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.
Vercel: The anti-vendor-lock-in cloud
Framework-defined infrastructure interprets your code and provisions what you need, keeping your application portable across any platform.
What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025
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.
Extract audio from your videos with Cloudflare Stream
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.
The Learning Loop and LLMs
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
Building for the next wave of app monetization
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 Game Off 2025 theme announcement
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: Making Random Feel More Human
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.
Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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!
Beyond IP lists- a registry format for bots and agents
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.
Policy, privacy and post-quantum: anonymous credentials for everyone
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.
Online outages: Q3 2025 Internet disruption summary
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.
A framework for measuring Internet resilience
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.
Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.
Announcing the 2025 GitHub Partner Award winners 🎉
GitHub celebrates its 2025 Partner Award winners, honoring global, regional, and technology partners for driving innovation, collaboration, and impact across the developer ecosystem.
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption
Last year, I wrote a blog post titled Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, where we explored the evolution of our Chef infrastructure over the years. We talked about the shift from a single Chef stack to a multi-stack model, and the challenges that came with it – from updating how we handle cookbook uploads to navigating…
How to Fix Any Bug
The joys of vibecoding.
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025. Read the summary of impact, timeline, root cause, and steps we’re taking to improve reliability.
Do not turn off
Load Balancing Monitor Groups: Multi-Service Health Checks for Resilient Applications
Cloudflare Load Balancing now supports Monitor Groups, allowing you to combine multiple health monitors into a single, logical assessment. Create sophisticated health checks for complex applications, define critical dependencies, and make smarter failover decisions.
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert
If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.
Webinar: Cross-Platform Auditing
Introducing stablecoin payments for subscriptions
As businesses expand globally, stablecoins can help them reach a broader international audience more cost-effectively. Now we’re extending these benefits to subscription-based businesses by launching recurring payments with stablecoins.
We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
Notes on switching to Helix from vim
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings.
How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs
With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.
How we brought multimedia search to Dropbox Dash
Our multimedia retrieval features allow users to find images, video, and audio just as easily as they find documents.
Where It's at://
From handles to hosting.
Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions
On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services. It follows regional shutdowns that began several weeks prior, ostensibly to prevent “immoral activities”.
Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Introducing Open Issuance from Bridge: A new platform to launch your own stablecoin
Open Issuance is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits, and earn rewards from reserves.
