Matt Brailsford
Umbraco Commerce Technical Team Lead @ Umbraco HQ | Co-founder of CODECABIN | Creator of UMB.FYI
2024-10-09
📰 Launching the GitHub Discussions Blog Loader for Astro
Matt Brailsford introduces a GitHub Discussions Blog loader, leveraging Astro’s new Content Layer API. This loader simplifies data fetching for blog posts, allowing easy installation via npm. He highlights improvements like multi-author support, category organization, and integration with Astro's markdown processor, encouraging users to explore this setup.
2024-10-02
📰 Building a GitHub Discussions Powered Blog
Matt Brailsford explores using GitHub Discussions as a blogging platform, seeking an alternative to dev.to due to its increasing spam. He details setting up a repository for blog posts, configuring categories and labels, and utilizing Astro for site creation. Matt highlights features like Markdown support, automated deployments, and comment integration via Giscus.