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Reason number 43874359786537 why people should create minimal reproductions
December 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM UTC I always assume that anything like that is done deliberately, after vast amounts of testing. If it's not giving the results you want, it's because they've chosen that. Doesn't answer why though!
December 9, 2024 at 11:24 AM UTC It can be expensive, but it's much cheaper than gen AI. I doubt search cost would be the issue for YouTube either.
December 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM UTC It's not mine, but I was incredibly pleased to have been able to buy eloi.se as a gift many years ago.
December 9, 2024 at 11:12 AM UTC Impala, my very simple React static site generator, now supports Vite 6. github.com/ascorbic/imp...
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GitHub - ascorbic/impala: A very simple static React framework
A very simple static React framework. Contribute to ascorbic/impala development by creating an account on GitHub.
Driving test procedures are a bit like immigration procedures: the people making the laws are unlikely to ever be affected by them, and the people who are affected mostly don't vote.
December 9, 2024 at 10:46 AM UTC Most feeds are already algorithmic though. If you don't like them you don't have to use them.
December 7, 2024 at 8:50 PM UTC There used to be a fun RN bug that would cause an instant redbox error if you touched the screen with more than two fingers on certain Android devices. A workaround for that was my first contribution to the facebook/react codebase.
December 7, 2024 at 9:35 AM UTC Thanks everyone who joined the Sessions API bash. There were some really helpful comments and suggestions. For anyone who missed it, you can try out the experimental release here: github.com/withastro/as...
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Sessions API by ascorbic · Pull Request #12441 · withastro/astro
API Bashing Thanks for trying the experimental sessions API. Here's how to get set up. Setup Create a project as normal, or use an existing one: npm create astro@latest Install the experimental...
Coming at you soon, at the top of the hour! (Sorry, Newfoundland.) Join members of the @astro.build core team on a live Discord call and get a first look at what `Astro.sessions` could look like! Roadmap proposal: github.com/withastro/ro...
December 6, 2024 at 1:39 PM UTC Would you like to be first to try out the new @astro.build Sessions API? We'll be having an API bash later today. This is a chance to try out an experimental build, ask questions and give feedback on the draft API. discord.com/events/83018...
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Follow more people and like more posts. Give it something to work with.
December 5, 2024 at 5:29 AM UTC The real test is whether you can keep chopping through the tears, without cutting off your fingertips
December 4, 2024 at 9:17 PM UTC Back when I was young and went out every weekend, I found even worse than festive amateur drinkers were New Year's Eve amateur clubbers
December 4, 2024 at 12:47 PM UTC Yes, a Contentful image service would be great. Right now it is supported by my Unpic service, so that is the best way to display them.
December 4, 2024 at 7:21 AM UTC It would be great to see if there was a way to get an official loader. Contentful always worked so well with Gatsby, and the content layer has a very similar philosophy
December 3, 2024 at 11:30 PM UTC This looks like it's going to be an EPIC guide to caching patterns with Astro. @rozrozelad.bsky.social is creating seriously useful resource here.
December 3, 2024 at 10:39 PM UTC It works best with structured data sources, but it can also bring structure to others by adding schema validation, type-safety etc. I don't think anyone's made a Contentful loader yet, though I did play about with it while I was developing it. Their sync tokens would work well with it.
December 3, 2024 at 10:34 PM UTC It should still work, but I may need to do more tests. I've been testing it with the betas, but haven't tried the latest ones
December 3, 2024 at 8:03 PM UTC Yes, similar goal but very different approach. I actually wrote the original Astro server islands proposal in frustration after working on Next.js PPR for a week at Netlify!
December 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC Yes, that was a big inspiration, though the implementation is very different
December 3, 2024 at 7:13 PM UTC I'm excited and sort of terrified by this. Most of my time since joining Astro six months ago has been building the content layer, and now it's time for everyone to use it for real. I hope you all like it. Server islands are also *awesome* and I think they'll be a real game changer.
December 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM UTC A thing rarely seen in the wild, this PR re-enables a test that was temporarily skipped over a year ago
I've a feeling there may be an even earlier example of that trademark
December 3, 2024 at 12:06 PM UTC Big fan of the WiiM. A real bargain. www.wiimhome.com
www.wiimhome.com
WiiM | Redefining Home Audio: Affordable, Innovative, Hi-Res Sound
WiiM unveils a new era of home audio – an ultimate wireless sound system that paints your home with stunning sound, room by room, through a whole-house WiFi network.
Yup, that's the plan! I'm planning on having a separate export that has no auto detection, where you need to provide the provider
December 2, 2024 at 7:14 PM UTC At first I read that as meaning that you were going to vent on your blog every day, which would be quite a cathartic month.
December 2, 2024 at 6:55 PM UTC
Astro 🤝 Google IDX Google has pledged $10,000 each month to help us push the web forward. Donations like this help us foster an ever-growing open source community. Thanks for the support! astro.build/blog/idx-off...
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Google IDX: Our Official Online Editor Partner | Astro
We are happy to announce that Google IDX has become Astro’s official online editor partner, donating $10,000 each month towards the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.
Yeah, probably over-optimisation tbh. I did it when I thought I'd need to make more lookups.
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM UTC I do one additional request at the very start to resolve the main author did if they've passed a post URL rather than an AT URI, but otherwise it's all in the post thread response
December 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM UTC It's quite a simple component. It's all in one file: github.com/ascorbic/blu...
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Just one: docs.bsky.app/docs/api/app...
docs.bsky.app
app.bsky.feed.getPostThread | Bluesky
*This endpoint is part of the Bluesky application Lexicon APIs (`app.bsky.*`). Public endpoints which don't require authentication can be made directly against the public Bluesky AppView API: https://...
I'm sure you remember it. It used to be a popular framework. One of the first to handle images well. Used to be responsible for 20% of AVIF images on the web. 😁
December 2, 2024 at 12:32 PM UTC Updating to new syntax is just a few lines, but the old syntax should work fine in most cases too
December 2, 2024 at 12:03 PM UTC I think they're gonna like the new build command. It's so flexible.
![astro execute-query \
--query '
query BuildAstro(
$projectRoot: String!,
$outDir: String!,
$site: String!,
$sitemap: Boolean!,
$drafts: Boolean!,
$experimentalStaticBuild: Boolean!,
$adapterName: String!,
$adapterConfig: AdapterConfigInput!,
$env: String!,
$concurrency: Int!,
$legacyBrowserSupport: Boolean!,
$assets: AssetOptionsInput!,
$logging: LoggingOptionsInput!
) {
build(options: {
projectRoot: $projectRoot,
outDir: $outDir,
site: $site,
sitemap: $sitemap,
drafts: $drafts,
experimentalStaticBuild: $experimentalStaticBuild,
adapter: {
name: $adapterName,
config: $adapterConfig
},
env: $env,
concurrency: $concurrency,
legacyBrowserSupport: $legacyBrowserSupport,
assets: $assets,
logging: $logging
}) {
status
logs
details {
outputTime
warnings
errors {
code
message
}
}
}
}
' \
--variables '{
"projectRoot": "./",
"outDir": "./dist",
"site": "https://example.com",
"sitemap": true,
"drafts": false,
"experimentalStaticBuild": true,
"adapterName": "astro-adapter-node",
"adapterConfig": {
"mode": "standalone"
},
"env": "production",
"concurrency": 4,
"legacyBrowserSupport": false,
"assets": {
"minify": true,
"preload": ["fonts", "images"]
},
"logging": {
"level": "verbose",
"destination": "./logs/build.log"
}
}'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uwbl4k3tza7eyjv3morkrld2/bafkreihuqurhdkporq4wbj53du3eytkikrg2xgvz2x3lgn4y3vow6jeg34@jpeg)
Astro 5 will have at least two new features that I've shamelessly nicked from Gatsby
December 2, 2024 at 11:31 AM UTC Yes, it's extremely weird, and barely seems to be questioned in the US
December 2, 2024 at 9:29 AM UTC Several weeks ago I rashly decided to completely rewrite the Unpic providers to a new API loosely inspired by Nuxt Image. I finally have a preview. The big change is type-safe support for provider-specific options. This is only the underlying API: no UI components yet github.com/ascorbic/unp...
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feat!: new syntax for providers by ascorbic · Pull Request #133 · ascorbic/unpic
This PR introduces a major update focusing on improved type safety, better provider-specific support, and a more explicit approach to URL transformation. This can be tested by installing unpic@beta...
You have @erika.florist to thank for the original Astro image, but in Astro 5 I've been working on a new version that will feel very familiar. 5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build/en/reference...
5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build
Experimental responsive images
Someone from the BBC once told me they loved him because he was up for basically anything. Seems there are some things he won't do.
December 2, 2024 at 7:13 AM UTC The girls and I made a gingerbread house yesterday (13 yo wanted to do "something Christmassy" after watching Home Alone), and somehow there were no arguments.
C'mon. I'm all for the Die Hard rewatching, but you need to have Home Alone in there
December 2, 2024 at 6:36 AM UTC That's good to hear! As a huge long time fan of IKEA, that was a great one to get
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 PM UTC It's the default, so probably quite a few. I do, because it's a good algorithm. Reverse chron feeds mean I only see people posting at the same time as me, so I miss people in different timesheets
December 1, 2024 at 6:16 AM UTC Have you looked at Astro server islands? I think that's a better approach than PPR, because you can cache the shell
December 1, 2024 at 5:59 AM UTC It's a military training area so I often find random spent blanks, but never anything close to this
November 30, 2024 at 5:09 PM UTC Apparently they're already pretty good at it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...
www.nytimes.com
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (Gift Article)
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
When I made a Kickstarter for a high speed camera flash, I named it Vela because of that. Still pleased with that name.
November 30, 2024 at 9:25 AM UTC They do at least now use the same algorithm on mobile and web, I think. They used to have one that rounded and the other truncate
November 30, 2024 at 9:08 AM UTC I saw a PR open a while back to show the actual number on hover, and another to show it on the follower list, but as of now I think the only way is the API, or look at the getProfile call in the network tab
November 30, 2024 at 9:04 AM UTC No, that won't make a difference. It's that links from the mobile app don't get credited, because Bluesky doesn't use a redirect domain like t.co etc
November 27, 2024 at 10:11 AM UTC No they aren't. Almost all of vitamins and minerals are unaffected by it. Though call me shallow, but the main reason I consume milk is because I like it. But I don't like food-borne pathogens. I eat unpasteurised cheese because that's safe and tasty. Every other dairy product is better pasteurised.
November 27, 2024 at 7:50 AM UTC Which reasons are those? Because it tastes nice and is great for cooking? Because cheese is the food of the gods? Because butter and cream make almost anything taste better? Because it has lots of calcium and vitamins?
November 27, 2024 at 7:42 AM UTC It's ok. You just need to naturally heat it and then it's perfectly safe. Say to 71.5˚C for 15 minutes.
November 27, 2024 at 7:37 AM UTC Me: I wonder what's the official way to get the thumbnail URL *searches social-app codebase* Me: oh
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM UTC Hack inspired by this gem from @pfrazee.com in the main app code github.com/bluesky-soci...
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social-app/src/view/com/util/UserAvatar.tsx at main · bluesky-social/social-app
The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app
Tip for anyone displaying things from the Bluesky API: by default, the user avatar is 1000px square. That's a bit large if you're displaying a whole thread of them at 64px. Luckily there's a 128px thumbnail size available. It's not exposed in the API, but it's easy to get the URL:
It seems yesterday was "build a Bluesky comments tool" day. Here's the one I made last night. bsky.app/profile/mk.g...
November 26, 2024 at 11:10 AM UTC I reused the logic for that from the Astro embed that I made last week: astro-embed.netlify.app/components/b...
astro-embed.netlify.app
Bluesky Post
Learn how to use the Astro Embed BlueskyPost component to embed Bluesky posts in your website
Yeah! The difference with mine is no React. It's just an HTML custom element.
November 26, 2024 at 8:02 AM UTC Claude made me a theme playground, so if you want your comments to look fancy magazine-style, or for some reason like Hacker News or Reddit, take a look: bluesky-comments.netlify.app/theme/
Bluesky is a great way to add comments to your blog or site. I've made a web component to make that easy to do. Load the script, then use the <bluesky-comments> tag. Looks great by default, but is super-customisable with CSS vars and parts. Lazy loads, zero frameworks github.com/ascorbic/blu...
bluesky-comments.netlify.app
Astro Basics
It's one of my favourites at this time of year, but I'll echo everyone here saying to roast it first. Peel and cut up the squash. Roast with lots of olive oil and a whole bulb of garlic (just cut the top off) til caramelised. Squeeze out garlic cloves. Simmer it all w/ stock. Blend. Season. Cream.
November 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM UTC Is this thing about gaining access to claimants bank accounts a general thing, or is it just for ones found guilty of fraud? Genuine question - I don't know the answer. The article makes it sound like the latter, but if it's all claimants - or done without legal process then that is awful.
November 25, 2024 at 9:47 AM UTC Amazingly, the headline does not represent the article at all www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...
www.dailymail.co.uk
SIR KEIR STARMER: Jobs are about dignity and pride
SIR KEIR STARMER: Next week, my government will set out radical reforms to get Britain working, paving the way for the biggest overhaul of employment support in memory.
Clearly AI cannot comprehend your tastes. tbf it does show me posts I don't like too, but they're normally ones with lots of likes
November 24, 2024 at 10:40 AM UTC The Discover feed is good, and sometimes weirdly so. Several times it has shown me posts by people I don't follow (and nor do my follows) with only one or two likes, but which are Good Posts that I like. What witchcraft is this?
November 24, 2024 at 10:34 AM UTC You could in theory use a local reverse proxy, but I don't know which if any support these caching headers
November 23, 2024 at 5:49 PM UTC I'm glad people are discovering the cdn-cache-control package. It works with any SSR framework and any modern CDN, and can make your pages much quicker. It's like ISR, but based on web standards.
November 23, 2024 at 9:37 AM UTC This is a great video, covering loads of useful stuff beyond just displaying a Bluesky post, such as HTTP caching with Astro, server islands and more. Definitely worth a watch. I promise I'll fix that type issue with the component, @brob.dev!
November 23, 2024 at 8:32 AM UTC The secret ingredient behind Unpic and the new Astro responsive image support github.com/withastro/as...
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Placeholder support is definitely something we want to look at in future
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM UTC please add gifs. Please convert uploaded gifs to mp4 and serve them as video embeds, autoplaying according to user preferences
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM UTC I'd imagine it will be handled like it was on Twitter, where I understand there were policies for staff handles that included "BBC", and some staff had personal and work accounts
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 AM UTC I think it's mostly learning the speed of their internal bureaucracy. I mean, the BBC has some of the best tech teams in the business, but it'll be a long time before we see verified *.bbc.com subdomains
November 22, 2024 at 7:50 AM UTC Oh I agree. What I mean is that journos are the ones most annoyed by that, because Twitter verification was even harder for most people. If they need to, I'm sure news orgs will eventually have internal processes to do it for staff. swifties.social shows how easy it can be to do at scale.
swifties.social
swifties.social - get your community handle for Bluesky
get your own swifties.social handle
It's been less than a month of Bluesky being popular. I think Bluesky and employers will work out easier systems to handle it. Seeing a lot of complaints about verification being hard. 100% have been from journalists, i.e. almost the only group who could get easily verified in the olden days.
November 22, 2024 at 7:31 AM UTC Bluesky absolutely is algorithmic. The selling point is that you can choose the algorithm that you want to use.
November 22, 2024 at 6:48 AM UTC Go to their profile, click on the menu dots, choose "report account" and then select which lists to report to
November 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM UTC Right now it will generate a srcset if you pass it a list of widths or densities. The change here is that it does it automatically, and also generates the styles and sizes attributes.
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM UTC There a few other tidbits and fixes too. The interesting stuff is in the beta 9 release notes (beta 10 is just another late bugfix) github.com/withastro/as...
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Release astro@5.0.0-beta.9 · withastro/astro
Minor Changes #12067 c48916c Thanks @stramel! - Adds experimental support for built-in SVG components. This feature allows you to import SVG files directly into your Astro project as components. ...
That's not the only experimental image fetaure though! SVG components are also here. They make it super easy to use SVGs, supporting size props and automatic inlining and spritesheets. 5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build/en/reference...
5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build
Experimental SVG components
Astro 5 beta 10 is out, with an experimental feature that I've been working on. Pass a "layout" prop to an Image and it auto-generates the srcsets, sizes and responsive styles. I'd really like it if people try it out and give feedback on the RFC 5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build/en/reference...
5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build
Experimental responsive images
Sigh. We managed to go so long before the Didn't Happen brigade arrived with their Strongbow Dark Fruits. They were the most boring people on Twitter. Someone should make a blocklist.
November 21, 2024 at 12:36 PM UTC No, bookmarking hasn't been implemented yet. Some people do it by replying with a pushpin emoji
November 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM UTC Yes. The best option is to re-register it yourself and direct people to the new one in the bio. Old mentions will still work though, because they're attached to the DID not the username, which is unchanged
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM UTC Well done! I'd imagine that in future more providers will give 1 click setup for it, as well as employers. Still 1000x easier than verification in the old place though!
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM UTC My daughter had to explain to me how "cooking" is good but "cooked" is bad
November 18, 2024 at 6:57 AM UTC Did you know you can buy a domain directly* from Bluesky to use as your username? Easier to setup, and supports the company. No excuse for that boring *.bsky.social name: account.bsky.app/user/domains * well, it's powered by Namecheap but it's on the Bluesky site
account.bsky.app
Account - Bluesky Social
It looks like your domain is hosted on wordpress.com. They actually have a post explaining exactly how to do it there. wordpress.com/blog/2023/03...
wordpress.com
A Social Experience Anchored by Your Domain
How would you like to use one of your domains as your handle across the web? Here’s a first step towards making that a reality.
The inner radius needs to equal the outer radius minus the gap or it looks weird
November 17, 2024 at 7:38 PM UTC ...and here's why I needed it. This was testing the content loader and embed component, not just sharing the list astro-loaders.netlify.app/bluesky/
astro-loaders.netlify.app
Bluesky
It also works nicely with astro-embed, so you can display them as nicely-formatted embedded posts if you want astro-embed.netlify.app/components/b...
astro-embed.netlify.app
Bluesky Post
Learn how to use the Astro Embed BlueskyPost component to embed Bluesky posts in your website
Just released a new version of the Astro Bluesky content loader. This lets you load all of your posts (or anyone's) into Astro content collections at build time. - Create a local mirror of your posts - Generate a micro-blog from them - Something else I haven't thought of github.com/ascorbic/ast...
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astro-loaders/packages/bluesky at main · ascorbic/astro-loaders
Astro loaders. Contribute to ascorbic/astro-loaders development by creating an account on GitHub.
Thought it looked familiar. I went to one. I have Thoughts about them! Let's just say that I didn't send my kids to one, and nor did any of my siblings.
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM UTC That's beautiful. Impressive work. I can't imagine having a school that demanded that amount of skilled work from parents though! Is it a Steiner school or something like that?
November 17, 2024 at 9:28 AM UTC If you want to follow Astro people you'll find a lot of us here and I am definitely not just sharing this so I have an example of a post with a StarterPackViewBasic bsky.app/starter-pack...
The Astroverse
Starter pack by Astro
Wanna get the latest news on anything Astro? You should definitely be following those people.
Yes, they're very silly glasses. We have some cute little coupes that I use for most stuff served "up"
November 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM UTC Yeah, I used the scare quotes because I'm referring to the mostly terrible, very much not actually a martini drinks that were what passed for cocktails in the 90s/early 2000s before mojitos came along
November 16, 2024 at 10:48 PM UTC As I understand it, it was vodka espresso in the 80s, served on the rocks, and then became espresso martini in the 90s "stick it in a martini glass" era.
November 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM UTC That's fun! I use Difford's Guide a lot which also has the indredients filter thing, but I do like the brutalist style of that one
November 16, 2024 at 5:05 PM UTC They're not really martinis, so it's not really messing with them. There was just a weird 90s trend of serving everything in a triangular glass and calling it a martini.
November 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC It doesn't do anything yet because I haven't built it, but I hope so. I expect there will be complications with Cloudflare because there usually is, but that is the plan.
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM UTC Is there a cocktail Bluesky? I recently tried an espresso martini for the first time and was surprised that it's really nice. I'd assumed for years that it was a crap 90s one like the pornstar martini. Are there any other 90s "martinis" that are actually nice?
November 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM UTC I think we've done it. I went to the other place and the only interesting posts I saw were ones I'd already seen cross posted here.
November 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM UTC The Astro sessions RFC is now open for comment. The plan is: - API is simple: Astro.session.get()/set() - Pluggable storage drivers, powered by @unjs.io Unstorage - Adapters can provide zero-config drivers, e.g. using a platform's KV/blob store service github.com/withastro/ro...
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Sessions by ascorbic · Pull Request #1055 · withastro/roadmap
Summary An Astro.session primitive, with pluggable storage backends. --- // src/components/CartButton.astro const cart = await Astro.session.get('cart'); --- <a href="/checkout&quo...
butterfly flash mob - schedule a post to X with a single 🦋 - november 16, 15:00 UTC - you know the first rule of the flash mob invite your friends with your own voice: find a post on why we should move here, quote post it, copy and paste this post text, send
November 15, 2024 at 11:21 PM UTC There is literally a bot in the Netlify workspace that I made called Old Yeller that does exactly this. I had to disable it almost immediately though because it got confused by things like emojis and I never got around to fixing it.
November 15, 2024 at 10:11 PM UTC I deliberately didn't include the like/repost counts because I wasn't expecting people to use live data, but maybe it's worth making it an options for server islands...
November 15, 2024 at 9:57 PM UTC If you have enough classes to have naming conflicts, you shipped too late
November 15, 2024 at 9:53 PM UTC With the amount the toner costs I want a 6-part Emmy Award-winning drama
November 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM UTC Having worked in restaurants, it certainly felt like I lived there. Sleeping in the walk-in is about as relatable as crying in the walk-in.
November 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM UTC Another: Peter Gabriel pulled out in front of me in his car, forcing me to brake to avoid running into him.
November 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM UTC It was more on the theme of "second-hand celebrity tradesmen stories"
November 14, 2024 at 9:05 AM UTC I had a teacher whose patio was installed by Fred West. Yeah, they checked.
November 14, 2024 at 9:02 AM UTC Dato with its full screen notifications at 1 minute before is the only way
November 14, 2024 at 6:34 AM UTC Yeah, a lot of people see the crypto and NFT grifters moving seamlessly onto AI grift and dismiss it as more of the same. The difference is that AI is already very useful to lots of people, whereas crypto still struggles to find any use beyond speculation, money laundering and buying illegal stuff
November 13, 2024 at 10:24 AM UTC Nice. Netlify has finally launched a "free means actually free with no risk of scary bills" plan. Glad it's not restricted to non-commercial use too. Lots of people would prefer their site is disabled rather than getting an accidental massive bill for a side project.
November 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM UTC
Do you want to use your @netlify.com site domain as a custom handle in Bluesky? You can now set it up with a few clicks on the Netlify UI. Look for "Bluesky Custom Domain" in the Netlify Extensions directory or head to app.netlify.com/extensions/b....
The only way it could be more BBC is if the BBC refused a BBC News request for comment
November 11, 2024 at 7:48 PM UTC You're probably the first! Upgrade to get a couple of fixes to style bugs that I inevitably spotted as soon as I shared it.
November 11, 2024 at 5:38 PM UTC Forgot to add: it works with the Bluesky content loader too: just pass the entry data to the embed and it will display it without needing to hit the API. github.com/ascorbic/ast...
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astro-loaders/packages/bluesky at main · ascorbic/astro-loaders
Astro loaders. Contribute to ascorbic/astro-loaders development by creating an account on GitHub.
🚀❤️🦋 You can now embed posts in your Astro pages, with no client-side JS! Just pass it the post URL and it generates the right embed with static HTML and CSS. Works in both Astro and MDX pages. Supports embedded images, video, quoted posts, starter packs and more. And yes, it supports dark mode.
astro-embed.netlify.app
Bluesky Post
Learn how to use the Astro Embed BlueskyPost component to embed Bluesky posts in your website
Imagine how much easier your work would be if the monitors were in front of you
November 11, 2024 at 11:48 AM UTC I slept like a baby: I woke crying after two hours because I'd shat myself
November 11, 2024 at 11:09 AM UTC And I'm sure York City would love it if engaged fans generate points. At a certain point the increased engagement per follower makes up for the lower number of followers. I passed that around 10-20% of my Twitter follower count.
November 11, 2024 at 10:09 AM UTC Most people seem to be reporting that adjusted for follower count, engagement is *much* higher here. I've certainly found it to be. What are you finding?
November 11, 2024 at 9:35 AM UTC Looking at the git history, it was mostly over one weekend. I'd done experiments with the algorithm before though, so I already knew the effect looked cool.
November 11, 2024 at 7:41 AM UTC Oh yeah! When I first experimented with the effect I was working somewhere where my boss was a comic book artist, and he was able to make some really nice effects drawing with that tool. I'm not able to do much beyond some swirls.
November 11, 2024 at 7:35 AM UTC On Bluesky you can recycle your old bangers! Drop your old projects for a new audience. This is a satisfying thing I made a few years back. A React sketching and painting component react-artboard.netlify.app
This is the plugin btw github.com/kawamataryo/...
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GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky.
Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge
It looks legit github.com/kawamataryo/...
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GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky.
Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge
Yeah, it would be great if there could be parliament.uk subdomains verified
November 10, 2024 at 11:29 AM UTC Despite the name, the plugin I used isn't a bridge that brings the posts over - it's just a way to find Bluesky profiles of your old follows addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...
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Sky Follower Bridge – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-GB)
Download Sky Follower Bridge for Firefox. Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follower on Bluesky.
Aah, I remember Firebird! Wasn't it a trademark issue or somehting like that that made them change the name?
November 10, 2024 at 11:17 AM UTC You only really need to worry about it if you're exposing it on the public internet. If it's just your local network then you're fine.
November 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM UTC I'd watch/read the hell out of that. I know very little of the history. I do remember at the time realising that however clunky iPlayer was at launch, it was incredible, and was the future. I was working with a lot of embedded media web tech then, so did a lot of exploratory poking around iPlayer
November 10, 2024 at 9:28 AM UTC A planned commercial VOD platform that combined BBC, ITV and C4. Predated Netflix etc, but was killed by competition regulators.
November 10, 2024 at 9:15 AM UTC I used the Sky Bridge plugin to find a few hundred of my follows from the old place and my feed is looking a bit more like home. I also learnt: • There are lots of people who I follow whose tweets I've not been shown in years • There are lots of other people I should've unfollowed years ago
November 10, 2024 at 9:05 AM UTC It's incredible that I can buy a 750ml bottle of one of the best beers in the world for £5.99 from Aldi. Good beer is amazingly good value.
Honestly, they're welcome to it now. I was sad that he'd ruined it, but this place has somehow managed to capture the vibes of old Twitter in the matter of a few weeks.
November 9, 2024 at 4:09 PM UTC Sure, but there's quite a spread between engagement farming and shouting into the void, and mastodon was a bit too close to the latter to be satisfying to me
November 9, 2024 at 8:55 AM UTC When the M1 mini first came out I got one and used it via VS Code remote for years for all my dev work, because it was so much faster than my Intel MBP. It worked great. I only switched away when I got an M2 MBP from work
November 9, 2024 at 7:56 AM UTC I didn't say I expected it to have more engagement. I was just stating a fact: when I post on Mastodon, it gets far less engagement. And yes, that's because it has no algorithmic feed
November 8, 2024 at 4:08 PM UTC I have about 300 followers on Mastodon and get virtually no engagement. I had about 10x that followers on Twitter, but would get 50-100x engagement for the same content. Here, when I had 300 followers (umm, last weekend) I'd already get more engagement than on Twitter.
November 8, 2024 at 12:28 PM UTC I wrote a small thing to render them as HTML when I made the Astro loader github.com/ascorbic/ast...
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Yeah very reasonable, and it's nice you can buy them individually rather than in packs or subscriptions like a lot of places ask for
November 7, 2024 at 8:26 AM UTC And if he was foreign secretary he'd be saying "congratulations President Trump". If you're the chief diplomat you need to be diplomatic with your allies.
November 7, 2024 at 8:17 AM UTC Very cool, but to be clear they're only free for non commercial use. Otherwise they seem to be $5 each, or less if you buy a big collection.
November 7, 2024 at 8:06 AM UTC When the CEO of a co like Apple or Microsoft congratulates Trump the audience is him, and he will be in a room with them in future discussing contracts and regulation When the CEO of some random company he's never heard of congratulates Trump, the audience is his staff and customers. He knows that.
November 7, 2024 at 7:30 AM UTC I don't think process.env is populated by default, but you do have access to env vars in the global scope and import it from `node:process` if you need it to be defined
November 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM UTC Did you hear @timharford.bsky.social's Cautionary Tales podcast that covered all the various iterations of the Domesday project? timharford.com/2023/11/caut...
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Cautionary Tales – Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc
William the Conqueror undertook a remarkably modern project. In 1086, he began compiling and storing a detailed record of his realm: where everyone lived, what they did and where they came from. 90…
You work in web dev for long enough in the UK you probably end up building something for the BBC!
November 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM UTC The most useful thing I've ever made was an interactive built for BBC Food with some unholy mix of iSite and all kinds of other stuff that eventually loaded a Preact widget. www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
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Roast calculator
Find roasting times for lamb, pork, beef, venison, chicken, duck, turkey and goose with the BBC's interactive roasting calculator.
Underlines are problematic Andy. It's pretty insensitive of you to ask.
November 5, 2024 at 1:16 PM UTC I worked for an agency that did loads of different stuff for the beeb, so if it was on their frontend in the mid/late 2010s I probably used it.
November 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM UTC I have too many memories of requirejs from building things for the BBC. I wonder if they've managed to rid themselves of it yet.
November 5, 2024 at 1:10 PM UTC Same applies to dogs. I mean, I love this guy but I have very little use for his innate hare-hunting skills
Dogs are more multi-purpose, but pest control done by cats will have saved massive numbers of lives since before they were domesticated
November 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM UTC It's annoying how your TypeScript API package expects me to individually type guard and validate every single object.
November 5, 2024 at 8:32 AM UTC Yeah, not something I'd normally use, and probably a bit of a code smell. It is useful for breaking out of nested loops though.
November 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM UTC Congratulations! They're very lucky to have you. I can highly recommend starting new jobs with an off-site. I've done it twice now!
November 5, 2024 at 8:16 AM UTC Happy birthday. I'm sure you've suffered a lifetime of jokes about remembering your birthday so there is no reason to add to them.
November 5, 2024 at 8:13 AM UTC No, but I'm working on an Astro component for JS-free embeds. Probably have something up today after work
November 5, 2024 at 8:10 AM UTC Yes, if you want. You'd need to build after you post, but you can display them however you'd like, including creating pages per post
November 5, 2024 at 8:06 AM UTC That's a good idea. Things get quite complicated quite quickly though.
November 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM UTC My new @astro.build RFC for responsive images is now ready for review. Comments are welcome from everyone. Help us build the future of images in Astro! github.com/withastro/ro...
November 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM UTC Happy "recurring meetings at international orgs are back at the right time" day
November 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC @eduardoboucas.com is this still a thing? www.netlify.com/blog/2021/10...
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Write Netlify Functions in Rust
Netlify is launching experimental support for Rust in Netlify Functions, with the same developer experience offered for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Go.
100%. Luckily Astro has an incredible docs team. Having @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca to review my API docs makes them 100x better.
November 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM UTC And the worse the decision, the more you will be reminded of it with issues and comments
November 4, 2024 at 1:18 PM UTC I really enjoy designing APIs, but it sure takes a lot of time to get them right
November 4, 2024 at 12:31 PM UTC Hello new friends 👋 I'm Matt and I make OSS tools for building websites. I built Unpic, a cross-framework image library. I've contributed to most web frameworks - some a little, some a lot. I work at Astro as a core maintainer. Previously I did framework stuff at Netlify Earlier, I was at Gatsby
November 4, 2024 at 9:22 AM UTC I guess "An early form of frequency hopping spread spectrum" didn't fit
November 4, 2024 at 8:34 AM UTC Content loaders are build time only right now, so you won't be using it to build a live UI. I'd use the SDK directly for that.
November 3, 2024 at 7:39 PM UTC I just shared a thing and put the link in the first post and not a reply, without a care in the world
November 3, 2024 at 6:44 PM UTC I bought myself an original iMac when it was first released, and they threw in a pirated copy of Dreamweaver. I was immediately hooked (once I'd finished downloading the Phantom Menace trailer). I'd done coding before (mostly Hypercard) but this was stuff I could actually share with other people.
November 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM UTC Would you like to display your Bluesky posts in your Astro site? I've made an Astro content loader for Bluesky! When you build the site it loads your posts and puts them in a content collection. You can then display them on a page, or use the raw data however you want. github.com/ascorbic/ast...
Hah. I remember seeing one that was something like ";DROP TABLE companies; LTD" but that one is better
November 3, 2024 at 10:14 AM UTC Trying something #hashtag</a> @mk.gg @nonexistent example.com/%3C/a%3E/%3C...
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The Astro session proposal has been accepted to stage 2, and is open for comments here: github.com/withastro/ro... Proposals are meant to be light in detail at this stage: the RFC with proposed APIs and implementation is the next step. Feedback is welcome at all stages though, so chime in now.
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Sessions · Issue #1050 · withastro/roadmap
Accepted Date: 2024-11-01 Reference Issues/Discussions: #1044 Author: @ascorbic Champion(s): @ascorbic Implementation PR: Summary A first class Astro.session primitive, with pluggable storage backe...
It took about 16 years on the other place before I had more followers than following. 2040 lfg!
November 2, 2024 at 3:33 PM UTC Well, you nerd sniped me. Ask it for pairings and it will now return and display multiple fonts.
November 2, 2024 at 12:40 PM UTC The time building that site was approx 10% coding the frontend, 30% getting gpt-3.5 to return JSON and 60% working out how to get discretionary ligatures working
November 2, 2024 at 11:37 AM UTC I'm annoyed that about 15 years ago I deleted all my old tweets, so I lost gems such as my very first one "eating toast. more later"
November 2, 2024 at 9:44 AM UTC Looking at the code for this thing I made 18 months ago it's funny how much I'd had to beg gpt-3.5 to return JSON only, and respond with the parse errors if it misbehaved. Just updated it to gpt-4o with structured output and it works every time (and has better font taste) font.institute
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Font Institute
AI-powered free font recommendations
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November 2, 2024 at 8:03 AM UTC Next week I'm going to be working on two new, exciting Astro features that I think people will love: - A big upgrade to the Image component which will do all the srcset and styling for you - Native session support I'll share updated RFCs and experimental builds as soon as I can
November 2, 2024 at 7:09 AM UTC Oh wow! End of an era. It's been great working with you. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.
November 1, 2024 at 4:33 PM UTC Certain people always complained a lot about Twitter's algorithmic feed and I often saw Mastodon's chronological feed cited as a positive feature. For all its (many) faults, I really like how Twitter seems to surface good tweets whatever time they're made.
November 1, 2024 at 2:33 PM UTC Perhaps controversial, but the lack of algorithmic feed makes Mastodon far less satisfying for me. I don't want to just see posts by people who happen to be posting at the time I'm online, and I don't want my feed filled up by someone who decided to do a load of reposts.
November 1, 2024 at 2:01 PM UTC This is why @eloi.se will always be cooler than me, unless I can eliminate @ma.tt
November 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC Oh my gold Salma I only just saw this! That must have been terrifying! I'm so glad it turned out ok. What a wake up call to us all.
November 1, 2024 at 12:54 PM UTC I never said I didn't cry. The power is to keep on cutting neatly and without injury.
November 1, 2024 at 12:48 PM UTC Another month in the books! This means I am recovering from another round of collecting and putting together the Astro monthly showcase blog post. 😅 So many new websites, blog posts, videos, themes, tools... These posts just get bigger and bigger every month! astro.build/blog/whats-n...
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What's new in Astro - October 2024 | Astro
October 2024 - The State of Frontend 2024, Astro Cloudinary, and more!
Can chop an onion really well Can do markdown links the right way around
November 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM UTC It was only looking at your explorer that showed somebody had already taken mine! I did admittedly switch to the custom domain pretty much right away though.
November 1, 2024 at 10:45 AM UTC I've been here for ages! Just haven't been following many tech people before the recent influx.
October 31, 2024 at 7:47 PM UTC It seems ChatGPT Search solves the problem of out-of-date API knowledge. I asked it how to build an Astro content loader (a beta feature). Regular ChatGPT hasn't a clue. Enable search and it gives a perfect answer.
Big (sensible) change in Labour's economic policy that hasn't seen much coverage because it's rather wonkish: the fiscal rule changed back to target current spending, meaning that borrowing to invest is allowed. Most economists agree that the old rule made little sense.
The Rwanda policy may be cruel and ineffective, but it's the waste of money that most people care about. If the government does ever manage to get a plane off the ground, Labour just needs to run ads with multi-million pound plane tickets.
This is probably my favourite thing about travelling in Italy: the food is excellent even in the tourist traps where it doesn't need to be. I just assume that food in places with mostly tourists will be crap.
April 11, 2024 at 1:09 PM UTC The point is that there is a negligible amount of current and historic immigration from Mexico to the UK. Most residents are students. That's why the Mexican food is not good. Measuring distances between countries won't change that.
April 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM UTC There are numbers for these things. Per the UK census, there were 9771 Mexican-born people in the UK. Per the US Census Bureau, Indianapolis is 10.9% Hispanic, so around 95k. So if more than 10% of Hispanic people in Indianapolis were born in Mexico, then there are more than in the UK.
April 8, 2024 at 10:51 AM UTC There are fewer than 10000 Mexican-born people in the whole UK, and most of those are students not chefs.
April 8, 2024 at 10:34 AM UTC I mean, quite apart from the rest, does he think Schindler is the bad guy?
March 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM UTC I'm really surprised it took a whole week. Most mandolins I've known have claimed first blood within an hour at the most
February 26, 2024 at 8:04 PM UTC The WHO news page reads like a missing verse of the Theme from Shaft
Today in optimistic attempts to find a representative sample in the YouGov panel
Presumably this is a historic thing, so that Bristol controls the approach to the port. How many other examples of multinational Westminster constituencies are there?
January 15, 2024 at 8:54 AM UTC Sure the YouGov MRP poll showing a Labour landslide is cool, but the most interesting thing I learnt from the map is that Bristol NW has a land border with Cardiff S, because a tiny part of Bristol is in Wales.
Happy New Year! My watch app has been approved. It's a live UK train times app for Wear OS with live departures, delays etc. No fancy extra features - just the stuff you need when heading to the station. I got a free Pixel Watch 2 when I bought my phone, so made this. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Live Trains - UK railway times - Apps on Google Play
Live UK train departure boards
You would've thought that the past decade would have taught them that pandering to Ukip/whatever supporters only increases their support but apparently they're going to continue flying this plane right into the ground.
January 2, 2024 at 9:41 AM UTC I doubt that even the biggest Trump sycophant would roll over for him if they actually became president. They're deferential now because it's politically expedient. This isn't a Medvedev scenario. Once they're behind the Resolute desk they can publicly condemn SCOTUS but say nothing can be done.
December 29, 2023 at 8:58 AM UTC I always assumed it was a cognate of the sense of sieve or separate, like a stove's riddling grate
December 27, 2023 at 1:20 PM UTC Same could be said for wine! Their regular cider is decent, but I can't imagine any cider being worth that much. But then their hotel is over a grand a night.
December 27, 2023 at 11:30 AM UTC FWIW, I know the Newt well, and they're definitely of the "get the absolute best even if it needs to be custom made and cost a fortune" end of things. It's an amazing place, but is definitely a billionaire's plaything.
December 27, 2023 at 11:26 AM UTC I wonder what the unit cost is. The fact that they're using it for a £35 bottle of cider may be telling.
December 27, 2023 at 11:18 AM UTC Merry Christmas! This is my annual sharing of the most useful thing I ever made: the BBC roast calculator www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
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Roast calculator
Find roasting times for lamb, pork, beef, venison, chicken, duck, turkey and goose with the BBC's interactive roasting calculator.
My Portuguese is really bad, but bad Portuguese sounds enough like bad Galician to get me appreciation when I speak it there!
December 11, 2023 at 10:19 AM UTC Having looked it up, today I learnt that the reforms *added* K, Y and W. I assumed they'd been removed then! My family who've lived in Portugal for 30+ years had lots of trouble in the 90s with a name that starts with a letter that doesn't exist.
December 11, 2023 at 8:29 AM UTC Lose the silent consonants and end up with things like "quilograma"
December 10, 2023 at 5:23 PM UTC Your Scottish friends clearly don't think you're cool enough to be told
October 25, 2023 at 7:55 AM UTC I bought this second hand book from Amazon and wtf. Am I supposed to add my own and sell it on?
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