This document is offered as an expert contribution to ongoing discussions about the data aspects of the Digital Omnibus. Drawn from my experience in digital policy, technology strategy, and digital bu...
Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharg...
The Internet is changing more today than at any point since Cloudflare launched back on September 27, 2010. As automated traffic surpasses human activity, we reflect on the rise of AI agents, new crea...
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech co...
C# strings are UTF-16. Most characters are one 16-bit code unit. Characters outside the basic multilingual plane, emoji included, take two: a high surrogate (U+D800 to U+DBFF) followed by a low surrog...
A spotlight on Anoukia Perrey’s notebook: a dive into her photorealistic 3D world, from hidden light tricks in Cinema 4D and Octane to the ideas behind her personal series.
To get a PhD, you typically have to enroll in a graduate program. Then you complete a few relatively easy courses. You might need to pass a comprehensive examination that checks whether you have a b...
I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was ab...
Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web A very good looking proposal! The root scroller and how not to lose it Yet another in-depth, fantastic article by Kilian at Polypane. fonts.xyz You...
Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website found five million of them—dogs, holidays,...
We create new strings all the time. How quickly can you produce short strings in your programming languge? To create a meaningful string, we convert an integer to a string. In Python, that is str(i)....
Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post...
Misconfiguring Turnstile by skipping backend validation leaves sites exposed to bots. Turnstile Spin fixes incomplete setups by using your preferred AI coding agent to wire up server-side verification...
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva connects it to motion, AI, and team-friendly p...
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS. The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A 3D tour of the U.S. $100 bill, plus 15 design and security feature groups explained.
The pervasiveness of tools may have implanted the wrong instinct in our heads in a world of AI.
A giant isometric pixel-art map of New York City. And an excuse to push hard on the limits of the latest and greatest coding agents.
Agents are great at producing code. The valuable work left for you is deciding what should exist, how it should behave, and what you're willing to trade for it.
Ep #254 With Brad Frost ✨ Robbie and I welcome Brad Frost to talk grief and acceptance around AI, the Orchid synth , snowboarding as a metaphor for finding your line through chaos, why domain expertis...
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped tryin...
Mainstream economists have been advocating for the marvellous effects of global trade for decades. Who needs these factory jobs anyway? We’ll be designing the robots and the nuclear rockets. Exc...
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases. The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how to swap the usual radial cursor-trail blob for fully customizable brush shapes with Three.js, WebGPU, and TSL.
External security researchers at Accomplish identified a vulnerability in Cloudflare Containers that could expose residual disk data from previous workloads. We explain how the issue worked, how we in...
When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent...
Building a little piece of it involved Claude, 4,096 colors, and a surprisingly difficult pair of legs.
A browser-based optimizer for categorical color palettes.
A lightweight library full of beautiful loading indicators for React.
With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.
I sent out a newsletter today and wanted to share it here too. Forgive the sales-y post, but we're at the finish line of the courses we've been pouring our entire selves into for the last two years. W...
I stumbled across this great project by Barry Prendergast. It's a web-based radio player with a lush UI. On mobile I spotted that as I was rapidly flicking through the stations to find one that was on...
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app a...
A yearly portfolio rebuild exploring how Webflow, GSAP, WebGL, and AI can turn spontaneous experiments into a playful, interactive experience.
Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.
New research from GitHub and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication finds strong demand for tools, measurement, and practical guidance that can help developers reduce wasted compute. The post De...
AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
Convert images to ASCII art locally in your browser. No upload, no signup. Copy ASCII or export TXT, PNG, SVG, and Markdown.
A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.
#803 — September 22, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly tinyjs: Build JavaScript Desktop Apps in <10MB — I built an app with this and was impressed. You get a txiki.js-...
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download Word...
A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and wobbles its way into the digital a...
I maintain and comaintain several open-source libraries. Some of them are widely used: ada parses URLs in Node.js, fast_float parses numbers in GCC’s standard library and in Chromium, simdjson p...
Build a small Node.js tool that compares Google rankings with the sources cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview to reveal where traditional and AI search visibility overlap and where th...
Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache wh...
Six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product.
Worker Previews gives every branch its own URL, configuration, state, and observability, so you and your agents can test changes in parallel without affecting production.
A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
Filler cells for CSS grids with borders.
The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drup...
We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.
Our processors can execute many instructions per cycle; they are superscalar. But not all instructions are equal. Branches are particularly tricky. A branch occurs often when you use an if-then clause...
A Mediterranean creative studio blending brand and digital for design-forward companies.
Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem includi...
If AI is causing mass unemployment among software developers, it is not showing up in the data yet. The USA had more software developers as a percentage of the population in 2025 than in 2021. On...
Periodic Table of HTML Elements shows all 115 HTML elements laid out as a periodic table. Josh Duck created the original periodic table of HTML elements that I included in my Atomic Design book. Thank...
I see the mathematicians panicking at what we can do with agentic AI. Let us be clear on what we are talking about. In a few weeks, someone who is not a high-level mathematician can, with AI, produce...
A website is more than a visual composition. When machines read it too, the content, structure, and relationships it exposes become part of the design.
Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer sc...
Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains.
Recently, I looked at how AMD made its chips 50% faster within a span of two years, in How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? Many people asked me to cover Apple processors. So let us go. Cons...
Crumpled paper you can unfold, grab, and throw, made by baking a Vellum simulation in Houdini and bringing it to the web with Vertex Animation Textures, Three.js, and cannon-es.
You can just prove things, apparently.
Huge. Carbon Brief: Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone Yet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply...
AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn't mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines, automatically catching the subtle...
ARM processors, like those in your phone, have instructions capable of processing several elements at once (SIMD). These instructions are called NEON. But many newer processors have a different SIMD e...
We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub B...
How designer Artem Shcherban and creative developer Reksa Andhika translated Kononenko Architectural Bureau’s identity into an interactive website.
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of o...
People still tell me that CPUs are boring. That nothing much happens anymore. Let us look at AMD Ryzen 7 processors from 2022 to 2024: the 5800X3D (Zen 3), the 7800X3D (Zen 4) and the 9800X3D (Zen 5)....
The best AI tools for development, productivity, creativity, and more.
I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating. My favorites (sarcasm) are the ones that cite a post where I explain a problem I'd already solve...
This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update you...
Now that we can better customise <select> elements, it's only natural to side-eye other form <input> types that have caused us visual headaches. Sure, we should be applying the lightest of...
A next-gen programming model
AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn't dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real photography, art, and imagery for commercial u...
A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to R...
Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those ad-stuffed websites can finally be measured,...
Google has been working on new metrics to measure how ads impact performance. Learn how you can view this data for real visitors and how to check it yourself in Chrome DevTools.
Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container...
Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web’s content, publishers finally have an...
C++23 added a new type to the standard library: std::flat_map. There is also a std::flat_set and other variants, but let me focus on std::flat_map. A flat map is a sorted vector of keys next to a vect...
A motion-driven website for House of Yellow, turning video, typography and interaction into an extension of the studio’s creative energy.
A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-side...
After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their replacement, Ipsum, signals a surprisingly diffe...
Photoshop Elements is getting a serious AI upgrade, with Generative Expand, AI upscaling and a new assistant that helps you edit simply by describing what you want.
A frequently asked multiple-column layout question is why a new paragraph at the start of the column has additional space above it. The space is the margin on the paragraph, which doesn’t collap...
#802 — September 15, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Functional Programming Jargon, Mapped and Explained — Currying, purity, functors, monads…? If FP terms ever go over...
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, man...
Apple moved key controls to the side of its new foldable iPhone to make them easier to reach — but easier for whom? The decision raises a surprisingly big UX question that every web and interface desi...
We represent floating-point numbers using the IEEE standard. For very small numbers, the standard uses special subnormal numbers. Unfortunately, they have a reputation of making operations slow. Thus...
Learn how Vivid combines Webflow, custom code, motion, and pixel-based effects to create an interactive visual experience.
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only the access they need to debug, deploy, or monitor safely.
Changelog is taking over PlanetScale's HQ We’re getting together IRL!! On Thursday, September 17th, Changelog is taking over PlanetScale’s HQ in San Francisco for an evening of short talks and conver...
I spent a great chunk of last week at SmashingConf Freiburg and it was lovely as usual. It was great to meet some people I've only ever seen online and see old friends. And I am not going to lie - it...
The de Bruijn–Erdős theorem states that the number of colors needed to color an infinite graph is the same as the maximum number needed for its finite subgraphs. So for any reasonable definition of an...
What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team
2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on Ad...
Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop choosing the tools in their software—and...
A look at how Resn combines brand, content, technology and a healthy disregard for boring websites to create digital experiences people actually want to explore.
A look at how Depth came together, from building a 3D renderer inside Figma to designing a website that explores what it can do.
A closer look at how Yestalgia brings Decathlon’s ’90s-inspired vision to the web through art direction, interaction, animation, and creative development.
Note: Of course I’ve been glued all week to the dramatic developments in AI. I’m working on a post about them. I’m not good at reacting to things in a timely way. So today, I’l...
For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD. The post My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Mindful Design Products This is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful. Scott's written about the why here,...
Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for...
After 53 years working with type, Pat Lightizer got the ultimate retirement gift: her own font.
Mathematicians are unhappy about OpenAI. Several influential mathematicians wrote an open letter. The gist of their argument is that they form a community that trains young people. When AI started pro...
If you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it. Here's what I did to support GitHub's APAC marketing team. The post Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up...
Cloudflare CASB policies introduce a native automation engine built directly on the Cloudflare developer platform to remediate SaaS risks automatically. Security teams can now design event-driven logi...
Gutenberg 23.8 and 23.9 bring declarable block keyboard shortcuts, theme.json schema fixes for responsive states, and a batch of new deprecations.
Code Snack by Lauren Basser looks very useful. Engineering concepts for visual learners. Updated weekly. She's breaking down the Terminal, Git, and things like Web Components for people coming from...
Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power. In response to a series of Medium articles by Patrick Neeman—like this one that addressed issues of AI governance,...
Ep #253 Experts Agree: Yelling at Computers Is the Future Robbie and Chuck reunite over Jim Beam White Label to catch up on Chuck's move to Italy, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT for code...
TikTok isn’t just hosting videos anymore—it’s quietly letting web-based experiences live inside the app. TikTok Minis could blur the line between social network, browser, and app platform, and web des...
We are told that AI entities much like ChatGPT might soon kill us all. The statement is vague and unfalsifiable. It might be true, it might be false. People with credentials (e.g., Turing Award recipi...
Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app. The post GitHub Copilot a...
A look inside the first-ever Three.js Conference, straight from Paris.
1.1.1.1 now validates DNSSEC signatures using NIST’s post-quantum ML-DSA-44 algorithm. Here is how we manage 2,420-byte signatures and downgrade risks at scale.
Google is quietly testing a way to bring Search outside Chrome and directly on top of whatever app you’re using. It’s called Project Loom, and this little floating search box could hint at a much bigg...
React 19.3 adds new features like View Transitions, Fragment Refs, browser(), Trusted Types, and more.
TL;DR: Our AI & Design Systems Course is complete; the price goes from $995 to $1,495 on September 30th. What the course includes Over 20 hours of in-depth lessons across 200 videos covering core...
The transhuman future vs. the AGI future.
TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from desig...
Firefox is getting its biggest makeover in years—but Mozilla has already backed away from some of its boldest ideas. Project Nova reveals what happens when modern design trends, millions of opinionate...
If you write in C, by default, you use a single thread. Extra cores do not help until you create more threads. However, if you include the header <threads.h>, you can pass a function to thrd_c...
For the Three.js Conference in Paris, BL/S® created an interactive experiment that transforms your name into a dynamic 3D structure.
Workers now enables Node.js compatibility by default, supports applications up to 64 mebibytes, and adds a URL-based module registry with import.meta, lazy compilation, shared code caches, and clearer...
Your website’s next visitor might not be human. Meta’s new Muse agent can navigate sites, fill out forms and take action for you—and it could force web designers to rethink exactly who they’re designi...
A technical deep dive into Still, exploring how WebGPU, procedural systems, and Japanese art influences come together to create a living generative garden.