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Made it 14 whole days into quarantine before feeling the itch to rebuild my website from the ground up Is this the natural internet-nerd reaction to all uncertainty? Career stagnation? Rebuild your site Overwhelming workload? Rebuild your site Pandemic? Rebuild your site

8:38 AM · Mar 30, 2020Twitter Web App

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@Mappletons

Doing a wiki-style “digital garden” structure using

@gatsbyjs

. More focus on process and collecting public notes around topics than publishing “finished work.” Honestly mostly doing it to build gratuitous, fancy-looking

components.

The most glorious example of this I’ve seen is

@andy_matuschak

’s working notes collection: notes.andymatuschak.org The entire thing is gold and required reading for fellow #roamcult folks.

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Sometimes get the urge but never have, my site is now a teenager 👴

Perhaps that’s a good sign you haven’t been flung into deeply uncertain waters in a while! (Or have. but reacted with more rational coping mechanisms than the rest of us, ha)

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I was just checking out your site the other day. Bought your framed GraphQL poster and thought I'd see all your other art! I loved the smooth transitions between your pages. Curious how you accomplished that?

Thanks! I think I built the transitions on illo.dev with react-transition-group If you mean the ones on MaggieAppleton.com thats a pre-built Wordpress theme I’ve had on for years. Am rebuilding it in Gatsby though, and should be able to recreate with react