diff --git a/docs/blog/posts/await-me-maybe.md b/docs/blog/posts/await-me-maybe.md
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@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ authors:
 
 # No-async async with Python
 
-A (reasonable) criticism of async is that it tends to proliferate in your code. In order to `await` something, your functions must be `async` all the way up the call-stack.
+A (reasonable) criticism of async is that it tends to proliferate in your code. In order to `await` something, your functions must be `async` all the way up the call-stack. This tends to result in you making things `async` just to support that one call that needs it or, worse, adding `async` just-in-case. Given that going from `def` to `async def` is a breaking change there is a strong incentive to go straight there.
 
 Before you know it, you have adopted a policy of "async all the things".
 
 <!-- more -->
 
-Textual is very much an async framework, but doesn't *require* the app developer to use the `async` and `await` keywords. Async in Textual apps is entirely optional. This post is about how Textual accomplishes this async-agnosticism.
+Textual is an async framework, but doesn't *require* the app developer to use the `async` and `await` keywords (but you can if you need to). This post is about how Textual accomplishes this async-agnosticism.
 
 !!! info
 
diff --git a/docs/blog/posts/steal-this-code.md b/docs/blog/posts/steal-this-code.md
index 124a54794..cf3ea3768 100644
--- a/docs/blog/posts/steal-this-code.md
+++ b/docs/blog/posts/steal-this-code.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-draft: false 
+draft: false
 date: 2022-11-20
 categories:
   - DevLog
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ There are a number of files and modules in [Textual](https://github.com/Textuali
 
 ## Loop first / last
 
-How often do you find yourself looping over an iterable and needing to know if an element is the first and/or last in the sequence? It's a simple thing, but I find myself nedding this a *lot*, so I wrote some helpers in [_loop.py](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/src/textual/_loop.py). 
+How often do you find yourself looping over an iterable and needing to know if an element is the first and/or last in the sequence? It's a simple thing, but I find myself needing this a *lot*, so I wrote some helpers in [_loop.py](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/src/textual/_loop.py).
 
 I'm sure there is an equivalent implementation on PyPI, but steal this if you need it.
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ In Textual, we use a [LRUCache](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/search?q=L
 
 ## Color
 
-Textual has a [Color](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/src/textual/color.py) class which could be extracted in to a module of its own. 
+Textual has a [Color](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/src/textual/color.py) class which could be extracted in to a module of its own.
 
 The Color class can parse colors encoded in a variety of HTML and CSS formats. Color object support a variety of methods and operators you can use to manipulate colors, in a fairly natural way.