Level up design-to-code collaboration with GitHub’s open source Annotation Toolkit
Prevent accessibility issues before they reach production. The Annotation Toolkit brings clarity, compliance, and collaboration directly into your Figma workflow.
Efficient Optimization With Ax, an Open Platform for Adaptive Experimentation
We’ve released Ax 1.0, an open-source platform that uses machine learning to automatically guide complex, resource-intensive experimentation. Ax is used at scale across Meta to improve AI models, tune production infrastructure, and accelerate advances in ML and even hardware design. Our accompanying paper, “Ax: A Platform for Adaptive Experimentation” explains Ax’s architecture, methodology, and h
From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation — Smashing Magazine
Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work.
Vercel collaborates with Google for Gemini 3 Pro Preview launch
The Gemini 3 Pro Preview model, released today, is now available through AI Gateway and in production on v0.app.
Third Stage Engineering
Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Bringing Replicate’s tools into Cloudflare will continue to make our Workers Platform the best place on the Internet to build and deploy any AI or agentic workflow.
How Dash uses context engineering for smarter AI
Building effective, agentic AI isn’t just about adding more; it’s about helping the model focus on what matters most.
Highlights from Git 2.52
The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Announcing the Completion of the Core 2Africa System: Building the Future of Connectivity Together
Connecting Africa and the World We’re excited to share the completion of the core 2Africa infrastructure, the world’s longest open access subsea cable system. 2Africa is a landmark subsea cable system that sets a new standard for global connectivity. This project is the result of years of collaboration, innovation, and a shared vision to connect […]
Enhancing HDR on Instagram for iOS With Dolby Vision
We’re sharing how we’ve enabled Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) on the Instagram iOS app to enhance the video viewing experience. HDR videos created on iPhones contain unique Dolby Vision and amve metadata that we needed to support end-to-end Instagram for iOS is now the first Meta app to support Dolby Vision video, […]
Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files
Discover practical tips, examples, and best practices for writing effective instructions files. Whether you’re new or experienced, you’ll find something to level up your code reviews.
Open Source Is Good for the Environment
Most people have heard of open-source software. But have you heard about open hardware? And did you know open source can have a positive impact on the environment? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig sits down with Dharmesh and Lisa to talk about all things open hardware, and Meta’s biggest announcements […]
CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers — Smashing Magazine
Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own projects.
The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()
Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2025
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
TypeScript, Python, and the AI feedback loop changing software development
An interview with the leader of GitHub Next, Idan Gazit, on TypeScript, Python, and what comes next.
Older Tech In The Browser Stack — Smashing Magazine
There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them because you’re steeped in the abstraction of a specific framework that doesn’t require you to know it deeply, or even at all. Bryan Rasmussen looks specifically at XPath and demonstrates how it can b
Connecting to production: the architecture of remote bindings
Remote bindings allow you to connect your local Worker code to deployed Cloudflare resources like R2 and D1. Come along on the technical journey of how we built this feature to create a seamless local development experience.
The bastard DBA from hell
Two little stories from the working life of the bastard DBA from hell, fighting user problems (but mostly users).
Figma opens a new hub in India to support our growing community of builders
With our new hub in Bengaluru, we’re investing in India’s fast-growing product development community.
How Copilot helps build the GitHub platform
A breakdown of how Copilot coding agent has contributed to a better, more powerful GitHub.
Building world-class product search at Shopify: Where C++ excellence meets ML innovation (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we solved a major search engineering dilemma—running machine learning models at native C++ speed.
PostgreSQL 18: More performance with index skip scans
This blog describes the performance of Indexes in PostgreSQL version 18. You can read more to know how the performance matrix works.
StyleX: A Styling Library for CSS at Scale
StyleX is Meta’s styling system for large-scale applications. It combines the ergonomics of CSS-in-JS with the performance of static CSS, generating collision-free atomic CSS while allowing for expressive, type-safe style authoring. StyleX was open sourced at the end of 2023 and has since become the standard styling system across Meta products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, […]