Quick: An internal hosting platform for the AI era (2026) - Shopify
Quick lets anyone at Shopify ship a site in seconds. It has changed the culture of how we build and share.
The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research — Smashing Magazine
Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities.
Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant
At Spotify, data problems used to follow a specific pattern. You'd look for the relevant dashboard, there...
Defend against frontier cyber models: Cloudflare's architecture as customer zero
In our post about Project Glasswing, we made the argument that the architecture around a vulnerability matters more than the speed of the patch. Here we walk through what that architecture looks like, the threats it defends against, and how we run it ourselves as Cloudflare's customer zero.
PGConf.dev 2026 in Vancouver
This blog explores the experience of PGConf Dev 2026, in depth, you can know more about the experience from the blog.
From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
How the Weather Company serves real-time forecasts to 350 million daily active users on Vercel
How Code and Theory cut time-to-prototype 75% with v0
How Fern runs multi-tenant docs for Webflow and ElevenLabs on Vercel
Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules
Cloudflare customers can now use Cloudforce One threat intelligence directly within the WAF to block high-risk traffic. By using new cf.intel fields, security teams can automate protection against specific threat actors and targeted industries in real time.
You never stop cultivating taste
Having the right tools can only take you so far. To become a master of your craft, you need to hone a point of view.
GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions
Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend
The June 2026 AI Gateway production index: DeepSeek's token share jumped to 17% as low-cost models entered production, while Anthropic held 65% of all spend.
Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
AI Gateway now features real-time spend limits to prevent runaway token bills across multiple AI providers. By integrating with Cloudflare Access, companies can use identity-driven budgets and policies.
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
New ways to turn global demand into revenue
Stripe’s latest global commerce solutions help all types of businesses localize checkout for every market, increase authorization rates with AI, reduce FX costs with multicurrency support, and automate tax and compliance processes.
Handling graphs with SQL/PGQ in PostgreSQL
This blog explores Graph relationships in PostgreSQL with PGQ. Read and learn on, how to traverse and create Graph relationship.
Lights Out, Systems On: Validating Instant Power Loss Readiness
We’re introducing Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm, a new testing paradigm within Meta’s infrastructure for handling and mitigating instant or zero-notice power loss in our data centers. We’re sharing: how we built readiness to tolerate instant failures into our existing systems with defense-in-depth strategies; tradeoffs made in implementing it, and how we validated our readiness. Disaster preparedn
How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready — Smashing Magazine
Practical guide on how to reduce drifts, minimize mistakes, maintain context, and improve the quality of AI-generated prototypes. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Helping businesses optimize network costs with the Visa Digital Commerce Authentication Program (DCAP)
We moved quickly to help Stripe businesses take advantage of DCAP and capture interchange savings while protecting their authorization rates. Here’s what we did.
When is a function leakproof?
This article discusses row-level security, security barrier functions and leakproof functions, which are necessary to make them work.
GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
How we reduced core unit boot time from hours to minutes
We investigated why firmware updates were causing our core servers to take four hours to reboot. By diving into UEFI data structures and iPXE automation, we eliminated unnecessary timeouts and cut boot times back down to minutes.
June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy!
Protecting against token theft
Inference theft lets attackers resell your paid AI calls. See how the attack works, why rate limits and auth walls fail, and how Vercel BotID stops it on every request.
New to the web platform in May
Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during May 2026.
How we built Cloudflare's data platform and an AI agent on top of it
Here’s how we built Town Lake, Cloudflare's unified analytics platform, alongside Skipper, an internal AI agent running on top of it.
Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents
How Dropbox is moving from AI tools that assist engineers to agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.
Figma Make, now on your local code
From visual editing to contextual prompting and collaboration, Figma Make is expanding how teams can design with code.
4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools
AI tools are changing how teams build products—from where they start to what carries through to production.
Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here.
The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
Under the River (2026) - Shopify
What it took to ship our Slack-native agent River, lessons learned, and the substrate that runs beneath it. Co-authored by River.
Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud
In early 2023, Slack faced a foundational challenge: serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at enterprise scale with the security, reliability, and performance our customers expect. Over three years, we evolved from basic infrastructure to orchestrating a sophisticated multi-cloud architecture. We didn’t just want shiny new models; we needed a system resilient to regional outages and…
Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With contrast-color() — Smashing Magazine
Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. `contrast-color()` is that better CSS.
Solo founding is at an all-time high: Top performers have these traits in common
In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.
Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activity is currently just 40% of pre-shutdown levels.
The VibeSec Reckoning
“Vibe coding” - the practice of non-technical citizen builders using generative AI tools to rapidly develop applications, this has significantly accelerated software prototyping. However, because AI agents naturally prioritise the path of least resistance, they frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating systemic security exposure across industries. To combat this we need to write a sec
Maintainability sensors for coding agents
In a recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, I laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and enable self-correction before issues reach human eyes. This article is a more practical follow-up where I walk through my experience with using sensors that help keep the codebase
Expanding Stripe Radar to protect more of your business
Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods; defends against new fraud types; and gives platforms new tools to evaluate and mitigate merchant risk on and off Stripe.
How Conductor moved parallel coding agents from the laptop to the cloud with Vercel Sandbox
Issue no.16: Trust the process
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
CSS vs. JavaScript
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies and see the differences firsthand. There’s some interesting nuance here!
SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems
We’re introducing SilverTorch, a reimagining of recommendation systems that unifies all retrieval components for user generated content under a unified architecture. SilverTorch shows up to 23.7x higher throughput compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. It’s also showing 20.9x more compute cost efficiency compared to a CPU-based solution while also improving accuracy. Our research paper, “Sil
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.
Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It) — Smashing Magazine
There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness.
Introducing Nova, our internal platform for coding agents
Nova lets engineers run multiple coding sessions in parallel and lets internal systems use AI agents as part of automated workflows.
7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently
While everyone’s talking about “tokenmaxxing,” we’ve compiled seven best practices to help you build smarter—without prompting more—in Figma Make.
What matters when anyone can build
If AI can make anyone a product builder, the real edge is knowing what’s worth shipping.
GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row
We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.
Four Levels Of Customer Understanding — Smashing Magazine
What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the different layers of reality that shape how people act. Brought to you by Measuring UX Impact, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
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Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made
Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.
Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With sibling-index() And sibling-count() — Smashing Magazine
Meet `sibling-index()` and `sibling-count()`. Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without `:nth-child()` rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000.
Investigation update: GitHub Enterprise Server signing key rotation
GitHub Enterprise Server customers need to take immediate action.
Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare
Cloudflare has integrated with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents to provide a fast, isolated execution environment for autonomous code delivery. This means builders can scale agent workflows globally while strictly controlling access to private backends and easily customizing their agent’s tools and runtimes.
From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's Journey to PGConf.de
Discover the unique community DNA of PostgreSQL as a former Apache Flink event manager shares insights from PGConf.DE 2026.
A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community
From São Paulo to Seoul, Friends of Figma chapters around the world are distinct, vibrant, and locally rooted. Our new brand gives them a more authentic way to express themselves.