Yesterday, Astro V6 formally launched. I say "formally" as it's been available to test for a little while, but with me still being pretty new to Astro I've kept to the main release only. Now that V6 is the default, I thought it was time to dig into it a bit. One feature in particular stood out as being really useful to me - live content collections. One of the reasons I've been digging Astro so much is that it nicely straddles the SSG world and Node.js server worlds. When building your app, you can make logical decisions about what should be done at build time versus what should be done dynamically. It's like having Express and Eleventy rolled into one solution.
Today is a big day for Astro, not only do you get Astro v6 (it just released a few hours ago!), you also get one of my demos! Ok, one of these is more important than the other, but, I'm really excited about v6 and hope to have a demo of the new features to share soon. With that being said, I'm also sharing a demo I started work on a few weeks ago and finally wrapped up this past weekend - Social Beast.
Greetings, programs. I'm taking a break from Assassin's Creed Shadows (and being lazy in general) and thought I'd write up my links post. Yesterday was the 15th birthday of one of my kids and later today we get to celebrate with her friends. Outside of that and laundry, I've got a large amount of nothing to get accomplished today and I absolutely love it. Let's get to the links. As always, I hope you find these worth your time!
Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to discover that one of my favorite JavaScript libraries, Color Thief, had gotten a major update. Color Thief examines an image and can tell you the dominant color as well as the five most used colors. I thought this was pretty cool, and over the past, I kid you not, 14 years, I've blogged about it a few times:
Ok, before I start, let me just clarify this demo is kind of a remix of my earlier post about building an RSS aggregator in Astro. I did run into some interesting issues this time around though and I figured it was worth a share.
My wife and I both love going to the movies, but sometimes a few months will go by without us making it out there. Mostly we just forget what's coming out and don't realize till it's already on a streaming app. I thought it would be nice to build a tool that could help remind me of upcoming movie releases so we can make our theater going more of a consistent habit. To accomplish this, I used the The Movie Database APIs and Val Town.
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