Links For You (7/18/26)

Good morning, programs. I'm currently at a conference (Day of Data), but thankfully one just down the road. I'll be back tonight, and thought I'd take a break between sessions to share some links. I'll be presenting later today one of my favorite talks, "A Beginner's Guide to Wrangling Asynchronicity in JavaScript". I love the talk, but given I'm up against eight other talks at the same time and I'm not talking AI... well it may be a small personal affair. We shall see. Building a Blog with Astro It's been a hot minute since I've written about Astro. I first started using it since Webflow was a sponsor and found that I really dug it, but over the past couple of months I've not had the bandwidth to keep playing with it. That being said, I keep my eyes open for cool posts and this by Zell is awesome: Building a Real Blog Easily in Astro. I'm pretty sure my first blog post on Astro showed a basic blog, but this article goes really deep. Interactive SVGs and PDFs As they say, you can take…