v0.2.0 — The Checkup: live polls in the slides, a swipe-through mobile poll, and Recipes goes live
The July 29 all-hands became the proving ground for a new idea: the deck IS the app. Polls embedded in slides, mid-session hotfixes with no deploys, a WhatsApp-ready mobile voting surface, and the first Recipes content — including a downloadable agent-skill.
Why Care?
If you attended the July 29 Agentic VC Dojo, you already used this release: you opened the deck on your own screen, typed answers into the slides, watched the room's responses accumulate on the projector, and wrote the dojo's next agenda in a breakout. This release note is the story of the machinery behind that hour — and what it added to the site permanently.
What's New?
The deck is the app. Session decks can now embed the live polling system directly in slides. Same polls, same tallies across three surfaces — deck, session page, and the new mobile view.
/polls/checkup — vote from your phone. One question per screen, fill it out, swipe, next. Built for the WhatsApp follow-up blast, with a vertical 1080×1620 share card that unfurls properly and a login flow that now returns you to the poll instead of stranding you on /me.
Recipes is no longer empty. Three founding guides:
How To: Getting Unafraid and Setting Up Your Terminal — Michael's actual Ghostty + Oh My Posh setup, paste-able end to end, with a "skip it: hand this link to Claude Code" fast path.
Orientation: Claude Desktop vs Claude Code — same brain, different bodies; when to reach for which.
Capture Breakout Highlights — a downloadable Claude Code agent-skill (
create-html-breakout-highlights) that live-captures a breakout, clusters it into themes, links every mentioned tool, reconstructs the dialog, and renders an on-brand HTML page. Our DESIGN.md ships inside the zip.
Quality-of-life across the site: copy buttons on every code block, seven new tools in the registry, and the site's first DESIGN.md design contract.
Under the Hood
Astro 7 silently broke the
astro db executeCLI that all polling ops depended on;scripts/db-execute.mjsrestores it by calling @astrojs/db's internal CLI directly.Live-operability proven mid-session: poll caps lifted and a sixth question added while the meeting ran, zero deploys — config lives in Turso, surfaces read per-request.
OAuth
?next=round-trip added to all three providers (relative paths only, cookie-carried, defaults preserved).OG image dimensions are now overridable per page (
imageWidth/imageHeight), unlocking non-16:9 share cards.
Versioning
0.1.3 → 0.2.0 — a feature release: embedded-poll decks, the mobile poll surface, Recipes content + downloadable skill, and auth round-tripping. No breaking changes; @astrojs/db's upstream deprecation remains the tracked migration risk.