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sylibane · 4 years ago

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How about the Wright Anything Agency and the Heist AU for the au thing?

Edgeworth showed up here too whoops

“Talk to me, Cykes.”

“Everyone’s in position,” Athena’s voice said over the comms. “In about a minute, Widget will shut down the security systems and Trucy has a clear shot at the vault.”

Phoenix kept his eyes on the people mingling through the building’s lobby. “Will you have access to the cameras during the blackout?”

“Afraid not, boss.”

“So we won’t know if anyone’s coming up on the vault,” Apollo said. “I knew I should have stayed closer to Trucy…”

“Relax, Polly!” Trucy chimed in. “I’ll be in and out so quick that they won’t even notice! This isn’t even the worst vault I’ve cracked!”

There was a crackle of static on Athena’s comm. “System’s down. Trucy, go!”

“I’m in! Geez…who last used this keypad? It’s all sticky!”

Phoenix couldn’t help but smile, only to tense when he saw a familiar magenta coat in the crowd. “We may have been followed,” he muttered, keeping his hand to his ear as he hurried to the stairs leading into the lower lobby. “Get those documents and get out as fast as possible. Forget them and get yourselves out if you have to.”

“Boss, what’s wrong?” Athena said.

“Focus on the job. I have things under control here.” Phoenix was certain he could feel those gray eyes on him as he walked down the stairs, trying to look like just another businessman on his way out to lunch.

“Like hell you do — I’m coming to you.”

“No, you’re not, Apollo,” Phoenix said through gritted teeth. “Protect Trucy. I’ll be fine.” Where had he…

“I thought I might find you here, Wright.”

Phoenix froze, then straightened his tie. “This is just an office building,” he said, not looking back at Miles. “Maybe I’ve turned my life around and now work here.”

“I doubt you’d work for a company with such a reputation for blackmail,” Edgeworth said, “especially not with such an easily cracked vault.”

Phoenix whipped around to face him. “Okay, fine! I admit it, Edgeworth, I’m casing this place! But it’s just me this time. Nobody else is on this job.”

The corner of Mile’s mouth twitched. “You say with the tone that says that the rest of your team is definitely in this building.”

Phoenix grabbed for his jacket, but Miles caught his wrist. “Don’t act so rashly, Wright. I’m not here to alert security or anything. Quite frankly, the people here deserve whatever your ridiculous crew has inflicted. But have you ever thought of turning your talents onto much worse targets?”

“Are you saying you have a job for me?”’

“Are you willing to listen what I have to say?”

Somewhere on the upper levels, there were several pops, followed by shouting. Through the corner of his eye, Phoenix could see a little of the confetti from the poppers set for distraction drifting towards them. Office drones around them stopped and looked up towards the commotion, not noticing the three young adults in suits, the one in yellow with a stolen IT department badge and the one in light blue with dust from the vents still in her hair, heading for the doors. Apollo stopped and turned towards Phoenix, who locked eyes with him and tried to nod as subtly as he could.

If he couldn’t trust Miles about this, he at least had to keep him away from the kids.

“Okay. I’m listening.”

#syli writes things #ace attorney #fanfiction #i actually have a wip that started as an aa fantasy heist au #it's technically ocs now

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dealgemeneverwarring · 3 years ago

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De Algemene Verwarring #71 - 18 April 2022

The seventy-first episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday April 18, 2022, and you can listen to it by clicking on the Mixcloud widget below. And if that does not work, here’s the direct link to the Mixcloud page:

https://www.mixcloud.com/MedialabKortrijk/de-algemene-verwarring-71-18-april-2022/

Pictured below is Public Image Limited, just before or just after their performance at the TV-show American Bandstand. You can find footage of that hilarious playback performance on Youtube. John Lydon earned his place in music history not so much for being in The Sex Pistols, but mainly because of, let’s say the first five years of Public Image Limited. First Issue, Metal Box, and The Flowers Of Romance are milestones in the post-punk history. In this episode I thought it would be interesting to have a set of dub-influenced post-punk. I’m not a fan of dub music, and that’s an understatement, but I can live with the influence of dub in other genres. The relentless repetitive bass riffs of Jah Wobble on the Metal Box album fit perfectly in the idea of dub-influenced music. Anyway, there’s also other music in this episode of course: a new 7″ from Belgian rockers Moar, Billy Childish latest CTMF album, a new compilation from French eighties pop band Les Calamités, Brussels lo-fi poppers Purrses, nineties slack rock from Pavement and Urusei Yatsura, and experimental folk and drones from new Swedish duo Klara Livet and from Roxane Métayer, and last but not least the new beautiful album by Ekin Fil. And beneath the photo you can find the playlist for this show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Moar: Flatfoot (7” “Flatfoot” on Ronny Rex, ZoeZoe Records, Permanent Freak Records & Belly Button Records, 2022)

André Williams: Agile, Mobile & Hostile (CD “Silky” on In The Red Records, 1998)

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF: You Can’t Capture Time (LP “Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows” on Damaged Goods, 2021)

The Mocks: See That Girl (7” “Not ready” on Bickerton Records, 2021)

Les Calamités: Malhabile (LP “Encore! 1983-1987” on Born Bad Records, 2022)

Purrses: Kill Neighbour (7” “Wrong Tide” on Belly Button Records, Rockerill Records & Jaune Orange Records, 2021)

Pavement: Box Elder (CD “Westing (by musket and sextant)” on Big Cat Records, 1993)

Urusei Yatsura: First Day On A New Planet (CD “We Are Yatsura” on Primary Recordings & Chi, 1996)

Suburban Lawns: Green Eyes (LP “Suburban Lawns” on Superior Viaduct, 2021, originally released in 1981 on IRS Records)

His Electro Blue Voice: Fury Eyes (7” “Duuug” on Sacred Bones Records, 2008)

Basement 5: No Ball Games (LP “1965-1980” on Island Records, 1980)

Balaclavas: Snake People (LP “Snake People” on Dull Knife Records, 2011)

Exek: Unseasonable Warmth (LP “Advertise Here” on Castle Face, 2022)

Public Image Limited: Précipitamment = Careering (LP “Paris Au Printemps” on Virgin Records, 1980)

Flying Saucer Attack: Outdoor Miner (CD V/A “Worlds Of Possibilities” on Domino, 2003, originally released on a 7” in 1995)

Klara Livet: Drick Mig Bort (LP “Varandra” on Förlag För Fri Musik, 2022)

Blue Chemise: Meadowsweet (LP “Flower Studies” on B.A.A.D.M., 2021)

Roxane Métayer: Opalescentes Épopées (LP “Eclipse des Ocelles” on Morc Records, 2021)

Ekin Fil: Being Held (LP “Feelings” on A Sunken Mall Records, december 2021)

#punk #rock'n'roll #post punk #dub influenced #experimental music #folk #drones

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textales · 8 years ago

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"Gravy Ladles and Coffee Pots”

The kids gathered around the brand-new Radar Range, watching in open-mouthed astonishment as the bacon sizzled and crackled inside. “Wow, that’s really cool!” Magic was made in the double-wide that day, and Kathy couldn’t be more proud as she held court with these young people completely in awe of this technological breakthrough.

I was forever envious of my cousins. They always got the cool shit before we did, and the microwave oven was the latest in a long list, borne from a lifelong sibling rivalry between my father and his sister.

My attention to this competition started the day Aunt Kathy called to ask for our help unloading a snowmobile she just bought from some guy on the west side. The ad said “Divorce Forces Sale” and Kathy pounced on the opportunity with lightning-fast dexterity – the rotary dial on the pink princess phone practically melting as she called to inquire. An hour later she had her hands on the handlebars of what would become a big surprise birthday present for her husband.

Earlier - just that week - my dad had mentioned he was considering buying a snowmobile. He had to bite his tongue after she jumped-the-gun and got one first.

“It’s an Arctic Cat Panther,” yelled Aunt Kathy as she backed the pickup behind the trailer where they’d offload the sled. It would be hidden under a tarp by the woodpile before being presented in a big reveal, a minute or so after the candles were blown out.

“I heard the Polaris is better,” Red said bursting with envy as a Salem Menthol cigarette bobbed from his mouth in the chilly Montana breeze.

Not more than a month later, he found a used 1969 Polaris Charger in the Tribune classifieds. The guy wanted $350 but dad was able to “Jew him down” to $300. The Polaris had a 372 which was technically a bigger engine than the Arctic Cat, and it had electric start – details that didn’t go unmentioned when I called the cousins to tell them “we got one now too.”

And so the race was on. Kathy would be the first to get the next new thing, then Red would follow-up with his take and brand preference on whichever widget, then Kathy would get a newer/bigger/better/faster, and the cycle would continue until the next new thing entered their collective consumer attention purview.

When Kathy replaced her old-school West Bend percolator with a Mr. Coffee, Red had to one-up his sister with a shiny new Norelco Dial-a-Brew he found on sale at Montgomery Ward. The sleek black and brushed aluminum look was super fancy and at least ten years before its time, and Red was really proud of his find – at least for a couple months. Then Kathy got a new Bunn Pour-O-Matic, the home version of the commercial coffee maker used in restaurants like 4B’s and Big Boy. How dare she jump to commercial grade! This was war.

The next visit to Aunt Kathy’s was yet another shameless showcase where the new hot air popcorn popper was ceremoniously demonstrated. It was placed on the Formica counter next to the new Presto Fry Baby, which had been the focus of last week’s appliance parade. This time grandma and grandpa joined the parents and us kids for the exhibition - a dozen people watching with anxious anticipation as this incredible device that sounded like a vacuum cleaner started spewing hot popcorn into a ceramic bowl. “I’ll be god damned, look at that” said Grandpa as he took a sip of Schmidt from a can in one hand and a drag of a Winston from the other.

Over the years there were groovy gravy ladles, meat tenderizer mallets, toaster ovens, ice cream makers, air pots, crock pots and fondue pots – not to mention multiple knife sets, pimped by slippery salesmen at the State Fair and procured under pressure.

But nothing caused more commotion than “that goddamned KitchenAid mixer”. This thing had a stainless steel bowl and was two feet tall. It was astronomically expensive – costing far more than a house payment at the time.

It had a gear shift on the side with a single giant black Bakelite knob. It was bullet proof and built like a tank. Although it was a warmer, friendlier version of a mixer one might see kneading dough at Eddy’s Bakery or in the galley of a battleship, I feared the power might go out on the whole block when this behemoth was activated.

Kathy called a family press conference to celebrate its arrival with all the fanfare usually saved for the maiden voyage of a cruise ship. She had pre-ordered this thing and had to wait six agonizing weeks because she wanted hers in a color to more closely match the Harvest Gold of the oven and refrigerator. The appliances, furniture, carpeting and draperies in that Fleetwood mobile home came as a package deal, and matching the color of this added appliance was important in keeping with the designer aesthetic.

I don’t remember if anything got mixed or cooked or stirred while at the KitchenAid christening, but there was certainly something stirring on the way home as we drove over the 10th Street Bridge. We’d left the scene with our heads bowed - it was embarrassing for my mother to witness this charade of superiority. Even “Old Lady Pete” from the trailer park across the way was there to watch as Kathy showcased her appliance prowess, and Betty would have to settle for an inferior cheap plastic hand-held thing from K-mart. Why wouldn’t Red make the necessary sacrifices to buy a new KitchenAid for his wife? This just might have been the beginning of the end of their marriage.

Breaker One Nine

Red had been a radio operator in the Army and knew Morse code. Ever since getting out of the service in the sixties he dreamed of having his own amateur radio transmitter to communicate with like-minded hobbyists. These were the techno-geeks of their time, and speaking over the air to some other enthusiast halfway across the planet (or even within the state of Montana) was a thrill that “ham” radio operators shared decades before cell phones and the internet made communication cheap and effortless.

Red yakked for years about getting himself a ham radio of his own, but the costs were just too high. Being fiscally conservative, raising his young son and supporting his wife on a single salary as a blue-collar glass guy, he figured splurging on such a luxury was selfish and excessive. “Boy, someday, I’d like to get one of those VHF units,” practically drooling as he fingered through the back pages of Popular Science magazine.

The temptation to talk was overwhelming, and “someday” got a whole lot closer when the “Citizens Band” phenomenon of the mid-1970s took the country by storm. Since CB radios were far cheaper than Ham units, a communications compromise was possible: Red could satisfy his desire to chit-chat with strangers using a CB. As seen on TV shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, and in movies like Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy at the Twilight Cinema, CB radios were suddenly everywhere…even Betty Ford, wife of then President Gerald Ford, had a CB “handle” - she was the nation’s “First Mama.”

But the clock was ticking if Red was to get his hands on one of these before his sister beat him to the punch.

“Don’t say anything…but god dammit we’re going to get something before they do” as Red used the basement phone to call his secret army of friends who’d help him find a used CB radio. Come hell or high water he’d get one of these things in-hand before the weekend was over.

By the third dial he found some fellow glass guy friend who knew a guy who knew a guy who had one for sale.

The General Radiotelephone VS-4 was an old school commercial transceiver with three big black knobs, two switches and five channels. I didn’t know what “VS” meant…maybe “Very Serious”? If you didn’t like the channel selection, you could change them by switching out the crystals you could buy at Radio Shack. At $35 bucks, the price was right, and there was sufficient space under the dashboard of the 1966 Ford pickup where it would find its new home.

We were so proud to be the first family on the block with a CB radio. So what if it was practically the size of a cinder block and the weight of an anvil? So what if it stunk like the furnace when lit the first time after being off for the summer?

Sure, it was old and heavy and hot and used tubes, but it was ours. And goddammit, we got ourselves a CB radio before Kathy did. I couldn’t wait to call the cousins with this news. Neener neener.

This whole surprise did not sit well with Aunt Kathy. She had been ambushed, and retaliated the next week by purchasing a brand new 23-channel Midland – the brand preferred by truckers and clearly the “industry standard.” Of course, her true intentions were camouflaged by labeling it a “gift” for Uncle Lee.

In the construction community, my father and my uncle were pillars. Dad worked in a shop and on construction sites building glass store-fronts. My uncle was a Heavy Equipment Operator and drove a road grader in the summer months.

“Clothes don’t make the man,” my father would say.

But what he didn’t mention was that the CB radio and truck just might.

Having a brand new Midland with an eight-foot stainless steel whip antenna on a shiny new Chevy Pickup clearly put my uncle ahead of the curve, commanding considerable respect from the other members of the metal Thermos lunchbox crowd.

Even though Red’s old General Radiotelephone was hot-wired and had more than four times the power output of the new Midland, the average passer-by looking through the window of that old truck wouldn’t know that. “You could hear that thing from King’s Hill all the way to Great Falls” he would say. But so what…that truth didn’t matter from the curb. So to restore dignity and improve the dashboard appeal of his aging 1966 Ford, Red used a big chunk of his next paycheck to buy a spanking new 23-channel Sharp model with a red LED digital readout. This module was modern and pretty. A digital readout was so much more impressive than the single-knob back-lit dial of the Midland. Red’s rationale: “If we can’t have a new truck, well god dammit, we’ll at least have a new CB radio.” These were simple priorities of the day.

If Kathy could hold court with the kids by showing off a new microwave, Red could do the same across the river using his new CB radio as a centerpiece. It was so impressive the neighbor kids would come from six blocks away to see it. Part of the experience included listening to the soundtrack from the movie Saturday Night Fever via an 8-track tape deck mounted in a home-made headliner installed in the ceiling.

In this headliner were switches – many switches – with amber and red and green indicator lights. One controlled the fog lights which beamed so much candlepower you could practically use them to fry chicken from twenty paces.

And there was a dimmer switch for reading lights like those that shine down from overhead bins in airplanes. Sure the truck was old, but it had character.

And it was ballsy….powered by a bored-out 390 V8 with a 10:1 compression ratio, fed by a gas-guzzling Holley 750 double-pumper 4-barrel carburetor. It had dual glass-pack mufflers and a shiny new maroon metallic paint job and cool chrome wheels with extra-wide tires. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

But no matter what we did to that truck, it was still old. And I was forever envious of Uncle Lee’s new Chevys.

Coca Cola Cowboy

The latest in the parade of pickups was a brand spankin’ new 1979 Chevrolet K20 Silverado 4x4, powered by a 7.4 litre 454 cubic inch high-torque V8. It was a three-quarter ton Camper Special, which meant it had upgraded suspension to support the extra weight of a slide-in camper.

This truck was absolutely stunning.

Outside was Midnight Black metallic, and the inside was appointed with rich plush carpeting and a cushy velvety bench seat so lavish it put our living room sofa to shame. With brushed aluminum accents, the instrument panel included a tachometer to measure engine speed and a gauge for oil pressure.

At the time, factory air conditioning, power steering and power brakes were nice-to-have expensive options in a pickup truck. But tilt steering, electric windows and power door locks were luxuries usually saved for cars like Cadillacs.

This truck had all of that and more – included in the top-of-the-line interior package. This was the pinnacle of pickups, and Uncle Lee was a god for owning it.

While most people opted for an automatic transmission, this truck had a manly 4-speed manual with a chrome stick shift – a rare combination of options requiring a special order, which I didn’t even know was a possibility. When we bought our truck we picked what we could afford from the used lot. Uncle Lee ordered his new from the factory. There was even talk of going to see it being built – a trip most blue-collar construction dudes would consider a once-in-a-lifetime, bucket list, trip to mecca sort of thing.

My dad always made excuses for why we didn’t have newer vehicles. “We’re saving for a place in the mountains” was the one used most. But I knew it bugged him when I’d fawn over the new car and truck combo Kathy and Lee would bring back from City Chevrolet every two years.

I recall a particular moment of sweet satisfaction for Red when we were going on a camping trip – something we did almost every weekend in the summers. Both families had loaded their respective RVs with all the Coleman stuff, Jiffy Pop and Shasta. I remember listening to Eddie Rabbitt’s “Two Dollars in the Jukebox” on 13-10, KEIN, as we headed out for a “Weekend in the West.”

Kathy, Lee and the kids got a good hour-long head start since we needed to stop for propane. It was a bit of a surprise, though, when we caught-up to them on the Wolf Creek cut-off, less than 30 minutes or so after we got on the road.

Uncle Lee had the pedal to the metal trying to milk every last bit of horsepower from that 7.4 Litre 454 high-torque V8. It was all he could do to get it to 50 mph as the shiny new Chevy with the Kit overhead camper struggled with the steepness of that mountain, the altitude, and headwinds so strong they’d most certainly slow a semi.

Out of nowhere came the old Ford truck with its cargo box overflowing with motorcycles and camping gear, pulling an 18-foot travel trailer, and blaring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Greased Lightnin from the 8-track overhead. “Look at that, brand new truck – so much for that 454 - ha!” We’d be passing them at the first possible opportunity.

As the old grey mare roared by doing 70 mph, Red looked right into Kathy’s eyes with a piercing look that said “Fuck you sister” as he flipped ‘em the finger, blaring the dual air-horns for another quarter mile or so until we hit the crest of the hill.

I gained a lot of respect for my elders that day, mechanical or otherwise.

A few weeks later, my cousin and I talked in the alley as we waited for our parents to say their goodbyes after a regular family visit. Even though I was thirteen I realized this was sibling rivalry shit was starting to get silly.

“When are you going to get a new truck?” asked my cousin.

“When are you going to get a real house?” I snapped.

Our house, although practically a century old, was built with studs and plaster.

So what if they had new vehicles every two years, a more expensive microwave and (coming the next week) a bigger, better CB radio with more channels and knobs than ours.

They lived in a trailer.

There, that would settle that.

#growingup

#cb

#montana

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suzanneshannon · 5 years ago

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My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site

As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging extraction samples or waiting for my samples to thaw or freeze. These wait times are valuable for writing experiment notes and even learn a new skill. For me, this meant learning basic HTML through editors, like HomeSite and later Dreamweaver, as well as many other online resources.

After leaving my science lab desk about a decade ago, I found a new playground. I was introduced to WordPress by a local web developer friend. This changed the course of my life. Learning web design is no longer a downtime activity — it has become the main activity of my daily life.

My first step: Learning theme development

I call myself a WordPress enthusiast and an avid WordPress user. I entered into the world of WordPress by learning to hack themes, my virtual guru“Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores” by Morten Rand-Hendriksen. While learning to develop themes, I must have watched this tutorial countless times and quickly it became my go-to reference. While doing my learning projects, I often referred to Morten’s GitHub repository to learn from his themes. For my personal sites, I used my own themes which are inspired by Morten’s, like Kuhn, Popper and others.

I also learned how to build plugins and widgets for my own site, but I mostly stayed within theming. I built themes for my personal sites. My personal sites are like my three-ring binders: one for every subject area. My sites discourage search engines and are designed for archiving my personal learning and posting notes. This habit of writing and documenting every aspect of my projects was inspired by “Just Write” by Sara Soueidan.

A call to Learn JavaScript deeply

It all started with Matt Mullenweg‘s call for WordPress developers to “learn JavaScript deeply” during the 2015 State of the Word address and the subsequent announcement of the Gutenberg block editor. Until then, I was a happy WordPress user and an aspiring WordPress developer. It was reported that JavaScript and API-driven Interfaces are the future of WordPress. Like other WordPress enthusiasts, I also acknowledged that JavaScript was a must-have skill for WordPress development.

Thus, began my own JavaScript learning journey and road map. I used Zell Liew’s article “Learning JavaScript — where should you start and what to do when you’re stuck?”

Let me share my learning journey with you.

I started by looking at React and REST API-based themes

Since the official integration of the REST API in WordPress core, a few React-based themes have started popping up.

Foxhound: This theme was developed by Automattic engineer Kelly Dwan, and is listed in WordPress theme directory with 30+ active installations. Its GitHub repository has not been updated in three years.

Picard: This theme was developed by Automattic as an experimental prototype WordPress theme that makes use of React and the new WP-API. Its GitHub repository has not been updated in five years and its usage is not known.

Celestial: This theme was covered in Smashing magazine’s article, “How To Build A Skin For Your Web App With React And WordPress” by Muhammad Mohsin. Its GitHub repository reveals it was last updated 13 months ago but there’s no information on its usage.

In my opinion, these themes appeared to be experimental. When the Foxhound theme was released, it was covered in CSS-Tricks as well as WordPress Tavern. I downloaded it to my test site, and it worked fine; however, I could not hack and learn from it given my limited familiarity with JavaScript and React.

I started digging into React

I used Robin Wieruch’s article “JavaScript fundamentals before learning React” as my JavaScript/React learning road map. While struggling to learn and understand React routing, I discovered Gatsby which utilizes @reach/router as a built-in feature, making routing a breeze. In my brief exploratory research, I learned that Gatsby is indeed a “React-based framework that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps.” This led me to learn Gatsby while continuing to make progress on React. After a while, I immersed myself in my Gatsby projects and only occasionally returned to learning basic JavaScript and React.

I picked up Gatsby

Given that I had already done several small learning projects in React, understanding Gatsby was natural. Gatsby is said to be aimed at developers and not users. I did not find it that hard to learn and run my own simple Gatsby test sites.

Gatsby’s documentation and tutorials are well-written, helpful, and easy to follow. I decided to learn Gatsby using its tutorials and completing all eight parts as a means of “learning by doing.” While working on my projects, I consulted other guides and tutorial posts. The following two guides helped me to understand build concepts, add functionality and put together a reasonable Gatsby demo site:

Guide to Building a Gatsby Site From the Ground Up by Justin Formentin

Build an advanced blog using gatsby and react by Reactgo

For styling React components, there are several options which are covered on CSS-Trick. Some options include local inline CSS-in-JS, styled components and modular CSS. Gatsby components can also be styled with Sass using gatsby-plugin-sass, which makes the code more readable. Because of its familiarity and code readability, I chose styling with Sass; however, I recognize the value of CSS modules as well.

Resources for integrating Gatsby and WordPress

My Gatsby learning didn’t stop there. In fact, Gatsby has been the most significant part of my learning curve more recently. Here’s everything I found throughout my learning journey that I hope will serve you as well on your own journey.

There are many sites already running on Gatsby. Those who have migrated to Gatsby seem to be happy, especially with the blazingly fast speed and the improved security it offers.

Commenting in Gatsby

WordPress has natively supported comments for a long, long time. Gatsby sites are serverless-static, so posting comments is an issue since they are dynamic and requires a client side service.

Some Gatsby and React developers seem to leave commenting and interactions on their own personal sites to Twitter. Others seem to reach for Disqus. If you are interested, this Northstack tutorial describes in detail how to bring WordPress comments over to Gatsby.

WordPress Gatsby themes

I first became aware of WordPress ported Tabor for Gatsby theme from WordPress Tavern. It was developed by Rich Tabor and is freely available on GitHub (demo). From there, two WordPress-inspired Gatsby themes became available through the Gatsby Theme Jam project. One was by Alexandra Spalato called Gatsby Theme WordPress Starter (demo) and the other by Andrey Shalashov called WordPress Source Theme (demo).

In 2019, a team of Gatsby and WPGraphQL developers led by Jason Bahl, Muhammad Muhsin, Alexandra Spalato, and Zac Gordon announced a project that ports WordPress themes to Gatsby. Zac, talking to WordPress Tavern, said the project would offer both free and paid premium themes. At the time of this writing, five themes were listed with no free download.

Decoupled Gatsby WordPress starters

The current Gatsby starer library lists ten WordPress-compatible starter themes, including a more recent one by Henrik Wirth that ports the WordPress Twenty Twenty theme — stylesheets and fonts — to Gatsby. Although the theme is still a work-in-progress with some limitations (e.g. no support for tags, monthly archives, and comments). Nevertheless, it is a great project and uses a new experimental Gatsby Source plugin for WordPress.

Another popular starter is gatsby-starter-wordpress by Gatsby Central.

Gatsby WordPress themes from GitHub

There are other popular Gatsby themes that are available at GitHub. The Twenty Nineteen WordPress Gatsby Theme is a port of the Twenty Nineteen WordPress Theme by Zac Gordon and Muhammad Muhsin.

Experimental plugins

There are also two new GraphQL plugins for WordPress that are under development and only available on GitHub at the moment. One is Gatsby Source WordPress Experimental by Tyler Barnes. This is a re-written version of current Gatsby Source WordPress plugin using WPGraphQL for data sourcing, as well as a custom WPGatsby plugin that transforms WPGraphQL schema in Gatsby-specific ways.

The other one is Gatsby WordPress Gutenberg which is still being developed by Peter Pristas. Its documentation is available over at the GatsbyWPGutenberg Docs site.

Step-by-step guides

Despite the ongoing progress in Gatsby WordPress theme development, I could not locate any detailed how-to guides written for beginners like me. Mohammad Mohsin wrote up a thorough guide over at Smashing magazine in 2018, explaining how he developed his Celestial React theme using the WordPress REST API. The other tutorial is another one he wrote about porting the Twenty Nineteen WordPress Theme to Gatsby, which uses WPGraphQL for WordPress data sourcing.

More recently, there have been two additional guides that I’ve benefited from:

Migrate Your WordPress Site to the Jamstack by Jason Longstorf. This is a very useful tutorial based on Jason’s interview with Zac Gordon on his Learn With Jason podcast. A shorter 30-minute version of the episode is also available on egghead.io.

Guide to Gatsby WordPress Starter Advanced with Previews, i18n and More by Henrik Wirth. This is the most detailed guide I’ve seen, broken out as a seven-part series on porting a WordPress site to Gatsby using WPGraphQL. It’s suitable for most beginners.

Finally, my own partially ported Gatsby site

Everything covered so far is what has fueled me to create my own WordPress Gatsby site. While it was a large technical task, the guides I’ve referenced, in addition to the experimental plugins and existing documentation for Gatsby made it so much easier than if I had attempted to figure it out on my own.

Here is the result. While it’s still a work in progress, it’s awesome to see it working. I’ve written up a complete step-by-step walkthrough on how I made it, which will publish next week here on CSS-Tricks. So stay tuned!

What’s next on the horizon for Gatsby and WordPress?

I am still keeping my eyes on the two experimental WordPress plugins I mentioned earlier. I plan to revisit the project once those are officially released, hopefully in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This recent tweet thread highlights the current status of porting content from the WordPress block editor to a decoupled WordPress Gatsby theme.

Has anyone successfully used the block editor with a decoupled #WordPress setup? I haven’t tried but have heard some rumblings it doesn’t work, or doesn’t work well. Curious to hear from folks.

— Rachel Cherry (@bamadesigner) May 14, 2020

In a recent WordCamp Spain 2020 session, Matt Mullenweg said that the demand for decoupled WordPress sites is growing:

But for people who are building more advanced applications or have some sort of constraint on their website where they need the React frontend, I think the decoupled use case of WordPress is stronger than ever.

Dan Abramov agrees:

This hits the nail on the head. And is 100% matching our long term thinking. Client-side-only is not sustainable. We need to move more stuff to the server, but without sacrificing seamless composition of interactive pieces. https://t.co/O4LX8JacRo

— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) May 10, 2020

Taking with Sarah Gooding of WPTavern, Gatsby WP Themes project members Zac Gordon and Jason Bahl also confessed that the “most current Gatsby WordPress themes are directed for businesses and developers, they are not suitable for beginners.” Let’s hope the future fixes that!

My personal take

Based on my very limited experience, I think that currently available Gatsby WordPress themes are not ready for prime time use for users like me. Yeah, it is exciting to try something on the bleeding edge that’s clearly in the minds of many WordPress users and developers. At the same time, the constantly evolving work being done on the WordPress block editor, WPGraphQL and Gatsby source WordPress plugins makes it difficult to predict where things are going and when it will settle into a state where it is safe to use in other contexts. Until then, it’s a frustrating experience to work on something only to have the API or the interface change on you.

For my own personal uses, a normal Gatsby site is enough, I could get content with Markdown files without any hassles associated with decoupling WordPress. For larger agency sites… I can see why having a decoupled solution would make a lot of sense for them and their clients.

Remember, I’ll be sharing my tutorial next week — see you then!

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My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site

My first step: Learning theme development

A call to Learn JavaScript deeply

Thus, began my own JavaScript learning journey and road map. I used Zell Liew’s article “Learning JavaScript — where should you start and what to do when you’re stuck?”

Let me share my learning journey with you.

I started by looking at React and REST API-based themes

Since the official integration of the REST API in WordPress core, a few React-based themes have started popping up.

I started digging into React

I picked up Gatsby

Guide to Building a Gatsby Site From the Ground Up by Justin Formentin

Build an advanced blog using gatsby and react by Reactgo

Resources for integrating Gatsby and WordPress

There are many sites already running on Gatsby. Those who have migrated to Gatsby seem to be happy, especially with the blazingly fast speed and the improved security it offers.

Commenting in Gatsby

WordPress has natively supported comments for a long, long time. Gatsby sites are serverless-static, so posting comments is an issue since they are dynamic and requires a client side service.

WordPress Gatsby themes

Decoupled Gatsby WordPress starters

Another popular starter is gatsby-starter-wordpress by Gatsby Central.

Gatsby WordPress themes from GitHub

There are other popular Gatsby themes that are available at GitHub. The Twenty Nineteen WordPress Gatsby Theme is a port of the Twenty Nineteen WordPress Theme by Zac Gordon and Muhammad Muhsin.

Experimental plugins

The other one is Gatsby WordPress Gutenberg which is still being developed by Peter Pristas. Its documentation is available over at the GatsbyWPGutenberg Docs site.

Step-by-step guides

More recently, there have been two additional guides that I’ve benefited from:

Finally, my own partially ported Gatsby site

What’s next on the horizon for Gatsby and WordPress?

Has anyone successfully used the block editor with a decoupled #WordPress setup? I haven’t tried but have heard some rumblings it doesn’t work, or doesn’t work well. Curious to hear from folks.

— Rachel Cherry (@bamadesigner) May 14, 2020

In a recent WordCamp Spain 2020 session, Matt Mullenweg said that the demand for decoupled WordPress sites is growing:

Dan Abramov agrees:

— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) May 10, 2020

My personal take

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