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Frontend — animation-trigger

animation-trigger

The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

SMSaleh MubasharSaleh Mubashar·August 26, 2026Frontend
Design & UX — Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions — Smashing Magazine

Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions — Smashing Magazine

Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring structured UX thinking to dashboards and data presentations, from the questions you ask before opening any tool to the decisions that determine whether an insight actually lands.

MBMeriem BenhabilesMeriem Benhabiles·August 26, 2026Design & UX
AI & ML — The Agent Stack

The Agent Stack

Build production-grade AI agents with Vercel's Agent Stack. Connect to any model, run durable multi-step workflows, and securely link agents to your data and tools. Every building block you need, in one place.

VVercel·August 26, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 25, 2026Frontend
Design & UX — Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing — Smashing Magazine

Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing — Smashing Magazine

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way.

PBPierre BurgyPierre Burgy·August 25, 2026Design & UX
Frontend — WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP. WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

FKFränk KleinFränk Klein·August 24, 2026Frontend
SRE & Ops — MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE – a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet. We’re releasing the MetaRoCE specification, a reference software implementation and a compliance test […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 24, 2026SRE & Ops
SRE & Ops — MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines

MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines

MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the communication needs associated with training recommendation models with superior performance over general-purpose GPUs. By co-designing MTIA’s communication library, HCCL, alongside t

CWChris Wiltz·August 24, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync

Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.

JHJin Hee LeeJin Hee Lee·August 21, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector

Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector

A newly resolved proposal would allow us to select classes that are a prefix for variations with a wildcard, like .prefix-* . Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 21, 2026Frontend