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
Stripe Tax: An all-in-one global tax compliance solution
Stripe Tax is now an all-in-one global tax compliance solution, after adding international registration and filing to round out its tax calculation and collection features.
Introducing our MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow
Today we’re announcing the beta release of the Dev Mode MCP server, which brings Figma directly into the developer workflow to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation.
Smashing Animations Part 4: Optimising SVGs — Smashing Magazine
What’s the best way to make your SVGs faster, simpler, and more manageable? In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains the process he relies on *to* prepare, optimise, and structure SVGs for animation and beyond.
The no-nonsense approach to AI agent development
Learn how to build reliable, domain-specific AI agents by simulating tasks manually, structuring logic with code, and optimizing with real-world feedback. A clear, hands-on approach to practical automation.
Building an AI Agent that puts humans in the loop with Knock and Cloudflare’s Agents SDK
How Knock shipped an AI Agent with human-in-the-loop capabilities with Cloudflare’s Agents SDK and Cloudflare Workers.
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog
So, how can you take dialogue box design beyond the generic look of frameworks and templates? How can you style them to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help to tell its stories? Here’s how I do it in CSS using ::backdrop, backdrop-filter, and animations.
A free hands-on course on AI security: Hack the LLM and then fix it
Dive into the novel security challenges AI introduces with the open source game that over 10,000 developers have used to sharpen their skills.
DNS rebinding attacks explained: The lookup is coming from inside the house!
DNS rebinding attack without CORS against local network web applications. Explore the topic further and see how it can be used to exploit vulnerabilities in the real-world.
