I've been working on a new website built with @astro.build & @tailwindcss.com and after far too long the first post is now up! Along the way I built a couple Expressive Code plugins. One of them adds file icons to code blocks which is what this post is about. hackingonhacks.com/blog/2025/02...

Adding file icons to Expressive Code frames

Adding and customizing file icons for your Expressive Code frames

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✨ Really happy with how much better the code snippets look on my Astro-powered site now! I used to think presenting code was a chore, and honestly, the results were often just... boring & flat. 😩 Enter: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🧵 👇

For the latest Starlight release, Astro maintainers @hideoo.bsky.social and @hippotastic.bsky.social dug into performance and accessibility. Enjoy up to 35% faster builds and improved accessible markup for our Aside and Tabs components. Make your next docs site shine at starlight.astro.build/ ✨

Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro

Starlight helps you build beautiful, high-performance documentation websites with Astro.

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