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Updated Aug 3, 2026

Published August 3, 2026

Five Footer Layouts, and the One That Ships

Simple, minimal, stacked, centered and columns. The default builds its own columns from your nav, your tags and your projects, and shrinks back to a single row when a site has nothing to put in them.

Published August 3, 2026

Newsletter Signup: Collect Subscribers

A signup that posts to a Resend audience, in the footer of every page. On by default, and it tells you when its keys are missing instead of waiting for a visitor to find out.

Published July 25, 2026

Umami Analytics: Cookieless, Built In

Umami works out of the box: private, cookieless web analytics. Set one environment variable and you get visitor numbers with no cookie banner.

Published July 25, 2026

Updating Without Losing Your Content

Astro Rocket is installed with git clone, so updating is a git merge rather than an npm install. Here's the safe, reversible way to do it.

Published July 7, 2026

The Click-to-Play YouTube Embed

Embed a YouTube video with one component. The page ships only a thumbnail; the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com on play, so Lighthouse stays at 100.

Published June 12, 2026

Video Slides in Project Galleries

Project carousels now accept self-hosted video slides next to images. Here's how to use them, how they work, and why they don't cost a single Lighthouse point.

Published June 9, 2026

Set a Custom Logo and Site Name

Swap the auto-generated monogram for your own logo, rename your site, and choose a logo-with-wordmark or logo-only header — mostly from one config file.

Published June 7, 2026

The Stack Marquee: A Pure-CSS Tech Strip

Two rows of tech-stack cards scrolling opposite ways with no JavaScript. How the homepage marquee loop works, and why it is hidden on phones.

Published May 11, 2026 Updated July 1, 2026

Going Multilingual with Native i18n

How the opt-in i18n works: locale routing, the t()/tData() dictionary, an auto-localized blog, projects and pages, and how to ship a multilingual site.

Published May 9, 2026 Updated July 1, 2026

Blog Comments: Giscus, Cusdis or Artalk

Astro Rocket's blog comments are pluggable: pick Giscus, Cusdis, or the fully self-hosted Artalk. All three lazy-load on scroll — skip them and you pay nothing.

Published May 9, 2026

A Footer Menu Separate From the Header

Configure the footer menu independently of the header navigation: add a Privacy link, an Imprint, or a Cookie Policy without cluttering your main nav.

Published May 9, 2026

Table of Contents for Long Posts

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.

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