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Speed, scale, and architecture.
This week brings faster builds, a pattern for content collections that grows with you, a way to turn your docs into AI capabilities, and a complete billing system on Cloudflare Workers.
A practical guide of the design choices that make collections work at scale: loader selection, format decisions, references between collections, and the constraints that prevent chaos.
Take your Starlight docs and turn them into skills that AI agents can call. Point it at your documentation pages, let it generate an agent skill, and suddenly your docs are accessible as structured capabilities.
A complete walkthrough of adding Polar subscriptions and one-time purchases to an Astro app. Covers the architecture, the checkout flow, handling anonymous customers, and how to check entitlements.
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A self-contained chat widget for Astro that handles streaming markdown, stays non-modal on desktop, solves the iOS keyboard problem with a viewport-aware sheet, and includes offline FAQ entries.
Starwind Pro saved over two minutes per production build by moving to Astro 7. The post covers the prep work, the migration, and the custom HTML minifier that made the difference.
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PRDs by voice. Bug reports by voice. Ship faster.
Dictate acceptance criteria and reproductions inside Cursor or Warp. Wispr Flow auto-tags file names, preserves syntax, and gives you paste-ready text in seconds. 4x faster than typing.
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That's everything we have for this week!
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Back next Sunday with more.
Nathan 👋
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