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hugo-over-gatsby

From Gatsby to Hugo: Why I Finally Let Go

Avinash Rijal
3 min read

Pretext Around 5–6 years ago, I stumbled upon GatsbyJS while searching for a JavaScript framework that could actually handle everything my personal blog needed: Markdown content Image optimization Static site generation At the time, Gatsby felt like a silver bullet. My prior experience with GraphQL fit perfectly into Gatsby’s mental model, and to this day I’ll argue that Gatsby’s image tooling was — and still is — top-tier. Back then, it solved problems most frameworks barely acknowledged.

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Hello to the new guitar

Hello to the new guitar

Avinash Rijal
1 min read

So, I brought my guitar today. It is Enya EA-X1 Pro. The guitar is 41’’ variant. There is solid spruce top which is dried for 10 years. Side is made up of Rosewood, Neck from Mahogany, Fingerboard from Black Richlite and bridge from Black Richlite. So, no more waiting for guitar to sound good as time progress. Also, it is my first experience with trans-acoustic guitar. The self amp inside the guitar works really well and it sounds amazing when played. Here, the trans-acoustic means I don’t have to plug in the amp and do the sound modification like chores/reverb. They are built inside the guitar itself.

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Hello World

Avinash Rijal
1 min read

This is my first post on my new fake blog! How exciting! I’m sure I’ll write a lot more interesting things in the future. Oh, and here’s a great quote from this Wikipedia on salted duck eggs. A salted duck egg is a Chinese preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine, or packing each egg in damp, salted charcoal. In Asian supermarkets, these eggs are sometimes sold covered in a thick layer of salted charcoal paste. The eggs may also be sold with the salted paste removed, wrapped in plastic, and vacuum packed. From the salt curing process, the salted duck eggs have a briny aroma, a gelatin-like egg white and a firm-textured, round yolk that is bright orange-red in color.

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