Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/09/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to build a documentation site with Astro and Markdown | Astro Weekly #147Multiple preview servers with Astro 7.3, Starlight ships less but more JavaScript, chat-based CMS for Astro 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 01/09/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devFrom Webflow to Astro with AI | Astro Weekly #146Build full-stack Astro apps with Cloudflare Workers, migrate Webflow sites, add members-only content 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 28/08/2026It’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. 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/08/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to speed up Astro builds with incremental static rendering| Astro Weekly #145Playground for testing Astro components, caching for faster deploys, inside Astro's build architecture 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 18/08/2026GitHub'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...cursor.comOrigin Code Hosting · Cursor 020
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/08/2026Cursor shipped what I was asking for. Auto mode now shows which model handled each request. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/08/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devTurn Starlight docs into AI skills | Astro Weekly #144Build faster with Astro 7, turn Starlight docs into AI skills, scale content collections, Polar subscriptions 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/08/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devIncremental static builds in Astro | Astro Weekly #143Incremental static builds in 7.2, AI-powered issue triage, building integrations, Island strategies, remote MDX rendering 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 12/08/2026Smart 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...wpengine.comWP Engine Opens Smart Search AI to the WordPress EcosystemPreviously 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. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/08/2026Going 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. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/08/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devProduction-ready forms with Astro Actions | Astro Weekly #142Production-ready forms with Actions, emit static assets from Astro, deployment on Laravel Cloud 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/08/2026Cursor'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? 001
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/08/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devDeploy Astro on Cloudflare Workers Static Assets| Astro Weekly #141Build challenge kicking off, WebMCP for AI discovery, Cloudflare Workers static deploy 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 29/07/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devWhy you should learn Astro in 2026 | Astro Weekly #140Astro 7.1 optimizations, passwordless portals, serverless patterns, why now is the time to learn Astro 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 24/07/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devBuilding draft systems in Astro | Astro Weekly #139Astro heading to Frankfurt, shaping design education, drafts made simple, from waddle to warp speed 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/07/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devAI-powered related posts in Astro | Astro Weekly #138Astro 7.0 benchmarks, a 62k-page Next.js migration, AI-powered related posts, zero-JS scroll reveals 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/07/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devAstro 7.0 ships its fastest build pipeline yet | Astro Weekly #137Astro 7.0 ships its fastest build pipeline yet, deploying a million pages, React data client for Astro islands 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/07/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devUpgrading Astro with Claude Fable | Astro Weekly #136Astro animation library, upgrade Astro with Claude Fable, visual theme editor, headless Shopify starter kit 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/06/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devAstro 7.0 beta: what's new and how to upgrade | Astro Weekly #135Astro 7.0 beta, how an Astro rebuild doubled users, cookie banner without the framework 020
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 18/06/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devBuild a Mailing List with Resend and Astro | Astro Weekly #134New Astro merch, TinaCMS goes Astro-first, docs insights, email routing with Resend 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 08/06/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to Give AI Agents Context From Your Astro Site | Astro Weekly #133Astro 6.4 ships Rust-powered Markdown, zero-config AI CMS for Astro, new agent annotation tool 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 07/06/2026Claude 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? 110
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 06/06/2026More tools defaulting to Astro means more people starting their projects with it. Good for the whole ecosystem. tina.io/blog/astro-i...tina.ioAstro is becoming the default starter for TinaCMS | TinaCMS BlogThe latest Astro starter already uses React-free visual editing, and Astro will become the default once that new path has had more time in... 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 02/06/2026news.microsoft.com/build-2026-l... 👀news.microsoft.comMicrosoft Build LiveThe home for real-time coverage of the news as it is announced from Microsoft Build, June 2-3, 2026. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 01/06/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devWhy Developers Are Ditching Next.js for Astro in 2026 | Astro Weekly #132Five Astronauts, five Astro builds, zero regrets about leaving their old stacks behind 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 26/05/2026Opened 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...reddit.comFrom the astrojs community on Reddit: Shoutout to Nathan for running Astro Weekly newsletter consistently since 2023Explore this post and more from the astrojs community 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/05/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to Build Astro Sites for the Agentic Web | Astro Weekly #131Agent-ready Astro sites, AEO fundamentals, new Astro integration for LLMs 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 19/05/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devExperimental Advanced Request Routing in Astro | Astro Weekly #130Astro 6.3 unlocks full request pipeline control, Starlight gets smarter, new job board for the Astro ecosystem 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 12/05/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devNext.js metadata API for Astro | Astro Weekly #129Astro 6.2 released, v7 alpha, Next.js metadata API for Astro, Storybook alternative for Astro 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/05/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devIs your Astro site agent-ready? | Astro Weekly #128Platform over framework, headless WordPress on Cloudflare, scoring your Astro site for the agentic web 000
Reposted by Nathan LawsonFlorian Lefebvre @florian-lefebvre.dev · 04/05/2026Today 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!astro.jobsJobs for the Astro ecosystem | Astro.jobsFind your next role in the Astro ecosystem: from startups to enterprise teams hiring developers who are truly stellar. 06121
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 05/05/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devAstro SEO: the Definitive Guide by Yoast SEO Founder | Astro Weekly #127Yoast SEO founder shares Astro SEO guide, Strapi meets Astro 6, UX details that matter on an Astro blog 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 23/04/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devParity pricing with Astro and Polar | Astro Weekly #126Parity pricing, desktop CMS, Astro as an app framework, automated screenshots, Astro Font API 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/04/2026just received my invite for ui.sh what are folks thoughts so far? worth the $120?ui.shui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineerA toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 16/04/2026hey should we include the model that beats opus on everything in our launch chart 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 14/04/2026Joost 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...joost.blogAstro SEO: the definitive guide · Joost.blogEighteen years after 'WordPress SEO: the definitive guide,' here's the Astro version — the full SEO stack for 2026, from JSON-LD to agent discovery. 010
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 13/04/2026just ran /insights in Claude Code for the first time. the analysis and recommendations are actually good. worth trying if you haven't. 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 13/04/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devCloudflare's Astro-powered answer to WordPress | Astro Weekly #125Cloudflare's Astro-powered answer to WordPress, Experian goes all-in on Astro, live content collections 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/04/2026WP 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...wpengine.registration.goldcast.ioDE{CODE} 2026 - EMEA 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 06/04/2026It’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. 230
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 30/03/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devReady-made font pairings for Astro | Astro Weekly #124Astro 6.1 released, Astro Together announced for London, ready-made font pairings for Astro 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 27/03/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devFlue: The Sandbox Agent Framework | Astro Weekly #123A new agentic framework from Astro co-founder, a closer look at CloudCannon's Component Starter, new dev toolbar app 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 25/03/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devAstro 6.0 released | Astro Weekly #122Astro 6.0 released with Fonts API and more, new starter ships with 30+ Astro components 052
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 17/03/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devRebuilding a marketing site with Claude Code | Astro Weekly #121Astro adoption hits new highs, Astro 6.0 release teased, rebuilding a marketing site with Claude Code 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 10/03/2026Astro 6.0 is here! astro.build/blog/astro-6/astro.buildAstro 6.0 | AstroAstro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more. 0191
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 09/03/2026newsletter.astroweekly.dev/p/astro-week...newsletter.astroweekly.devPrivacy-first cookie consent for Astro | Astro Weekly #120Astro welcomes ImageKit as official image partner, hosting images with Cloudflare R2, privacy-first cookie consent 000
Nathan Lawson @nathanlawsn.com · 04/03/2026being mad about 8GB on a $599 MacBook is extremely on brand for people who were never going to buy a $599 MacBook. 030