Isaac Tait's Blog

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...

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...

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...

The art of the process

Dec 19, 20204 min read

A good friend of mine turned me onto Stoicism recently by gifting me with two of Ryan Holiday's books. I easily finished the first one Ego Is The Enemy but the second one The Obstacle is the Way I have been taking my time with. Digesting each sho...

Setting up a Hashnode blog with AWS Route 53

Dec 16, 20204 min read

After a bit of trial and error I was able to setup my Hashnode blog using AWS's Route 53. Below I have outlined the steps I followed to successfully deploy my Hashnode blog . Step 1 - Enter your personal domain name After creating your Hashnode ac...

Enable Hashnode backups using GitHub's CLI

Dec 15, 20203 min read

If you would like to backup your Hashnode blog the simplest way is to use the Hashnode backups found in your blogs dashboard. I have outlined the steps below to accomplish this. First you will need to install the GitHub CLI brew install gh Then you w...