# David Krug > David Krug — essays, linkblog, notes, and books. A vintage-style personal weblog in the tradition of the old web. Written by David Krug. Single taxonomy: Essays, Linkblog, Notes, Books. ## Recent posts - [Astro Rocket — a theme that already feels like a finished product](https://davidkrug.org/posts/astro-rocket--a-theme-that-already-feels-like-a-finished-product/): Astro Rocket isn’t really a “starter theme” in the traditional sense. It behaves more like a fully designed website that just happens to be open source. Built on Astro 6 and Tailwind, it ships with dozens of components, multiple visual themes, and a level of completeness that removes most of the usual “now I need to design everything” step from the process. (May 17, 2026, Linkblog) - [701am.com Built Using Astro](https://davidkrug.org/posts/701am-com-build-using-astro/): I built my new companies website using Astro and Decap with a custom theme. (May 17, 2026, Linkblog) - [The Long, Slow Return of the Personal Website](https://davidkrug.org/posts/return-of-the-personal-website/): For a decade we outsourced our writing to platforms with better distribution and worse manners. That bargain is quietly coming undone. (May 17, 2026, Essays) - [A field guide to the disappearing typefaces of the 1970s](https://davidkrug.org/posts/disappearing-typefaces-1970s/): Lovely visual essay from Letterform Archive on the photo-typesetting era — a narrow twenty-year window when type was made of light instead of metal or pixels. (May 16, 2026, Linkblog) - [Three Small Tools I Use Almost Every Day](https://davidkrug.org/posts/three-small-tools/): None of these are productivity hacks, and I'm slightly embarrassed by how much I use them — a clipboard manager, a Markdown scratchpad, and a weather widget from 2004. (May 15, 2026, Notes) ## Discovery - Sitemap: https://davidkrug.org/sitemap-index.xml - RSS feed: https://davidkrug.org/rss.xml - Archive: https://davidkrug.org/archive/ - Markdown alternates: each /posts// has a /posts/.md twin