Hello World

This is my first post on my new blog / personal site!

I set this blog up for a course I’m taking at RIT HFOSS.

Setting up this blog was an interesting process.

I decided to create my blog using GitHub Pages as I’m familiar with GitHub. I also figured GitHub Pages would work well enough for a simple static site.

I wanted to have the option of changing the layout and style of the blog in case I wanted to turn it into a personal site down the road. I also wanted to customize the blog using React since I’m familiar with it. I ended up using Gatsby as it allows you to write React to easily generate a static site.

I was able to start writing this blog post within an hour of learning about Gatsby. Unfortunately this does mean I have to keep a 386mb node_modules folder on my system if I want to preview my posts before publishing them.