Turning Recipe Data into an Astro Content Collection

As I continue to dig into, and learn, Astro, I thought I’d take a look at creating custom content collections. Content collections are pretty much exactly how they sound – collection of content items you can use within your Astro site. If you go through the excellent Astro tutorial you will find this discussed at the end in the final optional step step. Content collections aren’t required – you can build dynamic sets of data just using file system operations (and that’s how the tutorial has you build the blog) – but they make it easier (imo) to re-use content throughout the site. I encourage you to check out the docs, but generally content collections come... more →
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Turning Gaza to Rubble

This week the Gaza health ministry reported that 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel started attacking the territory in October. Over a third of those killed have been children. Much of Gaza itself has also been turned to rubble.According to Bloomberg Israeli air strikes on Gaza have created 42 million tonnes of debris in the Strip. That is “enough rubble to fill a line of Maps Mania… more →
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Map apps like Waze ‘turning quiet London streets into polluted rat runs’ – Evening Standard

Evening Standard Map apps like Waze 'turning quiet London streets into polluted rat runs'Evening StandardDrivers who use super-accurate smartphone apps to avoid traffic are turning quiet streets into polluted rat runs, residents claim. Those living in cut-throughs say traffic jams and accidents are increasing because motorists are avoiding congested … map app – Google News… more →
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