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Astro 5.0 is here.

Content layer, server islands, simplified prerendering, type-safe env,
@vite v6. All stable.

Go see what you can do 👇

https://astro.build/blog/astro-5/

Astro 5.0 | Astro

Astro 5.0 brings exciting new features like the Astro Content Layer for seamless content loading from any source, and Server Islands for effortlessly combining static and dynamic personalized content.

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BuT wE DoN't WaNt tO Go MaInStReaM1
– every fedi reply guy when someone notes that the protocol or the server software or the UI is confusing or missing something
fedi dude: “they will crawl back to fedi when bsky inevitably runs out of VC money”
No, they will once again organize to migrate to whatever service they find useful, where folks are not alienating and self-righteous
The at protocol is much more simple than activity pub. Wonder if that's going to be to its advantage or not. I do think that AP's complexity is a barrier to fixing underlying problems like discovery and outdated feeds.

Reasonable people can agree that “trust your eyes” is not a robust nor repeatable nor scalable real-world method of measuring web performance, right?

…right?

Version numbers are free. Waiting many months or years to release a major version means something is very wrong.

Today we're featuring 8 loaders for the Astro Content Layer API with day one support.

Keep this thread bookmarked as we'll be updating it throughout the day. 👇

Welcome to our Fall launch week!

We've got some big announcements on the way, but lets start with an update: Astro has officially given away half of our $100,000 OSS Ecosystem Fund including our two newest recipients: 🖌️ Expressive Code & 👜 VTBOT!

https://astro.build/blog/astro-ecosystem-fund-update/

The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update | Astro

Astro — the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce — is giving away $100,000 to support other open-source projects in our ecosystem that improve the lives of Astro users everywhere, every day. Here's an update on the program, including two new grants.

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The movie Maximum Overdrive is pretty bad. King must have been feeling invincible at the time, like he could do whatever crazy thing and it would turn to gold. That was mostly right, just not here.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/
Maximum Overdrive (1986) ⭐ 5.4 | Action, Comedy, Horror

1h 38m | R

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Do people not get tired of writing the same stuff like this over and over again, ad infinitum?

https://adactio.com/journal/21397
Manual ’till it hurts

Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.