Turn your ChatGPT brainstorms into FigJam diagrams
With the new Figma app in ChatGPT, you can turn conversations into FigJam diagrams like flow charts, Gantt charts, and more.
The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead.
AI is changing how software gets built. Explore the skills you need to keep up and stand out.
Introducing OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the easy maintenance of a single executable binary. You can get started with OpenZL today by visiting our Quick Start guide and the OpenZL GitHub repository. Learn more […]
Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With , , And CSS Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and CSS Media Queries.
Introducing the Candle Subsea Cable, Updates to Our Asia-Pacific Connectivity Projects
We’re introducing Candle, a new submarine cable connecting countries across East Asia and Southeast Asia. We’re also announcing several updates to our subsea cables across the Asia-Pacific, including the completion of the Bifrost cable system. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is home to over 58% of the world’s internet users1 – many who rely on robust […]
Bringing etcd to the database with Rust and pgrx
This blog is about using Rust and pgrx to use functionalities of etcd in your database, a very detailed blog with steps for everyone. Dive in.
Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models, and user flows) directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation.
Building Dash: How RAG and AI agents help us meet the needs of businesses
To meet the challenges of modern work in data-intensive environments, we ultimately turned to retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents.
A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale
Building Dropbox Dash taught us that in the foundation-model era, AI evaluations matter just as much as model training.
How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs
With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.
Making file encryption fast and secure for teams with advanced key management
We developed features to help teams limit their security risks and respond more effectively to potential threats or breaches.
Evolving our infrastructure through the messaging system model in Dropbox
The MSM helped us build a unified event-driven system capable of orchestrating a wide range of asynchronous tasks and meeting future needs, especially as we focus on AI.
How we brought multimedia search to Dropbox Dash
Our multimedia retrieval features allow users to find images, video, and audio just as easily as they find documents.
Seventh-generation server hardware at Dropbox: our most efficient and capable architecture yet
This generation represents our most efficient, capable, and scalable architecture yet—and it’ll help us as we continue to build AI products like Dropbox Dash.
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From handles to hosting.
Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles
Key Takeways: With billions of Android app users, we’re always looking to improve the Meta app experience, and in this post, we explore the ways we’ve leveraged Android’s Baseline Profiles to significantly improve their performance. We discuss the performance challenges we’ve faced as Meta’s apps, how the needs of users have become more complex over […]
Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running entirely on Cloudflare’s stack
We demonstrate how the open-source Payload CMS was ported to run entirely on Cloudflare's developer platform. This post details the technical work required, including building custom database and storage adapters for D1 and R2, and how we’re using Payload to help power Cloudflare TV.
Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions
On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services. It follows regional shutdowns that began several weeks prior, ostensibly to prevent “immoral activities”.
How to do UPDATE ... LIMIT in PostgreSQL
There is no UPDATE ... LIMIT in PostgreSQL. This article shows how to achieve the same result and how to avoid potential pitfalls.
Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨
LLMs Are the Key to Mutation Testing and Better Compliance
Following our keynote presentations at FSE 2025 and Eurostar 2025, we’re delving further into the development of Meta’s Automated Compliance Hardening (ACH) tool, an LLM-based tool for software testing that is automating aspects of compliance adherence at Meta, while accelerating developer and product velocity. By leveraging LLMs we’ve been able to overcome the barriers that […]
Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Introducing Open Issuance from Bridge: A new platform to launch your own stablecoin
Open Issuance is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits, and earn rewards from reserves.
All our product updates from Stripe Tour New York
We announced new agentic commerce capabilities, modular infrastructure for all parts of the crypto stack, including the ability for you to collect subscription payments using stablecoins, and a lot more.
