Hey Astronauts, every launch needs a landing, and this is ours.
After three years and 150 issues, it’s time for me to hang up the helmet. Today’s newsletter will be the final edition of Astro Weekly.
I wanted the last one to feel like any other Sunday, so here’s one more set of links worth your time.
Astro 7.4 gives you the tools to diagnose a sluggish build and fix it, from a new timings breakdown to worker-thread pre-rendering and custom redirect pages for static sites.
Running an Astro site in more than one language? Born from a bug that kept shipping on bilingual client sites, this guide shows how to stop untranslated copy from ever reaching production.
Most open source projects accept a growing issue backlog as a fact of life. At ViteConf 2026, Matthew Phillips shared how the Astro team drove theirs down to zero.
A lightweight component that brings Medium-style image zoom to Astro, complete with keyboard support, screen reader labels and swipeable galleries. It even falls back gracefully when JavaScript hasn’t loaded.
Curious how far prompting can take you? This hands-on tutorial goes from zero to a deployed Astro blog without touching a CMS or writing a single line of code by hand.
Astro Showcase
Astro on X
That’s a wrap for this week, and for Astro Weekly.
Three years, 150 issues, and more links than I can count. To every reader, contributor and sponsor who made it what it was, thank you.
If you ever want to say hello, [email protected] stays open, and you can find me on X at @nathanlawsn.
Until our orbits cross again.
Nathan 👋
