Rolling out Santa without freezing productivity: Tips from securing Figma’s fleet
Here's how we scaled Santa, an open-source binary authorization tool, across all Figmates’ laptops to boost endpoint security while keeping workflows seamless.
Figma moves closer to its community with Latin American Spanish localization
Latin American Spanish becomes Figma’s latest language for product and support localization.
Expert Generalists
As computer systems get more sophisticated we've seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we've found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties. We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”. We can identify the key characteristics of people with this skill - and thus recruit and promote based on it. We
5 ways to transform your workflow using GitHub Copilot and MCP
Learn how to streamline your development workflow with five different MCP use cases.
Driving Content Delivery Efficiency Through Classifying Cache Misses
The mission of Open Connect, our dedicated content delivery network (CDN), is to deliver the best quality of experience (QoE) to our members. By localizing our Open Connect Appliances (OCAs), we…
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language — Smashing Magazine
CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the `if()` function. Is it still just for styling, or is it becoming something more? Gabriel Shoyombo explores how smart CSS has become over the years, where it is heading, the challenges it addresses, whether it is becoming too comp
From Googlebot to GPTBot: Who’s crawling your site in 2025
From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. This blog post explores crawling activity focused on AI and search web crawlers, and how 14% of top domains now use robots.txt rules to manage them.
The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers
Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This information can help site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block, and enables users to understand how AI usage in aggregate impacts Internet traffic.
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.
Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication
Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.
Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf, and allowing targeted blocking of AI crawling on sites that serve ads.
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable
Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.
Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
An update on Figma's path to becoming a publicly traded company: our S-1 is now public.
Bill McDermott joins Figma’s Board of Directors
Bill McDermott, the Chairman and CEO of ServiceNow, is joining Figma’s Board of Directors.
From idea to PR: A guide to GitHub Copilot’s agentic workflows
A practical guide to GitHub Copilot’s agentic coding agent, chat modes, and remote MCP server so you turn issues into tested PRs with clear steps (and no hype).
Understand your software’s supply chain with GitHub’s dependency graph
The GitHub dependency graph maps every direct and transitive dependency in your project, so you can identify risks, prioritize fixes, and keep your code secure.
An inside look at Meta’s transition from C to Rust on mobile
Have you ever worked is legacy code? Are you curious what it takes to modernize systems at a massive scale? Pascal Hartig is joined on the latest Meta Tech Podcast by Elaine and Buping, two software engineers working on a bold project to rewrite the decades-old C code in one of Meta’s core messaging libraries […]
Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change — Smashing Magazine
Bridging the gap between user research insights and actual organizational action — with a clear roadmap for impact.
Meta joins Kotlin Foundation
We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android development ecosystem. Over the past several years, Meta engineers have been actively migrating our extensive Android codebase—comprising tens of millions of lines—from Java to […]
Remixing Shopify's Admin: How We Made It 30% Faster and AI-Ready (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we just made Shopify's Admin 30% faster while setting it up for AI superpowers. Behind the scenes, we completely transformed how admin.shopify.com works—rebuilding a system that powers 67 million daily page views and merchants live inside to run their business.
Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
July is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are bound to bring some good vibes to your screen. Enjoy!
Inside the growth of the top AI companies on Stripe
AI companies are rewriting the rules of growth. In our new report, *Indexing the AI economy*, we explore the latest trends and strategies in the AI space.
