
Friend bubbles in Facebook Reels highlight Reels your friends have liked or reacted to, helping you discover new content and making it easier to connect over shared interests. This article explains the technical architecture behind friend bubbles, including how machine learning estimates relationship strength and ranks content your friends have interacted with to create more […]
CWChris Wiltz·March 18, 2026AI & ML 
We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.


This blog talks about the security shift in PostgreSQL as MD5 is deprecated with practical examples to showcase the same.

By replacing a decade-old architecture with a reactive foundation, we made common operations in large design systems up to 50% faster and unlocked a new way to build dynamic features.

As AI accelerates creation and raises expectations, designers are navigating a field that’s bigger, faster, and more demanding than ever.

See how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains.

Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on results. Future posts will cover additional REA capabilities. REA reduces the need for manual interv

Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan Da Dan and superhero films like James Gunn’s Superman manage emotional shifts and translating those ideas into practical patterns for product design.

Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over "Piracy Shield," a system that forces providers to block content without oversight. We are challenging this framework to protect the Internet from disproportionate overblocking and lack of due process.
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Patrick Nemeroff, Emily Terrell·March 16, 2026Engineering 
For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more.
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Daniel Schwarz·March 16, 2026Systems 
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.

Set up your first GitHub Actions workflow in this how-to guide.

Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.
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Kent C. Dodds·March 16, 2026AI & ML 
Learn how Cloudflare and CDW de-risk SASE migrations with a blueprint that treats legacy debt as an application modernization project.

Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of […]

The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new standard fills gaps in the original `Date` API while addressing limitations found in Moment and other libraries. Joe Attardi shares practical “recipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API.

Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.

AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
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Carie Fisher·March 12, 2026AI & ML 
We questioned why conventional GraphQL execution incurs hidden costs, and rewrote it in a faster breadth-first manner to avoid them.

For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new `corner-shape` property finally changes that, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners.
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Brecht De Ruyte·March 12, 2026Frontend 
A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is harder. These lessons from the first wave of agentic commerce are meant to help sellers decide what to tackle, avoid common bottlenecks, and get ahead of what’s coming.
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Roshan Sadanani·March 12, 2026AI & ML 

Cloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting provider. We are also making AI discovery free for all plans, to help teams find and secure shadow AI deployments.
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Liam Reese, Xmflsct·March 11, 2026Security 
Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.

In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents. We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.

How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time.
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Kent C. Dodds·March 11, 2026Systems 
Cloudflare will be integrating Mastercard’s RiskRecon Attack Surface Intelligence capabilities to help you eliminate Internet-facing blind spots while continuously monitoring and closing security gaps.
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Bashyam Anant, Kelly White·March 10, 2026Security 
Cloudflare's new Security Overview dashboard transforms overwhelming security data into prioritized, actionable insights, empowering defenders with contextual intelligence on vulnerabilities.
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Rachel Smith, Hemanth Kasula·March 10, 2026Security 
Log Explorer customers can now identify and investigate multi-vector attacks. Log Explorer supports 14 additional Cloudflare datasets, enabling users to have a 360-degree view of their network.

Our latest research highlights the skills designers need to meet the moment.
MSMadeline Stafford·March 10, 2026AI & ML 
Affirm SVP of Product Vishal Kapoor shares 10 non-negotiable rules for harnessing AI to build products that are clear, secure, and fundamentally honest.
VKVishal Kapoor·March 10, 2026AI & ML 
AI is shifting from prompt-response interactions to programmable execution. See how the GitHub Copilot SDK enables agentic workflows directly inside your applications.


The interesting part of moving kentcdodds.com to npm workspaces was not the file moves. It was everything the file moves broke.

Some forms stay UI, while others quietly become rule engines. Here’s why these two different approaches exist and how to choose between them.

From November 2025 to February 2026, our models detected 6.2x more abusive free trials. This is part of a shift toward first-party fraud, where users abuse policies by setting up multiple accounts, cycling through free trials, or exploiting refunds.

Cloudflare’s new Web and API Vulnerability Scanner helps teams proactively find logic flaws. By using AI to build API call graphs, we identify vulnerabilities that standard defensive tools miss.
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John Cosgrove, Alex Povel·March 9, 2026AI & ML 
Today we’re disclosing request smuggling vulnerabilities when our open source Pingora service is deployed as an ingress proxy and how we’ve fixed them in Pingora 0.8.0.

Discover how Cloudflare partners TachTech and Adapture are shattering the 18-month migration myth, deploying agile SASE for global enterprises in weeks by treating security as software.

Font Awesome are launching a Kickstarter campaign to transform Eleventy (11ty) into Build Awesome.

How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.

GitHub Agentic Workflows are built with isolation, constrained outputs, and comprehensive logging. Learn how our threat model and security architecture help teams run agents safely in GitHub Actions.
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Landon Cox, Jiaxiao Zhou·March 9, 2026AI & ML 
How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity.

We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warning people about malicious links. We hope that this post has helped to illuminate some of the engineering challenges and infrastructure components involved for providing this feature for our users. […]

Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamification. Anders Toxboe updates persuasive design for today’s reality, clarifying what has actually held up over the last decade.

Cloudflare One unifies data security from endpoint to prompt: RDP clipboard controls, operation-mapped logs, on-device DLP, and Microsoft 365 Copilot scanning via API CASB.

A new version of Chrome will be released every two weeks (instead of four) starting from September 2026.

GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent is very effective at finding Auth Bypasses, IDORs, Token Leaks, and other high-impact vulnerabilities.
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Man Yue Mo, Peter Stöckli·March 6, 2026AI & ML 
UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent. AI can now generate wireframes, prototypes, and even design systems in minutes, but UX has never been only about creating interfaces. It’s about navigating ambiguity, advocating for humans in systems optimised for efficiency, and solving their problems through thoughtful design.
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Carrie Webster·March 6, 2026AI & ML 
Automatic Return Routing (ARR) solves the common enterprise challenge of overlapping private IP addresses by using stateful flow tracking instead of traditional routing tables. This userspace-driven approach ensures return traffic reaches the correct origin tunnel without manual NAT or VRF configuration.

The Cloudflare One Client now features the ability to actively probe and adjust packet sizes. This update eliminates the problems caused by tunnel layering and MTU differences, providing more stability and resiliency.

By transitioning the Cloudflare One Client to use QUIC streams for Proxy Mode, we eliminated the overhead of user-space TCP stacks, resulting in a 2x increase in throughput and significant latency reduction for end users.

Sure, we can select the <html> element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?

This article reflects on an ideological discomfort with software patents, a direct experience of patent aggression in the software industry, and the practical constraints faced by startups. It argues that while the patent system remains deeply flawed, defensive patenting can function as a shield in an asymmetric legal environment, especially for open-source innovators.

How Copilot code review helps teams keep up with AI-accelerated code changes.
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Ria Gopu, David Apirian·March 5, 2026AI & ML 
Developers connected to Andela share how they’re learning AI tools inside real production workflows.

You can now connect or import an existing Stripe account directly into your Vercel project, automatically configure environment variables, and move from Stripe Sandbox to production without manual key exchanges.

Cloudflare is introducing Attack Signature Detection and Full-Transaction Detection to provide continuous, high-fidelity security insights without the manual tuning of traditional WAFs. By correlating request payloads with server responses, we can now identify successful exploits and data exfiltration while minimizing false positives.