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22 articles
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Resolving Obsidian Wiki-Links in Astro with a Custom Remark Plugin
March 26, 2026How I wrote a small Remark plugin that converts [[wiki-links]] from Obsidian into proper HTML links at build time — without changing how I write in the editor.
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Troubleshooting Mastodon Backfeed and Stale Webmentions
March 24, 2026A practical runbook for common failure modes in Mastodon + Bridgy + webmention.io setups: token scopes, canonical URLs, delayed backfeed, and stale reactions that no longer exist upstream.
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POSSE to Mastodon: State, Media Uploads, and Safer Deploys
March 24, 2026How Mastodon syndication was added to the deploy pipeline: RSS-based posting for articles and notes, OG image uploads, idempotent state tracking, and rate-limit hardening.
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Webmentions: Receiving and Sending Cross-Site Reactions
March 23, 2026How webmention.io handles incoming mentions and likes, how a build-time component displays them, and how webmention.app sends outgoing notifications after each deploy.
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Syndication Links Without Frontmatter Editing
March 23, 2026How .bluesky-posted.json auto-populates u-syndication links on every article and note page — no manual frontmatter required after each post.
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Improving Bluesky Syndication: Notes, Images, and State
March 23, 2026Extending the syndication script to cover notes, compress OG images before upload, use original publish dates, and persist Bluesky post URLs in the state file.
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POSSE to Bluesky with the AT Protocol
March 23, 2026Automatically syndicating new articles to Bluesky after each deploy — fetching the live OG image, uploading it as a blob, and posting a rich link card via the AT Protocol API.
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Microformats2: Marking Up Posts for the IndieWeb
March 23, 2026How h-entry, h-feed, and the rest of the MF2 vocabulary make articles, notes, and photos machine-readable without changing how they look.
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Joining the IndieWeb
March 23, 2026Why I added IndieWeb support to this site, what it means in practice, and how identity verification works through rel=me and h-card.
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Obfuscating Contact Data on a Static Site
March 23, 2026How I protect email addresses and personal contact details on a static Astro site from harvesting bots, using a combination of Base64 obfuscation and a CSS RTL trick that also defends against copy-paste.
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Closing the Loop: Bluesky Reactions as Webmentions
March 23, 2026How Bridgy polls Bluesky for likes, reposts, and replies and sends them back as webmentions — so interactions on the syndicated copy appear on the original post.
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Live Webmentions Without SSR: A Hybrid Approach
March 23, 2026Upgrading the WebMentions component from build-time-only to a hybrid model: static HTML renders instantly, a silent client-side fetch updates the count without a redeploy.
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Syndicating Photos to Flickr with POSSE
March 21, 2026How I built a script that keeps Flickr in sync with my site — uploading new photos, deleting removed ones, moving photos between albums, and writing Flickr IDs back into sidecar files.
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Adding Notes, Links, and Archives
March 21, 2026Three new content sections built on Astro content collections — short-form notes, a curated link log, and a unified chronological archive.
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Distinguishing Collection Sets from Category Collections
March 21, 2026A single boolean flag in the frontmatter separates navigational collection nodes from publishable photo sets — keeping the archive clean without adding structural complexity.
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Structuring Photos as a Collection Tree
March 21, 2026How the photos section grew from flat albums into a recursive collection hierarchy with nested routes, breadcrumbs, and a tag browsing system.
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Building the Photo Stream
March 19, 2026How the photos section works — JSON sidecars from Vision, import.meta.glob, Flickr's justified-layout, and batch loading with IntersectionObserver.
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Migrating the Vision Script from OpenAI to Claude
March 19, 2026How scripts/vision.ts was rewritten to use the Anthropic SDK with claude-opus-4-6 and tool use instead of OpenAI's json_schema response format.
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Photo Albums with Astro's Content Layer
March 19, 2026How the albums section is structured — from content collection to justified grid, album-scoped photo routes, and a sub-nav to switch between stream and albums.
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Vision Rate-Limit Runbook for Photo Sidecars
March 15, 2026A practical checklist for running scripts/vision.ts on larger photo batches without failing on 429 TPM limits.
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Generating Photo Sidecars Locally Before a VPS Deploy
March 14, 2026How to run Vision metadata generation against an Obsidian photo library locally and sync the generated JSON sidecars to a VPS.
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Obsidian to VPS Pipeline: Sync, Pull, and Redeploy
March 11, 2026A complete one-command publishing pipeline from Obsidian on macOS to a live Astro site on a VPS.