Tech for Creating i18n Documentation and related Podcast

More Web Stuff with Astro SSG

Docs Website

• https://github.com/withastro/starlight
  • See how great this can look once you tweak it a little bit
    • https://starlight.astro.build/getting-started/
    • https://docs.astro.build/en/install-and-setup/#use-a-theme-or-starter-template
    • https://fevol.github.io/starlight-theme-obsidian/getting-started/

MIT | 🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

What I like about this Starlight theme?

1. Doc like interface
2. With ToC (Table of contents that goes down as you read)
3. Internationalization (different languages with i18n)
4. Search built in (with algoliasearch)
5. Amazing Docs: https://starlight.astro.build/
6. OpenGraph (OG) image when shared (also when sharing posts)
7. All the sample features at their sample posts
8. Supports md, mdx and mdoc
9. Sitemap/RSS/Robots

npm create astro@latest -- --template starlight
npm run dev

And…thats all go to localhost:4321 and see your cool Astro powered docs.

Vibe Coded Repo Docs- Post ↗

Tinkerin with astro, codex and documentation

Starlight Tweaked Docs

Astro Starlight

What was missing (imo)?

1. Blog/Archives Interface

2. Pages Interface

3. Tag system

4. Some kind of “app directory Template” to search apps/real estate properties…, like this one or this one

5. Integration with some CMS, like Keystatic…

6. LastUpdated for Docs/Posts

7. Some Astro data fetching example

8. Image Options examples: raw and optimized

9. Data fetching, so that you can reference content, like your docker-compose.yml public on github, so that others can edit them.

10. A progress line bar on the top of the posts to show how much you have left

11. Katex, Charts and diagrams rendering

PodCast Website

• https://github.com/manuelernestog/astropod

MIT | Free and open source self-hosting serverless podcast solution

Superlative job from ManuelErnestog, which I forked here

A look to GitPodcast

I was (one more time) amazed on what people is able to create:

• https://github.com/BandarLabs/gitpodcast

MIT | Convert any git repository into an engaging podcast

The project uses an interesting TTS setup

Does this resonates with creating AI powered podcasts on how selfhosting projects work?

How does this works?

Its crazy how it summarizes the streamlit repo…

See it yourself: https://www.gitpodcast.com/streamlit/streamlit

• https://www.gitpodcast.com/rybbit-io/rybbit

Code2Prompt

After tinkering with project docs automatic creation, I found this.

• https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt/

MIT | A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting.

Conclusions

Its great, yet overwhelming the amount of new SelfHosting Projects that are out there and that are coming.

Would there be a way to automate the test deployment of such software?

Or should our selfhoster backlog to be tried list to keep growing?

The idea

Lately, I have been tinkering with shorts, also with automatic project Docs

Wouldnt this be a way to catch up with the bast amount of cool projects to SelfHost and share a quick overview with others?

Example use case: Given the awsome weekly newsletter https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-05-09/ at the New Software section

See a project, summarize its code/features and make a podcast/short about it: https://github.com/lumenlabss/LumenOne

MIT | Best Plesk (The Ultimate Toolkit for WordPress Sites) alternative open source & free

FAQ

Outro

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