How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy — Smashing Magazine
Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.
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Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerabili
HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.
Quick Hit #66
@heyo53 asks on Bluesky: Is it okay to style or hide scrollbars?
Figma expands support for India with local data hosting and new governance tools
Figma introduces new governance features for enterprise customers, with local data residency expected next quarter.
Tangle: An open-source ML experimentation platform built for scale (2025) - Shopify
Tangle saves months of compute time, makes every experiment automatically reproducible, and allows teammates to share computation without coordination.
Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners — Smashing Magazine
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products.
React2Shell Security Bulletin
Getting Creative With “The Measure”
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?
Integrating Custom Storages with pgwatch
This blog talks about integration custom storages with PGwatch, and it also includes a walkthrough. Read to know more.
How to use GitHub Copilot Spaces to debug issues faster
Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to debug your issues using GitHub Copilot Spaces and Copilot coding agent.
Analyzing how SaaS platforms are shipping payments and finance products in days
Leading SaaS platforms across industries—from Squarespace to Jobber—are using embedded components to ship payments and finance features with minimal code. We analyzed the data to see which types of platforms are getting the most value.
Cloudflare's 2025 Q3 DDoS threat report -- including Aisuru, the apex of botnets
Welcome to the 23rd edition of Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the third quarter of 2025.
Cloudflare WAF proactively protects against React vulnerability
Cloudflare offers protection against a new high profile vulnerability for React Server Components: CVE-2025-55182. All WAF customers are automatically protected as long as the WAF is deployed.
Quick Hit #65
Firefox Nightly adds CSS anchor positioning support, which you can learn a lot more about in our complete guide.
Quick Hit #64
Chrome 143 has introduced anchored fallback container queries to help us query the currently applied fallback position of anchored elements.
Your stack, your rules: Introducing custom agents in GitHub Copilot for observability, IaC, and security
Use partner-built Copilot agents to debug, secure, and automate engineering workflows across your terminal, editor, and github.com.
Behind the build: 2025's BFCM globe in a pinball machine 🌎🕹️ - Shopify
Our interactive, real-time visualization of sales made by Shopify-powered merchants worldwide—built into a pinball game.
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
“The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house
Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.
Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore — Smashing Magazine
CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.
New features to help SaaS platforms manage risk and stay compliant
We recently launched three new features that give you more control to fine-tune your risk and compliance strategy, allowing you to use more of Stripe’s data to inform your approach. Here’s what’s new.
Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Today, we’re excited to announce that Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. We wanted to share a bit about our journey and why we made this decision.
Quick Hit #63
Black Friday might be over but you can still save big on any of Piccalilli's CSS, JavaScript, or UX courses until December 9th, 2025.
Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
Bramus:
How to orchestrate agents using mission control
Run multiple Copilot agents from one place. Learn prompt techniques, how to spot drift early, and how to review agent work efficiently.
Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents
Slack’s Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting Slack’s core infrastructure and services. Our security event ingestion pipeline handles billions of events per day from a diverse array of data sources. Reviewing alerts produced by our security detection system is our primary responsibility during on-call shifts. We’re going to show you how we’re using AI…
Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3)
This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents (internal codename: “Honk”) and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also , , and .
AWS Databases coming to the Vercel Marketplace
Vercel Marketplace adds Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora DSQL, available December 15. One-click provisioning, zero-config setup, and full v0 support.
A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy!
On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans"
The ultimate gift guide for the developer in your life
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA — Smashing Magazine
CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where accessibility truly starts.
Version control: One founder’s mission to save local farms with Figma Make
Aaron Veale, the founder of the mission-driven marketplace startup Planet Food, turned to Figma Make to build a product within weeks.
Partnering with Black Forest Labs to bring FLUX.2 -dev- to Cloudflare Workers AI
FLUX.2 [dev] by Black Forest Labs is now on Workers AI! This advanced open-weight image model offers superior photorealism, multi-reference inputs, and granular control with JSON prompting.
Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19
This blog talks aggregations in PostgreSQL version 19. Read in, check use cases and learn more about the feature.
Why developers still flock to Python: Guido van Rossum on readability, AI, and the future of programming
Discover how Python changed developer culture—and see why it keeps evolving.
How GitHub’s agentic security principles make our AI agents as secure as possible
Learn more about the agentic security principles that we use to build secure AI products—and how you can apply them to your own agents.
Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨
Run for your money: Engineering a treadmill that prints store credit (2025) - Shopify
We combined FTMS sensors, Socket.IO, and POS UI extensions to turn a manual treadmill into a discount-printing machine.
Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt) — Smashing Magazine
We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you might like to read an excerpt from the book. Subscribe to our Smashing newsletter to be notified when orders are open.
Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging
The WAF provides ways for our customers to gain insight into why it takes certain actions. The more granular and precise the insight, the more reproducible and understandable it is. Revamped payload logging is one such method.
Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week.
Security through design: Creating the improved Firewall experience
Vercel introduces a new Firewall UI for better surfacing of events and alerts while providing deeper information on mitigation activity
Workflow Builder: Build your own workflow automation platform
Workflow Builder is a free, open-source template, powered by Next.js and the Workflow DevKit, that helps you build workflow builder applications and agents.
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PostgreSQL performance: Encrypted vs. unencrypted
This is an analysis to give users a way to compare various PostgreSQL settings and their performance: PostgreSQL v13, PostgreSQL TDE
Does Dioxus spark joy?
Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy! Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whimsy. What’s Dioxus, you ask? It is first and foremost a name that is quote: “legally not inspired by any Pokémon”. Even if the author concedes in a H
Zoomer: Powering AI Performance at Meta’s Scale Through Intelligent Debugging and Optimization
We’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI. Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at Meta and provides deep performance insights that enable energy savings, workflow acceleration, and efficiency gains in our AI infrastructure. Zoomer has delivered training time reductions, and significant QPS improvements, making i
Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects — Smashing Magazine
Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing keyframes, you take something that is usually messy and hard to manage and turn it into a clear, predictable system.
Self-driving infrastructure
At Vercel, we’re building self-driving infrastructure, a system that autonomously manages production operations, improves application code using real-world insights, and learns from the unpredictable nature of production itself.
Vercel Open Source Program: Fall 2025 cohort
Announcing the fall 2025 cohort of Vercel's Open Source Program. Open source community frameworks, libraries, and tools we rely on every day to build the web.
Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro
Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro Image Pro
Evolving GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions through custom model training
GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions just got faster, smarter, and more precise thanks to new data pipelines, reinforcement learning, and continuous model updates built for in-editor workflows.
Key Transparency Comes to Messenger
We’re excited to share another advancement in the security of your conversations on Messenger: the launch of key transparency verification for end-to-end encrypted chats. This new feature enables an additional level of assurance that only you — and the people you’re communicating with — can see or listen to what is sent, and that no […]
How we prepare Shopify for BFCM (2025) - Shopify
Nine months of chaos engineering and scale tests so intense we ran them (mostly) at night. Inside our 2025 readiness program for Black Friday weekend.
5 shifts redefining design systems in the AI era
We spoke with product leaders and practitioners about the shifts they’re seeing in how design systems are built, used, and maintained.
How we’re making GitHub Copilot smarter with fewer tools
We’re using embedding-guided tool routing, adaptive clustering, and a streamlined 13-tool core to deliver faster experience in VS Code.
