Articles on Astro, web performance, design systems, and building with Fastry.
How to install, configure, and deploy Fastry — covering site.config.ts, brand colours, navigation, writing posts, and deploying to Vercel.
A complete walkthrough of Fastry's configuration options: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, dark mode, and more.
Fastry's homepage has a new Stack Marquee: two rows of tech-stack cards scrolling opposite ways with zero JavaScript. Here's how the loop works and why it's hidden on phones.
A plain-language guide to the Google Lighthouse report: what the four scores measure, how to run one yourself, and what 100/100/100/100 says about a modern Astro site.
How the new opt-in i18n system works, what it adds when you turn it on, and the exact steps to ship your site in English plus a second language.
Fastry now has optional comments on blog posts, powered by Giscus and GitHub Discussions. The script is lazy-loaded so readers who don't scroll to the bottom pay zero cost.
Fastry now lets you configure the footer menu independently of the header navigation. Add a Privacy link, an Imprint, or a Cookie Policy without cluttering your main nav.
Fastry renders an optional TOC on blog posts in three layouts — inline card, sticky sidebar, or both — with the sidebar on the left or right. Pick what fits your audience.
A 3-state colour-mode system with no flash, live OS-preference tracking, and a pill dropdown that respects what the user actually picked. Here is how it is built.
A deep dive into every animation layer in Fastry: the spring-curve hero entrance, staggered cascades, scroll-reveal, and how it all stays smooth without a JS animation library.
Fastry ships with 57 production-ready components from the Velocity library — buttons, cards, dialogs, forms, data display, and full page-structure components. All accessible, all themed.
Fastry handles structured data, Open Graph, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and more out of the box. Here's exactly what ships and where to configure it.
Fastry's hero has an animated scroll indicator: two bouncing chevrons that fade in after the hero animation and disappear the moment you start scrolling. Here's how every part of it works.
Fastry's back-to-top button now has a circular SVG progress ring that fills as you scroll. It's brand-coloured, theme-aware, and runs entirely in CSS and a small inline script.