4,364 articles on Engineering.
The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s normally a slow time of year, so without further ado, here’s what’s important from the last couple of weeks (or should I say the first couple o
Sequence-generated 4-byte integer primary keys can experience integer overflow. I'll show you how to monitor for the problem and fix it.
Out of more than 700 games submitted to Game Off 2025, these ten winners stand out for creativity, craft, and bold interpretations of the WAVES theme. All are free to play, with source code available to explore.
My experience sharing the gospel with Jeremiah and Beiyi Dow
Looking back over my 2025 and looking forward to my 2026
Whether 2026 has already begun as you’re reading this or you’re still waiting for the big countdown to start, how about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for the new year? We’ve got you covered.
:near(<length>) has been proposed, which would match whenever the pointer is within a specified proximity of the element.
Safari 26.2 ships command and commandfor as well as hidden=until-found, which are now supported in all web browsers.
Safari 26.2 ships sibling-index(), sibling-count(), and field-sizing, bringing them close to baseline.
We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happens again.
My new hobby project.
Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings.
Firefox 146 becomes the first to trial @custom-media, an at-rule that’s like custom properties but for media queries.
Early activity indicates that threat actors quickly integrated this vulnerability into their scanning and reconnaissance routines and targeted critical infrastructure including nuclear fuel, uranium and rare earth elements. We outline the tactics they appear to be using and how Cloudflare is protecting customers.
Responding to Wes Bos, Bramus demonstrates the different position-area values and how to handle inside corners (as there aren’t values for these).
@heyo53 asks on Bluesky: Is it okay to style or hide scrollbars?
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?
This blog talks about integration custom storages with PGwatch, and it also includes a walkthrough. Read to know more.
Leading SaaS platforms across industries—from Squarespace to Jobber—are using embedded components to ship payments and finance features with minimal code. We analyzed the data to see which types of platforms are getting the most value.
Our interactive, real-time visualization of sales made by Shopify-powered merchants worldwide—built into a pinball game.
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
We recently launched three new features that give you more control to fine-tune your risk and compliance strategy, allowing you to use more of Stripe’s data to inform your approach. Here’s what’s new.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. We wanted to share a bit about our journey and why we made this decision.
Bramus:
With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy!
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
At Vercel, we’re building self-driving infrastructure, a system that autonomously manages production operations, improves application code using real-world insights, and learns from the unpredictable nature of production itself.
Announcing the fall 2025 cohort of Vercel's Open Source Program. Open source community frameworks, libraries, and tools we rely on every day to build the web.
Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro Image Pro
The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Two little stories from the working life of the bastard DBA from hell, fighting user problems (but mostly users).
I'm looking for a new job.
A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.
Framework-defined infrastructure interprets your code and provisions what you need, keeping your application portable across any platform.
Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. Here’s what the 2025 Octoverse data says about how devs really work now.
Cloudflare Stream provides a unified platform for video storage, encoding, and delivery. Our mission has always been to provide developers with powerful and flexible tools to manage their media libraries. Building on that mission, we are now enabling developers to seamlessly extract audio from videos.
LLMs are useful because they lower the threshold for experimentation. But we have to beware that we don't use them to try to shortcut the learning loop that's an essential part of a software developer's practice. We have seen this problem with tools like low-code platforms, they provide a rapid burst of initial development, but we cannot sustain them because they undermine the learning required fo
Last week, Google announced that Android apps selling digital goods to US customers can now process in-app payments using third-party payment providers. Here’s a closer look at our solutions for app developers.
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 13th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme WAVES—literal, digital, or emotional. 👋🏻 🌊 📡
Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For years, listeners have debated whether Shuffle is “truly random,” often noticing patterns or repeated tracks that didn’t feel random enough.
The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
We propose an open registry format for Web Bot Auth to move beyond IP-based identity. This allows any origin to discover and verify cryptographic keys for bots, fostering a decentralized and more trustworthy ecosystem.
The world is adopting anonymous credentials for digital privacy, but these systems are vulnerable to quantum computers. This post explores the cryptographic challenges and promising research paths toward building new, quantum-resistant credentials from the ground up.
In Q3 2025, global Internet disruptions were caused by everything from government shutdowns to stray bullets and earthquakes. This report analyzes the traffic data behind these outages to show their real-world impact on connectivity.
We present a data-driven framework to quantify cross-layer Internet resilience. We also share a list of measurements with which to quantify facets of Internet resilience for geographical areas.
