Practice, a book on design and craft by Figma
Practice explores what it takes to master craft: patience, precision, and a willingness to push boundaries while respecting the fundamentals.
Introducing Figma Make: A new way to test, edit, and prompt designs
Introducing Figma Make, a new prompt-to-app capability to help you quickly explore, iterate, and refine.
Express yourself with Figma Draw
Figma Draw pairs faster, simpler vector editing with powerful tools for visual expression—so designers of all stripes can bring their vision to life without breaking focus.
24 artifacts that define craft
Members of the design community share an artifact that embodies craft—something that speaks to their understanding of what it means to make with intention.
Figma Buzz is where design and marketing teams co-create
With Figma Buzz, brand designers and marketers have a shared space to build beautiful, on-brand assets at scale.
Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever thought about how the limitations of early cartoon animations might relate to web design today? From looping backgrounds to minimal frame changes, these retro animation techniques have surprising parallels to modern CSS. In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows how he applied these principles to Emmy-winning composer Mike
Our top product updates from Sessions 2025
We announced the ability to manage multiple payment providers from within Stripe, two new extensibility primitives, support for turnkey consumer issuing programs, new money management capabilities, and a lot more.
Introducing the Flags Explorer, first-party integrations, and updates to the Flags SDK
Introducing first-party integrations, the Flags Explorer, and improvements to the Flags SDK to improve feature flag workflow on Vercel.
Function calling using LLMs
While LLMs excel at generating cogent text based on their training data, they may also need to interact with external systems. Function calling allows them to construct such calls. The LLM does not execute these calls directly, instead it creates a data structure that describes the call, passing that to a separate program for execution and further processing. The LLM's prompt includes details abou
Dos and don’ts when sunsetting open source projects
Three maintainers share their tips for gracefully sunsetting open source projects.
RSC for Astro Developers
Islands, but make it fractal.
Masonry In CSS: Should Grid Evolve Or Stand Aside For A New Module? — Smashing Magazine
There were duelling proposals floating around for adding support for masonry-style layouts in CSS. In one corner is a proposal that extends the existing CSS Grid specification. In the other corner is a second proposal that sets up masonry as a standalone module. Well, not until recently. Now, there are three proposals with Apple WebKit’s “Item Flow” as the third option. The first two sides make st
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A six-week program to help you scale your AI company offering over $4M in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms
Scaling with safety: Cloudflare's approach to global service health metrics and software releases
Learn how Cloudflare tackles the challenge of scaling global service health metrics to safely release new software across our global network.
How Headspace built an AI companion that fosters trust and transparency
Creating an AI-powered feature for mental health poses myriad challenges. Here, the product and brand teams talk through how they built Ebb with care and sensitivity.
How Polaroid is building its next era of innovation
Once on the brink of extinction, the company behind the beloved instant camera is reaching a new generation of users with a new approach to design, development, and branding.
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Events, exclusive discounts, and a new security challenge
This May marks the fifth annual Maintainer Month, and there are lots of treats in store: new badges, special discounts, events with experts, and more.
Enhancing the Python ecosystem with type checking and free threading
Meta and Quansight have improved key libraries in the Python Ecosystem. There is plenty more to do and we invite the community to help with our efforts. We’ll look at two key efforts in Python’s packaging ecosystem to make packages faster and easier to use: 🚀 Unlock performance wins for developers through free-threaded Python – […]
How To Launch Big Complex Projects — Smashing Magazine
When was the last time your project wrapped up smoothly — no delays, no surprises, no last-minute compromises? In reality, most UX projects drift as timelines slip, budgets stretch, and features morph. How do we get better at navigating the chaos? An upcoming part of How To Measure UX and Design Impact by yours truly.
CSS shape() Commands
The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both Chromium and WebKit browsers. It's a way of drawing complex shapes when clipping elements with the clip-path property.
Quick Hit #46
Straight from the W3C Technical Architecture Group: "e see an urgency to have a strict timeline for the removal of third-party cookies."
Copilot ask, edit, and agent modes: What they do and when to use them
An introduction to the three distinct modes of GitHub Copilot and a practical guide for integrating them effectively into your workflow.
Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
Functional HTML
Tags on both sides.