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Frontend — Quick Hit #60

Quick Hit #60

Alignment might be one of the more confusing (or misunderstood) parts of CSS. I love having a thorough explanation from someone like Temani Afif who has it

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·September 29, 2025Frontend
AI & ML — Meta 3D AssetGen: Generating 3D Worlds With AI

Meta 3D AssetGen: Generating 3D Worlds With AI

Imagine being able to use AI to create 3D virtual worlds using prompts as easily as you can generate images. The intersection of AI and VR was one of the biggest topics at Meta Connect this year. In his keynote, Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision of a future where anyone can create virtual worlds using […]

CWChris Wiltz·September 29, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — Meta’s Infrastructure Evolution and the Advent of AI

Meta’s Infrastructure Evolution and the Advent of AI

Over the past 21 years, Meta has grown exponentially from a small social network connecting a few thousand people in a handful of universities in the U.S. into several apps and novel hardware products that serve over 3.4 billion people throughout the world. Our infrastructure has evolved significantly over the years, growing from a […]

CWChris Wiltz·September 29, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — Developing an open standard for agentic commerce

Developing an open standard for agentic commerce

Today, we announced that Stripe is powering OpenAI’s new commerce experience, Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, and we released the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a new open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses.

JWJeff WeinsteinJeff Weinstein·September 29, 2025AI & ML
Performance — Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust

Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust

We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. It’s not only substantially faster for all our customers, it’s also more secure, and lets us ship new products quicker than ever before.

RSRichard, Steve GoldsmithRichard, Steve Goldsmith·September 26, 2025Performance
AI & ML — An AI Index for all our customers

An AI Index for all our customers

Cloudflare will soon automatically create an AI-optimized search index for your domain, and expose a set of ready-to-use standard APIs and tools including an MCP server, LLMs.txt, and a search API. For AI builders, Cloudflare will offer a new way to discover and retrieve web content.

CACelso, AnniCelso, Anni·September 26, 2025AI & ML
Networking — Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter

Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter

AS-SETs, for better or worse, are critical data sources that help build BGP route filters across the Internet. Because these AS-SET objects are based solely on trust, they can be misused. We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.

MBMingwei, BrytonMingwei, Bryton·September 26, 2025Networking
Performance — Network performance update- Birthday Week 2025

Network performance update- Birthday Week 2025

On the Internet, being fast is what matters and at Cloudflare, we are committed to being the fastest network in the world. In this post, we will share how our network performance has changed since our last post in September 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance.

LYLai Yi OhlsenLai Yi Ohlsen·September 26, 2025Performance
AI & ML — Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM. We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API. The results are striking.

KVKenton Varda, SunilKenton Varda, Sunil·September 26, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — Networking at the Heart of AI — @Scale: Networking 2025 Recap

Networking at the Heart of AI — @Scale: Networking 2025 Recap

AI is everywhere and, as network engineers, we are right in the thick of it: building the network infrastructure for AI. This year, at our largest @Scale:Networking ever, engineers from Meta, ByteDance, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA came together to share our latest experiences in architecting, designing, operating, and debugging our AI […]

CWChris Wiltz·September 26, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant — Smashing Magazine

From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant — Smashing Magazine

What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time, saving you (and your team) from typing the same 448-word prompt ever again.

LCLyndon CerejoLyndon Cerejo·September 26, 2025AI & ML