Redefining impact as a data scientist
Not all impactful data science work involves experiments or optimization. Sometimes it’s about making complex systems legible, correct, and safe to operate.
What to expect for open source in 2026
Let’s dig into the 2025’s open source data on GitHub to see what we can learn about the future.
Notes on clarifying man pages
Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks — Smashing Magazine
What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo breaks down the UX and design principles behind effective streak systems.
The future of design is code and canvas
For the best ideas to move forward, we need the power of code and the canvas. Claude Code to Figma is just one way we’re giving builders more choice.
From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs
Now you can take workflows that start in Claude Code even further in Figma.
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Securing the AI software supply chain: Security results across 67 open source projects
Learn how The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped 67 critical AI‑stack projects accelerate fixes, strengthen ecosystems, and advance open source resilience.
How Ramp kept 100% uptime through 100x traffic surges on Vercel
How Stably ships AI testing agents in hours, not weeks
Quick Hit #99
Chrome 145 enables % units for letter-spacing and word-spacing as well as overscroll-behavior for all scroll containers, now baseline.
Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare
ecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source.
What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the latest features from Chrome 145, and anything else you might’ve missed. TL;DR: lots of content, but also lots of rain.
Quick Hit #98
Chrome 145 finally ships text-justify, which is almost baseline now.
Automate repository tasks with GitHub Agentic Workflows
Discover GitHub Agentic Workflows, now in technical preview. Build automations using coding agents in GitHub Actions to handle triage, documentation, code quality, and more.
Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps — Smashing Magazine
Designing for mental health means designing for vulnerability. Empathy-Centred UX becomes not a “nice to have” but a fundamental design requirement. Here’s a practical framework for building trust-first mental health products.
Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS
This is the second part of a small two-part series. In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of the elements., while exploring other different shapes.
Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers.
Open source is hitting an “Eternal September.” As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.
Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features
The new contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features?
Quick Hit #97
Chrome 145 becomes the first to ship customizable <select>, as well as column-wrap and column-height for better multicol layouts.
How low-bit inference enables efficient AI
Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.
GitHub availability report: January 2026
In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It
WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without […]
Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability — Smashing Magazine
Autonomy is an output of a technical system. Trustworthiness is an output of a design process. Here are concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational practices for building agentic systems that are not only powerful but also transparent, controllable, and trustworthy.
