Add launch-day post announcing Open and Async#1891
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Announces the book's July 21, 2026 release. Gated behind published: false so it won't surface early (no future-date guard in the post list); flip to true on launch day. OG image points at the book site's purpose-built social card. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Expand MCP to Model Context Protocol (MCP) on first use - Add a relevant internal link (why-async) on "communicating asynchronously" - Drop vague homepage links on "office work in sweatpants" and "could not help myself" so remaining anchors are descriptive Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per "write for users, not for yourself": retitle so it leads with the
reader's payoff instead of "My book," reframe the "Why I wrote it"
section as "What separates teams that thrive," and cut first-person
asides ("I spent," "our workflows," "because I could not help myself")
in favor of what the reader gains.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The book grew out of this blog, so give blog readers a direct reason to pick it up: the familiar posts, woven into one ordered playbook, plus the two-thirds that never ran here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Now that the book has launched, the site sells instead of capturing emails (gate on merge, no date flag): - BookCta (inline on every post + homepage featured): "Coming / Get notified" → "Out now / Buy it — $9.99" - New BookLaunchCta: a bespoke, high-impact buy-now panel (gradient ring, dual ebook/paperback buttons) for the launch post; auto-imported for MDX - Launch post → .mdx, embeds <BookLaunchCta />, drops the published:false safeguard, and sets hideBookCta to suppress the generic inline CTA - config: add bookPrice / bookPricePaperback as the single source Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds the launch-day blog post announcing my book, Open and Async, timed to its July 21, 2026 release.
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open-and-async.com; no retailer URLs are hardcoded (those don't lock until ~T−14). Prices ($9.99 ebook / $29.99 paperback) pulled from the book site'sconsts.ts.Launch-day checklist
published: false→true(there's no future-date guard in the post list — it would otherwise surface a month early on the next rebuild)open-and-async.comis routing to retailersChecks
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