Here's the latest package I've been working on for @astro.build: https://npmx.dev/package/@matfire/astro-directives You can register your astro components as handler for markdown directives (with Sätteri) and have them replaced with said component at render time (no js needed)...

Better-releases just got some well deserved love! github.com/better-relea... Here’s a list of new things that just landed: - Support for changelogen alongside git-cliff - better workflow generation with commands instead of inlined bash - support for yaml files ⬇️

following the new @astro.build release, I decided to make a satteri version of my photoswipe plugin (originally for rehype); you can find it here: npmx.dev/package/@mat... And also see it live on any article on my website :)

@matfire/satteri-photoswipe - npmx

A Satteri plugin that prepares images for PhotoSwipe

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Btw if you’re interested in trying it out and help me find any rough edges hit me up 🤙

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 2mo ago

Some news about Facteur: things are moving!

Some news about Facteur: things are moving!

Facteur EP 2: Status Update

mlogs.leaflet.pub

Did I mention a made a small tool for Release management? It's called better-releases (aka Brel) and I just wrote a small blog post about it. You can find it here: go.mgsnd.link/brel

Better Release PRs with brel

Better releases, a universal tool for release prs that just works

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Something I've been thinking about for a while. More on it soon™

Facteur EP 1: Architecture

mlogs.leaflet.pub

I tried building a sluggifier package for @drizzle.team inspired by laravel-sluggable from spatie and I just tagged v1.0.0. If this is something that might come in handy, you can find it here: npmx.dev/package/@mat... Do let me know what you think (can definitely be improved I think)

@matfire/drizzle-sluggable - npmx

Generate unique scoped slugs for Drizzle ORM inserts and updates

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I think I did this right? All my articles should be synced to a standard publication, with links working correctly between the publication and the documents 🎉🎉

focuscast is coming to a streamdeck near you! 🎉 (it just needs to be approved first)

ah, that feeling when you're just debugging adding things to the screen and it looks terrible but you haven't had to go down the rabbit hole of ui/ux and lost hours on it...

And now we have a website: focuscast.live

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 6mo ago

I made a thing that's practically finished! Focuscast is a @ratatui.rs tui that allows users to create mappings between applications and obs sources. It will automatically toggle the visibility of the created mappings when the focused window gets changed

I made a thing that's practically finished! Focuscast is a @ratatui.rs tui that allows users to create mappings between applications and obs sources. It will automatically toggle the visibility of the created mappings when the focused window gets changed

Also did this for a yet to be released package, more on it soon

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 6mo ago

Finally setup proper distribution for balzac using @release-plz.dev and dist! I am happy to announce you can now get balzac from brew, npm and as binary packages: you can check the latest release here github.com/getbalzac/ba... Easiest way to use it definitely to just npx balzac build

Finally setup proper distribution for balzac using @release-plz.dev and dist! I am happy to announce you can now get balzac from brew, npm and as binary packages: you can check the latest release here github.com/getbalzac/ba... Easiest way to use it definitely to just npx balzac build

Release 0.1.8 - 2026-01-25 · getbalzac/balzac

Release Notes 🐛 Bug Fixes Npm release Install balzac 0.1.8 Install prebuilt binaries via shell script curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/getbalzac/balzac/releases/download/v...

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Wow is @tanstack.com ai good! Managed to setup a small website generator with custom system prompts, tools and such in record time and with little friction on the package size (more of a prompting issue). Still need to figure out a way to save/restore message history server side…

Oh yeah, forgot to mention Balzac now has support for automatic sitemap generation! This required some (a lot of) rework of the build pipeline, but now it has opened the path more useful helpers which were impossible before, like being able to get the list of all elements in a collection to build a

Live working on a linear alternative built (partly) with automerge, come hang out! www.twitch.tv/code_tavern

Code_Tavern - Twitch

Your friendly neighborhood developer.Mostly working on side projects.Also created Magitools, a suite of productivity tools

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Aaand we've got docs fresh out the oven! built with starlight (honestly I did not want to remake all components in handlebars to use balzac to build balzac's docs - though that's possible) docs.balzac.rs

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 7mo ago

Balzac has experimental support for vite as a bundler. If enabled, it will read the vite manifest file and provide a {{vite_url}} handlebars helper to automatically get the proper url for an asset. Or will be merged shortly, but still needs some more logic to work flawlessly

Balzac has experimental support for vite as a bundler. If enabled, it will read the vite manifest file and provide a {{vite_url}} handlebars helper to automatically get the proper url for an asset. Or will be merged shortly, but still needs some more logic to work flawlessly

Finally started looking into #automerge and I think I’m hooked. Still need to figure network sync with authentication, but shouldn’t be too hard (hopefully)

Balzac 0.1.3 is out! Partially built live on twitch, this is an experiment in static site generation using #rust. You can find more info on it at balzac.rs and the latest release at github.com/getbalzac/ba.... 0.1.3 brings markdown collections with frontmatter parsing...

Got collection rendering working with markdown files 🎉 Now I just need to get frontmatter parsing working (& some. refactor to make it easier to read) and we're off to the races btw the website is here: balzac.rs (currently also working on docs)

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 7mo ago

Live again working on balzac, a static site generator written in #rust www.twitch.tv/code_tavern

Live again working on balzac, a static site generator written in #rust www.twitch.tv/code_tavern

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Going live to learn rust here in a few minutes, come and have fun ! www.twitch.tv/code_tavern

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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New jobtrail update: a bit of an explanation of the original architecture and the new one

Jobtrail EP 3: Laravel New'd

mlogs.leaflet.pub

Update: Graph is back down, as is my heart rate

Matteo Gassend@matteogassend.com · 8mo ago

Now this is what I like to see! Had a little issue with docker images and containers taking up way too much space (even though snapshots only took like 50gb). Pruned some stuff and storage is being free

Now this is what I like to see! Had a little issue with docker images and containers taking up way too much space (even though snapshots only took like 50gb). Pruned some stuff and storage is being free