Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions
Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.
How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation
The fast-growing customer experience platform explains how Figma MCP and Figma Make helped them scale a new design system and keep pace with customer requests.
Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.
How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction — Smashing Magazine
The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation before a single concept is created.
Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms
NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA for now — the best one currently available.
GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
How to keep design teams steady through constant change
Design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI—from building a strong team to how to think about speed.
How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here’s how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed.
Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion — Smashing Magazine
Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering trust, and providing a sense of refuge. Kat Homan introduces an evaluation framework that helps designers assess whether trendy visual and interaction patterns support or undermine the unique goals of mental health experie
Introducing Meerkat- an experiment in global consensus
Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows
Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.
GitHub availability report: June 2026
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages
Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.
Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge
The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.
Quick Hit #159
Firefox 154 (Nightly) will ship text-box, text-box-trim, and text-box-edge, making them Baseline.
Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide
New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.
Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine
We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite canvas, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency.
Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth
Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the open source TypeScript auth library. It stays free and MIT licensed as the team builds identity for the agent era.
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
Why pg_hardstorage has no incremental chain
This blog explores why pg_hardstorage has no incremental chain and the architecture design of pg_hardstorage.
Getting Started with Anchor Positioning
For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this tutorial, I’ll share the most useful parts I’ve found from this modern CSS feature.
Mechanical Sympathy
Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations — Smashing Magazine
A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, established mental models. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Issue no.17: Build with joy
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.