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Frontend — Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 17, 2026Frontend
Security — How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.

AKAj, KennyAj, Kenny·August 14, 2026Security
Frontend — What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·August 14, 2026Frontend
Engineering — El blog de Cloudflare

El blog de Cloudflare

Análisis técnicos profundos, actualizaciones de productos y conocimientos de los equipos que ayudan a construir una Internet mejor.

CCloudflare·August 13, 2026Engineering
Performance — How to move fast toward the right thing

How to move fast toward the right thing

With AI, speed comes easy, but so does tech debt. That’s why the best teams don’t just ship something fast; they consider it carefully, build it efficiently, and make it stand out.

JAJake Albaugh·August 13, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Inside the Vercel intern experience

Inside the Vercel intern experience

Meet Vercel’s winter 2026 interns and see how they shipped production features across the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, AI Gateway, and more.

VVercel·August 13, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DRDurgesh Rajubhai Pawar·August 12, 2026Frontend
Databases — Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

CYBERTEC PG Operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, with Multi-site Clusters for cross-site replication and automated failover.

HSHans-Jürgen SchönigHans-Jürgen Schönig·August 12, 2026Databases