Life in tech is all about moving fast: there is enormous pressure to just ship it. But research shows that continually rushing to work as hard as we can, as fast as we can, has the surprisingly opposite of effect: It actually slows us down. We mess up, we miss things, we make poorer decisions. And, over time, we burn out. Ironically, slowing down can actually help us speed up...Without getting burned out.

Like many devs, Paul Scanlon avoided WordPress projects whenever possible — until he tried Gatsby’s new WordPress source plugin. His Future Shapes project demonstrates using WordPress as simply a data source to do bold new things with the web’s most popular CMS, thanks to Gatsby and WPGraphQL.

The Gatsby image plugin is designed to make the job of including high-performance, responsive images in your site as smooth as possible. However, there are still some optimizations to help you achieve peak results and avoid a few common pitfalls. Follow these tips and your images will be super-speedy and your Lighthouse scores will always be green.

A design system is more than a component library. IBM, Capital One, and Thumbtack have all used Gatsby to document not just their component libraries but the design system in which they're used. Teams valued the great content composability experience, ability to pull in data from third party systems, rich experience for internal users, and ability to solicit feedback from non-developers they got with Gatsby.

Welcome to the fifth -- and final -- phase of #100DaysOfGatsby, Gatsby’s guided coding challenge for 2021!  

Cabrillo College, with 12,000 students, is the main community college serving Santa Cruz County in northern California. When Cabrillo was looking to rebuild their website, they wanted to use modern technology, deliver a scalable solution, and most importantly, capture the Cabrillo experience by empowering faculty and administrators responsible for its groups, departments, and institutions.

The story (and code) behind building a very silly, and very cool, animated website depicting one of the silliest poems ever written!