The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we’re taking to improve reliability.
Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations — Smashing Magazine
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.
Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders
As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more flexible infrastructure.
How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token
Generated code in v0 sandboxes queries Snowflake, but the OAuth token never enters the sandbox. A protocol-aware proxy injects credentials at request time, and blind replacement was itself a leak.
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-location and how new defenses further harden Cloudflare Workers.
CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days
Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
WordPress.com Student Plan
As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though. WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
Practitioner Voice
Effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It relies on authority from experience (not credentials), naming tensions but letting them live, keeping the author in the writing, and the expectation that readers recognize the pattern from their own experience.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what’s in flight, what’s done, and what’s next.
Gisting: Compressing LLM Agent context to ↑ throughput and ↓ cost (2026) - Shopify
Gisting compresses context into a set of learned tokens, preserving its quality while making the model faster and cheaper.
Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel are already paying global workers in stablecoins. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.
AI Gateway: Production-ready reliability for your AI apps
AI Gateway, now generally available, ensures availability when a provider fails, avoiding low rate limits and providing consistent reliability for AI workloads.
A more flexible Pro plan for modern teams
We’re updating Vercel’s Pro plan to better align with how modern teams collaborate and how applications consume infrastructure, and how workloads are changing shape with AI.
Personalization strategies that power ecommerce growth
Learn how to implement high-performance personalization with Next.js and Vercel. Discover best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and deliver fast, scalable, and revenue-driving ecommerce experiences without sacrificing speed or user experience.
Introducing Vercel for Slack
Vercel Agent now works in Slack. Mention @Vercel to diagnose incidents, review PRs, and ship approved changes without leaving the conversation. In public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.
Highly Available PostgreSQL on Kubernetes in 10 Minutes
This blog post is a walkthrough of High Availability of PostgreSQL in Kubernetes, using PG Operator. Read to know more.
CYBERTEC PG Operator Resources: Docs, Tutorials & Whitepapers
Explore CYBERTEC PG Operator resources, including documentation, tutorials, guides, and technical material for running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes.
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI
As demand for AI continues to grow, so does the infrastructure needed to support it.
$1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox
Vercel is running a two-week, public HackerOne program with up to $1,000,000 in bounties for researchers who can escape a Vercel Sandbox.
Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas.
New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
Two new product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies instantly—all on Stripe.
How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.
