How Ramp kept 100% uptime through 100x traffic surges on Vercel
Why I joined OpenAI
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards longer term efforts to keep the American Dream fair and attainable for all our children. Stay gold, America. 💛
What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built
What languages are growing fastest, and why? What about the projects that people are interested in the most? Where are new developers cutting their teeth? Let’s take a look at Octoverse data to find out.
The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty program is now available
Vercel is opening its open source software bug bounty program to the public for researchers find vulnerabilities and make OSS safer
Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make the most of the shortest month of the year with a new collection of desktop wallpapers that are sure to bring a smile to your face — and maybe spark your creativity, too. All of them were designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Happy February!
Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
The new ::search-text pseudo (Chrome 144) matches are yellow while the current target (::search-text:current) is orange, but ::search-text enables us to change that.
Engineering VP Josh Clemm on how we use knowledge graphs, MCP, and DSPy in Dash
Engineering VP Josh Clemm deep-dives into how we think about knowledge graphs, indexes, MCP, and prompt optimization using tools like DSPy.
Excessive Bold
Year recap and future goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with data from the Innovation Graph through Q3 2025.
How Stripe built a game-changing app in a single flight with v0
Help shape the future of open source in Europe
Read GitHub’s position on the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy and learn how to participate.
Some notes on starting to use Django
How Sensay went from zero to product in six weeks
SkyPilot at Shopify: Multi-cloud GPUs without the pain (2026) - Shopify
GPUs are annoying. Shopify uses SkyPilot to make them less so: one YAML file, multiple clouds, clean development ergonomics.
Open Props @custom-media Recipes
The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn't find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle's on the beat noting that it's behind a flag
How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic
A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. Here we explain the vulnerability and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitigate it.
What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More
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
Dealing with integer overflow in sequence-generated primary keys
Sequence-generated 4-byte integer primary keys can experience integer overflow. I'll show you how to monitor for the problem and fix it.
Light waves, rising tides, and drifting ships: Game Off 2025 winners
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.
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
The Dow's Start on the Covenant Path
My experience sharing the gospel with Jeremiah and Beiyi Dow
Summary of reading: January - March 2026 - Eli Bendersky's website
How big are factorials? - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on Fourier series - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on the Fourier Transform - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on Linear Algebra for Polynomials - Eli Bendersky's website
Plugins case study: Pluggy - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: April - June 2026 - Eli Bendersky's website
Thoughts on WebAssembly as a stack machine - Eli Bendersky's website
Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly - Eli Bendersky's website
2025 in Review
Looking back over my 2025 and looking forward to my 2026
Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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.
Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidents
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.
Introducing RSC Explorer
My new hobby project.
Toon Title Text Generator
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.
React2Shell and related RSC vulnerabilities threat brief- early exploitation activity and threat actor techniques
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.
Leaving Intel
Getting Creative With “The Measure”
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?
Integrating Custom Storages with pgwatch
This blog talks about integration custom storages with PGwatch, and it also includes a walkthrough. Read to know more.
Analyzing how SaaS platforms are shipping payments and finance products in days
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.
Behind the build: 2025's BFCM globe in a pinball machine 🌎🕹️ - Shopify
Our interactive, real-time visualization of sales made by Shopify-powered merchants worldwide—built into a pinball game.
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
New features to help SaaS platforms manage risk and stay compliant
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.
Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
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.
Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
Bramus:
A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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!
The ultimate gift guide for the developer in your life
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
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.
Intel is listening, don't waste your shot
Self-driving infrastructure
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.
Vercel Open Source Program: Fall 2025 cohort
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 Google's Nano Banana Pro
Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro Image Pro
Third Stage Engineering
Highlights from Git 2.52
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.
The bastard DBA from hell
Two little stories from the working life of the bastard DBA from hell, fighting user problems (but mostly users).
Hire Me in Japan
I'm looking for a new job.
Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.