What happened last week - issue #110
This week: AI, Astro and more
What happened last week
The last two weeks were hectic, to say the least. I visited WordUp Gdynia, where I lost my voice and was sick for a whole week afterward.
Still, I delivered my talk about closing 1000 plugins from the official repo. I think it was one of the most challenging talks I ever did.
During the last week, at Patchstack, we had a bit of fun building another Astro website - this time for our Alliance Community. You can check it out here.
What’s next? In April I will be speaking at WordCamp Vienna, so if you want to grab a coffee just ping me and we’ll arrange something.
Interesting links
Flotiq CMS x Astro — Maciek Palmowski
I decided to start a series showing how to connect Astro with different CMSs. In the first article, I decided to connect Astro with Flotiq. If never heard about Flotiq, you should definitely give it a try.
Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy — Namanyay Goel
This great article explains the dangers of vibe coding. I love this quote “The vibe coder’s dream turns into a nightmare not when the code doesn’t work, but when it works just well enough to be dangerous.”
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful — Scott Chacon
Git is already 20 years old and I can’t imagine working without it. It’s amazing for both managing code and content. I’m not sure if Linus imagined git will become such a standard for every developer.
Writing my first Astro Integration for Algolia indexing — Thomas Ledoux
Thomas shows how he built an Astro integration for Algolia. This article is really useful not only because it shows how to integrate Algolia, but also how to create your own integrations.
Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator — Stefano Marinelli
Bash Static Site Generator because why not? I love stories like this. Also, the Amiga 500 theme looks amazing :D
Demo Time - Presentations from VS Code — Elio Struyf
What started as a simple demo runner, is now a full-blown presentation stack inside of your Visual Studio Code. Elio already proved that VSC can be a CMS (with Frontmatter CMS), now that it can be better than PowerPoint. I wonder what next he’ll transfer into VSC.
Why I stopped using AI code editors — Luciano Nooijen
I totally agree with Luciano’s take here - editors like Cursor are amazing, but we slowly forget our craft. I’m also following the route of using AI in a more manual manner, to have at least some control over what is happening in my code.
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries — Lee Meyer
I won’t lie - I’m far behind in what you can achieve thanks to CSS. For example, I would never even though about detecting collisions using CSS.
Build your retro component library
A nice retro component library - not if you need one, but who knows? Have fun using it :D
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek