Isaac Tait
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Isaac Tait's Blog

Big changes underway

Oct 10, 20212 min read

If you were to take a look at my GitHub contributions graph, the last few weeks have been pretty sparse. Well I have not fallen out of love with coding, rather I moved from southern California to New England. Three weeks ago my family and I packed u...

Big changes underway

Discovering C++

Aug 25, 20213 min read

I have recently fallen in love with C++. So much so that I have decided to switch gears from a web developer to focus solely on C++. I am still keeping my other Jamstack projects current. However, instead of spending the lion's share of my time debug...

Discovering C++

Thoughts on my WFH setup

May 31, 20212 min read

Last week I read this article about building a minimalist desk setup. It got me thinking about my desk, which is currently slotted between the sliding window to our back porch (read: great views and excellent lighting {during the day}) and the enter...

Thoughts on my WFH setup

Enabling site-wide search functionality for my Gatsby site deployed with Netlify using Algolia

Mar 11, 20215 min read

I found this tutorial on YouTube that got me pointed in the right direction, but there were still a few unanswered questions not addressed by the tutorial. Namely how to get Algolia up and running on a Gatsby site deployed with Netlify. I ended up n...

Enabling site-wide search functionality for my Gatsby site deployed with Netlify using Algolia

Dual Monitor Setup with a CalDigit TS3Plus

Jan 7, 20214 min read

CalDigit's TS3 Plus offers a whole lot of functionality in a Svelte package. I had been dreaming of hooking my home workstation up with one ever since I discovered it while taking JavaScript 30 (a course I highly recommend btw). Well after dreamin...

Dual Monitor Setup with a CalDigit TS3Plus

Debugging my upgrade to TailwindCSS's V2

Dec 21, 20204 min read

So, I finally pulled the plug and updated TailwindCSS to V2 on my GatsbyJS blog. Below I outline the steps I took and the problems I encountered along the way (along with the solutions). The first step was to install the latest TailwindCSS along wit...

Debugging my upgrade to TailwindCSS's V2