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Panel



Chris Beucheler


AJ O’Neal


Aimee Knight



With Special Guest: Chris Biscardi

Episode Summary

Chris is an independent consultant working with open source startups. He taught himself to program and started in open source. He talks about how he got into programming and how he learned to code. One of Chris’ current clients is Gatsby, a static site generator. Chris talks about his work with Gatsby themes, how he got started working with Gatsby, and how you can get started with Gatsby. Chris talks about how Gatsby differs from other static site generators and how difficult it is to use. The panel discusses possible use cases for Gatsby, and agree that if your site is going to get more complex and larger over time, something like Gatsby is what you want to use. Chris talks about what it’s like to migrate to Gatsby from another service. The panel discusses the pros and cons of server-side rendering. Chris talks about building more app-oriented sites with Gatsby and things that you can plug into a Gatsby theme besides a blog. The show concludes with Chris and the panelists agreeing that if you can write it in JavaScript, you can ship it in a Gatsby theme. 

Links



Gatsby


Shadowing


Docker


React


GraphQL


WordPress


Hugo



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Picks

AJ O’Neal:



Sam Walton Made America: My Story


Cinematic by Owl City



Aimee Knight:



Some things that might help you make better software



Chris Beucheler:



Venture Cafe Providence 



Chris Biscardi:



Jason Lengstorf Twitch show


Chris’ Blog


Special Guest: Chris Biscardi.