I have been getting a few random build errors with Hugo on Netlify recently. This is a bit strange, since it builds fine on my local machine and with Github Actions. Re-running the same build also worked a few times. The build log on Netlify says the following...
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When I needed a CMS for a Gatsby site, my choice became Netlify CMS. I’ll talk about my criteria, pros and cons.
This was a personal website made for a non-technical person (why I needed a CMS at all in the first place) who associates websites with WordPress. She, my wife, is fairly tech savvy, but wouldn’t accept editing markdown or other “complicated things” 🙃 My hypothesis was that I could somewhat compensate for unintuitive features with some “on-site training”.
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So, I decided to implement dark mode on my website (to tackle parental leave boredom). I'll describe what I did and what I could have done differently in hindsight.
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I was rewriting a WordPress site in Gatsby that had embedded tweets using an embed script (WordPress plugin). The product owner (my wife), required the new site to also show her tweets. I didn’t like the idea of an embed script (that would slow down the site and spy on visitors), so I started to look into Gatsby source plugins.
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I recently built a new personal website/blog for my wife using GatsbyJS and I really enjoyed all the cool stuff you can do easily with available plugins. Since didn’t really have any idea about the disadvantages with Progressive Web Apps (PWA), I naively just installed the manifest and offline plugins and verified my success with Lighthouse. Boom, I had a PWA! 🎉
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