Introducing the commerce payments protocol (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we partnered with Coinbase to bring payments onchain at scale with a new smart contract protocol to meet the complex requirements of commerce.
We shipped FinalizationRegistry in Workers: why you should never use it
Cloudflare Workers now support FinalizationRegistry, but just because you can use it doesn’t mean you should. Dive into the tricky world of JavaScript and WebAssembly memory management and see why newer features make life a lot easier.
Issue no.11: Made with love
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2025
In May, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Suppressions of Suppressions
I heard you like linting.
I'm Doing a Little Consulting
Personal update post.
Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS — Smashing Magazine
In this tutorial, Blake Lundquist walks us through two methods of creating the “moving-highlight” navigation pattern using only plain JavaScript and CSS. The first technique uses the `getBoundingClientRect` method to explicitly animate the border between navigation bar items when they are clicked. The second approach achieves the same functionality using the new View Transition API.
Designing and building the Vercel Ship conference platform
Here's how we designed and built our Vercel Ship conference platform. We generated 15,000+ images and videos with tools like Flux, Veo 2, Runway, and Ideogram. Then, we moved to v0 for prototyping. See our iterations, examples, tech stack, and more.
8 essential tips for using Figma Make
We share our team’s favorite prompts, pro tips, and best practices for using Figma Make.
How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
Partial Keyframes
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)
Creating an Auto-Closing Notification With an HTML Popover
The HTML popover attribute transforms elements into top-layer elements that can be opened and closed with a button or JavaScript. Popovers can be dismissed a number of ways, but there is no option to auto-close them. Preethi has a technique you can use.
Bill Atkinson’s 10 rules for making interfaces more human
We commemorate the Apple pioneer whose QuickDraw and HyperCard programs made the Macintosh intuitive enough for nearly anyone to use.
GitHub for Beginners: Code review and refactoring with GitHub Copilot
Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to help review and polish your code.
Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands — Smashing Magazine
SVG is easy — until you meet `path`. However, it’s not as confusing as it initially looks. In this first installment of a pair of articles, Myriam Frisano aims to teach you the basics of `` and its sometimes mystifying commands. With simple examples and visualizations, she’ll help you understand the easy syntax and underlying rules of SVG’s most powerful element so that by the end, you’re fully ab
Assigning and completing issues with coding agent in GitHub Copilot
Have you tried the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot? Here’s how developers are using it to work more efficiently.
Exploring the CSS contrast-color() Function… a Second Time
The contrast-color() function doesn’t check color contrast, but rather it outright resolves to either black or white (whichever one contrasts the most with your chosen color). Safari Technology Preview recently implemented it and we explore its possible uses in this article.
The State of CSS 2025 Survey is out!
The State of CSS 2025 Survey dropped a few days ago, and besides anticipating the results, it's exciting to see a lot of the new things shipped to CSS reflected in the questions.
Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust
I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x86_64 server, even the nice 64-core ones. And another part was, of course, to get dirty with Rust itself. I wrote Why is my Rust build so slow? , which goes in-depth into rust build performance, down to
Double click: What does MCP mean for agentic AI?
The sudden boom in MCP has kicked excitement about the agentic web into high gear. Is this the missing link we’ve needed between AI and all our other tools?
How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub
Learn how to spin up a GitHub Issue, hand it to Copilot, and get a draft pull request in the same workflow you already know.
How Imports Work in RSC
A layered module system.
Collaboration: The Most Underrated UX Skill No One Talks About — Smashing Magazine
We often spotlight wireframes, research, or tools like Figma, but none of that moves the needle if we can’t collaborate well. Great UX doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes conversations with engineers, alignment with product, sales, and other stakeholders, and the ability to listen, adapt, and co-create. That’s where design becomes a team sport, and when your ability to capture the outcomes multi
