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CSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today?
Is the technique inspired by the DRY principle by identifying and reducing (if not eliminating) CSS declaration repetition still a relevant optimization strategy? CSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today? originally handwritten…
Read original →Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem
Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and…
Read original →Speed Insights and Web Analytics now support custom environments
Speed Insights and Web Analytics now fully support custom environments.Previously, data captured on deployments to a custom environment was attributed to the Preview environment. That data is now attributed to the custom environment it came from,…
Read original →Gemini 4 Carbon now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 4 Carbon from Google is now available on AI Gateway. It is available at 50% off through November 30, 2026:Gemini 4 Carbon is built for complex software engineering, sustained agentic work, and cybersecurity defense. It…
Read original →MiniMax H3 Image and Highspeed now available on AI Gateway
MiniMax H3 Image and MiniMax H3 Image Highspeed are now available on AI Gateway. Generate images from text or edit existing images with one API key and no separate MiniMax account.Both models support custom dimensions and…
Read original →Vercel Sandbox snapshot creation is now up to 10x faster
Vercel Sandbox now creates snapshots up to 10x faster. Median time to snapshot is under 0.4 seconds, down from 4.4 seconds. Snapshot restore speed has also improved by 50% from 500ms to 250ms at p50.Snapshots are…
Read original →Never Share Your Password Again — The OAuth 2.0 Solution
CSS-Tricks, Version 20
Things look a little different around here? I hope so because we just pushed a site redesign! Here's everything new with the 20th(!!) version of CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks, Version 20 originally handwritten and published with love on…
Read original →Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund
Cloudflare is distributing the first $301,300 of the Vite Ecosystem Fund to open source projects and maintainers. The recipients were chosen by a panel of Vite stack core team members, including maintainers not employed by Cloudflare.
Read original →Decision models take 26% of requests; Anthropic now wins new teams 2:1
AI Gateway Production Index — November 2026Every month, AI Gateway routes more than 100 trillion tokens between production applications and AI labs. That traffic gives us a view of what AI usage looks like in today’s…
Read original →Muse Ember now available on AI Gateway
Muse Ember from Meta is now available on AI Gateway. It is a lightweight reasoning model for the high-volume parts of an agent run, such as coding sub-tasks, tool calls, and document analysis.Muse Ember handles the…
Read original →Claude Fable 5.2 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Fable 5.2 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway.Fable 5.2 is built for open-ended technical work and improves on earlier Fable models in coding, reasoning, and vision. It can run long, ambiguous tasks unattended,…
Read original →Vercel Container Registry now supports 2 GB compressed image layers
Vercel Container Registry now supports compressed image layers of up to 2 GB each, up from 500 MB, the total image size limit stays 15 GB. The registry works with standard workflows like docker push, docker…
Read original →DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast now available on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast is now available on AI Gateway through Fireworks. This model can generate upwards of 1,000 tokens per second.Ultrafast serves the October 17 update of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash through Fireworks' accelerated serverless…
Read original →AI Gateway adds DeepSeek Search and Fetch tools
DeepSeek Search and DeepSeek Fetch are now available through AI Gateway. Search finds relevant pages with titles, URLs, and summaries. Fetch retrieves page content as Markdown for your model to read.Use both tools with any model…
Read original →Chat SDK agents can now stream generative UI with json-render
You can now stream generative UI from your Chat SDK agent with json-render.With a typed catalog of components, the agent writes a JSON spec that json-render converts into a Chat SDK card. Each adapter then posts…
Read original →RSS Club: CSS-Tricks Redesign Preview
Hey you wonderful RSS subscribers! We just soft-pushed a site redesign and wanted to give ya'll the first heads-up. A full write-up is coming but here are the high-level details. RSS Club: CSS-Tricks Redesign Preview originally…
Read original →Vercel CLI can now set new projects to expire
You can now set a new project to expire when you deploy it with Vercel CLI. Expired projects are deleted automatically, so prototypes, demos, and test apps don't need cleaning up by hand.Run vercel deploy with…
Read original →Vercel Tracing is now generally available
Vercel Tracing is now generally available on all plans. You can now search and inspect traces from the dashboard or the Vercel CLI, and new Next.js projects get tracing by default. Pricing is unchanged from the…
Read original →The post-quantum future of web privacy
Cryptographic protocols like Privacy Pass help keep web sites safe from abuse while keeping their users private. This post looks at the quantum threat to these protocols, and some new post-quantum cryptography that may help close the…
Read original →Welcome to life in the chip age
Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive environmental and geopolitical footprint of AI data centers, and how…
Read original →A New Community For In-House UX People
We’ve been working on something new! We’ve teamed up for a **new small community** for people doing UX-inside organizations — with weekly calls and a shared library of the business cases, templates, and research plans that…
Read original →Token Pass credit now applies automatically across AI Gateway
Token Pass credit now applies automatically to included model usage through AI Gateway, whether a request authenticates with an API key, OIDC token, or fx login. No dedicated Token Pass API key is required, though you…
Read original →Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)
AI agents act for millions, but servers see intermediaries that strip user visibility. This post defines the problem space and introduces a collaborative approach to safely identifying, allowing, and managing this automated traffic.
Read original →Vercel Schedules is now in public beta
Vercel Schedules is now in public beta on all plans. Run tasks on a recurring cadence or at a single point in time, in production, preview, or custom environments.Schedules in vercel.json can target a private Vercel…
Read original →Don’t Build the Reusable Component Yet
Taming Typography: Building a Modern CSS Reset
Stu created tidy-typography.css: a style reset for taming typography with modern CSS features for everything from fluid typography and vertical rhythm, to hyphens and variable fonts. Taming Typography: Building a Modern CSS Reset originally handwritten and…
Read original →Making Immersive LLM Chat Experiences More Accessible
As LLM chat patterns become more widespread, making them accessible is essential to ensuring everyone can access the information, tools, and opportunities they offer. Drawing on his work improving these interfaces, Eric Bailey shares practical ways…
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