Series

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.

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 good system should never make you remember its implementation details in order to use.

Astro RSS now supports full content RSS feed items.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was asked a question on Threads about how to apply my Last Modified Dates using Git pre-commit to Astro's Sitemap integration.

How I learned to paste links into my blog and have them magically converted into amazing embeds.

Astro 5 is out with a number of changes from Astro 4. The good news is I was able to upgrade instantly with no modifications (but there are some to come later).

Whisper.cpp is a C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper that might meet your needs for audio transcription.

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.

ChatGPT doesn't always get programming right.

Automating displaying my IP address in my menu bar.

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

Mac and iOS users have some great options for ChatGPT tools.

Drafts now has access to the OpenAI API for ChatGPT

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.

Editing Safari bookmark descriptions and the (more interesting) backstory of why I stumbled across how to do it.

Fastmarks and Safari bookmark descriptions are a poweruser bookmark search combination supreme.

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.

Rethinking how I write blog posts on the Mac.

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Mac turned 40. And what a glorious 40 it is.

ScreenFloat is my current choice of screenshot utility for the Mac because of its functionality and customizability.

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

Mario Guzmán has made some beautiful apps over the years, and QuickTune tops the list.

I'm genuinely baffled by Apple's approach to font size with respect to screen resolution.

CleanShot X has Text Recognition using OCR technology, a handy tool I use all the time.

Need a screenshot of a long web page? CleanShot X has a function for that.

Mac window management tools are a dime a dozen, but Moom 4 stands out for its versatility and for being fun to use.

Here's a funny little UI quirk in SuperDuper! (which I love, by the way).

A tip for making your first SuperDuper! drive copy.

BBEdit is not my choice of code editor or writing app, but for logfile analysis, it's the best.

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.

Is OpenAI trying to Sherlock Raycast AI with its new macOS desktop app? Maybe.

One advantage of Raycast AI is its AI Commands functionality.

The answer to my own question about ChatGPT for macOS supplanting Raycast Advanced AI is a simple one.

It's Yet Another Raycast Script Command, this time one for tranforming blog post image links to match image file locations in Astro.

Using Raycast script commands to automate workflow sessions.

A version of my Sessions Raycast script command using Moom layouts instead of Raycast Window Management layouts.

Raycast has extensions, and I use some of them. Here they are!

I created a Raycast Script Command to take the contents of my latest Reads post, reformat it, and mail it to unsuspecting family members.

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