Nathan Lawson

newsletter.astroweekly.devAI agents replace pull requests in major open source projects | Astro Weekly #149Open source workflows shift to agents, archive every version of your docs, why Markdown beats WordPress

newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to Monitor Web Crawlers on an Astro Site with Cloudflare | Astro Weekly #148Monitor bot traffic in real-time, economics of Astro for agencies, publish handwritten posts to Astro

7 Sept

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

1 Sept

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

28 Aug

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.

25 Aug

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

cursor.comOrigin Code Hosting · Cursor

18 Aug

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...

17 Aug

Cursor shipped what I was asking for. Auto mode now shows which model handled each request.

Nathan Lawson@nathanlawsn.com

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?

17 Aug

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

14 Aug

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

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.

12 Aug

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...

10 Aug

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.

10 Aug

newsletter.astroweekly.devProduction-ready forms with Astro Actions | Astro Weekly #142Production-ready forms with Actions, emit static assets from Astro, deployment on Laravel Cloud

4 Aug

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?

4 Aug

newsletter.astroweekly.devDeploy Astro on Cloudflare Workers Static Assets| Astro Weekly #141Build challenge kicking off, WebMCP for AI discovery, Cloudflare Workers static deploy

29 July

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

24 July

newsletter.astroweekly.devBuilding draft systems in Astro | Astro Weekly #139Astro heading to Frankfurt, shaping design education, drafts made simple, from waddle to warp speed

23 July

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

14 July

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

7 July

newsletter.astroweekly.devUpgrading Astro with Claude Fable | Astro Weekly #136Astro animation library, upgrade Astro with Claude Fable, visual theme editor, headless Shopify starter kit

29 June

Give Japan the World Cup for the kit alone 🤌

23 June

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

18 June

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

8 June

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

7 June

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?

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...

6 June

More tools defaulting to Astro means more people starting their projects with it. Good for the whole ecosystem. tina.io/blog/astro-i...

news.microsoft.comMicrosoft Build LiveThe home for real-time coverage of the news as it is announced from Microsoft Build, June 2-3, 2026.

2 June

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1 June

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

Summer wedding vibes

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...

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

25 May

newsletter.astroweekly.devHow to Build Astro Sites for the Agentic Web | Astro Weekly #131Agent-ready Astro sites, AEO fundamentals, new Astro integration for LLMs

19 May

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

12 May

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

10 May

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

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Florian Lefebvre

@florian-lefebvre.dev

4 May

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!

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.

5 May

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

23 Apr

newsletter.astroweekly.devParity pricing with Astro and Polar | Astro Weekly #126Parity pricing, desktop CMS, Astro as an app framework, automated screenshots, Astro Font API

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.

17 Apr

just received my invite for ui.sh what are folks thoughts so far? worth the $120?

16 Apr

hey should we include the model that beats opus on everything in our launch chart

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.

14 Apr

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...

13 Apr

just ran /insights in Claude Code for the first time. the analysis and recommendations are actually good. worth trying if you haven't.

13 Apr

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

wpengine.registration.goldcast.ioDE{CODE} 2026 - EMEA

10 Apr

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...