So State of JS is out and remains demographically… fucked?
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@NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social 🫂
Perhaps "The future is a calm scream" is some kind of koan?
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@djrrb@mastodon.social @Typographics@typo.social @nicksherman@typo.social @googlefonts@typo.social There are certainly bigger uses of Bungee out there, but I couldn't make the wedding of two friends and was tasked with designing signage, which I did using Bungee, so for me it's forever "Tim & Tom's pizza toppings". Happy bungiversary!
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@mayank That looks very nice! I really need to do something with my collection — I used to have it on my laptop, but it got too big so I stopped transferring it to new machines at one point, putting it on a hard drive instead. But the upshot of that was I used it less and less.
Occasionally I’ll see people post about their home media servers and stuff, but that just feels much nerdier than I would have fun with. A physical player might be friendlier.
I’ve been making this recipe for years and now it’s built with Astro!
Cool URLs don’t change, they just get more Astro-y.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables/vegan-shepherd-s-pie/
Software encodes values, so choose what you value when you start a project!
It was important that Starlight had full internationalisation support when we launched and we just got a PR for our THIRTIETH built-in language. I appreciate everyone who has contributed translations to the project — it’s one of my favourite things to see.
Excited to see @hippo@m.webtoo.ls’s Expressive Code launch its docs site!
🖌️ https://expressive-code.com
Expressive Code is an amazing, framework-agnostic library for displaying beautiful code snippets in your sites. Can’t recommend it highly enough!
It’s nice when you go from “idea!💡” to “oh, not as difficult as expected” to “it worked!”
I wanted to display little inline previews of CSS colors in code blocks (kind of how code editors do) in some docs, and decided to try and make an Expressive Code plugin to do it and… it just worked!
Shout out to @hippo@m.webtoo.ls for making a plugin API as nice as this 💅
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ALSO, for those who don’t know, Starlight’s syntax highlighting is powered by Expressive Code, which ensures AA contrast in its output even if your chosen theme doesn’t provide that by default.
And it’s easy to up that to AAA as well if you need: https://expressive-code.com/reference/configuration/#minsyntaxhighlightingcolorcontrast
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Currently mostly makes developing a headless site quicker to scaffold, but for folks looking to migrate completely, I’m hoping to work on a tool for that soon.
Looking for some small steps you can take to improve your docs writing?
Well, Astro docs lead @sarah11918@mastodon.social has **FIFTY** you can choose from in her "50 tips in 50 days" series:
https://www.rainsberger.ca/blog/50-docs-tips-in-50-days/
Hats off on completing these and happy birthday, Sarah!
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@joshuaiz@mastodon.social @astro@m.webtoo.ls I don't think that's the plan. Astro's core is static first (i.e. completely host agnostic) and even one of the main adapters for on-demand rendering is a generic Node.js adapter. Avoiding host lock-in is important I think.
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@amxmln@mastodon.design @astro@m.webtoo.ls Definitely not. Astro previously had a similar partnership with Vercel, but support for different hosts is here to stay.
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@joshuaiz@mastodon.social @astro@m.webtoo.ls Astro will still work anywhere! Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, a Raspberry Pi in your basement… So no need to switch where your own website is hosted necessarily.
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@sasann@mastodon.social @astro@m.webtoo.ls Sorry to hear that! Was there anything in this update in particular that caused issues? We generally aim to do a minor release with improvements every two weeks, but these are 100% backwards compatible and can either be ignored or safely updated to without any changes in the site code.