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1,182 articles published in 2026.

Engineering — Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards longer term efforts to keep the American Dream fair and attainable for all our children. Stay gold, America. 💛

JAJeff AtwoodJeff Atwood·February 4, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Pick your agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ

Pick your agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ

Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription. Here’s what you need to know and how to get started today.

MRMario RodriguezMario Rodriguez·February 4, 2026AI & ML
Security — No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes and enables cross-device authentication without the need for an on-device display, while still complying with all trust and proximity requirements. This approach builds on work done by the FIDO […]

CWChris Wiltz·February 4, 2026Security
AI & ML — Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer — Smashing Magazine

Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer — Smashing Magazine

AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work. They help handle time-consuming grunt work, guide you through large legacy codebases, and offer low-risk ways to implement features in previously unfamiliar programming languages. Here are practical, easy-to-apply techniques to help you use these tools to improve your workflow.

SKStefan KalteneggerStefan Kaltenegger·January 30, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — ReliCSS

ReliCSS

Stu Robson's ReliCSS (clever name!) tool can excavate outdated CSS in your codebase that have modern CSS solutions.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 28, 2026Frontend
Security — Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s experience creating and distributing our media consistency library in Rust to billions of devices and browsers proves Rust is production ready at a global scale. […]

CWChris Wiltz·January 27, 2026Security
Frontend — Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts — Smashing Magazine

Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts — Smashing Magazine

In CSS, we can create “stacking contexts” where elements are visually placed one on top of the next in a three-dimensional sense that creates the perception of depth. Stacking contexts are incredibly useful, but they’re also widely misunderstood and often mistakenly created, leading to a slew of layout issues that can be tricky to solve.

GSGabriel ShoyomboGabriel Shoyombo·January 27, 2026Frontend
SRE & Ops — Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss the impact and the changes we are implementing as a result.

BTBryton, Tom StrickxBryton, Tom Strickx·January 23, 2026SRE & Ops
Engineering — Open Props @custom-media Recipes

Open Props @custom-media Recipes

The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn't find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle's on the beat noting that it's behind a flag

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 23, 2026Engineering
Frontend — Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

A while back, Temani tacked a repeating grid of hexagon shapes. Well, he's updated it with modern CSS features that result in fewer magic numbers. And it's impressive!

TATemani AfifTemani Afif·January 23, 2026Frontend
Distributed — Metronome + Stripe: Building the future of billing

Metronome + Stripe: Building the future of billing

Together, Metronome and Stripe are building the most flexible and complete billing solution on the market—one that works for everyone, from engineers in a garage figuring out their business model to public companies monetizing at global scale.

WHWisam HirzallaWisam Hirzalla·January 23, 2026Distributed
Architecture — Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop

Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop

A conversation between Unmesh, Rebecca, and Martin on how LLMs help us shape the abstractions in our software. We view our challenge as building systems that survive change, requiring us to manage our cognitive load. We can do this by mapping the “what” of we want our software to do into the “how” of programming languages. This “what” and “how” are built up in a feedback loop. TDD helps us operati

UJUnmesh Joshi, Rebecca Parsons, and Martin Fowler·January 21, 2026Architecture
Career & Teams — Astro is joining Cloudflare

Astro is joining Cloudflare

The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come.

FSFred Schott, Brendan Irvine BroqueFred Schott, Brendan Irvine Broque·January 16, 2026Career & Teams
Networking — HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac

HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac

I love me some good web research reports. I'm a sucker for them. HTTP Archive's Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I'm not

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 16, 2026Networking
Frontend — "I Heart CSS" DailyDev Squad

"I Heart CSS" DailyDev Squad

If you're reading this, chances are you already have some sort of way that you're following when we publish new content, whether that's RSS, Bluesky,

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·January 16, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic models for the Internet.

CCloudflare·January 15, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More

What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More

The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s normally a slow time of year, so without further ado, here’s what’s important from the last couple of weeks (or should I say the first couple o

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·January 15, 2026Engineering