📔 SEO, Developer Tooling & Configuring Astro

💡 Takeaways

• Always have open graph / facebook / twitter meta tags in header for embed-link generation and SEO.
• For SEO, its hard to test until the project is actually deployed so that crawlers can crawl.
• To eliminate the hassle SEO testing, use ngrok to see the updates of localhost.

🚀 Shipped Today

Portfolio

• Templatized portfolio into configuration files, for the open source community.

• Reorganized projects into dedicated sections:

  • AI
  • Hardware
  • Open Source Contributions
  • Work Experience
  • Portfolio

🔗 SEO & Social Sharing

• Explored Open Graph metadata across social platforms.
• Learned how astro.site can simplify URL generation.
• Researched dynamic Open Graph images for blogs.
• Organized SEO configuration into a central location.
• Used Facebook OG Debugger to validate metadata and refresh cached previews.

🌍 Investigation

• Investigated Vite’s server.allowedHosts configuration and why unknown hosts are blocked.