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Host Google Fonts Yourself For Performance and Privacy In Your Gridsome Blog

June 26, 2020 · 3 min read
As of May 2020, at least 88 Million Websites use Google Fonts. Apart from the privacy reasons, soon using a CDN other than your own won’t bring you any performance benefits. So let’s host Google Fonts ourselves!

You Should Care About Email Flooding. This Is How to Avoid It.

June 23, 2020 · 2 min read
Imagine this. Someone uses your website form to send thousands of spam emails. And you wake up to your email reputation being ruined and hundreds of “WTF happened” emails.

Style Your Markdown Posts With Tailwind CSS in Gridsome [2021 Guide]

June 19, 2020 · 1 min read
In the last part, we added styling to our Gridsome blog with TailwindCSS. Now we will style our Markdown blog posts, too!

How to Style Your Gridsome Blog with Tailwind CSS [2021 Guide]

June 12, 2020 · 6 min read
In the last part, we built a Gridsome blog based on Markdown files. Now let's add some styling with Tailwind CSS!

Loading Data From Markdown Files With Gridsome [2021 Guide]

June 5, 2020 · 4 min read
In the last part, we started with a basic static site built with Gridsome. Now, we will write Markdown files, load them into Gridsome with a source-plugin, and display them as blog posts using template components.

What is The PRPL Pattern?

June 2, 2020 · 2 min read
If you've been reading about JAMstack, you've probably heard about the PRPL pattern. What is it and why does it speed up websites? Let's find out.

Building a Simple JAMstack Site With Gridsome [2021 Guide]

May 29, 2020 · 7 min read
Gridsome is a modern static site generator based on Vue. It has functionality that allows easy development of fast websites, and loading data from various sources. Learn the basics and build a static site with this guide.

How This Blog Works: JAMstack

April 14, 2020 · 3 min read
The dev blog. A place where you can shave that goddam yak as much as you want.