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Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
If you want your values to spread throughout the industry, the best thing you can possibly do is succeed and make others want to imitate you.
Read original →Query Web Analytics from the Vercel CLI
You can now query Web Analytics datapoints directly through the Vercel CLI. Using the vercel metrics command, you can pull page views, visitors, and custom events for your Vercel projects to analyze traffic, compare trends, and…
Read original →Trace and debug eve agent sessions with Vercel Observability
You can now view Agent Runs in your Vercel dashboard for eve, the open-source agent framework. The Agent Runs tab appears automatically for every eve project, surfacing trigger, duration, and token usage for each session at…
Read original →translateZ()
The translateZ() function moves an element closer to or farther from the user. translateZ() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Read original →translateY()
The translateY() function shifts an element vertically by the specified amount. translateY() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Read original →translateX()
The translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. translateX() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Read original →translate()
The CSS translate() function shifts an element from its default position on a 2-dimensional plane translate() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Read original →AI SDK 7
AI SDK, with over 16 million weekly downloads, is the TypeScript SDK for building AI applications, features, frameworks, and agents across any model provider. It's the same layer eve, Vercel's open-source agent framework, is built on.AI…
Read original →How we built saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows
Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do().
Read original →Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures
Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder, why production failures are really caused…
Read original →AI SDK 7 is now available
AI SDK 7 is a major release for building production agents in TypeScript. The SDK has grown from model calls and chat primitives into a broader agent platform for developing, running, integrating, and observing agents across…
Read original →Teaching agents product design at Vercel
Coding agents can produce working UI fast, but what's harder is a different shape. They can copy your product's style, match its patterns, and try to follow its conventions. What they cannot do is understand why…
Read original →Deep Agents and OpenCode are now available in the AI SDK Harness
The AI SDK Harness lets you run established coding-agent runtimes through one unified interface, so you can switch runtimes without changing your application code. Today we're adding two new adapters, Deep Agents and OpenCode, both running…
Read original →Vercel Flags no longer requires SDK Keys for Vercel deployments
New projects using Vercel Flags no longer need to configure SDK Keys or the FLAGS environment variable when evaluating flags inside a Vercel deployment. At runtime, the Vercel adapter automatically receives a short-lived OIDC token, so…
Read original →Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all
Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen.
Read original →GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer now available on AI Gateway
GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer is now available on AI Gateway.Based on our own benchmarking across small-context, large-context, and tool-call scenarios, Wafer delivers a 2x higher throughput than other providers serving GLM-5.2 on serverless, leading on…
Read original →The post-quantum EO is an important milestone. Now it’s time to get to work
The new post-quantum executive order sets a 2030 migration deadline and establishes a powerful foundation for post-quantum resilience. We look at what it gets right, where it can go further, and our migration playbook for government…
Read original →PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web
This is the technical companion to our update on Distilled, “Keeping the web open and private in the bot era.” Here we take a deeper look at the problem space, the design we’re proposing, and the problems…
Read original →Your AI shipped a backend that boots. That is the whole problem.
The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!
Once again, we're asking for your help to take the temperature of software development.
Read original →Oh the places you’ll go with spatial data
Ryan is joined by Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in bringing spatial data to the next generation of Microsoft…
Read original →Deploy Node servers with zero configuration
You can now deploy a Node.js server to Vercel with zero configuration.Vercel detects a server.ts file at the project root or at src/server.ts and deploys it as a Node.js application, in addition to existing zero-configuration backends…
Read original →Deploy from Claude Design to Vercel
Vercel is now a send-to destination in Claude Design. When you finish a design, you can send it to Vercel and get a live URL back without leaving your canvas.Claude Design deploys the design as a…
Read original →Redesigned trace viewer for Vercel Workflows
The trace viewer for Vercel Workflows and Workflow SDK has been redesigned to better support inspecting runs from start to finish. Search across spans, zoom into any section of the timeline, and step through with the…
Read original →Custom OIDC Token Audiences
Vercel's OIDC issuer (oidc.vercel.com) now supports custom audiences. Deployments can request OIDC tokens with a specific audience claim, enabling secure service-to-service authentication with third-party providers.Why custom audiences?Vercel OIDC tokens are issued with a fixed audience (https://vercel.com/{owner}).…
Read original →How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.
Read original →Chat SDK adds Linq support
Chat SDK now supports Linq with the new vendor-official adapter.Build bots that send and receive texts in both direct messages and group chats, with bidirectional media and native iMessage tapback reaction support. Replies use the standard…
Read original →Using Scroll-Driven Animations for Opposing Scroll Directions
Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept where I had to build columns of items moving in opposite directions when a user scrolls the page. CodePen…
Read original →Vercel Flags: Platform-native feature flags
At Vercel, feature flags are how we ship. From new features to model updates in v0, and even infrastructure changes like a production database migration where a flag was the cutover. The v0 team alone runs…
Read original →Sakana Fugu Ultra now available on AI Gateway
Sakana Fugu Ultra from Sakana AI is now available on AI Gateway.Fugu Ultra is built on a pool of publicly accessible frontier models, rather than running as a single model. It coordinates several models, routing work…
Read original →Increased limit for projects per Git repo
Hobby users can now connect up to 25 projects per repository, up from 10. This makes it easier for users to onboard monorepos and use cases where one codebase maps to many deployable apps.Learn more about…
Read original →WebSocket support is now in Public Beta
Vercel Functions can now serve WebSocket connections, enabling bidirectional communication between clients and server-side code on Vercel.Use WebSockets for realtime features such as interactive AI streaming, chat, and collaborative apps.WebSocket connections run Fluid compute and follow…
Read original →Vercel CLI now supports signing blob URLs
You can now generate signed URLs for Vercel Blob directly from the Vercel CLI. A signed URL is a scoped URL with a set expiration time that lets you perform a single operation on a specific…
Read original →Dispatches from O'Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities
Designing contract-bound AI agents for high-stakes execution.
Read original →A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations
Let's poke at the differences between scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations. A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Read original →Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents
The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and…
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