diff --git a/src/content.config.ts b/src/content.config.ts
index 9dffb76..512ba12 100644
--- a/src/content.config.ts
+++ b/src/content.config.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ const blog = defineCollection({
     title: z.string(),
     description: z.string(),
     subtitle: z.string().optional(),
+    author: z.string().optional(),
     section: z.string().optional(),
     date: z.coerce.date(),
     hidden: z.boolean().optional().default(false),
diff --git a/src/content/blog/technical/writing-code-was-hard-actually.mdx b/src/content/blog/technical/writing-code-was-hard-actually.mdx
index 2dcf984..907dfb7 100644
--- a/src/content/blog/technical/writing-code-was-hard-actually.mdx
+++ b/src/content/blog/technical/writing-code-was-hard-actually.mdx
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ description: >-
   The revisionist claim that writing code was never the hard part arrives
   conveniently at the moment AI makes it cheap to produce. But the market, the
   machine, and the engineers who built it all tell a different story.
+author: InlinePizza
 date: '2026-02-24T00:00:00.000Z'
-section: Technical
+section: Opinion
 hidden: false
 ---
 
diff --git a/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro b/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
index c1b901a..1abba14 100644
--- a/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
+++ b/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ const { Content, headings } = await render(entry);
   <p class="collection-back-link">
     <a href="/blog">← Back to Blog</a>
   </p>
+  {entry.data.author && (
+    <p class="collection-post-author">By {entry.data.author}</p>
+  )}
   <Content />
   <p class="collection-back-link collection-back-link-bottom">
     <a href="/blog">← Back to Blog</a>
diff --git a/src/pages/blog/index.astro b/src/pages/blog/index.astro
index c0e678a..a855717 100644
--- a/src/pages/blog/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/blog/index.astro
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ const getSectionLabel = (section?: string) => section || 'Other';
               <h2 class="collection-feed-title">
                 <a href={`/blog/${entry.slug}`}>{entry.data.title}</a>
               </h2>
+              {entry.data.author && (
+                <p class="collection-feed-author">By {entry.data.author}</p>
+              )}
               {(entry.data.description || entry.data.subtitle) && (
                 <p class="collection-feed-description">{entry.data.description || entry.data.subtitle}</p>
               )}
diff --git a/src/styles/custom.css b/src/styles/custom.css
index a839321..5833c0e 100644
--- a/src/styles/custom.css
+++ b/src/styles/custom.css
@@ -642,6 +642,20 @@ main:has(.pl-site-page.pl-site-page-compact) .content-panel + .content-panel {
   text-decoration: underline;
 }
 
+.collection-feed-author {
+  margin: 0;
+  color: var(--sl-color-gray-3);
+  font-size: var(--sl-text-xs);
+  font-weight: 500;
+}
+
+.collection-post-author {
+  margin: 0 0 1.5rem;
+  color: var(--sl-color-gray-3);
+  font-size: var(--sl-text-sm);
+  font-weight: 500;
+}
+
 .collection-feed-description {
   margin: 0;
   max-width: 72ch;