Fix compile-time link validation and add tag page links

- Restore HTML link extraction in LinkValidator (removed in a83634d
  under the false premise that post bodies are raw markdown; they
  are HTML rendered by NimblePublisher at compile time). The missing
  regex made extract_links/1 find zero links, silently disabling
  compile-time validation.
- Support /blog/{blog_id}/tag/{tag} links: validate blog ID,
  require non-empty tag (tags are user-defined, e.g. pi.dev).
- Fix invalid links in two posts: tag/Pi.dev -> tag/pi.dev,
  2026-07-13-synthetic-tdd.md -> synthetic-tdd.
- Fix test warnings: use Plug.Test deprecation, unused import,
  runtime-defined TestBlogValid module.
- Add regression tests for HTML extraction and tag page links.

app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/07-18-does-ai-assistance-support-tiny-open-source-projects.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ As mentioned above, it is not something I do often. When working in client proje
 Making two pull requests in one go
 ---
 
-So how do I make two pull requests out of it? I ask [my assistant](/blog/engineering/tag/Pi.dev), learning something in the process: 
+So how do I make two pull requests out of it? I ask [my assistant](/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev), learning something in the process: 
 
 > Now I have two commits. what if I wanted to make a Pull Request on github for each commit separately?
 

app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/07-28-learning-to-swim-test.md

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ I had an integration test that could serve as a starting point. But the workflow
 5. Add more steps
 6. Go to 4.
 
-For 1. I found a forum post, and I already had some [Synthetic](/blog/engineering/2026/07-13-synthetic-tdd.md) tests. This was also a good opportunity to re-read [the documentation](https://phoenix-live-view.hexdocs.pm/Phoenix.LiveViewTest.html). Rendering pages, components, selecting elements and getting the text back is all built in, so all we  need to do is wrap it in a page and save the parts. I did consider writing the reports out as markdown, with html snippets at some point. When rendering html to a pdf, the page breaks happen in the middle of screenshots sometimes. But the PDF already lacks the styling.
+For 1. I found a forum post, and I already had some [Synthetic](/blog/engineering/synthetic-tdd) tests. This was also a good opportunity to re-read [the documentation](https://phoenix-live-view.hexdocs.pm/Phoenix.LiveViewTest.html). Rendering pages, components, selecting elements and getting the text back is all built in, so all we  need to do is wrap it in a page and save the parts. I did consider writing the reports out as markdown, with html snippets at some point. When rendering html to a pdf, the page breaks happen in the middle of screenshots sometimes. But the PDF already lacks the styling.
 
 I initially iterated with [Pi](/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev) on how to collect tests. I had a fancy idea of collecting the various dialogs in a process (well supported e.g. by Elixir GenServers), then thought of doing it the unix way (write out dialogs, than `cat` them all together), and ended up collecting step outputs in a list, and rendering the list at the end. This did require re-ordering the test a bit: the `assert` has to come at the end, after creating the report.
 

blogex/lib/blogex/link_validator.ex

@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidator do
     * Must not contain consecutive hyphens
     * Query strings and anchor fragments are allowed after the slug
 
+  ## Tag page links
+
+    * `/blog/{blog_id}/tag/{tag}` links point to tag pages
+    * The tag may not be empty; otherwise any non-empty tag is accepted
+      (tags are user-defined and may contain dots, uppercase letters, etc.)
+
   ## Usage
 
       # Validate a single link
@@ -50,21 +56,34 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidator do
   `/blog/{engineering|releases}/{slug}`. External links and non-blog
   internal links are ignored.
 
-  Handles markdown link syntax `[text](url)`.
+  Handles both markdown link syntax `[text](url)` and HTML `<a href="url">`.
+  (Post bodies are HTML, rendered by NimblePublisher at compile time.)
 
   ## Examples
 
       iex> extract_links("[link](/blog/engineering/post)")
       ["/blog/engineering/post"]
 
+      iex> extract_links("<p><a href=\"/blog/engineering/post\">link</a></p>")
+      ["/blog/engineering/post"]
+
       iex> extract_links("See [GitHub](https://github.com)")
       []
   """
   @spec extract_links(String.t()) :: [String.t()]
   def extract_links(body) when is_binary(body) do
+    markdown_links =
       ~r/\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/
       |> Regex.scan(body)
       |> Enum.map(fn [_, _, path] -> path end)
+
+    html_links =
+      ~r/<a\s+href=["']([^"']*)["']/i
+      |> Regex.scan(body)
+      |> Enum.map(fn [_, path] -> path end)
+
+    (markdown_links ++ html_links)
+    |> Enum.uniq()
     |> Enum.filter(&internal_blog_link?/1)
   end
 
@@ -90,6 +109,9 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidator do
 
       iex> validate_link("/blog/engineering/My-Post")
       {:error, "slug must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens: My-Post"}
+
+      iex> validate_link("/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev")
+      :ok
   """
   @spec validate_link(String.t()) :: :ok | {:error, String.t()}
   def validate_link(link) when is_binary(link) do
@@ -99,7 +121,13 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidator do
 
       {blog_id_str, slug_part} ->
         case Map.fetch(@valid_blog_ids, blog_id_str) do
-          {:ok, _blog_atom} -> validate_slug(slug_part)
+          {:ok, _blog_atom} ->
+            if String.starts_with?(slug_part, "tag/") do
+              validate_tag(String.replace_prefix(slug_part, "tag/", ""))
+            else
+              validate_slug(slug_part)
+            end
+
           :error -> {:error, "unknown blog ID: #{blog_id_str}"}
         end
     end
@@ -209,4 +237,12 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidator do
       {:error, "slug must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens: #{slug}"}
     end
   end
+
+  @doc false
+  @spec validate_tag(String.t()) :: :ok | {:error, String.t()}
+  defp validate_tag(tag) when tag == "" do
+    {:error, "empty tag in tag link"}
+  end
+
+  defp validate_tag(_tag), do: :ok
 end

blogex/test/blogex/blog_integration_test.exs

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ defmodule Blogex.BlogIntegrationTest do
       """)
 
       [{TestBlogValid, _bytecode}] = Code.compile_file(tmp_file, __ENV__.file)
-      assert TestBlogValid.title() == "Test Blog"
+      assert apply(TestBlogValid, :title, []) == "Test Blog"
 
       File.rm!(tmp_file)
     end

blogex/test/blogex/link_validator_test.exs

@@ -13,6 +13,22 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidatorTest do
              ]
     end
 
+    test "extracts internal blog links from HTML body" do
+      body =
+        ~s(<p>Check out <a href="/blog/engineering/hello-world">hello world</a> and <a href="/blog/releases/v1-0-0">release v1</a>.</p>)
+
+      assert LinkValidator.extract_links(body) == [
+               "/blog/engineering/hello-world",
+               "/blog/releases/v1-0-0"
+             ]
+    end
+
+    test "extracts tag page links from HTML body" do
+      body = ~s(<p>See <a href="/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev">pi.dev posts</a>.</p>)
+
+      assert LinkValidator.extract_links(body) == ["/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev"]
+    end
+
     test "ignores external links" do
       body = "See [GitHub](https://github.com) and [internal](/blog/engineering/post)."
 
@@ -132,6 +148,25 @@ defmodule Blogex.LinkValidatorTest do
       assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/engineering/post#section") == :ok
     end
 
+    test "allows tag page links" do
+      assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev") == :ok
+      assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/releases/tag/v1") == :ok
+    end
+
+    test "allows tag page links with fragments" do
+      assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/engineering/tag/pi.dev#top") == :ok
+    end
+
+    test "rejects tag page link with empty tag" do
+      assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/engineering/tag/") ==
+               {:error, "empty tag in tag link"}
+    end
+
+    test "rejects unknown blog ID in tag page link" do
+      assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/blog/unknown/tag/pi.dev") ==
+               {:error, "unknown blog ID: unknown"}
+    end
+
     test "rejects non-blog path" do
       assert LinkValidator.validate_link("/about") ==
                {:error, "not a blog link: /about"}

blogex/test/blogex/registry_test.exs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 defmodule Blogex.RegistryTest do
   use ExUnit.Case
 
-  import Blogex.Test.PostBuilder
   alias Blogex.Registry
 
   defmodule AlphaBlog do

blogex/test/blogex/router_test.exs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 defmodule Blogex.RouterTest do
   use ExUnit.Case
-  use Plug.Test
+  import Plug.Test
 
   import Blogex.Test.PostBuilder
   alias Blogex.Test.FakeBlog