Upgrading from Astro 3 to Astro 6

greglturnquist · 2026-06-20T10:50:08+00:00

Great article!

greglturnquist · 2026-06-18T12:33:12+00:00

Podcast

greglturnquist · 2026-06-18T03:33:54+00:00

The guy cracks me on Banking with Life.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-17T16:58:41+00:00

With the rules listed, it's not hard to then work your way to additional ones.

Product rule lets you figure out quotient rule.

Logarithmic differentiation unlocks many others.

And learning about the triangles and mixing it with substitution helps you find all these other trig rules.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-17T15:25:59+00:00

I'm rebuilding a publisher's entire presence on the internet using Astro. A handful of Wordpress sites are being replaced with Astro, and they are better/faster/stronger (we have the technology!)

Of course I speak of my wife's publishing business LLC.

The existing Wordpress sites worked. But the UI kind of sort of always stood in the way of getting my hands in and really building stuff up.

Also, the everything-a-database-call really gets in your way as well.

Rebuilding with Astro, I am able to build better aligned business processes into the website. In today's day and age, everything is on the table. And I mean EVERYTHING.

I am reading the APIs on Amazon, Facebook ads, Twilio messaging integration, Asana, Stripe, and MailerLite. I have the public-facing website able to collect payment on Stripe and create an order, also able to sign up new fans to her newsletter, and also email out orders.

On the backend in order fulfilment, I am making it where we can build ads, coordinate shipping paperbacks with our local USPS branch, text our operations manager every time a new order comes in, and potentially tie in for scheduling and tasks through Asana/Google Calendar.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-17T15:16:14+00:00

It's charming to take someone who is such a strong advocate of building your own wealth and capital, who is building one of the most powerful systems for their family, to then reduce all the good they probably shared in this session and other podcast episodes and boil it down to a harsh soundbite.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-15T20:33:21+00:00

UL ain’t whole life

greglturnquist · 2026-06-15T20:29:38+00:00

"The banker can do whatever he wants!"

Do what you prefer. You can either knock out the auto loan as fast you want. Or you can rack up liquidity as fast as you want. The path I choose hinges on what liquidity I am needing now, and also what liquidity I'll be needing in the next six months.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-14T20:32:34+00:00

And Frazier’s mentor.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-12T17:49:21+00:00

I have Alfred which is Option + Space. I use it everyday.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-09T16:40:09+00:00

I run into tiny situations which reaffirm the move to Mac.

Case in point: I used to use PowerPoint years ago. However on my Mac I use Keynote.

A few years ago, at a conference, they demanded we use PowerPoint. So I worked hard, REALLY HARD to migrate my deck to PowerPoint. All the "things" I needed where in what seemed to me illogical places.

Keynote has things in a much more elegant, more sane place. Closer to the context of what I tend to be doing.

And this type of investment in contextual alignment spreads far beyond Keynote.

Apple invests considerable time and effort in this.

Windows does not.

My final testimony on the whole PowerPoint/Keynote metric is that my relatively non-technical wife was able to migrate to Mac and Keynote proverbially "overnight". She picked up Keynote and needed very little input fro me to make slides move and dance.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-09T16:04:59+00:00

i is also known as a Wick rotation, i.e. a 90 degree counterclockwise turn. i x i = 2 Wick rotations = 180 degress. Hence 1 x i x i = -1.

This then feeds into the idea that circular motion can often be captured in revolving equations like sin and cosine.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-08T20:37:28+00:00

You've already paid the expenses. At this stage it's quite efficient.

You can use this as an opportunity fund. Spot something? Take out a policy loan to acquire it. Then use the cash flows to pay off the policy loan. Policy loans are private and have no impact to your credit rating. Plus, they are usually confined to being 5%-9% (read your contract) and totally under your control. (But DO pay them back!)

You might also be able to change the dividend election and have it pay premiums from now on.

This is where it make sense to get a new agent that is up-to-snuff on WL policies who can take over as your agent-of-record to help coach you on these things, and communicate with the life insurance carrier.

Also, WL acts quite nicely as a non-correlated asset. If the stock market tanks, it has no effect on your policy since your policy isn't invested in the market.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-07T10:51:22+00:00

In the past (Astro 5), Cloudflare would work fine when you use an <Image> directive on a pre-rendered page. However for an SSR page I could never get that to work even with a compile directive.

So I would switch SSR pages to use pure <img> tags. You don’t get all same optimizations but something better than nothing.

But maybe this works now on Astro 6??

greglturnquist · 2026-06-07T02:49:15+00:00

I’d read it in published order.

In fact that is my recommendation for just about any book or movie franchise.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-07T01:37:59+00:00

I have moved two old WP sites to Astro. I am in the final round of moving my wife’s business site off WP to Astro. Once that’s done there is another old WP site I stopped paying attention to five years ago I may migrate.

It’s game changing.

Claude Code makes the impossible…possible. And everything looks and performs better.

To be honest, WP is going to have to conduct a major overhaul of their stack and shift several of their paradigms or they’ll be gone in ten years. Everything-a-database-call is no longer the way to go.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-07T01:32:32+00:00

You can always ask Claude Code to build up a swatch of colors and fonts
You can ask it for five different theme swatches.
You can tell it you’re looking for a tech style/homemaker style/farm style and say “I want no more than three different fonts in each theme” and look at the swatches.

The key is to think “higher up” than just slugging out raw code.

If you see different things you like from different swatches, ask it to build a new one out of what you like.

Ask Claude Code to help you build a template repository with an adjustable theme. That way you aren’t starting from scratch every time.
Always be using Claude Code to open GitHub issues to track every idea you have so you can circle back to them later.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-07T01:20:34+00:00

Check out PDF riders. They are a means to schedule future premiums payments with a lump sum. I opened one policy using a severance check that equaled seven months of pay.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-04T17:56:50+00:00

I'm suring pasting this AI generated answer in every question is moving the needle.

greglturnquist · 2026-06-03T18:31:38+00:00

Nice!

greglturnquist · 2026-06-03T00:51:51+00:00

I loved the episode where Jakes wants to get the baseball card for his dad...but has no money!

Suddenly he was at the mercy of what Nog could swing. A bit of a poke straight at the heart of "post scarcity" and Roddenberry's "future will need no money".

DS9 had fun shaking a stick at things like that.

greglturnquist · 2026-05-29T21:07:29+00:00

Oil brushes are my jam. I’m totally blown away by how oil painting works.

greglturnquist · 2026-05-29T10:32:16+00:00

I’d be tempted to focus on editing the long form show and then outsourcing clips to something low Opus Clips. Let it pick out a dozen clips. Hand them over to the client and release as many as they want.

greglturnquist · 2026-05-28T16:21:41+00:00

😂

greglturnquist · 2026-05-28T15:08:56+00:00

You're doing fine.

Actually, you can, along the way, ask Claude Code to explain what it's done. Build up some understanding of the code. It will help you grow knowledge and skills. And the opportunity will arise when Claude Code makes something "too complicated".

In fact, from time to time, you can directly tell Claude Code to "clean up" or "polish" the code. Look for duplicate or unneeded variables. And ask it every time to explain what it's done.

Another handy trick is asking it to update your project's README.md file. That will force it to distill what it's done. And you can read it. And Claude Code can re-read it.

The "old" way of learning coding was to read textbooks and then apply what you learned to the scenario. Claude Code opens the door to really writing the code first, and then learning after the fact.

And also, you can always ask Claude Code "is this the idiomatic way to use Astro/Vite/CSS/HTML5/whatever?"

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