👱‍♂️ Tom SettleBlog

Recently I have been building a new site similar to a blog-style site (more of a news site), and am of course using Gatsby and then switching my CMS to the more popular Contentful. I was able to easily set up all the content and pull it into front-end, but my site was performing poorly on the lighthouse audit because all my images where being dynamically loaded directing into a `<img src={}/>.`...

Nowadays basic CRUD functionality is used in basically every application on the web. Most know how easy it is to store basic data types in databases, but with the more apps, I have built the more I have seen how prevalent media types are in database storage and how most apps could put use to them. So let's look at how we can store a single image or multiple images in a database and then retrieve them to display...

Some may know that cycling has been a huge passion of mine for the last 4 or so years of my life. This past summer I got the incredible opportunity to travel to Europe for a month and I planned it to run into the first two stages of the Tour de France in Brussels, Belgium...

It's my senior year at IU and I want to share a bit about a bike race that has truly defined my undergraduate career. This race is not only just an incredible tradition but it serves as an opportunity for growth for teams and individuals. Growth for leadership, teamwork, and many more...

In many websites these days we see contact forms. Netlify offers form functionality that is super easy to add to any forms that will then be saved on Netlifys servers and viewable to you in many ways. This is great for any data that you are grabbing off of your site through forms...

Gatsby is a blazing fast static website generator perfect for the modern-day. Easy for building progressive web apps, mobile-friendly sites, and super quick desktop sites. This tutorial is written using Gatsby V2 and GraphCMS (a headless CMS - similar to WordPress)...

This past summer was one for the books. A Midwestern dude finally got to see what its like to have some breathtaking landscape at your disposal every single day. I want to recap my summer in CO about both my adventures and my professional work...

A long going battle of iOS vs Android that before I thought I had no place in because I had never truly used an Android device. Now I can say I have a strong opinion after a short amount of time using the Samsung Galaxy S9+...

My name is Tom Settle and I am currently a junior at Indiana University. That’s my headline. As a 20 year old that was raised from a loving family in suburbia Indianapolis, a student is what I was going to be until I graduated college. “A junior at Indiana University,” its a blessing to say and I am very fortunate...