The weekly strip · 102 issues · page 2 of 9
What shipped, and what to build with it
One post a week on the AI models and tools that matter to people shipping products: dates, prices, limits, and what I would actually use. Primary sources only.
- Issue 90
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 6 min read
GA4, Tag Manager and Clarity on a static site: what they cost in Lighthouse
Env-var-gated GA4, Tag Manager and Clarity on an Astro site, with a measured PageSpeed run: the third-party bill, its effect on blocking time, and what I would cut.
- Google Analytics
- Tag Manager
- Clarity
- Lighthouse
- Astro
- Issue 89
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 6 min read
Build an Astro blog: content collections, RSS and per-post OG images
How this site's blog is built on Astro 7: a Zod-checked posts collection, hand-written RSS and satori OG images. Real code, plus where it departs from the docs.
- Astro
- content collections
- RSS
- satori
- Open Graph
- Issue 88
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 7 min read
Open Graph images generated at build with satori in Astro
How this blog makes one 1200x630 share image per post at build time with satori and resvg in an Astro endpoint: fonts, layout limits, caching traps and the code.
- Open Graph
- satori
- Astro
- resvg
- social cards
- Issue 87
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 6 min read
Structured data for a personal site: Person and Article JSON-LD
The Person and Article JSON-LD this site ships, what Google says it uses, three things I would fix, and how to validate it with Google's and schema.org's tools.
- structured data
- JSON-LD
- schema.org
- SEO
- Astro
- Issue 86
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 6 min read
llms.txt: what it is, who reads it, and a template
llms.txt is a Markdown index for AI agents. Google says Search ignores it, log studies show few fetches, but it is cheap. The spec, the evidence and a template.
- llms.txt
- SEO
- AI visibility
- AI crawlers
- Markdown
- Issue 85
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 6 min read
AI crawler guide: robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and more
Which robots.txt tokens decide whether OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google can train on your site or cite it, from each vendor's docs, plus this site's file.
- SEO
- AI crawlers
- robots.txt
- GPTBot
- ClaudeBot
- Issue 84
10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 7 min read
A code review checklist for AI-generated pull requests
What to check when the author is an agent: a nine-point review checklist, the published numbers on AI-written code, and a REVIEW.md you can copy.
- code review
- AI-generated code
- Claude Code
- pull requests
- REVIEW.md
- Issue 83
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
Sole engineer on a 1.25M-user platform: what to automate first
EF Academy's marketing platform serves 1.25M+ monthly users in 23+ languages with one engineer. How I rank automation: bottlenecks first, silent failures next, licences.
- solo engineer
- automation
- ownership
- Storyblok
- AWS Glue
- Issue 82
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 8 min read
Chrome extensions that save admins 3 to 5 hours a day
How Manifest V3 extensions for BSBI and GISMA automated student application workflows in tools we could not change, and the service worker rules that decide reliability.
- Chrome extension
- automation
- Manifest V3
- PDF.js
- service workers
- Issue 81
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
AI document processing: what 95% across 17+ document types should mean
How GPT-4 Vision and OCR classified 17+ admissions document types at 95%, and what a number like that must include: per-type results, confidence routing, review paths.
- document processing
- GPT-4 Vision
- OCR
- evaluation
- structured outputs
- Issue 80
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
Leading four front-end engineers to React and React Native parity
How Edvanza shipped each module to web and mobile together with a four-person front-end team: shared logic, platform splits, review discipline and a parity checklist.
- leadership
- React Native
- team
- code review
- React
- Issue 79
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 8 min read
Real-time IoT status with SignalR: the Planet IoT apps
Why Planet SIM and Planet Business push live utility and water-service status over SignalR, and what the docs say about reconnects, keep-alives, tokens and scale.
- SignalR
- real-time
- IoT
- dashboards
- Firebase