I've summarized the key points of the text for you: The author, who has been using WordPress as their go-to CMS for a decade, recently learned React and decided to rebuild their personal website from scratch using Gatsby. They chose Gatsby due to its simplicity and effectiveness in managing blogs. The author used Ryan Wiemer's gatsby-starter-gcn project as a starting point, which included features like contact forms, responsive design, and built-in SEO tools. They set up a Contentful account for content management and integrated it with the Gatsby site using API keys and personal tokens. After setting up the development environment, they deployed their website to Netlify, configuring build hooks and deployment triggers. The author now has a fully functional static website that automatically updates when new content is published in Contentful.