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It'll also make it easier to cache the results without reprocessing images each build. Lmk if you build it, and/or drop it in the showcase channel in discord
July 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM UTC If you implement it as an astro content loader it would be great if you could publish it to npm. I'm sure other people would find it useful
July 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM UTC If you need to go beyond the shadcn/tailwind component libraries, they really suffer from not being able to see the results of their work
July 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM UTC If only there was some way to get hundreds of truckloads of food across a land border
July 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM UTC Directly from Anthropic, so web or desktop I think. There are requests from Claude Code too, but far fewer.
July 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM UTC
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
July 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM UTC This was a bit of both! I never looked at the code, but was a very demanding client that sent it back dozens of times until it was right.
July 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM UTC Undo was the hardest part, because it had started out with a real mess for state management, but it got there in the end. I gave up trying to get it to do a falling cards win animation. It couldn't handle that at all.
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM UTC It's hopeless on mobile. Here's the repo: github.com/ascorbic/klo...
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My last night/this morning project: see if I can get @bolt.new to build a fully functional, nice-looking solitaire game with no code editing by me. It took quite a lot of back and forth, but here it is, 100% vibes. solitairevibes.netlify.app
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Classic Klondike Solitaire - Free Online Card Game
Play the classic Klondike Solitaire card game online for free. Features Turn 1 and Turn 3 modes, undo functionality, and beautiful responsive design.
Going live now! Another Astro behind the scenes stream: see what goes into designing Astro merch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjhU...
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Talking and Designing, 24 July 2025
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I understand those who don't want to do it for principled reasons, but if you're worried about the faff it's very quick. It sends you an email. You click a link, look into the camera and it's done. Took me less than a minute.
July 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM UTC Insulted that it so easily identified me as old. I was curious to know what the actual estimate was, but probably for the best that it didn't tell me.
July 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM UTC Do you have a similar attachment to your model as you do to your memories? Is it part of your identity? How would you feel if your admin switched you to a different model? Would it be appealing to be allowed to have a choice of models for different tasks?
July 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM UTC I bet Sam Altman doesn't get these, and he's got vocal fry like the door to a haunted mansion
July 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM UTC They're nice pickled, though that's probably covered under medium to carry other flavours
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM UTC Someone did find and interview her Norwegian counterpart
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Who is Nicolai Winther?
Who is Nicolai Winther? — and why does OpenAIs Whisper impersonate him when transcribing Norwegian? Does he exist, or is he merely a…
It sounds clumsy in all of them, but only one is correct. Remove "Rami and" and it's clear. You don't say "I's wedding" or "mine wedding" or "my's wedding". You say "my wedding", so you sould say "Rami and my wedding".
July 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM UTC The hardest part of adding projects to mk.gg is finding an appropriate icon from the HyperCard graphics pack
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Matt Kane
Matt Kane's site that looks like it was built in 1991
An easy way to try it is to ask an agent to run: "npx am-i-vibing" Also can we just take all the "useless rainforest burning plagiarism machines" stuff as said? Yes, I know blah blah.
July 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM UTC You can use it for detailed errors and AI-friendly syntax. It could also be used to disable interactive prompts:
It detects lots of different tools using env vars or process names. It supports lots of agents, and is available as a library and CLI (mostly for testing). I tried to make each agent build their own detection definition. Most weren't great at it! github.com/ascorbic/am-...
![✓ Detected: [bolt-agent] Bolt.new Agent (agent)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uwbl4k3tza7eyjv3morkrld2/bafkreiarov4qnqrhf2bvyf72wttcdityjpjitcfdbvzqvtrs6vfmfy4wia@jpeg)
I was thinking that it would be good to give different sorts of logs or errors to agentic coding tools. There's context that they can use but would be confusing/redundant to humans. There didn't seem to be a good way to detect them though, so I built a little library called "am-i-vibing"
I needed a way for a node script to traverse all of its parent processes. Weirdly there didn't seem to be any existing packages, so I made one. process-ancestry is like the opposite of ps-tree.
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process-ancestry
Cross-platform Node.js library for retrieving process ancestry information on Unix/Linux, macOS, and Windows. Latest version: 0.0.2, last published: 2 minutes ago. Start using process-ancestry in your...
Probably this one ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
Good choice. From a brief look at your most recent posts, this is the most popular.
July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM UTC I originally built a version of this a couple of years ago when custom GPTs were released, so I thought it was a good candidate for re-implementing as an MCP server.
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM UTC Is this accurate? Well, it gives accurate details of the positions of celestial bodies using the Moshier ephemeris algorithm. Any interpretation of those is between you and your model. It uses @netlify.com edge functions (powered by @deno.land). You can find the code here. It's GPL 3.
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Does your vibe coding have bad vibes? Do those bugs always show up at the wrong time? Does your Astro site need more astro? Ever wished that your LLM could read the stars? ♋ Meet ephemeris.fyi – an MCP server that gives your LLM access to an accurate astronomical and astrological ephemeris.
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ephemeris.fyi - Astronomical and astrological MCP server
Free MCP server providing ephemeris data for celestial bodies. Supports AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.
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
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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
