Why demand for designers is on the rise
Our latest study suggests that AI is driving renewed momentum in design hiring. We unpack why that is, what hiring managers prioritize, and which skills designers need to get ahead.
Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
Can we make pie chart that's semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library? Here's how I tackled it.
Quick Hit #96
Una Kravets announces border-shape with a couple of cool demos.
Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters
We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers and regions. Our BAG implementation is connecting two different network fabrics – Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF). Once it’s complete our AI […] Read Mor
How we built AEO tracking for coding agents
Learn how we built an AI Engine Optimization system to track coding agents using Vercel Sandbox, AI Gateway, and Workflows for isolated execution.
Anyone can build agents, but it takes a platform to run them
Why competitive advantage in AI comes from the platform you deploy agents on, not the agents themselves.
Why I joined OpenAI
Quick Hit #95
Adam Argyle quickly outlines the upcoming customizable <select>.
2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults
The number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.
Continuous AI in practice: What developers can automate today with agentic CI
Think of Continuous AI as background agents that operate in your repository for tasks that require reasoning.
CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions — Smashing Magazine
Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new `@scope` rule finally give developers the confidence to write CSS that can keep up with modern front ends?
The Vercel AI Accelerator is back with $6m in credits
A six-week program to help you scale your AI company offering over $6M in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards longer term efforts to keep the American Dream fair and attainable for all our children. Stay gold, America. 💛
For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
With our new AI image editing tool, Vectorize, you can turn raster images into editable vectors, allowing you to tweak, refine, and scale designs directly in Figma.
Pick your agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ
Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription. Here’s what you need to know and how to get started today.
No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices
We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes and enables cross-device authentication without the need for an on-device display, while still complying with all trust and proximity requirements. This approach builds on work done by the FIDO […]
Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads
Local Uploads on R2 reduces request duration for uploads by up to 75%. It writes object data to a nearby location and asynchronously copies it to your bucket, all while data is available immediately.
Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region
Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region.
What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built
What languages are growing fastest, and why? What about the projects that people are interested in the most? Where are new developers cutting their teeth? Let’s take a look at Octoverse data to find out.
Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One — Smashing Magazine
Combobox vs. Multi-Select vs. Listbox vs. Dual Listbox? How they are different, what purpose they serve, and how to choose the right one. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty program is now available
Vercel is opening its open source software bug bounty program to the public for researchers find vulnerabilities and make OSS safer
Making agent-friendly pages with content negotiation
Learn how Vercel uses HTTP content negotiation to serve markdown to agents and HTML to humans from the same URL, reducing response sizes by 90% while keeping both versions synchronized.
How to maximize GitHub Copilot’s agentic capabilities
A senior engineer’s guide to architecting and extending Copilot’s real-world applications.
Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make the most of the shortest month of the year with a new collection of desktop wallpapers that are sure to bring a smile to your face — and maybe spark your creativity, too. All of them were designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Happy February!
