The branding for Intercom’s AI summit looks like an alien superbloom
For the customer service and AI event Pioneer, Intercom’s designers used Figma to create a visual language of surreal flowers and shape-shifting pollen.
The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence — Smashing Magazine
With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, interactions feel seamless. When it fails, the entire experience collapses. But trust isn’t mystical. It can be understood, measured, and designed for. Here are practical methods and strategies for designing more trustworthy and ethic
How we made global routing faster with Bloom filters
We replaced slow JSON path lookups with Bloom filters in our global routing service, cutting memory usage by 15% and reducing 99th percentile lookup times from hundreds of milliseconds to under 1 ms. Here’s how we did it.
Connect and secure any private or public app by hostname, not IP — free for everyone in Cloudflare One
Tired of IP Lists? Securely connect private networks to any app by its hostname, not its IP address. This powerful routing is now built into Cloudflare Tunnel and is free for all Cloudflare One customers, simplifying your Zero Trust journey.
Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU
We’ve updated our renderer to use WebGPU, unlocking new performance optimization opportunities. Here’s how we did it.
5 ways to integrate GitHub Copilot coding agent into your workflow
Already know the basics of GitHub Copilot coding agent? Here are five ways to offload chores, tackle tech debt, and keep your workflow moving fast.
How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine
As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet.
Scale to one: How Fluid solves cold starts
Learn how Vercel solves serverless cold starts with scale to one, Fluid compute, predictive scaling, and caching to keep functions warm and fast.
What you need to know about vibe coding
Vibe coding is revolutionizing how we work. English is now the fastest growing programming language. Our state of vibe coding report outlines what you need to know.
The RUM Diaries: enabling Web Analytics by default
We’re excited to announce the start of a major upgrade to Cloudflare’s performance analytics suite: Web Analytics as part of our real user monitoring (RUM) tools will soon be combined with network-level insights to help you pinpoint performance issues anywhere on a packet’s journey — from a visitor’s browser, through Cloudflare’s network, to your origin.
Is it Time to Un-Sass?
Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgforth is thinking about it.
Addressing security & quality issues with MCP tools - Vercel
Use mcp-to-ai-sdk to generate MCP tools directly into your project. Gain security, reliability, and prompt-tuned control while avoiding dynamic MCP risks.
Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers
This is your new home base for discovering MCP servers. Learn how we’re working with the broader community on MCP publication and discovery.
SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data — Smashing Magazine
From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website.
Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow — Smashing Magazine
For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way.
AI agents at scale: Rox’s Vercel-powered revenue operating system
Integrating CrowdStrike Falcon Fusion SOAR with Cloudflare’s SASE platform
Cloudflare and CrowdStrike have partnered to help SOC teams minimize manual bottlenecks. By combining Cloudflare’s SASE platform with CrowdStrike’s Falcon® Fusion SOAR, security teams can now detect and remediate cross-domain threats automatically.
Making our own spectrogram
A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot more entertaining! We’re going to talk about how to extract frequencies from sound waves, but also how my spectrogram app is assembled from different Rust crates, how it handles audio and graphics threads,
Free association: Production designer Jeremy Hindle on building Severance
After the Severance Emmy win, designer Jeremy Hindle traces the ideas and images that shaped Lumon’s uncanny world.
Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.
Behind the Streams: Building a Reliable Cloud Live Streaming Pipeline for Netflix. Part 2.
By Allison Deal, Cyril Concolato, Flavio Ribeiro, Hunter Ford, Mariana Afonso, Thomas Symborski, Xiaomei Liu
Sometimes you want to skip that CGI Status header
Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator — Smashing Magazine
Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines the process, making it possible to produce lively animations in seconds, bypassing the tedious work of manual keyframe editing.
