My posting declined a bit around the start of the new year, but that has been because I have been pretty busy doing some things.. Those things are the topic of this blog post! In the past few months, I taught a bunch of people how to use Gatsby and Netlify at the Phoenix chapter of the JAMstack meetups, you can see if you have one in your city by visiting The JAMstack community page! I have also taken on a few clients and made their site using Gatsby! I even included NetlifyCMS with one so the client could update their own content, and doing so was so enjoyable I feel as if a long-awaited dream of mine is finally a reality. I have long wished to have a handoff experience for static sites that was good enough to base an entire agency around, and I feel as if that era has finally arrived.
So with that said I would like to announce a few things!
First, if you want a website or application built, and you want it to be fast, reliable, and most importantly, deliver a rock solid user experience, you should get in touch with me over at jamstack.consulting. I am focusing specifically on clients open to the JAMstack, and will not be taking on projects that use a traditional CMS or a server side monolith. Going forward I think there is more than enough work to build an agency specializing in this type of work, and I really hope to build jamstack.consulting into something great.
Second, if you want to learn how to build websites and applications in this manner you are in luck! I am also working on jamstack.courses and that is for you! The first course will be a thorough introduction to the most amazing web framework around Gatsby JS! You will put together a personal blog and portfolio that will load at the speed of light and leave jaws on the floor. Be sure to leave your email so I can notify you when that is available.
So as you can see, I have unified my efforts to have a single focus. The JAMstack! I am eager to teach you all about it in coming blog posts, courses, and products. I think the web is fundamentally changing, and I want to document my exploration of what I believe to be a better, more modern way of building for the web.
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Cool! I think this is a reasonably safe bet and a good time to get in.
JAMstack is not going to replace everything, but it is clearly a trend.
Thanks! I totally agree! : )
Signed up on jamestack.courses :)
Looking forward to it~
Awesome! Hopefully I’ll have some stuff in the coming weeks.
Bet your software engineering career on practices & principles instead of specific tech :)
I would argue that JAMstack is a practice and not a specific tech. This isn't "Betting my career on Gatsby"
Sorry, it's just a bundle of tech that will eventually get partially replaced (even though there will be legacy apps to stay).
I'm talking about:
Phone me when they replace JavaScript friendo.
Not sure what you’re getting at. Betting career on a single language or framework seems weird to me, even if it’s not going to go away.
I do JS/TS on the front-end side of my day-to-day work, and I also do Go/Ruby/Python for CLIs, Kotlin/Ruby/Go/Python for back-ends, and I do Kotlin/Swift for mobile apps. And I did in the past things like Clojure, Scala, and Haskell on production applications (both backend and frontend).
Also, within bounds of each language, I’m proficient at using at least 2-3 frameworks and a considerable amount of libraries.
What’s the point of betting a career on a single stack or language? I mean, what does it even mean?
Let’s tackle the meaning of the concept of
betting:Betting is very similar to gambling and in general any risk-taking.
That means that if JAMStack is no more, or not HOT, your career would be over, or would sustain serious damage that’ll take years to recover.
Is this true for what you’ve meant by “betting on JAMStack?”
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