby and Contentful you've come to the right place. In this guide you'll mainly be focusing on…Gatsby
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How To Use The Contentful Rich Text Field with Gatsby
Contentful's Rich Text Editor provides content creators with powerful text editing capabilities via the use of
Contentful's "What you see is…Gatsby
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Gatsby FuncJam `21 - The Winners
From August through September Gatsby ran the internet's func'y-est ever community competition: FuncJam '21 -- And here
are the winners! Read…Gatsby
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Building An API With Gatsby Functions
In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using
Gatsby Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying
it…Gatsby
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Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe
Gatsby Functions provide front-end developers a way to write and
use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. If making…Gatsby
Gatsby Functions
Storybook
Stripe
MDX Embed

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
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Three.js
react-three-fiber

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
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Three.js
react-three-fiber

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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
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GitHub REST

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
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MDX

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
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MDX

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
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Shopify

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
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GSAP
SVG

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
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Fauna

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
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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
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