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Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules, making automated attacks too expensive to sustain.
About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the contingency that Ben Dumke-von der Ehe joins me in the presentation. Ben is an early community hire at Stack Overflow who l
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so. What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You shou
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly awaiting autumn, we’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy!
How we built design.md, a single public file any coding agent can load to build on-brand Vercel pages, and the eval loop that decided every rule inside it.
Our cookie auditor acts like a privacy-conscious user by visiting web pages and checking that they only load cookies consistent with that user’s preferences.
Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model so operators can accurately declare how their bots use content.
This is an extended blog, and talks about the features of pgwatch v6.0.0 beta in more details. Read to know and contribute.
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into it. Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
For thirty years we built data systems for human analysts, who supply the context, judgment, and skepticism to work around data that's incomplete or wrong. Autonomous agents supply none of that. They act on whatever they're handed, confidently. For data to be AI-ready we need to build a series of layers: a data foundation that makes data trusted, a context layer to apply proper meaning, and an acc
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project’s first six months.
How Vercel built Workflow SDK: durable workflows that feel like ordinary code, run on infrastructure you already have, and aim to make steps free.
The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
This blog explains all feature highlights related to PGWatch 6.0.0 beta. You can read to understand and test the features yourself.
Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.
Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring structured UX thinking to dashboards and data presentations, from the questions you ask before opening any tool to the decisions that determine whether an insight actually lands.
Build production-grade AI agents with Vercel's Agent Stack. Connect to any model, run durable multi-step workflows, and securely link agents to your data and tools. Every building block you need, in one place.
Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
This blog explains the daily operations of PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, which involves scaling, resizing. Read to have a deep dive.
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.
