Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
Links to CSS colour palettes
How General Intelligence used agents to build an agent platform on Vercel
Testing Vue components in the browser
Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network
We have completed a massive engineering effort to make our infrastructure more resilient. Through new tools like Snapstone and the Engineering Codex, we've implemented safer configuration changes and automated best practices to prevent future incidents.
Introducing Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant
Dynamic Workflows is a library that lets you route durable execution to tenant-provided code on the fly. Built on Dynamic Workers, it enables platforms to serve millions of unique workflows at near-zero idle cost.
November Inflection
How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups
The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage […]
Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine
Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be need
How GitBook serves 30,000 sites with sub-second content updates
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter credit card details.
Post-quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec is generally available
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode
Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Quick Hit #129
Firefox 150 shipped ariaNotify(), an alternative to ARIA live regions, but it lacks Safari support and is unreliable on macOS.
Everything we announced at Sessions 2026
We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.
Giving agents the ability to pay
Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or SPT backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.
Shutdowns, power outages, and conflict: a review of Q1 2026 Internet disruptions
The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in Internet disruptions, from nationwide shutdowns in Uganda and Iran to unprecedented drone strikes on cloud infrastructure. We explore the data behind these events using Cloudflare Radar.
My queries to monitor autovacuum
This article shows the queries that I use to monitor autovacuum and explains the background and the measures you can take to avoid problems.
CYPEX Online Academy - Application Audit Section
Audit your application in CYPEX - The visual editor allows you to track all changes in a table and quickly see what has changed where.
CYPEX Online Academy - Overview and first application in a few minutes
Produce your first PostgreSQL-based CYPEX application in just a few minutes - see what to do before and after app generation.
CYPEX Use Cases
CYBERTEC's CYPEX makes internal app development with PostgreSQL a breeze. Check out use cases in livestock management and internet shopping!
FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too
Agents are changing your code faster than your team can follow. Now you can close that gap with new MCP skills, architecture layouts, and more in FigJam.
Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been using them for their teams and have developed a method and workflow called Structured Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD). The article describes a simple example of this workflow with details in github. This workflow treats the prompts as a firs
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
Scroll-Driven Animations
The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript! It’s honestly a very lovely API, and in this blog post, we’ll explore some of the super cool things we can do with it.
2026 Vercel AI Accelerator recap
Read the recap of the 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator, where 39 AI startups spent six weeks building with Vercel before pitching at Demo Day at our San Francisco headquarters.
Quick Hit #128
Safari TP 242 trials the more advanced version of attr() from CSS Values and Units Module Level 5.
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams — Smashing Magazine
AI tools are eliminating the need to “bug” colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that builds team trust, belonging, and innovation. Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive explore the research and potential impacts behind that risk and offer practical strategies for maintaining human connection while leveraging AI’s strengths.
Quick Hit #127
Firefox 150 becomes the first to implement the newest version of color-mix() that accepts more than two <color>s, and light-dark() that accepts
New to the web platform in April
Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during April 2026.
Quick Hit #126
Firefox 150 ships :muted and all other media-based pseudo-classes, but they lack support in Chrome.
Close-to-zero-downtime migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Close-to-zero-downtime migration is a must - especially true if you want to migrate a large Oracle database to PostgreSQL.
Making Rust Workers reliable: panic and abort recovery in wasm‑bindgen
Panics in Rust Workers were historically fatal, poisoning the entire instance. By collaborating upstream on the wasm‑bindgen project, Rust Workers now support resilient critical error recovery, including panic unwinding using WebAssembly Exception Handling.
Flow generation through natural language: An agentic modeling approach (2026) - Shopify
We fine-tuned Qwen3-32B into a tool-calling agent that generates Flow automations: 2.2x faster, 68% cheaper, with a weekly retraining flywheel.
The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable — Smashing Magazine
In a rush to embrace AI, the industry is redefining what it means to be a UX designer, blurring the line between design and engineering. Carrie Webster explores what’s gained, what’s lost, and why designers need to remain the guardians of the user experience.
Independence Is Not Just a Database Feature
This blog, talks about CYBERTEC and its initiative for the greener world. Hear from the CEO himself what's more to come.
Compliance for Switzerland
How AI leaders are borrowing from the design playbook
A new class of leaders is leaning on design principles to guide their companies through AI transformation.
Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge
We’ve fundamentally transformed Facebook Groups Search to help people more reliably discover, sort through, and validate community content that’s most relevant to them. We’ve adopted a new hybrid retrieval architecture and implemented automated model-based evaluation to address the major friction points people experience when searching community content. Under this new framework, we’ve made tangib
Building the agentic cloud: everything we launched during Agents Week 2026
Agents Week 2026 is a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we announced, from compute and security to the agent toolbox, platform tools, and the emerging agentic web. Everything we shipped for the agentic cloud.
Thank You For Being a Friend
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed Minimum Income) rural study counties so Mercer County, WV, my Dad's county, went first in October 2025. I knew dad was close to the end, and sure enough, that was the last time I ever sa
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
Highlights from Git 2.54
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design — Smashing Magazine
Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities. Here is how to implement thoughtful session management that improves usability, reduces frustration, and helps create a more accessible and respectful web.
Introducing Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI
We are launching Flagship, a native feature flag service built on Cloudflare’s global network to eliminate the latency of third-party providers. By using KV and Durable Objects, Flagship allows for sub-millisecond flag evaluation.
Introducing the Agent Readiness score. Check to see if your site is agent-ready
The Agent Readiness score can help site owners understand how well their websites support AI agents. Here we explore new standards, share Radar data, and detail how we made Cloudflare’s docs the most agent-friendly on the web.
Unweight: how we compressed an LLM 22% without sacrificing quality
Running LLMs across Cloudflare’s network requires us to be smarter and more efficient about GPU memory bandwidth. That’s why we developed Unweight, a lossless inference-time compression system that achieves up to a 22% model footprint reduction, so that we can deliver faster and cheaper inference than ever before.
Redirects for AI Training enforces canonical content
Soft directives don’t stop crawlers from ingesting deprecated content. Redirects for AI Training allows anybody on Cloudflare to redirect verified crawlers to canonical pages with one toggle and no origin changes.
Shared Dictionaries: compression that keeps up with the agentic web
Today, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek of our support for shared compression dictionaries, show you how it improves page load times, and reveal when you’ll be able to try the beta yourself.
Agents Week: network performance update
By migrating our request handling layer to a Rust-based architecture called FL2, Cloudflare has increased its performance lead to 60% of the world’s top networks. We use real-user measurements and TCP connection trimeans to ensure our data reflects the actual experience of people on the Internet.
Agents that remember: introducing Agent Memory
Cloudflare Agent Memory is a managed service that gives AI agents persistent memory, allowing them to recall what matters, forget what doesn't, and get smarter over time.
Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you’ll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
How Zo Computer improved AI reliability 20x on Vercel
Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
Artifacts: versioned storage that speaks Git
Give your agents, developers, and automations a home for code and data. We’ve just launched Artifacts: Git-compatible versioned storage built for agents. Create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client.
