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How to make a UI element persistent in Gatsby

Nov 7, 20204 min read

When I built the website for Landing in Tech I wanted to have a bar on top of the page with the latest episode. The idea was to allow users to listen to the episode while browsing the page. I added the iframe on my layout.js file and expected it to ...

Git: Understanding version control

Nov 5, 20205 min read

Version control systems are tools to keep track of changes to source code or other collections of files and folders. They help to track the changes of documents, they make it easy collaborating with someone else. Version Control track changes in a se...

Useful Command Line Shortcuts

Oct 30, 20203 min read

As developers, we use the terminal all the time, it makes sense to learn some shortcuts that can help you do things in the command line. Learning these will also help you boost your productivity because you don't have to retype your commands again j...

How to use the Gatsby elasticlunr plugin with MDX

Oct 27, 20207 min read

Since I've recently moved from using markdownRemark to MDX on all my Gatsby Sites, the instructions to some plugins might not be that straightforward to follow. Recently, I've created a Digital Garden and wanted to add a search bar to it. On one of ...

How to keep your npm dependencies updated

Oct 22, 20202 min read

It's always a good idea to keep dependencies updated, from performance gains to fixing security issues, it just makes sense to update. But your project might depend on a lot of dependencies and if you haven't worked on a project for a few months, cha...

How to get the PID of process and send signals

Oct 21, 20205 min read

On my previous article, I've talked about Linux Signals and how you can send a specific signal with the kill command. On this article, I will talk a bit more about job control. How you can see running processes and how to use the knowledge we gained ...