Matthew Phillips

Astro 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. 🚀

Don'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

Designing 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.

Why 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"?

💡 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]

A4 is the correct notebook size.

I'm working on this, performance is cool

Coming 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.

Coming 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.

I 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.org

Robot finally has entry actions and reducers. github.com/matthewp/rob...

Isn't it crazy that people used to show up to the airport with their bags and buy a ticket at the counter?

Ship your first plugin to the EmDash registry. All you need is an Atmosphere account and an idea

nothing makes me miss Astro more than working with other systems. They just don't do it as good IMO

Do you use Astro’s experimental Container API? We need your feedback! 💬 github.com/withastro/ro...

I'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.

v7 of @astrojs/react includes support for the @react.dev compiler 🚀 docs.astro.build/en/guides/in...

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There might be better out there, but this de-slop skill is pretty good: github.com/hardikpandya...

A restaurant with good after-dinner coffee is rare and should be cherished.

AI Writing Is Fine matthewphillips.info/programming/...

Why don't most of us author blog posts as word document (like .odt) files? Why do people prefer markdown? I don't get it.

That's how you'll create a **JavaScript** plugin with @biomejs.dev Coming soon...

Pac-Mania is underrated.

When 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 🫡

Is 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.

Two weeks until Astro Together in Wiesbaden, Germany! Join Astro maintainers for an evening of talks and demos at @seibert.group HQ. Sign up today 👇️ go.seibert.group/astro-togeth...

Astro DX in Biome is about to get better, thanks to @erika.florist and @astro.build

Why are the alliance people in Rogue One considered heroes? They failed to get the plans to the right people in time to stop Alderaan from being destroyed. They failed.

AI doesn't make better software but it does make a whole lot more of it. And that's a major value to have.

Been an adult for quite a while and still can't flip an egg without breaking the yoke 50% of the time

Today niri became 3 years old! 🎉 I implemented and merged animations for windows moving between workspaces. This was the last *major* missing anim. Took so long because it's tricky with Z ordering (moving windows must be on top of everything), clipping, and syncing 3 different animations. #niri

"...We’re committing an additional $1M in funding to sponsor and support open-source projects over the next two years, with eligible Community Engineers receiving grants from the fund to support their continuing work in open source..." blog.cloudflare.com/community-pr...

Astro 7.2 is out now! Experimental incremental static builds are here: only re-render the pages that actually changed and watch your build times drop. Plus opt-out session support, background astro preview, and relative logger entrypoints. astro.build/blog/astro-7...

The crazy thing about the play where Bo Jackson throws a guy out at home from deep left field is that he doesn't appear to be throwing it that hard (for him). youtu.be/eB9wi_zvMdM?...

I've said this before, but there aren't enough movies with anthropomorphic animals.

Replies are the only thing that matters on a *social* network. Without replies it's a microblog. This is the only thing that Bluesky should be focusing on. Stop promoting AT. Stop all other projects. Stop fixing bugs. Focus only on things that lead to replies.

How is it possible that every time I go down a grocery store aisle someone is parked in the exact place I'm needing to get to

Astro 7.1 is about giving you more control: finer-grained CSP for scripts and styles, custom pagination URLs, plus multiple dev servers and lower memory content collections. astro.build/blog/astro-7...

@astro.build Is really cool. I like that it actually generates HTML, rather than generating JS that *then* generates HTML (but you can still add in reactive JS with their "islands" concept if you want).

Baseball is the most chill sport to attend in person.

There reaches a point where you're at a level of cognition where saying you hate AI becomes a bit of a prejudice.