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It's World Cup week. Football is back on the world stage — and yes, it's football, not soccer, at least from where I'm sitting in England.
Astro have timed a new merch drop perfectly for the summer of sport, and the rest of this issue has plenty to keep you busy between matches.
Let's get into it.
Astro have launched their Summer 2026 merch collection just in time for the World Cup, including personalised home and away jerseys for the Club Deportivo de Astronautas where you can add your own name and number.
A great listen for anyone who ships features and writes docs: Astro core maintainer Florian Lefebvre shares how his mindset shifted from treating docs as a burden to seeing them as inseparable from shipping features.
A community integration that turns Resend into a lightweight email-based mailing list, giving your Astro site a single API endpoint that handles both subscriber sign-ups and authorised broadcast messages.
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TinaCMS are making Astro their default starter, and with Astro clone numbers already ahead of Next.js, it's not hard to see why.
The official Astro docs now have a full guide to using ImageKit, covering automatic image optimisation, AI-powered transformations, video delivery, and client-side uploads.
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That's it for #134. Enjoy the football — or soccer, if you must — and I'll be back next Sunday with more from the Astro ecosystem.
If you've got a project, tool, article, or integration worth sharing, send it over to [email protected] or DM me on X.
Have a great week!
Nathan 👋
