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Astro and MDX for digital gardening with Kathleen McMahon

Nov 8, 2023

Kathleen McMahon, engineer, designer, and speaker, discusses digital gardening. She explains the distinction from traditional blogging, the use of Astro and MDX for easy editing and publishing, and the advantages of migrating from Gatsby to Astro for a simplified development experience. The benefits of content collections and dynamic rendering in Astro are also explored.

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Kathleen McMahon

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Quick takeaways

Digital gardening prioritizes progress over perfection and promotes a flexible approach to creating and posting content.

Proper maintenance of dependencies and content is crucial for a healthy and efficient website.

Deep dives

Digital Gardening and Organized Chaos

Digital gardening, as inspired by Joel Hooks, embraces a personal and organic approach to organizing content on a website. It prioritizes order and organization while allowing for a touch of chaos around the edges. This approach contrasts with traditional blogging, where everything is neatly organized by date and pagination. Digital gardening allows for a more fluid and flexible way of creating and posting content, encouraging a focus on progress over perfection and the freedom to ship features incrementally.

Introduction

4min

Exploring the Concept of Digital Gardening and Creating a Personal Digital Garden

2min

Migrating from Gatsby to Astro for a Simplified and Safer Development Experience

5min

Exploring the Benefits and Power of Content Collections in Astroland

2min

Advantages of Content Collection and Dynamic Rendering in Astro

12min

Learn about how you can easily maintain your websites through digital gardening with the help of Astro and MDX with Kathleen McMahon, engineer, designer, and speaker.

Links

https://twitter.com/resource11
https://www.kathleenmcmahon.dev/
https://github.com/resource11
https://front-end.social/@resource11
https://www.linkedin.com/in/resource11/

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Special Guest: Kathleen McMahon.

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