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AI & ML — A more flexible Pro plan for modern teams

A more flexible Pro plan for modern teams

We’re updating Vercel’s Pro plan to better align with how modern teams collaborate and how applications consume infrastructure, and how workloads are changing shape with AI.

VVercel·August 19, 2026AI & ML
Performance — Personalization strategies that power ecommerce growth

Personalization strategies that power ecommerce growth

Learn how to implement high-performance personalization with Next.js and Vercel. Discover best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and deliver fast, scalable, and revenue-driving ecommerce experiences without sacrificing speed or user experience.

VVercel·August 19, 2026Performance
Engineering — Introducing Vercel for Slack

Introducing Vercel for Slack

Vercel Agent now works in Slack. Mention @Vercel to diagnose incidents, review PRs, and ship approved changes without leaving the conversation. In public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.

VVercel·August 19, 2026Engineering
Networking — BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234

BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234

RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.

BIBryton, Iliana XygkouBryton, Iliana Xygkou·August 18, 2026Networking
Frontend — Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 17, 2026Frontend
Security — How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.

AKAj, KennyAj, Kenny·August 14, 2026Security
Frontend — What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·August 14, 2026Frontend
Engineering — El blog de Cloudflare

El blog de Cloudflare

Análisis técnicos profundos, actualizaciones de productos y conocimientos de los equipos que ayudan a construir una Internet mejor.

CCloudflare·August 13, 2026Engineering
Performance — How to move fast toward the right thing

How to move fast toward the right thing

With AI, speed comes easy, but so does tech debt. That’s why the best teams don’t just ship something fast; they consider it carefully, build it efficiently, and make it stand out.

JAJake Albaugh·August 13, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Inside the Vercel intern experience

Inside the Vercel intern experience

Meet Vercel’s winter 2026 interns and see how they shipped production features across the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, AI Gateway, and more.

VVercel·August 13, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

DRDurgesh Rajubhai Pawar·August 12, 2026Frontend
Databases — Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

CYBERTEC PG Operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, with Multi-site Clusters for cross-site replication and automated failover.

HSHans-Jürgen SchönigHans-Jürgen Schönig·August 12, 2026Databases
Security — How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s personal messages with end-to-end encryption. Today, we’re sharing an early […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 12, 2026Security
AI & ML — Building a software factory for AI SDK

Building a software factory for AI SDK

We built a software factory that autonomously processes issues and PRs for the AI SDK, with humans in control of every merge. Four weeks in, it authors 25-40% of merged PRs.

VVercel·August 12, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie — Smashing Magazine

Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie — Smashing Magazine

When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion.

AKAlexey KopytinAlexey Kopytin·August 11, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — Mapping the AI economy

Mapping the AI economy

AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture that demand.

ATAbhi TiwariAbhi Tiwari·August 11, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Everything hackable will get hacked

Everything hackable will get hacked

Open-weight models that allow perform offensive research present an emerging cybersecurity challenge. But you do not need to wait for specialized models to begin defensive cybersecurity work.

VVercel·August 11, 2026Engineering
Frontend — Animating CSS border-image

Animating CSS border-image

Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

PPreethiPreethi·August 10, 2026Frontend
Frontend — SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10

SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10

Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 10, 2026Frontend
Engineering — Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot.

JHJin Hee Lee, Marina ElmoreJin Hee Lee, Marina Elmore·August 7, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.

MMMichelle, Ming LuMichelle, Ming Lu·August 7, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Using and Styling the Dialog Element

Using and Styling the Dialog Element

There's a lot of nuance to the <dialog> element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·August 7, 2026Frontend