Welcome to the new rdela.com. I will be your host, Ricky de Laveaga.

I began developing this site with GatsbyJS by running a:

git clone

…of gatsby-starter-blog¹, the Gatsby starter for creating a blog (demo), which has Typography.js bundled, whose demo playground is a fun way to noodle out a prototype design.

Anyhoo, as of this post I am using a modified version of the GitHub theme. After much staring at the screen and tweaking CSS, had to include the inimitable trio of Source Serif by Frank Grießhammer, Source Sans by Paul D. Hunt, and Source Code Pro by Paul D. Hunt and Teo Tuominen. All 3 are part of the Adobe Originals series.

Typefaces makes including NPM packages for open source typefaces and self-hosting webfonts significantly easier. Library author Kyle Mathews explained the motivations in January 2017.

Though the git clone example above hardly does it justice, gatsby-remark-prismjs (docs, on GitHub) makes adding “syntax highlighting to code blocks in markdown files” using Prism a drop-in affair with a line in gatsby-config.js and another in layouts/index.js. I have settled on a slight variation the “prism.js tomorrow night eighties” theme, itself based on Tomorrow Theme.

I cannot neglect to issue a hearty thanks to all of the Gatsby GitHub people along with all of the reactjs.org authors and contributors. For solid examples of common patterns in Gatsby and React, the reactjs.org repo and gatsbyjs.org code are both superb open learning resources in the wild. bricolage.io by Kyle Mathews (repo) is maybe less generally useful while also being more approachable and especially helpful to me in putting this together.

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