What happened last week - issue #53

This week: Statamic, WordPress, Starfield and more

What happened last week

Last week, I decided to give Storyblok another go. I remember trying it some time ago and wasn’t happy with the experience, but now my opinion about it has changed a bit. I really enjoyed the amount of control I had over everything (both the data structure and the code components). I know I have only scratched the surface, but I hope to play more with it soon. Maybe I’ll try converting my Pacamara theme to use it.

Apart from this, I had a chance to try Starfield last week. It's enormous, but empty. Many design and level design decisions are bad, navigating in cities is horrible, most travel happens by quick travel, and equipment management is bad...

I thought that Fallout 4 was Bethesda’s worst game I played (I didn’t play F76), but Starfield is much worse.

That said - I’m going back to Baldur’s Gate.

Interesting links

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic — John Koster

John wrote an amazing piece about creating a custom caching system for Statamic. There is a huge chance I will never have to use something like that, but learning about something like this is always very interesting.

Why I left Developer Relations — Ali Diamond

In this video, Ali points out how companies sometimes treat DevRels. I totally agree with her - because many companies hire DevRels because everyone else is doing so, most of those companies don’t know how to benefit from them.

Astro 3.0 Crash Course — James Q Quick

Last week, Astro 3.0 was released, so James decided to create an Astro 3.0 Crash Course to introduce you to all of the new stuff.

Moving from WordPress to Builder.io — Gustavo Garcia

Am I planning to migrate my WordPress to Builder.io? No, at least not now. But there is a very interesting migration script that you might find helpful.

Is this a performant website? — Jakub Andrzejewski

Jakub wrote a very interesting article about website performance. He asks a very fundamental question “Is this a performant website?”.

Get your FREE ticket to the Page Builder Summit 6.0

Page Builder Summit is happening soon. If you want to learn a lot about different page builders, this is a great place to be. Also, I will be there too, speaking about headless.

it's a(door)able — Nicky Case

Nicky created a sweet minigame. Just play it - it’s adorable.

Celebrating ten years of Hacktoberfest!

This year, we will be celebrating the tenth edition of Hactoberfest. DigitalOcean decided to move away from the t-shirts. I hope there will be at least a chance to buy them because I really love them for both quality and design.

And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.

Cheers,

Maciek