Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5

In case you missed it, Astro 5 has been out and about since Dec 3, 2024. As of time of writing, we’re at 5.5.4 already. What …

Implementing pagination on an Astro blog

Even though I built the blog for our tech team to share their insights and knowledge with the rest of the interwebs, I …

Generating a weekly calendar from JSON data

The original purpose of this blog was for me to document solutions that I spent hours figuring out at work, which means it’s …

Creating excerpts in Astro

This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts …

Customising content markdown via frontmatter in Astro

The use case I had for this was to have customisable bits of a content collection that was rendered from markdown. Basically, a …