That's my JAMstack
Bryan Robinson
Podcast
Episodes
Listen, download, subscribe
Laurie Barth on Gatsby, Lambda Functions, experimenting and more
Quick show notes Our Guest: Laurie Barth What she'd like for you to see: Laurie's Blog | @laurieontech | Laurie's Egghead Tutorials Her JAMstack Jams: Gatsby Her musical Jam: The Taylor Swift Lover Album | Heather's the Musical soundtrack Other Tech mentioned Jekyll Netlify Transcript Bryan Robinson 0:30 Laurie, welcome to the show. I appreciate you taking the time to talk with us today. Laurie Barth 0:33 Yeah, absolutely happy to be here. Bryan Robinson 0:35 Cool. So So I know that about you, but go ahead and tell the audience who you are what you do for work what you do for fun, that sort of thing. Laurie Barth 0:42 Yeah, so I'm Laurie. I am a software engineer for a company called 10 Miles Squared Technologies in the DC metro area. And we're a small consultancy, so I kind of do whatever is asked of me. And then as part of that role and a little bit, because I enjoyed doing it, I convinced them that, you know, it was okay for me to do it at work as well. I do technical blogging and speaking and kind of community outreach interaction stuff. Bryan Robinson 1:11 Stuff. I was like a good good stuff. Yeah, yeah. Laurie Barth 1:14 Yeah. Like Egghead videos and contributing to some other publications. And if you hear a little jingling in the backg.round, that is our brand new puppy Avett, who is being a bit of a terror right now as she gets used to .. Oh, she just came up right by the side me. Hi, sweetheart. As we get used to our new house, Bryan Robinson 1:32 well, I have a 12 year old cat on my desk right now. So all pets are welcome. Laurie Barth 1:37 Yes, this is the PETjam podcast. Bryan Robinson 1:40 So cool. So what was kind of your entry point into this idea of the jam stack or static sites or whatever you like to call it? Laurie Barth 1:47 I blame Jennifer Wadella. And for those who don't know her, she is the founder of KCWiT and kind of a badass Angular JavaScript front end Dev. And she, I talked to her about, you know, maybe making a personal site, she had a really great one. And she said, here's my code for my Jekyll site like lift, whatever you need, make your own. And I did. And then she transitioned over to Gatsby and kind of spoke the gospel. And I was like, Okay, let me give that a try. And so from then on, I was like, this is the perfect kind of thing for my site. And and that's, that's kind of where I got into the JAMstack worlds because I wanted to be able to throw something up pretty quickly that was going to be performant that was going to have, you know, all kinds of nice dynamic behaviors. But but it didn't need to have all of this full back end content, as it were, Bryan Robinson 2:42 Sure, now you're a software engineer, so you're not necessarily afraid of the back end. So what what kind of draws you to something that doesn't need a back end? Laurie Barth 2:50 I don't have to do the setup of like a bunch of different components, getting deployed into the cloud and deal with like, HTTP back and forth. And all those things like, it's great. And I am do it all the time when it's necessary. But if it isn't necessary, why add all that bulk and nonsense? Bryan Robinson 3:07 Sure. And as a front end engineer, I definitely consider that nonsense in a lot of ways Laurie Barth 3:13 And don't get me wrong. I mean, I, I started in the Java back-end world. That was kind of my bread and butter. And so I've done Python, and I've done PHP, and I've done a bunch of different things. And they have their use cases. And they're incredibly important and incredibly powerful. But if all I'm doing is serving stuff that can exist in markdown, then there's absolutely no reason I need to build myself an API. Bryan Robinson 3:37 Definitely, definitely. And did you have any experience with markdown beforehand? Did you use it like in GitHub or what have you? Laurie Barth 3:44 Yeah, no, in fact, a lot of my site is in YAML. Bryan Robinson 3:49 Yeah, I didn't
That's my JAMstack RSS Feed
