Darkmatter is officially launched!
It's lift-off time! Darkmatter is finally out and available to everyone → getdarkmatter.dev. I want to thank everyone reading this once more for following...
Announcing Darkmatter's launch date
Hello, my fellow astronauts, I have an announcement to make. I'm going to launch Darkmatter on Tuesday the 19th! After 3 months of building and sharing the...
Dark mode, license manager and font settings
It's going to be a short update this time, because I've been focusing on the last 5% remaining to launch Darkmatter. Dark mode It's funny that dark mode was...
Preview, commit and push to git from Darkmatter
Previously, for Darkmatter to open the entry you're editing in the browser, you would need to run an Astro dev server yourself. Also, when you would finish...
macOS-style focus rings, union fields, new date handling and more
This week was a fruitful one and full of commits. I went through and polished literally every element of the user interface, added support for a feature I...
Write your Astro content in multiple languages
This week I shipped one of the biggest features in Darkmatter — support for writing content translated into multiple languages. All you need to do is follow...
New Astro assets API, data collections and other updates
Last week was an absolute fire. I shipped plenty of great updates to Darkmatter, so here's a quick walkthrough of what's new. New Astro assets API Astro is...
So what's missing for launch?
I realized it's been almost 2 months since I started building Darkmatter, so I thought it'd be great to understand where it's at and what's left to launch...
Acquire Markdown superpowers
I recently gave a few copies of Darkmatter to hear some early feedback. Jaga Santagostino responded with lots of valuable thoughts, among which there was one...
Niching down on Astro
I've been thinking if Darkmatter should work with other frameworks like Next.js, Gatsby or Jekyll. Writing website content in Markdown comes with the same...
The making of Darkmatter's landing page
I was happy to see a lot of positive feedback about Darkmatter's landing page last week. So when I got an email asking what goes into designing something...