Jared Pereira has been running a wonderful series of personal website tours . The guest list features many of my favourite Digital Gardeners
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web and indie web creators such as Tom Critchlow , Chris Aldrich , and Azlen Elza .At the end of 2020 I stopped in to show what this website looks like behind the Wizard of Oz curtain:
The video walkthrough on this page walks through how I built my previous website in Gatsby.js. To learn about the tech stack behind the current version visit the GitHub
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
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web? 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 🤷🏻♀️
If you want to see all the source code yourself, feel free to wander around in the GitHub repo .