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Astro 7.4 is out now! Ever wondered why your build is slow? Run astro build --timings and Astro breaks down every phase, plugin, and page. Plus separate build and runtime image services and experimental parallel prerendering. astro.build/blog/astro-740/

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Don't we all want a @github.com Inbox zero? Especially now where issues an PRs are being raised left and right. @fancypenguin.party will tell us how he reached that goal in "How We Drove @astro.build's GitHub Issues to Zero" 🎉 @ViteConf 2026, Thu 15 Oct, 14:00 UTC. Free and online. viteconf.org

Nano Stores finally has a website! We've seen huge growth thanks to LLMs. Not having a site was embarrassing. nanostores.net Check out the design: fresh and personal. Too many modern sites look the same. No React. Just Astro.

🔗 “The majority of the time I spend writing a tutorial, isn’t spent writing. (…) knowing what to leave out is as important as understanding what to explain” – @rachelandrew.co.uk rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Small update to the GitHub AgentScan userscript: - New "Bounty Hunter" label - Use "Suspicious" label for mixed results - Slightly faster AgentScan detection (by running in the worker itself now) Check it out: github.com/bluwy/github...

oh wow. America.gov is an Astro site

Congratulations on the launch! I’m glad to see a CMS built on Astro, and it looks really promising. I haven't tested it in production yet, only by helping with French translations (there's still work to be done on that side, I know...), but if you haven't already, I advise you to try it.

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

I'm going to be launching something pretty big next week, which just happens to include a new atproto AppView, labeler, blob proxy, lexicons. It will have tens of thousands of users, most of whom won't even know they're using atproto, or have even heard of it.

Translating documentation is good, but it's not so great when the meaning changes. Automated translations are still not great. "Open issues" becomes "Problèmes ouverts" in French, when it should be "Ouvrir un ticket"/"Signaler un problème". Not the same meaning; and so not helpful to French users.

Lunaria v0.2 is here! Bringing a completely reworked core with a new JS/TS configuration file, git data caching, integrations, brand-new Runtime API, and more. Already being used in production by Astro/Starlight, EmDash CMS (Cloudflare), and Biome. lunaria.dev/blog/lunaria...

Want to know how (not) to wreck your site’s performance? @otterlord.dev has some tips to share:

A riddle for you: how can one Starlight release contain both LESS JavaScript and MORE JavaScript? All is revealed in v0.42 ✨️ astro.build/blog/starlig...

Two weeks until Astro Together in Wiesbaden, Germany! Join Astro maintainers for an evening of talks and demos at @seibert.group HQ. Sign up today 👇️ go.seibert.group/astro-togeth...

Wrote a userscript that adds "AI" labels to users detected by agentscan.tools (by @matteogabriele.npmx.social)! Much needed hints to judge "contributions" these days. 👉 github.com/bluwy/github...

Astro DX in Biome is about to get better, thanks to @erika.florist and @astro.build

There’s a new place to get Astro help. Come ask, search (and answer!) questions in our GitHub Discussions forum:

I'd say I was pretty aware of all the possibilities and information my browser shares about me, but it's still wild to see all this data in black and white. :/ https://kuber.studio/cookie

Ever wanted to write Astro components without starting a new project? 👀 We built a Playground that shows you - preview, CSS, JavaScript, compiler output. play.astro.build

New blog post: The Case for Tri-State Dark Mode Toggles brm.us/dark-mode-tr... #CSS #DarkMode #UX

i've written up some thoughts about AI in the open source world, and more importantly, why humanity is important. its a bit wordy and doomy but this is an important topic right now. there is still a lot of good in the OSS world at least ❤️

Changesets v3 is here! 🦋 After months of chipping away at issues alongside @bluwy.me, @haglund.dev, and many other contributors, we’re excited to finally share it. changesets.dev/blog/announc...

@lea.verou.me published an interesting article on website theme toggle design, which set me off thinking about them. After a bit of experimenting and testing with users, I've got a pattern I quite like. vale.rocks/micros/20260... #UI #UX

Maintaining critical software now comes with a security burden that has outgrown what any volunteer can reasonably carry. That's why we're upgrading our open source program from the Team plan to the Business plan, full protection for maintainers at no cost. socket.dev/blog/free-bu...

Astro 7.2 is out now! Experimental incremental static builds are here: only re-render the pages that actually changed and watch your build times drop. Plus opt-out session support, background astro preview, and relative logger entrypoints. astro.build/blog/astro-7...

New feature in AgentScan GitHub app: the honeypot comment. This comment is intended to welcome regular users, but it also contains a hidden comment that only AI agents will read. This will prompt them to write a specific custom string that will immediately close the PR and add a label as automations

🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

@astro.build month-end blog post/newsletter drafted! If you're not subscribed, now's a good time: astro.build/newsletter/s... - Just a tiny taste to whet your appetite: handful of news items, monthly "Top 10". astro.build/rss.xml - The full 8-course meal! Put on your stretchy pants and dig in!

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Astro 7.1 is about giving you more control: finer-grained CSP for scripts and styles, custom pagination URLs, plus multiple dev servers and lower memory content collections. astro.build/blog/astro-7...

📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Thanks @npmx.dev 🥳

Alright! It is done! Finally made a GitHub app for AgentScan so you can just install it, select your repositories, and more easily keep automation lovers out of your projects. Give it a spin and drop me some feedback on GitHub

All my Starlight plugins, themes, and Astro integrations are now updated for this new version 🚀

The Astro maintainers are coming to Germany! Hosted by Astro partner agency @Seibert.Group in Wiesbaden, sign up now for an evening of talks and demos: go.seibert.group/astro-togeth...

Introducing Sätteri — High-performance Markdown & MDX processing for the JavaScript ecosystem. satteri.bruits.org

i don't mind people using ai to add features or fix stuff in open source. but reviews still need a human on the other end. it's annoying when i leave feedback and someone just dumps it straight into an llm to "address" it, no discussion at all.

Want those Astro 7 speed-ups in your docs? Starlight v0.41 is out now

🚀 Vite 8.1 is out ⚡ Experimental Full Bundle Mode: ~15x faster dev server startup & ~10x faster full reloads on large apps 🧩 Chunk Import Map to keep chunks stable & improve caching 🦀 WASM ESM integration 💡 Lightning CSS on the road to default 👀 and more! vite.dev/blog/announc...

Astro 7 is fully supported on @netlify.com on day one! 👉🏼 www.netlify.com/changelog/20... 🦀🦀🦀

mu is pink but it can also be blue and orange.

It's finally out! It was a blast and I had a lot of fun :) If you have some time to spare, please listen to it. Props to @joshuakgoldberg.com

Today I'm launching Leturgerð! Pick a font family, its properties and download it. Hook it up in your project and you're good to go. CLI + docs, works for any web project. Check it out: leturgero.web-runes.dev

Oh, joy...

Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖

Starlight, @astro.build's documentation framework, now supports using satteri.bruits.org in its latest version: github.com/withastro/st...

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