Field guide

Scheduled publishing

Build-ahead publishing for static sites, including the Cloudflare automation that replaces metered CI schedules.

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• Scheduling Astro posts without GitHub Actions

  Sep 22, 2026·8 min read

  When my free GitHub Actions allowance ran out, I moved Astro scheduling to a 20-line Cloudflare Worker that triggers one daily rebuild without CI at all.

  • astro
  • cloudflare
  • github-actions
  • automation
  • deployment

• Triggering Cloudflare deployments with a Cron Worker

  Sep 29, 2026·7 min read

  A 20-line Cloudflare Worker can trigger one daily static-site rebuild, keep its deploy hook secret, and make publication failures observable in its logs.

  • cloudflare
  • workers
  • astro
  • automation
  • deployment