diff --git a/src/posts/2022/2022-reading-list.md b/src/posts/2022/2022-reading-list.md
index a60026a4..4fb4d052 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/2022-reading-list.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/2022-reading-list.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: '2022 reading list'
 date: '2022-04-03'
+title: '2022 reading list'
+description: "I'm still plugging away with my reading habit and my streak is now at 772 days."
 draft: false
 tags: ['books']
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/apple-centric-digital-privacy-tools.md b/src/posts/2022/apple-centric-digital-privacy-tools.md
index 91015425..0c277230 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/apple-centric-digital-privacy-tools.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/apple-centric-digital-privacy-tools.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Apple-centric digital privacy tools'
 date: '2022-05-31'
+title: 'Apple-centric digital privacy tools'
+description: "A rundown of privacy tools that work well with Apple's technology ecosystem."
 draft: false
 tags: ['Apple', 'privacy', 'iOS', 'macOS', 'tech']
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/apple-messages-a-tale-of-woe.md b/src/posts/2022/apple-messages-a-tale-of-woe.md
index ca16492d..7ebd880f 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/apple-messages-a-tale-of-woe.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/apple-messages-a-tale-of-woe.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Apple Messages: a tale of woe OR how to fix sync, a crash loop and accept data loss'
 date: '2022-04-06'
+title: 'Apple Messages: a tale of woe OR how to fix sync, a crash loop and accept data loss'
+description: "Apple's Messages app recently started crashing in a loop on my Mac Mini — it would happen every time the app was opened after a 5-10 second delay. Deleting conversations from other devices and letting that change sync over didn't appear to help."
 draft: false
 tags: ['Apple', 'services']
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/automating-email-cleanup-in-gmail.md b/src/posts/2022/automating-email-cleanup-in-gmail.md
index c7b5a53c..de556324 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/automating-email-cleanup-in-gmail.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/automating-email-cleanup-in-gmail.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Automating email cleanup in Gmail'
 date: '2022-03-28'
+title: 'Automating email cleanup in Gmail'
+description: "Lately I've been leaning into automating the cleanup of email I receive in Gmail using a combination of Inbox-era categories that the application still exposes via search and Google Apps Script."
 draft: false
 tags: ['Gmail', 'automation']
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/fixing-safari-icloud-syncing.md b/src/posts/2022/fixing-safari-icloud-syncing.md
index 093fc052..8b5d2f0d 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/fixing-safari-icloud-syncing.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/fixing-safari-icloud-syncing.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Fixing Safari iCloud syncing'
 date: '2022-05-28'
+title: 'Fixing Safari iCloud syncing'
+description: "I've been having an intermittent issue with Safari failing to sync any data via iCloud that you would normally expect — history, tabs, bookmarks and the landing page were all behaving independently despite iCloud syncing being enabled."
 draft: false
 tags: [Apple, iOS, macOS]
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/migrating-to-fastmail.md b/src/posts/2022/migrating-to-fastmail.md
index 37bc74d0..b1a19c5e 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/migrating-to-fastmail.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/migrating-to-fastmail.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Migrating to Fastmail'
 date: '2022-04-13'
+title: 'Migrating to Fastmail'
+description: "So you want to migrate over to Fastmail for your email — here's how you can go about doing so as seamlessly as possible."
 draft: false
 tags: ['Email', 'Fastmail', 'Gmail']
 ---
diff --git a/src/posts/2022/simple-api-fetch-hooks-with-swr.md b/src/posts/2022/simple-api-fetch-hooks-with-swr.md
index 26eb9f55..a6da7137 100644
--- a/src/posts/2022/simple-api-fetch-hooks-with-swr.md
+++ b/src/posts/2022/simple-api-fetch-hooks-with-swr.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: 'Simple data fetching with custom React hooks and SWR'
 date: '2022-05-23'
+title: 'Simple data fetching with custom React hooks and SWR'
+description: "My site was scaffolded out using Timothy Lin's tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog project (which I highly recommend checking out). As part of the build out I wanted to display the books I'm currently reading and the song I most recently listened to, data available from Oku and Last.fm, respectively."
 draft: false
 tags: [SWR, API, fetch, React, Next.js]
 ---