Tag: Astro

All the articles with the tag "Astro".

• Upgrading to Astro 6: What Changed and Why It Matters

  24 Apr, 2026

  • 7 min read • astro

  A practical walkthrough of upgrading an AstroPaper blog from Astro 5 to Astro 6, covering Vite 7, Zod 4, the stable fonts API, and every breaking change I ran into along the way.

• Taming 6,000 GitHub Stars with Astro and a JSON File

  11 Mar, 2026

  • 11 min read • astro

  I turned my GitHub starred repos into a searchable page on my blog. Here's what worked, what didn't, and why I gave up on SSR.

• Chasing a Transitive Dependency Vulnerability

  19 Feb, 2026

  • 3 min read • security

  How a vulnerability in fast-xml-parser affected my blog through @astrojs/rss, and why transitive dependencies are quietly terrifying.

• Building Almanac Games: Scraping PSN with Duct Tape and Playwright

  18 Feb, 2026

  • 4 min read • dev

  I wanted to show my PlayStation trophies on my blog. It took a Python scraper, Cloudflare cookie theft, and way too many regex fixes.

• Redesigning my blog, part 5: what I learned

  17 Feb, 2026

  • 5 min read • astro

  The last post in this series. What worked, what got immediately deleted, and what I'd do differently.

• Redesigning my blog, part 4: the small stuff

  16 Feb, 2026

  • 6 min read • astro

  Dropdown navigation, a categorized tech stack, file organization, and auto-publishing. The polishing work nobody notices but everyone feels.

• Redesigning my blog, part 3: from stock theme to terminal blueprint

  15 Feb, 2026

  • 6 min read • astro

  The big visual overhaul. New fonts, new colors, terminal hero, data pipeline cards, two-rail layout, and all the bugs that came with it.

• Redesigning my blog, part 2: the blogroll

  14 Feb, 2026

  • 5 min read • astro

  I built a terminal-styled blogroll with ASCII art, pulsing RSS indicators, and OPML export. Blogrolls are back.