Add a reusable Author component with social links

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Every post ended with a bare ![@kixelated](/blog/avatar.png), and most also carried a hand-written Written by [@kixelated](...) line that had drifted — some pointed at GitHub, some at mailto:meself@kixel.me. Both are replaced by a single <Author /> component, so there's one place to change.

What changed

• New src/components/author.astro — avatar, @kixelated, and icon links for email, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Discord. Uses the same hover:-rotate-6 wiggle as the nav icons.
• New public/social/{email,x,bluesky,linkedin,discord}.svg — placeholder icons. 24×24, single path, filled #01BB2D to match the hand-drawn set in public/layout/. Hand-drawn replacements can drop in one file at a time.
• Swapped the avatar image for <Author /> across all 26 blog posts plus index.mdx, issues.mdx, and source.mdx.

Note for review

The Written by [@kixelated](...) lines are gone — the component carries those links now. Easy to put back if you'd rather keep the prose sign-off.

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⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (5)

• public/social/bluesky.svg is excluded by !**/*.svg
• public/social/discord.svg is excluded by !**/*.svg
• public/social/email.svg is excluded by !**/*.svg
• public/social/linkedin.svg is excluded by !**/*.svg
• public/social/x.svg is excluded by !**/*.svg

📒 Files selected for processing (30)

• src/components/author.astro
• src/pages/blog/application-first.mdx
• src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx
• src/pages/blog/cars2.mdx
• src/pages/blog/demoqed.mdx
• src/pages/blog/distribution-at-twitch.mdx
• src/pages/blog/first-app.mdx
• src/pages/blog/first-cdn.mdx
• src/pages/blog/forward-error-correction.mdx
• src/pages/blog/hash-tag-community.mdx
• src/pages/blog/monte-video.mdx
• src/pages/blog/moq-boy.mdx
• src/pages/blog/moq-onion.mdx
• src/pages/blog/moqbs.mdx
• src/pages/blog/never-use-datagrams.mdx
• src/pages/blog/on-a-boat.mdx
• src/pages/blog/open-for-business.mdx
• src/pages/blog/quic-powers.mdx
• src/pages/blog/replacing-hls-dash.mdx
• src/pages/blog/replacing-webrtc.mdx
• src/pages/blog/tls-and-quic.mdx
• src/pages/blog/to-wasm.mdx
• src/pages/blog/transfork.mdx
• src/pages/blog/update-00.mdx
• src/pages/blog/update-01.mdx
• src/pages/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem.mdx
• src/pages/blog/you-dont-need-it.mdx
• src/pages/index.mdx
• src/pages/issues.mdx
• src/pages/source.mdx

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Walkthrough

Adds a reusable Author Astro component with avatar, handle, and five social links. Updates blog posts and site pages to import and render <Author /> instead of inline author bylines and avatar images. Existing post content and unrelated page sections remain unchanged.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 69049

This change centralizes author sign-offs and social links across blog and site pages without changing post content or page metadata. The migration is ready to merge with no identified current production risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: adding a reusable Author component with social links.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the reusable component, social icons, affected pages, and validation results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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• Commit simplified code in branch claude/blog-social-links-component-18883f

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