Run for your money: Engineering a treadmill that prints store credit (2025) - Shopify
We combined FTMS sensors, Socket.IO, and POS UI extensions to turn a manual treadmill into a discount-printing machine.
Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt) — Smashing Magazine
We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you might like to read an excerpt from the book. Subscribe to our Smashing newsletter to be notified when orders are open.
Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging
The WAF provides ways for our customers to gain insight into why it takes certain actions. The more granular and precise the insight, the more reproducible and understandable it is. Revamped payload logging is one such method.
Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week.
Security through design: Creating the improved Firewall experience
Vercel introduces a new Firewall UI for better surfacing of events and alerts while providing deeper information on mitigation activity
Workflow Builder: Build your own workflow automation platform
Workflow Builder is a free, open-source template, powered by Next.js and the Workflow DevKit, that helps you build workflow builder applications and agents.
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PostgreSQL performance: Encrypted vs. unencrypted
This is an analysis to give users a way to compare various PostgreSQL settings and their performance: PostgreSQL v13, PostgreSQL TDE
Does Dioxus spark joy?
Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy! Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whimsy. What’s Dioxus, you ask? It is first and foremost a name that is quote: “legally not inspired by any Pokémon”. Even if the author concedes in a H
Zoomer: Powering AI Performance at Meta’s Scale Through Intelligent Debugging and Optimization
We’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI. Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at Meta and provides deep performance insights that enable energy savings, workflow acceleration, and efficiency gains in our AI infrastructure. Zoomer has delivered training time reductions, and significant QPS improvements, making i
Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects — Smashing Magazine
Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing keyframes, you take something that is usually messy and hard to manage and turn it into a clear, predictable system.
Self-driving infrastructure
At Vercel, we’re building self-driving infrastructure, a system that autonomously manages production operations, improves application code using real-world insights, and learns from the unpredictable nature of production itself.
Vercel Open Source Program: Fall 2025 cohort
Announcing the fall 2025 cohort of Vercel's Open Source Program. Open source community frameworks, libraries, and tools we rely on every day to build the web.
Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro
Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro Image Pro
Evolving GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions through custom model training
GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions just got faster, smarter, and more precise thanks to new data pipelines, reinforcement learning, and continuous model updates built for in-editor workflows.
Key Transparency Comes to Messenger
We’re excited to share another advancement in the security of your conversations on Messenger: the launch of key transparency verification for end-to-end encrypted chats. This new feature enables an additional level of assurance that only you — and the people you’re communicating with — can see or listen to what is sent, and that no […]
How we prepare Shopify for BFCM (2025) - Shopify
Nine months of chaos engineering and scale tests so intense we ran them (mostly) at night. Inside our 2025 readiness program for Black Friday weekend.
5 shifts redefining design systems in the AI era
We spoke with product leaders and practitioners about the shifts they’re seeing in how design systems are built, used, and maintained.
How we’re making GitHub Copilot smarter with fewer tools
We’re using embedding-guided tool routing, adaptive clustering, and a streamlined 13-tool core to deliver faster experience in VS Code.
How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories
Learn how to write effective agents.md files for GitHub Copilot with practical tips, real examples, and templates from analyzing 2,500+ repositories.
Android VPAT journey
Background A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that outlines how well a product aligns with accessibility (a11y) standards. Its primary purpose is to inform customers about a product’s a11y features, enabling them to make informed decisions before purchasing software. At Slack, we conducted a VPAT by a third party a11y vendor in…
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Figma Make
We ran Gemini 3 through a series of design exercises in Figma Make. Here’s what stood out.