Hello, Astronauts. Vacation mode is officially over. I'm back from Florida with sunburn, tired legs, and five solid Astro reads.
This week looks at crawler visibility, migration economics, and one developer's decision to slow down and write an Astro blog by hand.
Chris Portscheller shows how to monitor which bots are hitting your Astro site by adding a Cloudflare Worker edge sensor that reports automated traffic in real-time, no changes to your build or server code needed.
Finsweet's CTO breaks down why web agencies are moving from Webflow to Astro for client projects, comparing the economics, flexibility, and long-term maintainability of both approaches.
Jeff Huleatt created an Agent Skill that converts handwritten notes into Astro-compatible MDX, sidestepping the distraction of writing on a laptop while keeping publishing automated.
Evil Martians replaced their bloated GraphQL data layer and 17 Gatsby plugins with Astro's simpler content collections and islands architecture, cutting homepage weight in half without component rewrites.
Afnizar Nur Ghifari explains how to run an Astro site alongside Next.js by routing them separately from the same domain, avoiding subdomain complexity and keeping projects isolated.
Astro Showcase
Astro on X
Thanks for reading this week.
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Catch you at our usual time next week for more!
Nathan 👋
