GitHub for Beginners: Building a React App with GitHub Copilot
Follow along and build a frontend client using React and Copilot Chat.
The Height Enigma
One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting height: 100% would have no effect at all. When I finally figured out what was going on, it was like a puzzle piece snapping into place; everything made so much more sense! In this post, I’ll share the epiphany I had, and we’ll explor
Integrating Localization Into Design Systems — Smashing Magazine
Learn how two designers tackled the challenges of building a localization-ready design system for a global audience. This case study dives into how Rebecca and Mark combined Figma Variables and design tokens to address multilingual design issues, such as text overflow, RTL layouts, and font inconsistencies.
Real‑world video demo: Using different AI models in GitHub Copilot
Curious about how AI models perform in real-world scenarios with GitHub Copilot? Same. We made a live video demo to find out, and wrote up our key takeaways.
Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
First-party tags in seconds: Cloudflare integrates Google tag gateway for advertisers
Cloudflare introduces a one-click integration with Google tag gateway for advertisers.
Accelerating GPU indexes in Faiss with NVIDIA cuVS
Meta and NVIDIA collaborated to accelerate vector search on GPUs by integrating NVIDIA cuVS into Faiss v1.10, Meta’s open source library for similarity search. This new implementation of cuVS will be more performant than classic GPU-accelerated search in some areas. For inverted file (IVF) indexing, NVIDIA cuVS outperforms classical GPU-accelerated IVF build times by up […]
Static as a Server
You wouldn't download a site.
Evolution of Product Classification at Shopify: From Categories to Comprehensive Product Understanding (2025) - Shopify
Shopify’s product classification system has evolved from basic categorization to an AI-driven framework using Vision Language Models and the Shopify Product Taxonomy. It accurately classifies products, extracts attributes, and processes over 30 million predictions daily, improving search, discovery, trust, and efficiency.
Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot — Smashing Magazine
The Penpot team is not slowing down on its mission to build a free design tool that not only offers powerful design features but is also well-integrated with code and modern development practices. In its latest release, Penpot, as the first design tool ever, introduces support for native design tokens. Let’s take a closer look at this concept and how you can employ it in your process.
QUIC restarts, slow problems: udpgrm to the rescue
udpgrm is a lightweight daemon for graceful restarts of UDP servers. It leverages SO_REUSEPORT and eBPF to route new and existing flows to the correct server instance. Designed for modern protocols like QUIC, udpgrm hides kernel complexity behind a clean, configurable API.
Figma launches Brazilian Portuguese localization, expanding global reach
Brazilian Portuguese becomes the fourth language for localization, with Latin American Spanish expected later this year.
Config 2025 launches deepen Figma’s design capabilities as its platform expands
Doubles product offering with new design and AI-powered features to help teams go from idea to product, all in one place
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.
