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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 26/08/2026

Managed to write a whole Minecraft server management app in laravel and deploy it on a vps where only users in a NetBird group can connect, ama Will share the source code once it’s done, but for now I can connect and play on a server running in docker

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 14/08/2026

Other small php package i've tagged yesterday: commonmark-directives! It adds a parser & renderer for markdown directives into the commommark package; just add a class with a render method and you're off to the races :) github.com/matfire/comm...

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GitHub - matfire/commonmark-directives

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 09/08/2026

Here's something I tagged earlier today: a helper package to use electricsql with laravel! I wrote and tested it to use with inertia + react + tanstack db and it works really well :) github.com/matfire/lara...

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GitHub - matfire/laravel-electricsql

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 22/07/2026

Here's the latest package I've been working on for @astro.build: npmx.dev/package/@matfire/astro-dir… 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)...

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 09/07/2026

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 ⬇️

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GitHub - better-releases/brel

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 05/07/2026

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 :)

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@matfire/satteri-photoswipe - npmx

A Satteri plugin that prepares images for PhotoSwipe

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 14/06/2026

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 17/05/2026

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

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Better Release PRs with brel

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 08/05/2026

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

mlogs.leaflet.pub

Facteur EP 1: Architecture

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 14/03/2026

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)

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@matfire/drizzle-sluggable - npmx

Generate unique scoped slugs for Drizzle ORM inserts and updates

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 20/02/2026

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 🎉🎉

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 11/02/2026

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

show a table of versions for focuslive with version 0.1 in a status of "pending review"

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 05/02/2026

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...

a yellow block, a green block and a red block with random text inside

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 26/01/2026

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 25/01/2026

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 25/01/2026

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

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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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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 22/01/2026

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…

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 21/01/2026

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 13/01/2026

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

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Balzac

Fast, safe static site generator in Rust

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 12/01/2026

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 09/01/2026

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)

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 08/01/2026

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...

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Balzac - Fast, Safe Static Site Generator

Memory-safe static site generator with Handlebars templating and Markdown content collections.

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 04/01/2026

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)

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Balzac - Fast, Safe Static Site Generator

Memory-safe static site generator with Handlebars templating and Markdown content collections.

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 04/01/2026

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

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 03/01/2026

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

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 16/12/2025

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

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Jobtrail EP 3: Laravel New'd

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 16/12/2025

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 15/12/2025

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

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 10/12/2025

Second log for Jobtrail: a bit of rambling about creating effective checkpoints

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Jobtrail EP:2 Thinking about Checkpoints

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 09/12/2025

Decided to give leaflet a try! Think of this publication kind of like a devlog. I'll later look into incorporating these posts in my website, but that will be way down the road

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Jobtrail EP 1: The art of yak shaving

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 01/12/2025

How did I find myself building a job application platform instead of looking for and applying for jobs? Is this what they call yak shaving? Will have more info on this soon, since it will be open source and mostly free to use 👍

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 26/11/2025

Well, looks like I'm on hunt for a place to work... So here's the spiel: if you need a developer that can do frontend, backend, PHP, JS, Go (kind of), Rust (kind of), Python and can work on its own (remote), hit me up! You can check what I do/write in my website (link in bio)

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 08/11/2025

And now my other package (for remark, this time) is updated to use tsdown & esm only github.com/matfire/remark-directive…

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 07/11/2025

just tagged v1.0.0 of rehype-photoswipe early this morning! It's now fully converted to typescript, esm only and built on tsdown :) You can find the repo here: github.com/matfire/rehype-photoswipe And it's also what I use on my website for blog/project images 😉

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 24/10/2025

What if, instead of focusing on writing a new blog post, I remade my website once again ? And, on top of that, I built my own "framework" ? It would be stupid right ? Unless... I mean I've been trying to find a reason to dive into making Vite plugins & testing nitro v3... But it would be stupid...

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 21/10/2025

Concorde (concorde.sh) has been indexed by context7! Now you can easily use it with your agent of choice 🥳 (llms.txt coming soon-ish)

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 14/10/2025

I think I finally made something useful: Concorde (concorde.sh)! Concorde is a type safe wrapper for Pusher (server & client side) that provides a way to declare all the events you'll handle in advance...

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 22/09/2025

New article just dropped! Learn how to build an rss/atom feed for your @nuxt.com website using server routes and nuxt content collections: www.matteogassend.com/articles/nux...

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Making an RSS Feed for a Nuxt Website

learn what an rss feed is and how to build one for Nuxt website

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 20/09/2025

I have a newsletter ! You can sign up for it on mostly any page of my website (www.matteogassend.com). I swear I won't spam you :)

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 01/09/2025

New portfolio is up! 🎉🎉 Based on the "spotlight" template from @tailwindcss.com and reworked to work with @nuxt.com and nuxt content. Works like a charm ! You can find it here: www.matteogassend.com

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 09/08/2025

An unholy (or most holy) union has been performed! I am using resend’s React-email inside a @nuxt.com 4 project, along with the preview server and full type safety up to the api route 🎉 Article coming soon, but I’ll need to polish the implementation a bit

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 14/07/2025

I recently (kind of) participated in the T3Chat Cloneathon where I tried to build my own ai chat webapp. Here's the postmortem for it! www.matteogassend.com/blog/t3-clon...

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T3Chat Cloneathon Postmortem

I participated in the T3Chat cloneathon; here's how it went

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 11/07/2025

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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new Date("wtf")

How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 15/06/2025

Currently trying to compete in the #t3chat cloneathon. Just merged the feature allowing you to BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) to any provider that supports it (whihc right now is only OpenRouter)

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Matteo Gassend @matteogassend.com · 10/06/2025

The epitome of procrastination: building a text editor to write articles in instead of actually writing articles I'm almost done, I swear!

a screenshot of a markdown editor with a live preview on the side

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