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Scripts, workflows, and tooling that take the repetitive work off your plate.

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22 Sept 2026 · 15 min read

Automating Dev.to cross-posting from an Astro blog

A Node.js script that reads your frontmatter, sets the canonical URL, and publishes or updates in one command

How to cross-post Astro blog posts to Dev.to automatically: reading frontmatter from markdown files, converting mermaid diagrams and SVGs to images, normalising tags, and setting the canonical URL so search engines attribute traffic back to your site.

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22 Apr 2026, BST · 6 min read

The playwright-explore-website Copilot skill

From the awesome-copilot example to a stricter Playwright MCP workflow

How I set up a personal playwright-explore-website GitHub Copilot skill, starting from the awesome-copilot example and adding MCP bootstrap instructions, stricter rendered-UI review rules, safer browser exploration, and cleaner Playwright session outputs.

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