In celebration of the holiday reorg/backup of my nature and birding pics, and doing so in a way that makes my photos easier to access from all my devices, here are two approving swans. 🦢🪶 #BirdPhotography #birding #birds

Thanks to @43081j.com for contributing a **massive** improvement in rendering performance. Benchmarking reports as high as 11x improvement 🤩. Upgrade to [email protected] when you can. James gave an excellent explanation of the improvement in the PR: github.com/withastro/as... Open source ftw!

Starting 2026 with a bang! After 6 months of hard work, 15k lines of code and lots of accessibility testing, we are proud to finally release StudioCMS UI 1.0. Your favorite Astro-native UI library is back and better than ever Read more at studiocms.dev/blog/studioc...

logging into my zooms on Monday like

The Government of Canada having foreign travel advisories for "exercise high degree of caution" for most of Western Europe, but still keeping the USA in full green, is insane. travel.gc.ca/travelling/a...

Someone needs to update “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” But only using references occurring since January 2025.

will not be making a list of New Year’s resolutions until I see 2026 making a few of its own first

So one of the limitations I see with LLM tools for beginner developer learning is that it's often easier to teach based on a subset of examples that do something specific rather than a prompt to generate "anything you like" for a few reasons...

Designing software means forever balancing two opposing consequences of the limits of working memory: - wanting conciseness and relying more on tacit knowledge to make writing code feel easier - wanting clarity and relying less on tacit knowledge to make understanding code feel easier No escape.

Happy holidays! I got this cute card with birds on it and wanted to share it 🥳 I don’t know who painted this but it’s sooo adorable! #birds

Shout out to a simply outstanding Bluesky Android app, and somehow, an even better developer! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and well-deserved holiday from me and my evil devices (14" mobile display? S-pen? Dex? Is there anything we can't throw at you?)

An excellent read about maintaining open-source projects. Covers the high and lows, including many difficult topics, with care and thoughtfulness.

A lil #corvid collection @pixeldailies.bsky.social #Pixel_Dailies #PixelArt #PICO8 (2870x Streak!)

What's wrong babe, you've barely touched your machine that makes writers obsolete

Diligently did my homework, but a last-minute alpha Astro release pulled me away from the live chat itself. Does it count for something that I stopped and bought a domain while reading the first 2 chapters? 😂

I cannot imagine how many people are going to be harassed at the airport this week because of this article alone. It will likely cause abuse for many ambulatory wheelchair users or has anyone with a non apparent disability. It’s completely unacceptable actively harmful rhetoric

You know what would be cool? If some of these guys tried to replace the internet with a simple-answers machine where they control what's inside, how you access it, and what it's allowed to say. I can't imagine any problems with that! Maybe we should use their output to build all future software?

Really looking forward to this, starting this week! You're not too late! You don't even need to have started reading yet! Just join and chat about writing for developers! (Personally curious to see if there's a Team BLAHG vs Team DAWKS split in representation. I might need reinforcements...)

When we were in Europe during the World Series, I had to turn off every notification on my phone (looking at you, 2015 Canadian Tire marketing email that spoiled a post-season series win when we were in Prague). Slowly re-figuring out notification life, because WHAT IF BO BICHETTE?!!??! #BlueJays

Totally remember this commercial. Still delightful.

I love that the PEI result is probably wildly confusing to almost every Canadian not from PEI.

Just got my 2025 Wrapped from my Samsung Smart Fridge

We ask why are there no women in leadership? or why are there no women speaking at this conference. The lack of nursing rooms at conference is a contributing factor..imo #blogvent Here's a blog post about my alarming, but naive experience dev.to/blackgirlbyt...

Do you love Astro? Then you love Yan. Do you need to be more like Astro? Then you need Yan.

Attacked. But also, thank you KaraoKeys. 💜 #AltoProblems

I don't have the "Part 2" graphic yet, but @florian-lefebvre.dev and @jbrains.ca will be at it again, next week! Come hang out with the @astro.build community and get a peek at what it takes to *maintain* and *improve* the existing codebase... so we can more easily deliver you shiny new features!

We're only a week into December, way too early for *me* to be thinking about our @astro.build content, but so much has already happened and this Astro Weekly is a can't miss! newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...

Lazy Sundays are for updating to @astro.build Starlight v0.37! 🌟 Fixed some typos and outdated links on my site while I was also there to refresh/downplay the old Gitpod (RIP) content.

Sometimes we struggle getting buy-in from others about improving our software designs. I think I know one of the ways that happens: blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/a-...

I love seeing people using Astro for fun, and this Othello game was def fun! Took a little break to play against myself.

Since I mention working on it every month, if you follow me, you probably already know Astro has a newsletter. But, have you subscribed to it? Visit the web archive at https://buttondown.com/withastro/archive/ and if you like what you see, subscribe before the November edition goes out tomorrow!

🌟 Starlight 0.37 is now available with a bunch of bug fixes and improvements! Check out the full release notes: github.com/withastro/st...

Preparing the November blog post and newsletter, and it's truly an embarrassment of riches this month. Gonna have to call this the "Oops! All adopters!" edition. Too many big names are now using Astro/Starlight! My little call out section is meant for *maybe* four websites, tops! 😂

Worlds are colliding! @jbrains.ca will be working live and in public with one of our core @astro.build maintainers on some refactoring of our experimental Fonts API. Join us on Dec 2, 9amET/15:00CET

Something I learned recently is a Canadianism: "rhyme off", as in "I can rhyme off all the players on the 1993 Blue Jays by heart". The Dictionary of Canadianisms project at UBC shows it as specifically an Ontarioism dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/rhym...

l accomplished two household chores today, and while I in no way deserve a medal, I'm gonna take the win. And if you need a win today, heck, share mine! We did it, fam! 🥳

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I had maintainers of OSS projects thanking me for addressing what's sometimes uncomfortable to say and hard to explain: some contributions are more appreciated than others! Practical tips for channeling your enthusiasm into MEANINGFUL contributions. (And, tips for maintainers to help you GET them.)

Astro 5.16 is out, featuring SVG optimizations and more! astro.build/blog/astro-5...

I made the @reactadvanced.gitnation.org marketing email! You want to be a part of the very first React Advanced conference in **Canada**, don't you?? Attend in person (Toronto), or remotely: reactadvanced.com/canada/

Fun fact: it was a wild, long, extra-inning game late in 1998 (not even a Toronto #BlueJays game!) I watched with Joe that hooked me on baseball. I'm so excited that this *objectively entertaining* 2025 World Series likely spawned a whole new batch of Blue Jays/baseball fans across Canada.

theconversation.com/boys-do-cry-... #BlueJays

@hideoo.dev is truly an MVP for Astro and Starlight. starlight-blog, starlight-links-validator, etc. - I can't imagine how much harder my docs site would be without their work.

(K, but next talk: DIY frumpy unisex T-shirt cutting tutorial?)

Steeling myself for the comments, but T-minus 5 hours until the premiere of my ViteConf talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzogTYPv65M

Many thanks and kind appreciation to those who knew we were trying to watch the World Series while travelling/working in Europe and may have been behind... and so didn't mention #BlueJays to me at all! I'm heartbroken for THEM, but elated for US. So epic. Much everything. I loved it. Bring on 2026.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

#bluejays 2025 a team we will never forget 🫶⚾️🧢🇨🇦🍁

Astro was one of the fastest growing languages on @GitHub.com this year. Shout out to Luau, @Typst.app, @Laravel.com Blade, and @TypeScriptLang.org for making the top 5!

From booooo-tiful sites to tools for ghouls, come get your fill of thrills and spills! 🎃 It’s our monthly update from the Astroverse astro.build/blog/whats-n...