Southwell Media is a Dallas studio building original websites, apps and brands — no templates, no themes, shipped in weeks. https://southwell.media en-us Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:32:38 GMT https://southwell.media/blog/astro-6-stable-release/ https://southwell.media/blog/astro-6-stable-release/ Astro 6 stable dropped. We've been running the beta in production since January — here's what changed, what broke, and what it means for your next build. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth Astro Astro 6 Web Development Frontend https://southwell.media/blog/astro-6-whats-coming-2026/ https://southwell.media/blog/astro-6-whats-coming-2026/ The biggest Astro release in years brings a unified dev server, native CSP, Zod 4, and a Cloudflare-backed future. Here's what you need to know before the stable release lands. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth Astro Web Development Frontend Astro 6 https://southwell.media/blog/we-open-sourced-our-internal-astro-boilerplate/ https://southwell.media/blog/we-open-sourced-our-internal-astro-boilerplate/ Velocity is the Astro 6 boilerplate we built for internal use, refined across a year of client projects, and now released under an MIT license. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth Astro Open Source Boilerplate i18n Tailwind CSS https://southwell.media/blog/css-2026-7-features-that-let-browsers-do-the-work/ https://southwell.media/blog/css-2026-7-features-that-let-browsers-do-the-work/ Anchor positioning. Scroll-driven animations. Sibling functions. A few CSS features arriving in 2026 handle patterns that used to require JS libraries. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth CSS JavaScript Performance Web Development https://southwell.media/blog/ai-cant-replace-experience/ https://southwell.media/blog/ai-cant-replace-experience/ The barrier to entry has collapsed. But the gap between what gets built and what actually works is widening. AI made creation accessible—not quality. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth AI Vibe Coding Experience Quality https://southwell.media/blog/astro-cloudflare-partnership/ https://southwell.media/blog/astro-cloudflare-partnership/ Cloudflare announced the Astro core team is joining them. This formalizes a new standard for how high-performance websites are built and deployed at the edge. Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth Astro Cloudflare Edge Computing Web Performance Developer Experience https://southwell.media/blog/nextjs-cve-2025-66478/ https://southwell.media/blog/nextjs-cve-2025-66478/ A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability (CVE-2025-66478) affecting Next.js App Router applications has been disclosed. Here's the full breakdown and how to protect your applications immediately. Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT michael-froseth Next.js CVE React Security RSC