After posting the heat map of San Diego Covid-19 cases online I realized a lot of you had questions, so I figured I’d write a quick how-to on creating this heat map.

This will be a tutorial on how to connect Spotify’s SDK. This was an overly complex journey for me, so hopefully this mitigates issues you may be having. I don’t normally write Swift (or spend time in iOS land) so bear with me if you see nonconventional practices and feel free to comment on them! I’m going to water this down as much as possible so people can go through step by step at a slow (or fast) rate.

If you haven’t heard lately, GatsbyJS has picked up a ton of steam. We recently, at work, migrated from a React on Rails project, to a ReactJS/S3 project to a GatsbyJS project. If you’re interested in some of the effects and the why you can check out this post here.

For most web applications Search Engine Optimization (SEO) doesn’t really come into play, however my current company wanted to double down on our SEO while not sacrificing engineering efforts. Here’s what I learned from leading a team while we increased our SEO metrics exponentially in less than nine months.