Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMatthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 14hAstro 7.4 ships experimental parallel prerendering. I tried it on the Astro docs (6,358 pages): build time went from 67s to 37s, 45% faster. 🚀 2365 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 14hAstro 7.4 ships experimental parallel prerendering. I tried it on the Astro docs (6,358 pages): build time went from 67s to 37s, 45% faster. 🚀 2365 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 14hPoint your agent to these docs and tell it to upgrade your site today: docs.astro.build/en/reference...docs.astro.buildExperimental parallel prerendering 050 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsVoidZero @voidzero.dev · 14/10/2026Don't we all want a @github.com Inbox zero? Especially now where issues an PRs are being raised left and right. @fancypenguin.party will tell us how he reached that goal in "How We Drove @astro.build's GitHub Issues to Zero" 🎉 @ViteConf 2026, Thu 15 Oct, 14:00 UTC. Free and online. viteconf.org 072 0
Reposted by Matthew Phillipsαℓιѕσи 🤙 @qntmplation.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Designing software that agents can operate and designing software that incorporates / embeds agents are two very different engineering problems, and I'm convinced that the former is the more durable long-term investment for infrastructure projects. 021 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 13/10/2026Oh hot take, I have not partaken in spiral bindings yet. 000 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 13/10/2026Why is it that when you're in the pasta aisle at the grocery and you see the brands in the bag (vs a box) and you think "oh this must be premium"? 030 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsLea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 12/10/2026💡 One underrated benefit of AI: it can operationalize (cognitive) empathy. Hear me out. Most people struggle to see things from someone else's perspective. So many biases in the way: confirmation bias, curse of knowledge, etc. [1/2] 271 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 12/10/2026It's not obvious to everyone still today to run a build inside of an agent environment, so spelling it out helps paint the picture of how this will be useful to them. Also, if I had excluded that part, this would not have gotten 1/4th the engagement. 010 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsErika @erika.florist · 12/10/2026I'm working on this, performance is cool 1271 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMatthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 12/10/2026Coming soon to @astro.build we're adding a --timings flag you can have your agents run to figure out what is slowing down your build, and have it fix it. 2514 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 12/10/2026Coming soon to @astro.build we're adding a --timings flag you can have your agents run to figure out what is slowing down your build, and have it fix it. 2514 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMatthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 07/10/2026I built a window manager / compositor in the style of the Atari TOS. Despite the vintage look it has most modern features, like windowed, tiling and scrolling modes. It includes a web browser, email client, and word processor. gemwm.orggemwm.orgGemWM: the Atari ST desktop for WaylandGemWM is a Wayland compositor that looks like the Atari ST's GEM desktop: a desktop in the ST's colours, the GEM menu bar and black and white windows, with window, tiling and scrolling modes, and apps... 2112 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 07/10/2026I built a window manager / compositor in the style of the Atari TOS. Despite the vintage look it has most modern features, like windowed, tiling and scrolling modes. It includes a web browser, email client, and word processor. gemwm.orggemwm.orgGemWM: the Atari ST desktop for WaylandGemWM is a Wayland compositor that looks like the Atari ST's GEM desktop: a desktop in the ST's colours, the GEM menu bar and black and white windows, with window, tiling and scrolling modes, and apps... 2112 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 07/10/2026Wifi, Bluetooth, volume, printing, notifications apps (among others). Also includes a DBus service for LLM access, meaning desktop apps can use AI features (the email client has opt-in message categorization for ex). WIP. 100 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 05/10/2026Robot finally has entry actions and reducers. github.com/matthewp/rob...github.comRelease robot3@1.4.0 · matthewp/robotMinor Changes 6b7bc17: Reducers and actions can now be passed to state(), and run whenever the machine enters that state. const machine = createMachine({ loading: state( reduce((ctx) => ({ ... 010 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 30/09/2026Nope, there's no reason you should be carefully reading and understanding walls of text when you have tools to summarize and review for you. 100 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 30/09/2026Isn't it crazy that people used to show up to the airport with their bags and buy a ticket at the counter? 121 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsEmDash CMS @emdashcms.com · 28/09/2026Ship your first plugin to the EmDash registry. All you need is an Atmosphere account and an ideaemdashcms.comShip your plugin to the EmDash plugin registryThe EmDash plugin registry launches with 1.0. Here's how to scaffold a sandboxed plugin, publish it from your own Atmosphere account, and get it listed for EmDash sites. 1275 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsAndy Bell @bell.bz · 25/09/2026nothing makes me miss Astro more than working with other systems. They just don't do it as good IMOset.studioAstro is our preferred front-end platformWe’ve tried every combination of front-end platform and back-end integration you can think of over the years, but nothing has been as consistently excellent than Astro for us. 3573 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsAstro @astro.build · 25/09/2026Do you use Astro’s experimental Container API? We need your feedback! 💬 github.com/withastro/ro...github.comContainer APIs by ematipico · Pull Request #916 · withastro/roadmapSummary An API for rendering components in isolation: // Card.test.js import Card from "../src/components/Card.astro" import astroConfig from "../src/astro.config.mjs"; const c... 1184 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMatt Kane @mk.gg · 24/09/2026I'm going to be launching something pretty big next week, which just happens to include a new atproto AppView, labeler, blob proxy, lexicons. It will have tens of thousands of users, most of whom won't even know they're using atproto, or have even heard of it. 121557 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsAstro @astro.build · 23/09/2026v7 of @astrojs/react includes support for the @react.dev compiler 🚀 docs.astro.build/en/guides/in...docs.astro.build@astrojs/reactLearn how to use the @astrojs/react framework integration to extend component support in your Astro project. 1152 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 20/09/2026flaviocopes.com/jev/flaviocopes.comA deep dive into Jev, TypeSafe's System One modelLearn how Jev turns text into typed choices, scores, and probabilities, with JavaScript examples, practical patterns, limits, and real use cases. 090 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 19/09/2026There might be better out there, but this de-slop skill is pretty good: github.com/hardikpandya...github.comGitHub - hardikpandya/stop-slop: A skill file for removing AI tells from proseA skill file for removing AI tells from prose. Contribute to hardikpandya/stop-slop development by creating an account on GitHub. 091 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 17/09/2026A restaurant with good after-dinner coffee is rare and should be cherished. 130 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 13/09/2026Does it convey the information it is attempting? That's all that matters, whether you can sherlock its authorship or not. 100 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 13/09/2026AI Writing Is Fine matthewphillips.info/programming/...matthewphillips.infoAI Writing Is Fine 260 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 12/09/2026It's not about any particular feature, it's more about why abandon 40+ years of word processor innovation for a shittier word processor. People act like word processors are complicated but it's just some xml files in a zip. 100 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 11/09/2026Live fields is the only thing I can think of that can't be translated. 000 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 11/09/2026You can just not use features that don't translate to HTML. Not even sure what those things are, but are niche. 100 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 11/09/2026Yeah but why should I use them and not a word processor. Markdown editors don't have comments. Why use a lesser thing. 111 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 11/09/2026Books are written in word, not markdown. I don't know why writing a short article shouldn't involve basic niceties. 130 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 11/09/2026Why don't most of us author blog posts as word document (like .odt) files? Why do people prefer markdown? I don't get it. 820 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsEmanuele (Ema) @ematipico.xyz · 09/09/2026That's how you'll create a **JavaScript** plugin with @biomejs.dev Coming soon... 3232 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 10/09/2026This means I can write a Biome plugin in C and compile it to wasm... 120 0
Matthew Phillips @fancypenguin.party · 27/08/2026Amazing! Let's move the ClientRouter into a separate package, because it won't be needed for everyone. 010 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMartin Trapp @martr.app · 27/08/2026When those become available in all browsers we can finally get Astro‘s transition:persist natively on the web platform! Shout out to @fancypenguin.party, who envisioned and built this years ago 🫡 191 0
Reposted by Matthew PhillipsMatt Kane @mk.gg · 24/08/2026Is EmDash ready for production? The Cloudflare blog moved to EmDash, and then handled a busy Agents Week and a DDoS thrown in for good measure, without batting an eyelid. The team has written up how they did it. 1313 0