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Frontend — What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·August 14, 2026Frontend
Performance — How to move fast toward the right thing

How to move fast toward the right thing

With AI, speed comes easy, but so does tech debt. That’s why the best teams don’t just ship something fast; they consider it carefully, build it efficiently, and make it stand out.

JAJake Albaugh·August 13, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Inside the Vercel intern experience

Inside the Vercel intern experience

Meet Vercel’s winter 2026 interns and see how they shipped production features across the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, AI Gateway, and more.

VVercel·August 13, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DRDurgesh Rajubhai Pawar·August 12, 2026Frontend
Databases — Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

CYBERTEC PG Operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, with Multi-site Clusters for cross-site replication and automated failover.

HSHans-Jürgen SchönigHans-Jürgen Schönig·August 12, 2026Databases
Security — How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s personal messages with end-to-end encryption. Today, we’re sharing an early […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 12, 2026Security
AI & ML — Building a software factory for AI SDK

Building a software factory for AI SDK

We built a software factory that autonomously processes issues and PRs for the AI SDK, with humans in control of every merge. Four weeks in, it authors 25-40% of merged PRs.

VVercel·August 12, 2026AI & ML