Hygraph

Migrating the blog to Uniform

This site was born in 2009, that’s over ten years now. All this time the content has sat inside the GitHub repository. It started as Markdown files and more recently has moved to JSON files. I have always liked that there are no external dependencies on the content but have found the management of it gets in the way of writing and creating.

Static content archive

Over the years I have investigated other options for storing the content but I have wanted to keep writing in Markdown which has not been widely available. Recently whilst researching integrations for Uniform I stumbled on GraphCMS, now called Hygraph. I really like the Hygraph interface, it is clean and I can focus on the content while I am writing. It also allows simple markdown as well as “Components” which are modular blocks of content. This combination works really well for long-form blog posts and I can use Uniform Canvas for the other areas of the website.