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.
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
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.
RSC for Astro Developers
Islands, but make it fractal.
How v0 is building SEO-optimized sites by default
Understanding how v0 ensures everything you create is seo-ready by default, without changing how you build
Doom GPU Flame Graphs
Thirteen new MCP servers from Cloudflare you can use today
You can now connect to Cloudflare's first publicly available remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from any MCP client that supports remote servers.
Some thoughts on how control over web content works
Make Every Day Count (May 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 with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Radar now protects ACH and SEPA payments
To help you adapt your fraud prevention strategy to the changing set of payment method preferences, we’re extending Radar’s fraud protection to cover ACH and SEPA payments.
How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows
The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI.
What Does "use client" Do?
Two worlds, two doors.
“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio — Smashing Magazine
It starts with good intentions — a quick fix here, a shiny feature there — and suddenly, your product portfolio’s bursting at the seams. In this guide, Talke Hoppmann-Walton walks you through a “Product Kondo” exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers.
How image search works at Dropbox
Don't you (forget NLP): Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT
Bye Bye Bye...: Evolution of repeated token attacks on ChatGPT models
Building on prior prompt injection research, we recently discovered a new training data extraction vulnerability involving OpenAI’s chat completion models.
Inside the Magic Pocket
Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
How we designed Dropbox’s ATF - an async task framework
Alki, or how we learned to stop worrying and love cold metadata
That time we unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness
A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware
Future-proofing our metadata stack with Panda, a scalable key-value store
