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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.

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.