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AI face cropping for Images automatically crops around faces in an image. Here’s how we built this feature on Workers AI to scale for general availability.
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Deanna, Diretnan Domnan·August 20, 2025AI & ML 
In this chapter, we will explore ways to animate the effect, add transitions, and play with different variations. We will look at how motion can enhance depth, and how subtle tweaks can create a whole new vibe.


Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.

AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key to unlocking sustainable design and development. But do these gains outweigh the environmental cost of using energy-hungry AI tools?
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Alex Williams·August 20, 2025AI & ML 

Have you ever wondered if the butterfly effect is real? This blogs showcases on a real life example with PostgreSQL at core. Enjoy reading!

Delegate coding tasks to Copilot and track progress wherever you are on GitHub. Copilot works in the background, creates a pull request, and tags you for review when finished.
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Tim Rogers·August 19, 2025AI & ML 
Announcing the Browser Developer Program: Cloudflare’s new collaborative program to help shape Cloudflare challenges that work seamlessly with your browser. Get a direct communication channel, best practices guidelines, and early visibility into major updates. Join us today!
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Sallylee, Oliver Payne·August 18, 2025Frontend 
A client asked me to create a bulging text effect. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result I’m genuinely proud of, which is covered in this three-part series.


The open source Git project just released Git 2.51. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
JWJosh W. Comeau·August 18, 2025Frontend 
AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin walks through four core stages — from analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design — to show where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples.

What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?

There are news! Cool Bear's hot tip TL;DR: If you’re a patron or sponsor, check your Profile page to get detailed explainers of every perk. You’ll need to log in. Duh. Here are all the changes I’m implementing, summarized as a table: Before After 📚 Articles remain exclusive for 6 months Early access ( couple weeks ) for Silver tier 🎞️ No early access for video Video early access on Patreon and web

Rodolpho Henrique guides you through the essential aspects of color in digital design and user experience, from the practical steps of creating effective and scalable color palettes to critical accessibility considerations.

A new HTTP/2 denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability called MadeYouReset was recently disclosed by security researchers. Cloudflare HTTP DDoS mitigation, already protects from MadeYouReset.
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Alex Forster, Noah·August 14, 2025Security 
My brain can't help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that's what happened yesterday when I read:

How GitHub’s new MCP server and GPT-5 are revolutionizing developer workflows — with live build examples.
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Kedasha Kerr·August 14, 2025AI & ML 
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through March 2025.

I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.

As Figma stepped into its next chapter, we wanted to celebrate in a way that kept that idea front and center.

OKRs have become a popular way to connect strategy with execution in large organizations. But when they are set in a top‑down cascade, they often lose their meaning. Teams receive objectives they didn’t help create, and the result is weak commitment and little real change. High‑performing teams work in another way. They define their own objectives in an organization that uses a collaborative proce

In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Learn how the International Telecommunication Union made the switch to open source, and how you can too!

In this post, we explore the ways we’re evolving Meta’s data warehouse to facilitate productivity and security to serve both human users and AI agents. We detail how we’re developing agents that help users making data access requests to get to the data they need, and that help data owners process requests and maintain security. […]

Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell shows how those lessons can sharpen your instincts, strengthen collaboration, and help you become a better designer today.

Bots account for over 20% of all web traffic. A quarter of that is AI crawlers alone. But not all bots are bad. Some are key to how your site gets discovered. Learn how AI bots shape visibility and what happens if you block them.


CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions.

To create self-serve templates that bend—but don’t break—brand designers need to consider work through a marketing lens.

The productivity of knowledge workers is hard to quantify and often decoupled from direct business outcomes. The lack of understanding leads to many initiatives, bloated tech spend, and ill-chosen efforts to improve this productivity. Technology leaders need to avoid this by developing an intelligence of the business impact of their work across a network connecting output to proximate and downstre

Learn how maintainers are using the GitHub MCP Server and what they are building in this episode of the GitHub Podcast.

Certain industries and business models are embracing AI-powered fraud tools at significantly higher rates. Understanding which types of companies are leading this shift—and why—offers insights into which strategies are most effective.
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Josh Ackerman·August 12, 2025AI & ML 

You asked for simplicity. We listened. Introducing Externa and Interna, two new use-case-driven packages to simplify how you connect and protect your entire infrastructure.

Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register and save a few bucks with a coupon code.

How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML blockquote element using borders, decorative quote marks, custom shapes, and a few unexpected properties.

Learn how the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped 71 open source projects significantly improve their security posture through direct funding, expert guidance, and actionable playbooks.

tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure.

We’re exploring Meta’s Federation Platform, a scalable set of tools for managing compliance-related tasks, along with Privacy Waves, our method for batching these tasks and ensuring accountability. Together, the Federation Platform and Privacy Waves create a structured, effective, and sustainable approach to operationalizing privacy work, enabling Meta to safeguard user data for the billions of […

Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. Ilia and Marina explore how advanced prompting can empower different product & design use cases, speeding up your workflow and improving results, from research and brainstorming to testing and beyond. Let’s dive in.
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Ilia Kanazin Marina Chernyshova·August 11, 2025AI & ML 
Workers KV is Cloudflare's global key-value store, serving millions of requests per second across hundreds of billions of stored objects. The service powers critical infrastructure for dozens of Cloudflare products—from Access authentication to Pages static assets—making its availability essential to our platform's reliability. After the incident on June 12, we accelerated work to re-architect KV’
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Alex Robinson, Tyson Trautmann·August 8, 2025Security 
Get advice answering a set of 10 CSS-related questions you likely will encounter in front-end interviews.

Discover practical ways GitHub Copilot streamlines code reviews, pull requests, and daily engineering tasks with real prompts, examples, and workflow tips from our engineering team.
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Melissa Pastore·August 8, 2025AI & ML 
Internationalization isn’t just translation. It’s about formatting dates, pluralizing words, sorting names, and more, all according to specific locales. Instead of relying on heavy third-party libraries, modern JavaScript offers the Intl API — a powerful, native way to handle i18n. A quiet reminder that the web truly is worldwide.


Today, we’re adding 10 new scatter brushes to push the creative possibilities in Figma Draw. Here’s how the team drew inspiration from Doo-wop, Vaporwave, and other music genres to design them.

The role of junior developer is evolving. If you’re at this stage in your career, here’s how to keep up and stand out.

We’re honored to be the only vendor recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Native Application Platforms.

The GPT-5 family of models released today, are now available through AI Gateway and are in production on our own v0.dev applications. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models for a few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox.

Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appearance. It once required JavaScript. Now we have scroll-driven animations in CSS, which is free from the main-thread blocking that can plague JavaScript animations.
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Blake Lundquist·August 6, 2025Frontend 
How design systems can be a productivity coefficient for AI powered workflows

The state of the research Diff Risk Score (DRS) is an AI-powered technology built at Meta that predicts the likelihood of a code change causing a production incident, also known as a SEV. Built on a fine-tuned Llama LLM, DRS evaluates code changes and metadata to produce a risk score and highlight potentially risky code […]
CWChris Wiltz·August 6, 2025AI & ML 
Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow, keeping everything in sync gets tricky fast. In this article, we’ll look at how smart tooling, combined with automation where it makes sense, can speed things up, reduce errors, and help your team focus on desig

Vercel now has an official hosted MCP server (aka Vercel MCP), which you can use to connect your favorite AI tools, such as Claude or VS Code, directly to Vercel.

We significantly sped up our privacy proxy service by fixing a 40ms delay in "double-spend" checks. The issue stemmed from how Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACKs interacted with a third-party dependency.

OpenAI’s newest open-source models are now available on Cloudflare Workers AI on Day 0, with support for Responses API, Code Interpreter and Web Search (coming soon).
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Michelle, Ashish Datta·August 5, 2025AI & ML