2024-10-28 from 18:00 to 20:00 - Zeroseven, 340 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, AU
2024-10-31 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Method4, 12-14 Trade Street, Cardiff, CF10 5DT, Cardiff, GB
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.
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.