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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/09/2026
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How to build a documentation site with Astro and Markdown | Astro Weekly #147
Multiple preview servers with Astro 7.3, Starlight ships less but more JavaScript, chat-based CMS for Astro
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 01/09/2026
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From Webflow to Astro with AI | Astro Weekly #146
Build full-stack Astro apps with Cloudflare Workers, migrate Webflow sites, add members-only content
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 28/08/2026
It’s wild and disheartening that folks are prepared to drop thousands of $$$ on a leaderboard spot buried beneath VC startups, but getting a $99 sponsor for a newsletter hitting ~1000 dev inboxes every single week is exponentially harder.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/08/2026
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How to speed up Astro builds with incremental static rendering| Astro Weekly #145
Playground for testing Astro components, caching for faster deploys, inside Astro's build architecture
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 18/08/2026
GitHub's moat is real. Interested to see if developers actually switch repos or if Origin becomes a fun secondary platform for side projects. cursor.com/changelog/or...
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Origin Code Hosting · Cursor
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/08/2026
Cursor shipped what I was asking for. Auto mode now shows which model handled each request.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/08/2026
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Turn Starlight docs into AI skills | Astro Weekly #144
Build faster with Astro 7, turn Starlight docs into AI skills, scale content collections, Polar subscriptions
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/08/2026
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Incremental static builds in Astro | Astro Weekly #143
Incremental static builds in 7.2, AI-powered issue triage, building integrations, Island strategies, remote MDX rendering
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 12/08/2026
Smart Search AI. Any host, any site. WP Engine Smart Search AI is now available as a standalone plugin for all WordPress sites. wpengine.com/press-releas...
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WP Engine Opens Smart Search AI to the WordPress Ecosystem
Previously available exclusively to WP Engine customers, Smart Search AI can now be deployed on any site built with WordPress, significantly expanding access to the technology.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/08/2026
Going from agency to working on product has been so liberating. There’s time to think, to build with intention, to see it through. No more shipping and moving on. This is what building feels like.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/08/2026
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Production-ready forms with Astro Actions | Astro Weekly #142
Production-ready forms with Actions, emit static assets from Astro, deployment on Laravel Cloud
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/08/2026
Cursor's Auto mode has been surprisingly token-efficient for me. Anyone know if there's a way to see which model actually handled each request?
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/08/2026
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Deploy Astro on Cloudflare Workers Static Assets| Astro Weekly #141
Build challenge kicking off, WebMCP for AI discovery, Cloudflare Workers static deploy
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 29/07/2026
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Why you should learn Astro in 2026 | Astro Weekly #140
Astro 7.1 optimizations, passwordless portals, serverless patterns, why now is the time to learn Astro
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 24/07/2026
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Building draft systems in Astro | Astro Weekly #139
Astro heading to Frankfurt, shaping design education, drafts made simple, from waddle to warp speed
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/07/2026
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AI-powered related posts in Astro | Astro Weekly #138
Astro 7.0 benchmarks, a 62k-page Next.js migration, AI-powered related posts, zero-JS scroll reveals
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/07/2026
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Astro 7.0 ships its fastest build pipeline yet | Astro Weekly #137
Astro 7.0 ships its fastest build pipeline yet, deploying a million pages, React data client for Astro islands
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/07/2026
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Upgrading Astro with Claude Fable | Astro Weekly #136
Astro animation library, upgrade Astro with Claude Fable, visual theme editor, headless Shopify starter kit
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 29/06/2026
Give Japan the World Cup for the kit alone 🤌
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/06/2026
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Astro 7.0 beta: what's new and how to upgrade | Astro Weekly #135
Astro 7.0 beta, how an Astro rebuild doubled users, cookie banner without the framework
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 18/06/2026
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Build a Mailing List with Resend and Astro | Astro Weekly #134
New Astro merch, TinaCMS goes Astro-first, docs insights, email routing with Resend
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 08/06/2026
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How to Give AI Agents Context From Your Astro Site | Astro Weekly #133
Astro 6.4 ships Rust-powered Markdown, zero-config AI CMS for Astro, new agent annotation tool
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/06/2026
Claude Code fits my setup well enough that I haven’t felt the pull to switch to Codex. Someone change my mind. What am I missing?
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 06/06/2026
More tools defaulting to Astro means more people starting their projects with it. Good for the whole ecosystem. tina.io/blog/astro-i...
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Astro is becoming the default starter for TinaCMS | TinaCMS Blog
The latest Astro starter already uses React-free visual editing, and Astro will become the default once that new path has had more time in...
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 02/06/2026
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Microsoft Build Live
The home for real-time coverage of the news as it is announced from Microsoft Build, June 2-3, 2026.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 01/06/2026
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Why Developers Are Ditching Next.js for Astro in 2026 | Astro Weekly #132
Five Astronauts, five Astro builds, zero regrets about leaving their old stacks behind
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 31/05/2026
Summer wedding vibes
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 26/05/2026
Opened my laptop this morning to find a huge spike in Astro Weekly subscribers with no idea why. Turns out the newsletter made the front page of r/astrojs. Genuinely made my day. www.reddit.com/r/astrojs/co...
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From the astrojs community on Reddit: Shoutout to Nathan for running Astro Weekly newsletter consistently since 2023
Explore this post and more from the astrojs community
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/05/2026
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How to Build Astro Sites for the Agentic Web | Astro Weekly #131
Agent-ready Astro sites, AEO fundamentals, new Astro integration for LLMs
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 19/05/2026
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Experimental Advanced Request Routing in Astro | Astro Weekly #130
Astro 6.3 unlocks full request pipeline control, Starlight gets smarter, new job board for the Astro ecosystem
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 12/05/2026
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Next.js metadata API for Astro | Astro Weekly #129
Astro 6.2 released, v7 alpha, Next.js metadata API for Astro, Storybook alternative for Astro
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/05/2026
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Is your Astro site agent-ready? | Astro Weekly #128
Platform over framework, headless WordPress on Cloudflare, scoring your Astro site for the agentic web
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Florian Lefebvre @florian-lefebvre.dev · 04/05/2026
Today I'm launching astro.jobs! It's an unofficial job board for the @astro.build ecosystem. If you're looking for a job or if you have open positions related to Astro, check it out!
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Jobs for the Astro ecosystem | Astro.jobs
Find your next role in the Astro ecosystem: from startups to enterprise teams hiring developers who are truly stellar.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 05/05/2026
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Astro SEO: the Definitive Guide by Yoast SEO Founder | Astro Weekly #127
Yoast SEO founder shares Astro SEO guide, Strapi meets Astro 6, UX details that matter on an Astro blog
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/04/2026
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Parity pricing with Astro and Polar | Astro Weekly #126
Parity pricing, desktop CMS, Astro as an app framework, automated screenshots, Astro Font API
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/04/2026
just received my invite for ui.sh what are folks thoughts so far? worth the $120?
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ui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineer
A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 16/04/2026
hey should we include the model that beats opus on everything in our launch chart
Opus 4.7 benchmarks
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/04/2026
Joost de Valk (@joost.blog) wrote the book on WordPress SEO before moving on to building the de facto SEO plugin for WordPress. This is the Astro version. A must-read. joost.blog/astro-seo-co...
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Astro SEO: the definitive guide · Joost.blog
Eighteen years after 'WordPress SEO: the definitive guide,' here's the Astro version — the full SEO stack for 2026, from JSON-LD to agent discovery.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 13/04/2026
just ran /insights in Claude Code for the first time. the analysis and recommendations are actually good. worth trying if you haven't.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 13/04/2026
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Cloudflare's Astro-powered answer to WordPress | Astro Weekly #125
Cloudflare's Astro-powered answer to WordPress, Experian goes all-in on Astro, live content collections
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/04/2026
WP Engine’s DE{CODE} 2026 agenda is live 👀 AI, intelligent web experiences, where WordPress is actually heading, and more! wpengine.registration.goldcast.io/events/194ce...
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DE{CODE} 2026 - EMEA
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 06/04/2026
It’s been a three month journey from the Big Bite acquisition to today, but the ink is finally dry and I officially begin my role as a Software Engineer at WP Engine. Excited to continue our work on Newsroom and bring new products to market.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 05/04/2026
top 3 of 2026 locked in. 9/10
Project Hail Mary
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 30/03/2026
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Ready-made font pairings for Astro | Astro Weekly #124
Astro 6.1 released, Astro Together announced for London, ready-made font pairings for Astro
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 27/03/2026
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Flue: The Sandbox Agent Framework | Astro Weekly #123
A new agentic framework from Astro co-founder, a closer look at CloudCannon's Component Starter, new dev toolbar app
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/03/2026
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Astro 6.0 released | Astro Weekly #122
Astro 6.0 released with Fonts API and more, new starter ships with 30+ Astro components
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/03/2026
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Rebuilding a marketing site with Claude Code | Astro Weekly #121
Astro adoption hits new highs, Astro 6.0 release teased, rebuilding a marketing site with Claude Code
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/03/2026
Astro 6.0 is here! astro.build/blog/astro-6/
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Astro 6.0 | Astro
Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more.
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 09/03/2026
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Privacy-first cookie consent for Astro | Astro Weekly #120
Astro welcomes ImageKit as official image partner, hosting images with Cloudflare R2, privacy-first cookie consent
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Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/03/2026
being mad about 8GB on a $599 MacBook is extremely on brand for people who were never going to buy a $599 MacBook.
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