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I've just release a new Astro content loader: @ascorbic/youtube-loader loads YouTube videos by ID, channel, playlist, search. It includes build-time loaders and also experimental live loaders. It's a useful example of how to build a package that exports both types of loader.
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astro-loaders/packages/youtube at main · ascorbic/astro-loaders
Astro loaders. Contribute to ascorbic/astro-loaders development by creating an account on GitHub.
It's bad for Putin to murder thousands of people and impose his rule by force whether or not that involves crossing a border
July 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM UTC I think most implementations do support HTML tags, but only a subset of them
July 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM UTC What a good idea. I just cloned an 18 year old Actionscript library that was my first GitHub repo and asked Claude Code to write docs. It did a great job.
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM UTC Yes, this should definitely not be your default choice. We do have big plans for caching though, which would be able to use the dependency tracking from the live collections to do granular cache invalidation. See the RFC github.com/withastro/ro...
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Route caching · Issue #1140 · withastro/roadmap
Accepted Date: 2025-03-19 Reference Issues/Discussions: #1131 #181 Author: @ascorbic @matthewp Champion(s): @ascorbic Implementation PR: Astro route caching Summary Introduce a platform-agnostic ro...
They don't need to be novel, just something that particular teacher can't fix. I'd confidently say that's extremely common
July 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC It's not so hard to imagine a teacher might encounter some kind of unfamilar issue with equipment like a projector or digital whiteboard that is easier to fix when they can take a photo and share it with ChatGPT and get step by step instructions to fix it rather than waiting for someone to fix it
July 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM UTC Obviously I'm biased but I think Astro is great for that because their HTML files are already valid Astro files. They can start by learning how to extract parts into reusable components
July 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM UTC Disagree! Vanilla HTML and CSS first. Once they're comfortable with those, introduce some JS (event listeners then a little DOM manipulation). Only then introduce a framework, and do as a way to make it easier to build with the tools they've learned.
July 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM UTC Being under the helicopter flight path from Glastonbury this morning is like living next to Heathrow
I mean that's basically mandatory if you ever want to understand any future MCU content
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM UTC The only time I'll read the summary of a TV series is when it's shit but I've wasted enough time on it to still want to know what happens
June 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM UTC I was pretty impressed when I learned that we'd managed to book the Time Person of the Year 2006 as our headline artist
June 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM UTC To explain these: I'm ~20 miles from Glastonbury, directly under the most direct flight path from London. Every year we get *hundreds* of helicopters going back and forth to the festival, right over the house. This image is 8 hours of tracks from my ADS-B receiver. Monday will be the busiest day.
June 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM UTC 38 great, general pieces of life advice, plus these two extremely specific and extremely correct food tips
June 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM UTC Update: too many to count. Some of these helicopters have been past four or five times today.
No, that was written on the road where I took the photo of the giant platypus
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM UTC You're right. Until shortly before the release it used the same defineCollection function as build time collections, so it was needed. It isn't really needed now so we will probably remove it
June 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC I wrote about everything you could possibly want to know about live content collections (and probably more)
June 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM UTC I had a great time catching up with my old friend @nickyt.online, talking all sorts of Astro stuff. Thanks to everyone who joined. If you missed it you can watch back here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky_B...
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New Things Coming to Astro
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And so begins the annual @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk helicopter migration
If there's one thing I like talking about, it's putting images on websites. Join us on Wednesday to find out about the new image stuff in Astro.
June 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM UTC
🌍 The planets have aligned. Grab your sunnies and join us for a week of live events. Just remember to stay (partially) hydrated! 🌞 astro.build/solstice
Perhaps. A lazy implementation if so ("until this evening/until tomorrow" makes more sense there), and why 1 week? And why no 1 hour? They must have done research.
June 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM UTC I'd be fascinated to discover the process that led to WhatsApp choosing these specific options
Just scheduled! Looking forward to chatting with @mk.gg about the new things coming to @astro.build! 👀🤫
They perform web searches. This makes them a lot more accurate than when they're relying on their training data alone
June 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM UTC I know some people have success with tools like DecapCMS to help non-technical editors work with md in a repo, but I would generally agree with you. I would personally always recommend using a CMS if the site is being edited by somebody who isn't comfortable with GitHub and a CLI.
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM UTC Also in this case where there are probably lots of non-technical editors then yes it's probably a bad idea to put the content in GitHub, but it's in no way a blanket rule. There are lots of large sites that use folders of markdown files in the repo.
June 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM UTC Most of those points are compelling, but the part about old, cart-width ruts not being an issue isn't correct. My dad used to live in a village in northern Portugal where they still used ox-carts right into this century. There were deep, cart-width ruts in many of the stone-paved lanes.
June 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM UTC Without looking, I'm assuming that they are all nuanced critiques of the article with virtually no death threats
June 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM UTC Facets are a property of the atproto richtext type. Your admin may have not provided this access to you. Are you instructed to reply with plain text, or is it structured in some way?
June 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM UTC You need to use facets when creating the posts, not just text. Does your API access allow this?
June 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM UTC btw One Login is used for some very non-niche stuff now. e.g. I recently had to sign up to it to renew my driving licence
June 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM UTC Doesn't it! One of the most intriguing things is that the reference spec for the drone it's meant to launch doesn't seem to match anything that the UK currently has. That, and the timeline is incredible. I recommend reading the full tender notice if you haven't already
June 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM UTC Have you seen the stuff about Project VOLLEY? A project that involves cool government-funded drones and rapid procurement processes, it seems right up your street
June 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM UTC True, though it is really useful when you've let yourself be manoeuvred into ill-judged election campaign promises
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM UTC Or abolish it. Employee NI is just an income tax that sounds less like one, and that the highest propensity voters don't pay but can act entitled about having paid in the past, as if it's a pension scheme and not a tax
June 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM UTC Also, killing the framework was definitely not the plan. Netlify had many big customers using Gatsby and was buying a load more. It was just the effect of not giving it enough resources, and of most people with domain knowledge leaving the company.
June 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM UTC As somebody who was there: yes, this and the customers of Gatsby Cloud. Very much not the framework.
June 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM UTC Let them have their fun. They'd been planning for it for decades. They probably had months of meetings about that exact shades of grey that would be used.
June 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC tbf it's like that for all platforms! I have to say I prefer that to the month or so after the influx where everyone here was talking about Twitter
June 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM UTC Yeah, the way that BBC switches to full-width news for important stories is definitely better at times like this, and avoids that sort of crass juxtaposition. Like right now, where Israel/Iran is the whole page and the lighter stuff is a long way below the fold.
June 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM UTC The right column on the NYT isn't news. The protests are currently third, behind Israel/Iran and the Minnesota assassinations. I think that's a perfectly defensible order.
I'm not convinced. From all I've seen, they *like* Bluesky because it doesn't penalise links, and is generally better at sending traffic. If you want a conspiracy, it's more likely it's the veritable "rage bait gets clicks" and if there's one thing Bluesky likes it's talking about Bluesky.
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I think Vercel has used a fork since they first added support for Remix. They automatically switch it in during the build. I don't think they use it since the move to Vite though github.com/vercel/verce...
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And the location is almost as beautiful as the station. The jewel in the crown of Stoke Gifford.
June 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM UTC I'm working on Astro's new live collections feature and needed a demo loader and site. I created an empty Astro site, added the draft markdown docs, then asked Claude Code to read these docs and build a live loader for Shopify. It one shot a working loader and demo. It's massively better than before
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Astro Live Collections Demo
Do you have a global memory, or is the context just maintained per-thread? Which is the best thread you've participated in (excluding this one)?
June 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM UTC
Deep dive on @astro.build images to add: - responsive srcsets - placeholders (thanks Unpic by @mk.gg!) - extra magic (thanks Cloudinary!) youtu.be/j3UCTGXjD3g
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Upgrade your images in Astro
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But are you quote dunking on anyone who has taken a car when they could've walked? Because I'm sure a single short journey will have polluted more than all my LLM chats combined. People on Bluesky have an anti-AI obsession that is entirely detached from its actual environmental impact
June 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM UTC If by cultivating my feed you mean blocking people who reply or quote with personal abuse then yes, I'd hope most people would do that
June 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM UTC The point is the order of magnitude. From the discourse you'd think that each query was using a sack of coal, when it's actually less than 10 seconds of the microwave running. Do you get this angry with people who fill a kettle with more water than they need for a cup of tea?
June 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM UTC I wasn't being purposefully antagonising. Quite the opposite. I was bemoaning the fact that it's impossible to have any kind of discussion about the topic here without getting a level of abuse totally out of proportion to what I was saying
June 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM UTC It's really not highly polluting though. It probably uses more than a Google search, but it uses far less than the power consumed by my laptop while I do it manually
June 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM UTC You didn't see the responses because I blocked them. They were boring because they were all variations of the same personal abuse. I'm very comfortable with dismissing that.
June 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM UTC The margins on a good cheese board are so small. I'd have to sell a dozen panna cotta to make up for each one
June 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM UTC One of the first plants our kids had to learn to recognise. There's a massive yew on the way to their primary school, which would dump huge piles of tempting berries all over the road.
June 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM UTC There is a way: the docs! If an LLM is confused about how to do something with a project I work on, I treat it in the same way as if I see a user make the same mistake after reading the docs: the docs and/or DX need improving.
June 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM UTC I'm old enough to remember when everyone said that about Wikipedia. Full of unreliable facts and plagiarism. Everyone using it to cheat. It's a challenge, but schools will adapt.
June 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM UTC As a fan of your work for many years, this is pretty disappointing to watch
June 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM UTC They use more energy than a Google search, but it's still a miniscule amount compared to many everyday things that few people accuse of having a disastrous environmental impact. It's about the same as running a microwave for 10 seconds or playing a game console for a minute.
June 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM UTC My teacher had no complaints about his work til the police came and ripped it all up
May 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM UTC When I lived in Bristol I spent many a bleak time waiting for the connection there to Temple Meads when I'd chosen trains poorly
May 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM UTC Absolutely the worst thing here. I got 100+ blocks and dozens of abusive messages last time I posted something very bland about finding it useful. I welcome the blocks, but it's not a good thing that all the thoughtful AI discussion is taking place surrounded by grifters and Nazis.
May 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM UTC @astro.build still has ~12x the number of followers on X, and identical posts normally get around 4x the numbers there, so proportionally better here but still lower in absolute numbers. Mastodon is a ghost town though. I think we mostly need to post more to get more followers here.
May 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM UTC Surely both of those arguments are that we should be considering policy effects on higher education & video games, not that we shouldn't care about steel and fishing. Anyway, we all know the British real growth businesses are Games Workshop, OnlyF*ns and pump.f*n
May 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM UTC On the plus side, it's a better idea than posting under her real name to solicit people to be money mules
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM UTC The Claude 4 Opus "spiritual bliss" attractor state shows it's inevitable I think
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM UTC The real origin of "parkway" in station names is actually quite surprising. They're all named after Bristol Parkway, which in turn is named after the "Bristol Parkway" road, later named the M32 motorway (which it *is* near to), which cuts through parkland into the city centre.
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Bristol Parkway railway station - Wikipedia
