PGDay Hyderabad 2025: A Journey of History, Tech, and Community
This was my experience at PGday Hyderabad 2025, which included a lot of learnings and it was my first conference. Please dive in to check.
Conversation: LLMs and Building Abstractions
Unmesh and Martin exchanged some emails about building abstractions while working with an LLM. They talk about the influence of Brooks's framing of essential and accidental complexity, and how this carries over to thinking of programming as both growing and applying abstractions. An LLM is useful in both modes of working, but has to be used differently. We can't reduce growing abstractions to a st
Rediscovering joy in learning: Jason Lengstorf on the state of development
We sit down with Jason Lengstorf on the GitHub Podcast, where he shares his perspective on education, AI, open source, and more.
Enabling Kotlin incremental compilation on Buck2
The Kotlin incremental compiler has been a true gem for developers chasing faster compilation since its introduction in build tools. Now, we’re excited to bring its benefits to Buck2 – Meta’s build system – to unlock even more speed and efficiency for Kotlin developers. Unlike a traditional compiler that recompiles an entire module every time, […]
Building production-ready agentic systems: Lessons from Shopify Sidekick (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we evolved our AI assistant architecture and built robust evaluation frameworks for real-world deployment
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but in moving away from a browser environment, we can introduce usability issues. This article covers how we can modify our app depending on what display mode is applied to mitigate these issues.
The conversion paradox: 3DS trends in regulated markets
Our analysis showed that even with very high two-factor authentication trigger rates—which traditionally add friction to the checkout flow—France, the UK, and Japan still maintain high conversion rates.
Unmasking the Unseen: Your Guide to Taming Shadow AI with Cloudflare One
The digital landscape of corporate environments has always been a battleground between efficiency and security. For years, this played out in the form of "Shadow IT" — employees using unsanctioned laptops or cloud services to get their jobs done faster. Security teams became masters at hunting these rogue systems, setting up firewalls and policies to bring order to the chaos. But the new frontier
Cloudflare Launching AI Miniseries for Developers (and Everyone Else They Know)
AI Avenue tackles fears, showcases AI's potential, and highlights positive human augmentation stories, even allowing hands-on interaction.
Version control: How Figma Make helped us figure out video playback
To get videos working just right in Figma Buzz, Product Designer Natasha Tenggoro used Figma Make to prototype complex ideas when words fell short. We show three of them here, prompts and all.
Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections
When a chat conversation is poisoned by indirect prompt injection, it can result in the exposure of GitHub tokens, confidential files, or even the execution of arbitrary code without the user’s explicit consent. In this blog post, we’ll explain which VS Code features may reduce these risks.
MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack
For years, developers have been stitching together multiple protocols for real-time media, trading latency for scale and simplicity. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale.
3D Layered Text: Interactivity and Dynamicism
In this third and final chapter, we’re stepping into interactivity by adding JavaScript, starting with a simple :hover effect, and ending with a fully responsive bulging text that follows your mouse in real time.
The science of loudness
My watch has a “Noise” app: it shows d B , for decibels. Your browser does not support the video tag. My amp has a volume knob, which also shows decibels, although.. negative ones, this time. Your browser does not support the video tag. And finally, my video editing software has a ton of meters — which are all in decibel or decibel-adjacent units. Your browser does not support the video tag. How d
Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities
Learn Model Context Protocol by building a turn-based game server that shows how to extend GitHub Copilot with custom tools, resources, and prompts.
A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer — Smashing Magazine
If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your design workflow.
AI-powered prototyping with design systems
Why AI-native design systems unlock true brand-ready, production-aligned prototyping for teams using v0
How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
Fogos.pt, a volunteer-run wildfire tracker in Portugal, grew from a side project into a critical national resource used by citizens, media, and government. During 2025 fire season it was hit by DDoS attacks, but stayed online thanks to Cloudflare’s protections under Project Galileo.How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
Exploration: Migration to CNPG
This article explains how to migrate a database instance from anywhere to CNPG using pg_basebackup and its limitations for it.
Explore the best of GitHub Universe: 9 spaces built to spark creativity, connection, and joy
See what’s happening at Universe 2025, from experimental dev tools and career coaching to community-powered spaces. Save $400 on your pass with Early Bird pricing.
How we built AI face cropping for Images
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.
3D Layered Text: Motion and Variations
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.
Webinar: Mastering PCI DSS Compliance
Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation
Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.
The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
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?
Rethinking prototyping, requirements, and project delivery at Code and Theory
From Rainfall to Rows - The Butterfly Effect in PostgreSQL
Have you ever wondered if the butterfly effect is real? This blogs showcases on a real life example with PostgreSQL at core. Enjoy reading!
Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub
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.
Announcing the Cloudflare Browser Developer Program
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!
3D Layered Text: The Basics
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.
Quick Hit #55
Really good to see Firefox Nightly join in the URL text fragments fun. Looks like we'll have broad support super soon!
Expansion Joints
Highlights from Git 2.51
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.
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
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!
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design — Smashing Magazine
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.
Beyond Booleans
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
Summer fasterthanlime update
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
The Psychology Of Color In UX And Digital Products — Smashing Magazine
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.
MadeYouReset: An HTTP/2 vulnerability thwarted by Rapid Reset mitigations
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.
On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS "Base" Units
My brain can't help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that's what happened yesterday when I read:
GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot: How I built a game in 60 seconds
How GitHub’s new MCP server and GPT-5 are revolutionizing developer workflows — with live build examples.
Q1 2025 Innovation Graph update: Bar chart races, data visualization on the rise, and key research
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.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for "Base Elements"
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.
The anatomy of an activation: How Figma Commons brought design to the public
As Figma stepped into its next chapter, we wanted to celebrate in a way that kept that idea front and center.
Team OKRs in Action
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
GitHub Availability Report: July 2025
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
From private to public: How a United Nations organization open sourced its tech in four steps
Learn how the International Telecommunication Union made the switch to open source, and how you can too!
Creating AI agent solutions for warehouse data access and security
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. […]
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career — Smashing Magazine
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.
The three types of AI bot traffic and how to handle them
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.
How Coxwave delivers GenAI value faster with Vercel
CSS-Questions
CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions.
8 tips for designers building branded templates in Figma Buzz
To create self-serve templates that bend—but don’t break—brand designers need to consider work through a marketing lens.
The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence
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
Why we open sourced our MCP server, and what it means for you
Learn how maintainers are using the GitHub MCP Server and what they are building in this episode of the GitHub Podcast.
The top industries and business models using AI for fraud prevention
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.
Cutting delivery times in half with v0
Aligning our prices and packaging with the problems we help customers solve
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.
Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop
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.
Getting Creative With Quotes
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.
