Highlights from Git 2.51
The open source Git project just released Git 2.51. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Beyond Booleans
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
Q1 2025 Innovation Graph update: Bar chart races, data visualization on the rise, and key research
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through March 2025.
From private to public: How a United Nations organization open sourced its tech in four steps
Learn how the International Telecommunication Union made the switch to open source, and how you can too!
Cutting delivery times in half with v0
Aligning our prices and packaging with the problems we help customers solve
You asked for simplicity. We listened. Introducing Externa and Interna, two new use-case-driven packages to simplify how you connect and protect your entire infrastructure.
Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️
tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure.
How Zapier scales product partnerships with v0
Vercel is the only vendor to be recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
We’re honored to be the only vendor recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Native Application Platforms.
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.
Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build ids
A new wave of software, shipped on Vercel
We're launching a new way to showcase standout products built and shipped on Vercel. Submit your project.
Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. The wallpapers are designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free! Enjoy!
The Math Is Haunted
A taste of Lean.
The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution — Smashing Magazine
The Core Model is a practical methodology that flips traditional digital development on its head. Instead of starting with solutions or structure, we begin with a hypothesis about what users need and follow a simple framework that brings diverse teams together to create more effective digital experiences. By asking six good questions in the right order, teams align around user tasks and business o
Apply to join the v0 Ambassador Program and help others discover the magic of what's possible with v0.
Apply today to join the v0 Ambassador Program and help others discover the magic of what's possible with v0.
Shutdown season- the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary
In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems, as well as several with unexplained causes.
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.
Leveraging multimodal LLMs for Shopify’s global catalogue: Recap of expo talk at ICLR 2025 - Shopify
Shopify’s Global Catalogue demonstrates the impact of multimodal LLMs on one of commerce’s hardest problems: building a unified, structured, and continuously evolving understanding of billions of product listings created by millions of merchants. At the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 Expo in Singapore, we presented the core engineering behind this initiative
Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones — Smashing Magazine
Learn why flip phones still matter in 2025, and how you can build and launch web apps for these tiny devices.
The Layout Maestro Course
Layout. It's one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it's innately difficult to, say, place two
Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform
Cloudflare's SASE platform now offers egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application in open beta. This makes it easy to author simple and secure policies that control the source IP addresses that an organization's Internet traffic uses to connect to external services.
Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)
Expert Generalists
As computer systems get more sophisticated we've seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we've found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties. We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”. We can identify the key characteristics of people with this skill - and thus recruit and promote based on it. We
Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change — Smashing Magazine
Bridging the gap between user research insights and actual organizational action — with a clear roadmap for impact.
Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
July is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are bound to bring some good vibes to your screen. Enjoy!
Feedback: working state, mobile rollovers, and IP filtering
Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet
Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Calculating rollovers
The DeepSeek Series: A Technical Overview
The appearance of DeepSeek Large-Language Models has caused a lot of discussion and angst since their latest versions appeared at the beginning of 2025. But much of the value of DeepSeek's work comes from the papers they have published over the last year. This article provides an overview of these papers, highlighting three main arcs in this research: a focus on improving cost and memory efficienc
Highlights from Git 2.50
The open source Git project just released Git 2.50. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Celebrating 11 years of Project Galileo’s global impact
June 2025 marks the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s effort to protect vulnerable public interest organizations from cyber threats. To celebrate, we’re sharing a new Radar report, expanding in Asia with two new partners, and highlighting stories from organizations on the front lines.
I'm Doing a Little Consulting
Personal update post.
Designing and building the Vercel Ship conference platform
Here's how we designed and built our Vercel Ship conference platform. We generated 15,000+ images and videos with tools like Flux, Veo 2, Runway, and Ideogram. Then, we moved to v0 for prototyping. See our iterations, examples, tech stack, and more.
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)
Bill Atkinson’s 10 rules for making interfaces more human
We commemorate the Apple pioneer whose QuickDraw and HyperCard programs made the Macintosh intuitive enough for nearly anyone to use.
How Imports Work in RSC
A layered module system.
Stripe Tax: An all-in-one global tax compliance solution
Stripe Tax is now an all-in-one global tax compliance solution, after adding international registration and filing to round out its tax calculation and collection features.
Quick Hit #49
Chrome 137 introduces the newly-specced if() function. Una Kravets posted a nice video overview and Temani Afif writes about it as well.
Global Payouts: A new way to send money directly to third parties
Last month at Stripe Sessions, we announced Global Payouts, which is part of our biggest-ever upgrade to Stripe to make it less expensive, complex, and time-consuming for you to fund, store, and pay out in multiple currencies.
RSC for LISP Developers
Quoting for modules.
Progressive JSON
Why streaming isn't enough.
rsync's defaults are not always enough
Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy!
GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland
Sharpen your skills, test out new tools, and connect with people who build like you.
Why Does RSC Integrate with a Bundler?
One does not simply serialize a module.
Say Your Writing
Quick Hit #48
Firefox 139 includes an update where content inside a <details> element is included in an in-page search. Previously, that content was ignored when the
Shine a spotlight on your open source project
Celebrate #MaintainerMonth with two big opportunities to showcase your open source project at GitHub Universe and WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Applications are open. Don’t miss out!
Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my https site
How Vapi built their MCP server on Vercel
Introducing stablecoins for Stripe Treasury in 101 countries
With Stripe Treasury, businesses in 101 countries can now easily access a dollar-denominated stablecoin balance to store and move money on crypto or established financial rails.
Code. Create. Commit. Welcome to dev/core
The new GitHub Shop collection is here. We’re celebrating you.
Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic
Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post.
Documentation done right: A developer’s guide
Learn why and how you should write docs for your project with the Diátaxis framework.
First-party tags in seconds: Cloudflare integrates Google tag gateway for advertisers
Cloudflare introduces a one-click integration with Google tag gateway for advertisers.
Static as a Server
You wouldn't download a site.
Our top product updates from Sessions 2025
We announced the ability to manage multiple payment providers from within Stripe, two new extensibility primitives, support for turnkey consumer issuing programs, new money management capabilities, and a lot more.
Introducing the Flags Explorer, first-party integrations, and updates to the Flags SDK
Introducing first-party integrations, the Flags Explorer, and improvements to the Flags SDK to improve feature flag workflow on Vercel.