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Astro makes some things incredibly simple, and other things not nearly so.

The details of my custom RSS feed.

JavaScript array maps are a common pattern in Astro, and very useful ones at that.

Astro RSS now supports full content RSS feed items.

Astro fixed a bug with Astro RSS that broke custom content.

Blog post pagination: I fought the Astro law and the Astro law won.

Pagefind is a great find for static site search (thanks to Bryce Wray for that line) and Astro-Pagefind integrates it beautifully into Astro.

sanitize-html is a great utility for cleaning up HTML to include in RSS, among other things, but it has a limited set of allowed tags. Here's how to add to that list.

Thanks entirely to Tiffany White creating a GitHub issue on my site repo, I finally implemented something that's been on my site to-do list for some time, but that I've never gotten around to actually doing until now: link posts.

Thanks to the brilliance of those who came before me, I now have tags on my site.

Create more compelling code blocks and syntax highlighting in Astro with Expressive Code and astro-expressive-code.

Avoiding theme flicker on Astro sites with multiple themes.

I write a lot of posts that are topically related, so now I can lump posts together in a series.

If you have a page that you want to show the last modified date on, Astro and remark can do it for you automatically.

Upgrading to Astro Icon 1.x from older versions.

Using a JSON data file and rendering it in Astro page templates.

Git hooks are pretty cool. I'm using pre-commit to conditionally update the last modified date on certain pages in my blog. Here's how I did it.

Bunch is an amazing little automation tool for controlling work environments on your Mac.

A hyper addition to my podcast workflow that keeps my Mac awake at all times.

Automating displaying my IP address in my menu bar.

While debugging a broken LaunchAgent script, I discovered a great utility.

I now have automatic image processing for my Friends with Brews images that happens automatically when I drop images in a folder, and I love it.

Custom Links is a pretty cool automation feature in TextBuddy for automatically transforming specific text patterns into clickable links.

Part 1 of a series on podcasting setups and workflows. This is the hardware I use for podcasting.

Part 2 of a series on podcasting setups and workflows. This is the software I use for recording podcasts.

Part 3 of a series on podcasting setups and workflows. These are some things you should consider in order to record a clean, pleasant sounding podcast.

Rogue Amoeba just added a Whisper powered transcription feature to Audio Hijack, and I am going to give it a try.

Raycast compared to Spotlight and Alfred.

Some very basics of Raycast in the first in a series of articles on Raycast.

Raycast comes with a basic, easy to use, and well designed Clipboard History feature.

Sometimes it's nice to have apps automatically open links in a different browser, which is why the ability to quickly change default browsers is handy.

Raycast script commands are great for all kinds of scripted tasks, and I'm increasingly using them for tasks related to my website.

Raycast and ScreenFloat both contain some pretty amazing search features that use text recognition to find matching text in images.

I learned about responsive images the hard way, by misunderstanding how they worked.

Using automation, specifically Astro Image, to give the browser image options.

Some science experiments with Astro Image to show how it and responsive images in general work.

A deeper look at controlling image display sizes with the picture element's sizes attribute.

A continuing journey to get image optimization for markdown files with Astro.

The optimized image generation step in my podcast show notes image workflow.

Christian Ohanaja's Astro Remark Eleventy Image plugin.

Responsive Image handling still has some problems, at least to my knowledge.

Astro's in a good place - native markdown image optimization is coming, and there is already an excellent third-party option for those who need it now.

Astro 3 required me to rethink my site image optimization strategy yet again. Am I finally done? Probably not.

Astro 3.3 dramatically improves the Astro image optimization story once again.

Warp is a modern, macOS convention-friendly terminal. One of its nicer features is Blocks, which allow for deeper work on command output.