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Design & UX — Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop

Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop

Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register and save a few bucks with a coupon code.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 11, 2025Design & UX
Frontend — Getting Creative With Quotes

Getting Creative With Quotes

How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML blockquote element using borders, decorative quote marks, custom shapes, and a few unexpected properties.

ACAndy ClarkeAndy Clarke·August 11, 2025Frontend
Engineering — Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️

tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure.

TDThomas DohmkeThomas Dohmke·August 11, 2025Engineering
SRE & Ops — Federation Platform and Privacy Waves: How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale

Federation Platform and Privacy Waves: How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale

We’re exploring Meta’s Federation Platform, a scalable set of tools for managing compliance-related tasks, along with Privacy Waves, our method for batching these tasks and ensuring accountability. Together, the Federation Platform and Privacy Waves create a structured, effective, and sustainable approach to operationalizing privacy work, enabling Meta to safeguard user data for the billions of […

CWChris Wiltz·August 11, 2025SRE & Ops
Security — Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

Workers KV is Cloudflare's global key-value store, serving millions of requests per second across hundreds of billions of stored objects. The service powers critical infrastructure for dozens of Cloudflare products—from Access authentication to Pages static assets—making its availability essential to our platform's reliability. After the incident on June 12, we accelerated work to re-architect KV’

ARAlex Robinson, Tyson TrautmannAlex Robinson, Tyson Trautmann·August 8, 2025Security
AI & ML — Vercel collaborates with OpenAI for GPT-5 launch

Vercel collaborates with OpenAI for GPT-5 launch

The GPT-5 family of models released today, are now available through AI Gateway and are in production on our own v0.dev applications. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models for a few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox.

VVercel·August 7, 2025AI & ML
Frontend — Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations

Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations

Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appearance. It once required JavaScript. Now we have scroll-driven animations in CSS, which is free from the main-thread blocking that can plague JavaScript animations.

BLBlake LundquistBlake Lundquist·August 6, 2025Frontend
AI & ML — Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development

Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development

The state of the research Diff Risk Score (DRS) is an AI-powered technology built at Meta that predicts the likelihood of a code change causing a production incident, also known as a SEV. Built on a fine-tuned Llama LLM, DRS evaluates code changes and metadata to produce a risk score and highlight potentially risky code […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 6, 2025AI & ML
Performance — Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine

Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine

Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow, keeping everything in sync gets tricky fast. In this article, we’ll look at how smart tooling, combined with automation where it makes sense, can speed things up, reduce errors, and help your team focus on desig

JPJoas PambouJoas Pambou·August 6, 2025Performance