Design’s influence is expanding, and here’s why that feels hard
As AI accelerates creation and raises expectations, designers are navigating a field that’s bigger, faster, and more demanding than ever.
Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together
See how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains.
Ranking Engineer Agent (REA): The Autonomous AI Agent Accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking Innovation
Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on results. Future posts will cover additional REA capabilities. REA reduces the need for manual interv
Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow — Smashing Magazine
Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan Da Dan and superhero films like James Gunn’s Superman manage emotional shifts and translating those ideas into practical patterns for product design.
Standing up for the open Internet- why we appealed Italy’s Piracy Shield fine
Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over "Piracy Shield," a system that forces providers to block content without oversight. We are challenging this framework to protect the Internet from disproportionate overblocking and lack of due process.
What’s !important #7: random(), Folded Corners, Anchored Container Queries, and More
For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more.
Issue no.15: The state of design
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Actions
Set up your first GitHub Actions workflow in this how-to guide.
Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search
Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.
From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One
Learn how Cloudflare and CDW de-risk SASE migrations with a blueprint that treats legacy debt as an application modernization project.
Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps
Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of […]
Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API — Smashing Magazine
The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new standard fills gaps in the original `Date` API while addressing limitations found in Moment and other libraries. Joe Attardi shares practical “recipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API.
Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection: prevent fraudulent attacks from bots and humans
Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.
Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
Shopify’s journey to faster breadth-first GraphQL execution (2026) - Shopify
We questioned why conventional GraphQL execution incurs hidden costs, and rewrote it in a faster breadth-first manner to avoid them.
Beyond border-radius: What The CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI — Smashing Magazine
For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new `corner-shape` property finally changes that, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners.
10 things we learned building for the first generation of agentic commerce
A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is harder. These lessons from the first wave of agentic commerce are meant to help sellers decide what to tackle, avoid common bottlenecks, and get ahead of what’s coming.
How Notion Workers run untrusted code at scale with Vercel Sandbox
AI Security for Apps is now generally available
Cloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting provider. We are also making AI discovery free for all plans, to help teams find and secure shadow AI deployments.
Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses
Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.
GitHub availability report: February 2026
In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents. We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.
Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes
How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time.
Translating risk insights into actionable protection: leveling up security posture with Cloudflare and Mastercard
Cloudflare will be integrating Mastercard’s RiskRecon Attack Surface Intelligence capabilities to help you eliminate Internet-facing blind spots while continuously monitoring and closing security gaps.
