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Frontend — Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?

SMSaleh MubasharSaleh Mubashar·October 13, 2025Frontend
AI & ML — GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started

GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started

Discover how to use GitHub Copilot directly in the terminal. From cloning a repository to opening a pull request, here’s how to streamline your workflow with Copilot CLI.

AGAndrea GriffithsAndrea Griffiths·October 13, 2025AI & ML
SRE & Ops — OCP Summit 2025: The Open Future of Networking Hardware for AI

OCP Summit 2025: The Open Future of Networking Hardware for AI

At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2025, we’re sharing details about the direction of next-generation network fabrics for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing new disaggregated network platforms to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 13, 2025SRE & Ops
AI & ML — The Grayscale Problem — Smashing Magazine

The Grayscale Problem — Smashing Magazine

From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to be.

FOFrederick O BrienFrederick O Brien·October 13, 2025AI & ML
Security — Introducing REACT: Why We Built an Elite Incident Response Team

Introducing REACT: Why We Built an Elite Incident Response Team

We're launching Cloudforce One REACT, a team of expert security responders designed to eliminate the gap between perimeter defense and internal incident response. The team brings unmatched threat intelligence and network-native mitigation to help organizations prepare for and respond to security crises across any environment.

COChris Orourke, Utsav AdhikariChris Orourke, Utsav Adhikari·October 9, 2025Security
Frontend — Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native

Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 million websites and products built by companies such as Microsoft, Shopify, Bloomberg, Discord, Coinbase, the NFL, and many others. With React Native, React […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 7, 2025Frontend
Performance — Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change

Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change

It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak by 90% and continuing to trend downward. We’re a year and half into the Deploy Safety Program at Slack, improving the way we deploy, uplifting our safety culture and continuing…

SBSam Bailey·October 7, 2025Performance
AI & ML — Introducing our agentic commerce solutions

Introducing our agentic commerce solutions

Last week, we shared the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), a new open standard that enables programmatic agentic flows. Here are some of the other steps Stripe is taking to build agentic commerce solutions for AI platforms and businesses.

KMKevin MillerKevin Miller·October 7, 2025AI & ML