Series
Astro
RSS, Astro, and Me – Part 1
Astro makes some things incredibly simple, and other things not nearly so.
RSS, Astro, and Me – Part 2
The details of my custom RSS feed.
Map Your Stuff
JavaScript array maps are a common pattern in Astro, and very useful ones at that.
Astro RSS Compiled Content
Astro RSS now supports full content RSS feed items.
Astro RSS 1.2.0 Update
Astro fixed a bug with Astro RSS that broke custom content.
Giving in to Astro Pagination
Blog post pagination: I fought the Astro law and the Astro law won.
Astro-Pagefind
Pagefind is a great find for static site search (thanks to Bryce Wray for that line) and Astro-Pagefind integrates it beautifully into Astro.
Adding to Allowed Tags in Sanitize-Html
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.
The Push I Needed to Implement Link Posts
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.
Some Tags
Thanks to the brilliance of those who came before me, I now have tags on my site.
Expressive Code Blocks in Astro
Create more compelling code blocks and syntax highlighting in Astro with Expressive Code and astro-expressive-code.
Get Rid of Theme Flicker
Avoiding theme flicker on Astro sites with multiple themes.
A Series of Series
I write a lot of posts that are topically related, so now I can lump posts together in a series.
Auto-Generated Last Modified Date in Astro
If you have a page that you want to show the last modified date on, Astro and remark can do it for you automatically.
Astro Icon 1.x Upgrade
Upgrading to Astro Icon 1.x from older versions.
Astro Templates for JSON Data
Using a JSON data file and rendering it in Astro page templates.
Using Git Hooks for Displaying Last Modified Dates
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.
Automation
Bunch
Bunch is an amazing little automation tool for controlling work environments on your Mac.
Bunch of Amphetamine
A hyper addition to my podcast workflow that keeps my Mac awake at all times.
One (More?) Thing
Automating displaying my IP address in my menu bar.
One More One More Thing: LaunchControl
While debugging a broken LaunchAgent script, I discovered a great utility.
Automatic Image Processing With AppleScript and Retrobatch
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.
TextBuddy Custom Links
Custom Links is a pretty cool automation feature in TextBuddy for automatically transforming specific text patterns into clickable links.
Podcasting Workflows
My Podcasting Setup – the Hardware
Part 1 of a series on podcasting setups and workflows. This is the hardware I use for podcasting.
My Podcasting Setup - Recording Software
Part 2 of a series on podcasting setups and workflows. This is the software I use for recording podcasts.
Podcast Recording Practices
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.
Podcast Transcripts With Audio Hijack
Rogue Amoeba just added a Whisper powered transcription feature to Audio Hijack, and I am going to give it a try.
Raycast
How to Use Raycast and How It Compares to Spotlight and Alfred
Raycast compared to Spotlight and Alfred.
Raycasting
Some very basics of Raycast in the first in a series of articles on Raycast.
Raycast Clipboard History
Raycast comes with a basic, easy to use, and well designed Clipboard History feature.
Default Browser Switching
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 Command for Text Parsing
Raycast script commands are great for all kinds of scripted tasks, and I'm increasingly using them for tasks related to my website.
Image Search Text Recognition in Raycast and ScreenFloat
Raycast and ScreenFloat both contain some pretty amazing search features that use text recognition to find matching text in images.
Responsive Images
Reponsive Image Rabbit Hole – Part 1
I learned about responsive images the hard way, by misunderstanding how they worked.
Reponsive Image Rabbit Hole – Part 2
Using automation, specifically Astro Image, to give the browser image options.
Reponsive Image Rabbit Hole – Part 3
Some science experiments with Astro Image to show how it and responsive images in general work.
Picture Element Sizes Attribute
A deeper look at controlling image display sizes with the picture element's sizes attribute.
More on Astro, Image Optimization, and Markdown
A continuing journey to get image optimization for markdown files with Astro.
Podcast Episode Image Script
The optimized image generation step in my podcast show notes image workflow.
Astro Remark Eleventy Image
Christian Ohanaja's Astro Remark Eleventy Image plugin.
Dimensions Are a Nightmare
Responsive Image handling still has some problems, at least to my knowledge.
Astro Markdown Image Story
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 and Responsive Images
Astro 3 required me to rethink my site image optimization strategy yet again. Am I finally done? Probably not.
Astro 3.3 Picture Component
Astro 3.3 dramatically improves the Astro image optimization story once again.
Warp
Warp Blocks
Warp is a modern, macOS convention-friendly terminal. One of its nicer features is Blocks, which allow for deeper work on command output.