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Notes on creating a simple static landing page site using my Astro template

20:33, 21 February 2026 [Initially I wanted to see if I could quickly find some other Astro template that I could use to create a simple static landing page site for a primary & secondary education (K-12) rural Indian school. So I did some searching for it ....] Now looking at Astro Base - https://github.com/jonnysmillie/astro-base Some issues: Mobile menu takes up whole window width. Does not support dark mode. The developer has an interesting showcase of websites: https://jonnysmillie.dev/websites/ ------- Top 23 free Astro themes for building out-of-this-world static sites in 2023, https://cloudcannon.com/blog/top-23-free-astro-themes-for-building-out-of-this-world-static-sites-in-2023/ https://github.com/arthelokyo/astrowind , 5.5K stars, MIT License, https://astrowind.vercel.app/ - Initial thoughts were that it was very impressive. But when I dug into the source code for a simple case of using a Hero image I found the code to be too intricate: https://github.com/arthelo...
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India AI Impact Summit: AI for everyone! AI for Global South!; Google's America-India Connect Digital Infrastructure boost

Last updated on 21 Feb 2026 I saw most of this video and was very impressed: LIVE: PM Modi participates in the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam , 1 hr. 27 mins, streamed live today (19 Feb. 2026) around 9 to 10 AM IST. The theme of the main speakers including PM Modi, French President Macron, UN Secretary General Guterres and AI tech leaders of Google (Sundar Pichai) and Anthropic (Dario Amodei) was about AI for the developing world. I very much liked that! PM Modi, President Macron and UN Secretary General Guterres gave a lot of emphasis on AI safety. That was very reassuring to see. PM Modi talked of embracing AI for the opportunities it presents but ensuring that it is used in a compassionate and safe way. PM Modi also emphasized AI serving all of humanity rather than only the powerful. PM Modi spoke in Hindi. All other speakers (unless I missed something) spoke in English. Sam Altman of Open AI was also present but did not speak. It would have been great to hear his views ...
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Notes on converting stripped down Nextjs landing/home page template to Astro template

Last updated on 21 Feb. 2026 The stripped down Nextjs landing/home page project/template is covered in a previous post . Quick Info Private repo for project: https://github.com/ravisiyer/stripdowncomm-astro Public deployment: https://ravisiyer.github.io/stripdowncomm-astroghp/      Associated public repo:  https://github.com/ravisiyer/stripdowncomm-astroghp ============================================================= ============================================================= Late evening, 14 February 2026 Now trying out: https://github.com/jonnysmillie/astro-base npm install gave: 1 high severity vulnerability npm audit fix: resolved it. npm run dev: App is running and seems to be working as expected. This whole process from cloning repo to running app was really simple and straightforward to do. It was quite fast too. ------------------- In CoPilot chat with stripped down Nextjs landing/home page template opened in VSCode: Me: Can you read the source files of th...
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