Building My Own Social Network Poster in Astro / / No Comments Today is a big day for Astro, not only do you get Astro v6 (it just released a few hours ago!), you also get one of my demos! Ok, one of these is more important than the other, but, I’m really excited about v6 and hope to have a demo of the new features to share soon. With that being said, I’m also sharing a demo I started work on a few weeks ago and finally wrapped up this past weekend – Social Beast. What is Social Beast Social Beast is a web app meant to be run locally (although I have some thoughts on that restriction and will share at the end) that handles posting to multiple social networks at once. Right now "multiple" is two: Mastodon Bluesky It doesn’t... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Astro, building, Network, Poster, Social
Make a Map Poster / / No Comments Ankur Gupta has created an impressive Map Poster Generator. The code for which is available on GitHub.While the original repository is fantastic for developers, it also requires a local Python setup, terminal commands, and the installation of geospatial libraries like OSMnx and GDAL – which can be intimidating if you aren’t a coder.I’ve therefore adapted the core logic into a Google Colab Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Poster