Happy Tuesday, Astronauts!
How are those New Year’s resolutions holding up?
This week we have updates on Starlight being nominated for an award in the Oscars of Tech, plus some fantastic resources to level up your content game in Astro, as well as our usual Astro Showcase to excite and inspire!
Let’s jump right in!
This week in Astro ✨
The purr-fect start to 2024?
Starlight nominated for Golden Kitty Award 😻
Forget the Emmys, the biggest awards news this week comes from the annual Golden Kitty Awards by Product Hunt — and there’s reason to celebrate!
Starlight, the web framework for building modern documentation websites by Astro, has been nominated in the Open Source category. 🎉
Every vote matters, so be sure to show your support and vote for Starlight — but be quick, voting closes Sunday, January 21st.
Astro Community 🧑🚀
Add reading time to Astro in the time it takes to read this newsletter
Adding reading time to Astro 📚
Jahir Fiquitiva has published this useful guide on adding reading time to your Astro projects without the hassle.
Jahir advocates against the conventional Astro recipe for calculating reading time on blog posts.
Instead, Jahir proposes a more efficient approach using existing data and a custom utility function. This alternative not only skips unnecessary steps but also provides a more efficient method for calculating reading time.
Publish content to Astro with Obsidian ✍️
Tired of writing your blog posts in VS Code? Lazar Nikolov believes he may have the perfect solution to change your Astro content authoring workflow forever.
In this video demonstration, Lazar shows us how you can use Obsidian, a free Markdown editor, to publish content to your Astro site.
If you have something awesome you’d like to share with the Astro community, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X
AstroXtra 💫
What’s happening on Twitter X this week…
Direct link for web version:
https://twitter.com/mattsichterman/status/1745556616013819954
Astro Showcase 🌠
trAnsForM yOuR teXt eFforTleSsLY
This week, I'm excited to introduce a fantastic side project crafted by Mani — switchcase.xyz
This free and secure tool easily converts your text to UPPER CASE, lower case, Capital Case, Sentence case, AlTeRnAtE CaSe, and more with just a simple click.
What sets it apart? It's not just a versatile text converter; it's powered by Astro.
Thanks Astro for being the least friction JS framework I've ever come across 🥲
Other Astro projects in orbit 🪐
More great Astro projects worth checking out! ↓
\Would you like your work to be featured in our Astro Showcase? Get in touch at [email protected] or DM me on X
Beyond the Astrosphere 🪐
What caught my eye outside of Astro this week…
Uneed — curated list of the best tools and resources on the Internet
t3.gg YouTube — daily videos covering the latest hot topics and trends in the world of web development
LogoFast — create beautiful logos with AI fast and free
That’s all for this week!
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Have a great week!
– Nathan 🧑🚀
