AstroLog PIR®
All GitHub home & brand entries

The AstroLog gets a new look, a star chart of everything shipped, and an RSS feed

LowGitHub home & brand 2 min readBy Christopher W
TL;DR: This changelog and library now share the same look as A.L.E.X. and PIR's helpdesks, so every PIR® page on GitHub feels like one place. Shipped work is drawn as a star chart you can read top to bottom, you can press / anywhere to jump straight to any entry, and there's an RSS feed if you'd like new entries to come to you.
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One look across PIR’s GitHub pages

  • The AstroLog and the GitHub hub now use the same design system as A.L.E.X. and the helpdesk portals: the same type, colors, cards, and light and dark themes. It’s loaded from one shared place, so when that look improves, every PIR page improves with it.
  • Your light or dark choice carries across all of them.

Shipped work as a star chart

  • Each finished piece of work is a star on a line that fills in as you scroll. Rose stars are high priority, gold are medium, teal are low.
  • The changelog page now has an “everything, newest first” view across all projects, grouped by month, alongside the per-project pages.
  • Every project with entries now has its own card, including A.L.E.X. and the GitHub home, which didn’t have one before.

Easier to find things

  • Press / (or ⌘ K) on any page to search every entry, write-up, and project and jump straight there.
  • Library write-ups show reading time, a table of contents on longer pieces, an “expand all” button for the collapsible sections, and a print-friendly version that opens every section.
  • A wrong link inside the AstroLog now lands on a calm “you’re not lost” page that guesses where you meant to go, instead of GitHub’s generic error.

Subscribe if you’d like

  • The changelog has an RSS feed. Add it to any feed reader, or to a Discord or Slack RSS bot, and new entries will show up there as they ship.