The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Mythical Man Month
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines
Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re talking daily search indexing that processed terabytes of data, analytics jobs powering business intelligence, the whole shebang. Every single one of these jobs required direct SSH access to production AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters. We had a massive security…
Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools — Smashing Magazine
Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their experience. In this article, Kyrylo Levashov shares four common software design assumptions.
How KIKO Milano scales for Black Friday
PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres
This is the story of why and how we built PGKeeper, a scalable and reliable service to support Figma’s rapidly growing products and database workload.
Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
Links to CSS colour palettes
How General Intelligence used agents to build an agent platform on Vercel
Testing Vue components in the browser
Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network
We have completed a massive engineering effort to make our infrastructure more resilient. Through new tools like Snapstone and the Engineering Codex, we've implemented safer configuration changes and automated best practices to prevent future incidents.
Introducing Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant
Dynamic Workflows is a library that lets you route durable execution to tenant-provided code on the fly. Built on Dynamic Workers, it enables platforms to serve millions of unique workflows at near-zero idle cost.
November Inflection
How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups
The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage […]
Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine
Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be need
How GitBook serves 30,000 sites with sub-second content updates
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter credit card details.
Post-quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec is generally available
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode
Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Quick Hit #129
Firefox 150 shipped ariaNotify(), an alternative to ARIA live regions, but it lacks Safari support and is unreliable on macOS.
Everything we announced at Sessions 2026
We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.
Giving agents the ability to pay
Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or SPT backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.
