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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).

I'm not the only Oregonian who thinks what they're doing /now is important.

Instead of sending links to my dad one email at a time, behold, I now have a Weekly Reads page with RSS feed.

Using Python to retrieve and parse my Overcast listening history.

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

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

Why do I blog? Definitely not for the numbers.

Today I am launching a refreshed, cleaner, sleeker site design!

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

The internet is better than ever, if you just focus your attention.

Highlighting sites of interest, one at a time.

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

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.

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

I changed Links to be what it always should have been, and added Pins to be what Links was.

Upgrading to Astro Icon 1.x from older versions.

Rethinking how I write blog posts on the Mac.

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

It's a now page - it's what I'm doing now.

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

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

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

Avoiding theme flicker on Astro sites with multiple themes.

In honor of John Siracusa's soon-ending every-five-year run of Hypercritical t-shirts, I've added a third theme to my site besides the usual light and dark themes: Hypercritical Gold.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Christian Ohanaja's Astro Remark Eleventy Image plugin.

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

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

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

Astro RSS now supports full content RSS feed items.

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

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

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

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

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

This is a blog, and there are some other things I want from my website.

The details of my custom RSS feed.

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

My website has begun anew, and here's why.