Dustin is a Product and Engineering leader who currently resides in San Francisco, CA. This is his personal website, where he occasionally blogs about topics like modern web development, building teams, and more.https://www.dustinschau.com/en-ushttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-10-09-transmission-web/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-10-09-transmission-web/Releasing my version of a Transmission web client that I use on my mini PCWed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtorrentstransmissionreleasehttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-10-03-the-sameness-of-ai/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-10-03-the-sameness-of-ai/AI is fascinating, revolutionary, fun, and... feeling a little stale. In this post I outline some of my thoughts on the problems I'm seeing with a lack of creativity in AI.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareeraihttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-04-13-joining-adapt/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2026-04-13-joining-adapt/I'm joining Adapt to lead Product & Engineering. Here's why.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareertechnologyaihttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2025-in-review/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2025-in-review/In closing 2025, I reflect upon what I learned, accomplished, and what I hope to do even better in 2026.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTlifecareerhttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2024-in-review/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2024-in-review/In closing 2024, I reflect upon what I learned, accomplished, and what I hope to do even better in 2025.Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTlifecareerhttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/simple-tools/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/simple-tools/Not every problem needs a complex solution. Sometimes the best tool is the one that does less, not more.Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTreactjavascriptwebsimplicityhttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2023-in-review/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/2023-in-review/2023 was a whirlwind year for me and my family. I'll wrap up what I accomplished, what I learned, and what I hope to do in 2024.Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTlifecareerhttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/uses/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/uses/In this post, I'll share my preferred stack as it relates to development. Software, hardware, and everything in between.Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTsoftwarehardwarerecommendationshttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/readme/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/readme/A little about me. My leadership style, my likes, my dislikes, my quirks.Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTpersonalleadershiphttps://syntax.fm/show/631/supper-club-why-netlify-bought-gatsby-graphql-data-layer-and-headless-cms-with-dustin-schauhttps://syntax.fm/show/631/supper-club-why-netlify-bought-gatsby-graphql-data-layer-and-headless-cms-with-dustin-schauI hopped on Syntax.fm with Wes Bos and Scott Stolinski to talk about Gatsby, Valhalla (Netlify Connect), CMSs and the headless web, and the overall strategy of Netlify acquiring Gatsby.Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTpodcastgatsbynetlifyhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chapteroneventures/episodes/Dustin-Schau-Gatsby--Head-of-Product-Lets-Make-The-Web-Weird-Again-emfotghttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chapteroneventures/episodes/Dustin-Schau-Gatsby--Head-of-Product-Lets-Make-The-Web-Weird-Again-emfotgI hopped on Product Club with Jeff Morris Jr to talk about Gatsby and how it'd be great if the web was weird again.Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTpodcastgatsbymodern-webhttps://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2019-06-17-day-in-the-life-of-a-core-maintainerhttps://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2019-06-17-day-in-the-life-of-a-core-maintainerAn older post on the official Gatsby blog about the life of an open-source maintainer. I talk about some tips and techniques for making it more productive.Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTopen-sourcemaintenancehttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/search-engine-optimization-with-gatsby/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/search-engine-optimization-with-gatsby/SEO and Gatsby: A Perfect Pairing. Learn how Gatsby implements SEO utilizing React Helmet and smart defaults and how you can use these tools to implement your own!Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTgatsbyjavascriptreactseohttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/my-next-chapter/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/my-next-chapter/I am happy to announce that I've accepted a role as Software Engineer for Gatsby Inc, a startup working on making a more performant web through smart defaults and optimizations.Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:50:21 GMTcareergatsbygatsby incobject partnershttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/css-in-js-with-styled-components-and-react-manning/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/css-in-js-with-styled-components-and-react-manning/I'm incredibly excited to announce that I've been working on a Manning liveVideo course for the last several months with the intent to share all that makes CSS in JS great with the library styled-componentsWed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTcss in jsstyled-componentsreacthttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/graphql-most-of-the-parts/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/graphql-most-of-the-parts/In this post, I'll do a deep dive on most of the parts of GraphQL. I'll start with the foundational concepts and then from this foundational basis I'll construct the value of GraphQL and illustrate how it could be a hugely transformative technology for server and client communication.Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:15:34 GMTgraphqlreactnodehttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/css-in-js-benefits-drawbacks-and-tooling/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/css-in-js-benefits-drawbacks-and-tooling/Sat, 28 Oct 2017 02:59:05 GMTcsscss in jsreactcomponent stylingstyled-componentsglamoroushttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/getting-started-with-gatsby/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/getting-started-with-gatsby/Gatsby is an incredible static site generator that lets you build a static site that still has all the benefits expected from a modern web application. In this tutorial, we'll create a static blog, and get an in-depth look at Gatsby and its feature-set.Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:12:33 GMTgatsbyreactjavascripthttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/hello-world/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/hello-world/Who I am, what I do, and why you should care! This post goes into some detail about my general philosophy around blogging, what I hope to accomplish with this blog, and various other details…Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:00:00 GMTintroabouthttps://www.dustinschau.com/posts/about/https://www.dustinschau.com/posts/about/Welcome to the second version of my blog, powered by Gatsby, an incredible site generator. Learn more about the tech stack and things I built to power this blog.Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:36:56 GMTtech stackcolophonabout