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Kristen Grote, Webmaster

@kmgdev

A crooked JS jockey who rides a crooked hoss. HTML, CSS, Craft CMS. ๐Ÿšป she/her ๐Ÿ“ Portland, OR ๐ŸŒ https://kristengrote.com

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Nothing like applying for web dev jobs in 2026 to make you long for the cold, dark embrace of the sea

03.03.2026 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Selloff wipes out nearly $1 trillion from software and services stocks as investors debate AI's existential threat By Chibuike Oguh, Danilo Masoni and Medha Singh Feb 4 (Reuters) - Investors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in global software stocks this week had gone too far, as they weighed if

Not sure if this is the same thing the NYT article is referring to but this Yahoo! Finance article says it's the Anthropic Legal plugin for Claude

finance.yahoo.com/news/us-soft...

06.02.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing David Warner with huge Victorian sideburns: ๐Ÿ˜€

Seeing David Warner with huge 70s sideburns: โ˜น๏ธ

06.02.2026 20:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks great!

23.01.2026 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was gonna like this but your like count is currently at 69

21.01.2026 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React Learn how to build a simple React-based recipe website using GraphQL to query Craft CMS in headless mode. You will learn how to use the Apollo Client library to streamline GraphQL requests and incorpo...

My entire Headless #CraftCMS with #GraphQL and #React tutorial series is available on my site:

kristengrote.com/blog/series/...

20.01.2026 18:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot from BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS; Nic Cage looks lovingly at an iguana while Val Kilmer looks on

Screenshot from BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS; Nic Cage looks lovingly at an iguana while Val Kilmer looks on

Find someone who looks at you the way Nic Cage looks at this iguana

08.01.2026 02:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 8: Adding Category Filtering
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 8: Adding Category Filtering YouTube video by Kristen Grote

Video tutorial:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QfL...

07.01.2026 19:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 8: Adding Category Filtering For our final tutorial we'll learn how to query Craft CMS for a category listing and use that data to populate a list of checkboxes on our frontend. Then we'll write some React event logic to dynamica...

We're finishing up our headless #CraftCMS with #GraphQL and #React site today by adding category filters!

๐ŸŽฅ Video link in replies โฌ‡๏ธ

www.kristengrote.com/blog/headles...

07.01.2026 19:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some engineer was really sweating bullets on this one

02.01.2026 23:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of css inspector showing the code: body.rufus-docked-left.rufus-docked-left.rufus-docked-left .sg-row

Screenshot of css inspector showing the code: body.rufus-docked-left.rufus-docked-left.rufus-docked-left .sg-row

Absolutely beautiful bit of desperate CSS specificity overriding care of Amazon's Rufus

02.01.2026 23:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Knurled.

Knobs.

30.12.2025 18:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 7: Adding Search Filtering
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 7: Adding Search Filtering YouTube video by Kristen Grote

Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5F...

29.12.2025 20:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 7: Adding Search Filtering We'll add a React-managed search field to our listing page so users can search for a specific recipe using Craft CMS's built-in search functionality and Apollo Client's reactive variables.

New blog post! We're adding search filtering to our headless #CraftCMS site using #GraphQL and #React. Fancy!

๐Ÿ“น Video link in replies โฌ‡๏ธ

www.kristengrote.com/blog/headles...

29.12.2025 20:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ditto chain movie theaters

10.12.2025 19:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 6: Refactoring the Listing Component
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 6: Refactoring the Listing Component YouTube video by Kristen Grote

Video Tutorial:

youtu.be/xWiqP8pQPXs?...

10.12.2025 19:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 6: Refactoring the Listing Component Before we dive into dynamic entry filtering we need to do a little organization of our listing page component.

This week's entry in my Headless #CraftCMS with #GraphQL & #React tutorial series is a quickie โ€” we're getting organized!

๐ŸŽฅ Video link in the replies โฌ‡๏ธ

www.kristengrote.com/blog/headles...

10.12.2025 19:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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09.12.2025 22:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hard to believe it's taken this long and is still a ways from baseline

09.12.2025 22:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"What if I start a new front-end bootstrap?" I ask myself while God laughs

08.12.2025 23:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 5: Adding Pagination
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 5: Adding Pagination YouTube video by Kristen Grote

Video tutorial: youtu.be/-3-zXRPpN6g?...

04.12.2025 19:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 5: Adding Pagination We'll use Apollo Client to add simple pagination to our listing page in order to break our GraphQL entries data into smaller, more manageable chunks.

Part 5 of my Headless #CraftCMS with #GraphQL and #React tutorial series is live and we're paging it up! Video link in the replies!

www.kristengrote.com/blog/headles...

04.12.2025 19:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quesabirria is an undersung cold-weather power meal

25.11.2025 23:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"used to" really doing a lot of work here

21.11.2025 19:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hire me at your agency and you can get quality content like this year-round

17.11.2025 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A rapper who rhymes about modernist furniture would be called Herman Iller

17.11.2025 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 4: Populating a Single Entry Page
Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 4: Populating a Single Entry Page YouTube video by Kristen Grote

Video tutorial:

youtu.be/9hkw9mLkOCI?...

13.11.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Headless Craft CMS with GraphQL and React, Part 4: Populating a Single Entry Page We'll continue lighting up our front-end templates by writing a GraphQL query for a single Craft CMS entry and populating its field data in a React component.

Part 4 of my Headless #CraftCMS tutorial series is live! In this lesson we're populating the single entry #React template with queried data (video link in replies)

www.kristengrote.com/blog/headles...

13.11.2025 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yup no-ads YouTube is a big incentive for me to keep paying for Music

11.11.2025 21:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Definitely. Configuring previews is a little beyond the "simple as possible" nature of this series but would definitely be item #1 on a "Next Steps" course

06.11.2025 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0