An agent fumbles a task against your service and the instinct is to blame the model. Usually the problem is yours: a slow endpoint, or a tool description that invites the wrong call. At RenderATL, Sean Roberts will score a real project live with AXIS, the open-source agent experience framework.

Jack Herrington thinks TanStack should be your entire web platform, and he's bringing that argument to RenderATL. He'll show TanStack Start for full SSR, TanStack AI for realtime chat and code mode, and TanStack DB for realtime data with any database. All of it is open source and deploys anywhere.

At RenderATL, Nahrin Jalal will build and deploy an app from scratch in 30 minutes using Agent Runners. Her session covers the parts people actually get stuck on: effective prompts, agent context, and connecting the right tools. Everyone walks out with something live in production.

🎒 Netlify Back to School, Day 4 of 31. Six builders have shipped 22 teaching apps since August 1, all deployed and live. The assignment stays the same every day: build an app that teaches one idea, ship it, come back tomorrow. Here's everyone on the wall so far 🧵

New AI models keep raising the bar. Matt shares why Netlify is building Agent Runners to take advantage of those advances by giving agents the context, tools, and orchestration they need to do more.

The Build with Netlify lightning talk schedule for RenderATL is locked. Eight sessions across August 12 and 13, including an AMA with Matt Biilmann and KP shipping AI-generated apps with Drop. Full schedule is on the cards. Come build with us in Atlanta!

ICYMI: the full thirteen-year history of Netlify Drop is up, from its 2013 launch as BitBalloon to the 2020 memo arguing for shutting it down. The stat that saved it: 60%+ of new signups still make their first deploy by dragging a folder. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee...

The 13-year story of Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop has offered anonymous drag-and-drop deploys since 2013 and pioneered the deploy-anonymously, claim-later flow AI agents use today

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Summer's over. School is in. 🎒 June was #HotAppSummer. July was #HotARSummer. August is #NetlifyBackToSchool. Same daily streak, new theme: education. One rule: ship an app that teaches something, every single day. ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app

Netlify Back to School — thirty-one days, thirty-one apps that teach

Thirty-one days, thirty-one apps that teach. Build one education themed app a day with AI, all August 2026.

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Your first app and your biggest app shouldn't need different platforms. Matt and KP talk about building tools that support beginners, professionals, and production workloads alike.

An anonymous deploy path with no account behind it turns into a phishing farm if you ship it and walk away. Netlify Drop has been running one since 2013.

As AI becomes more capable, it's worth asking who we're actually building for. Matt explains why Netlify's bet is that AI should help people create things for other people, and why humans remain at the center of the web.

Private by default doesn't turn itself on for existing Netlify teams. Team settings > General > Visitor access > Default project visibility Private for new projects, private for all projects, or public. Applies going forward, so nothing you've already shipped changes. ntl.fyi/3U4hyj2

Project visibility

Control whether a project is public or private. Set defaults for your team and change the setting at any time.

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Before it was Netlify Drop, it was BitBalloon. Matt shares how a simple idea from 2013 became a drag-and-drop deployment experience focused on getting front-end code live as quickly as possible.

November 2021: someone posted Netlify Drop to Hacker News. Not us, and there was no launch. It got 349 points. The comments were all PHP shared hosting nostalgia. Drag a folder into FileZilla, refresh, live. Matt Biilmann built Drop on that in 2013. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee...

The 13-year story of Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop has offered anonymous drag-and-drop deploys since 2013 and pioneered the deploy-anonymously, claim-later flow AI agents use today

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November 2021: someone submitted Netlify Drop to Hacker News. No launch, no announcement. 349 points. Comments kept saying it felt like PHP shared hosting, dropping a folder into FileZilla and it just works. Still what it's for. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee...

The 13-year story of Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop has offered anonymous drag-and-drop deploys since 2013 and pioneered the deploy-anonymously, claim-later flow AI agents use today

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Choosing a programming language used to be a decision you'd live with for years. Matt explains how Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust shows how AI is making foundational engineering changes more achievable than ever before.

The interesting part of MCP 2026-07-28 is a removal. No handshake, no session ID header, no sticky routing. Servers scale horizontally the way HTTP has always scaled. We shipped support for it on day one. claude.com/blog/bringin...

Netlify signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership document. Matt's post on why starts in East Berlin in the late 80s, looking at a technology frontier he couldn't reach from where he was standing. www.netlify.com/blog/open-we...

Open Weights and the 2nd World

The Berlin Wall taught me what it feels like to live behind a technological divide. As AI advances, we should be careful not to build a new one ourselves.

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MCP 2026-07-28 is stateless at its core. No sticky sessions, no session store, and no shared state across instances. Your MCP server is just an HTTP function you deploy like anything else. Netlify supports the new spec today 👇 www.netlify.com/blog/mcp-goe...

MCP goes stateless and extensible

The new stateless MCP spec makes building AI tools dramatically simpler. Learn how Netlify supports MCP 2026-07-28 today and why it matters for Agent Experience.

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For most of Netlify's history, every new project deployed straight to a public URL. That made sense when going live took real effort. Now a deploy is often a work in progress: prototypes, internal tools, early client work, agent builds. So new projects can start private. ntl.fyi/4yF4LU9

New Netlify projects are now private by default

Sites & apps on Netlify now start private. You can build, deploy, and preview as usual, but nothing is publicly accessible until you decide to make it public.

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Every Netlify site starts life with a slightly ridiculous auto-generated name. The generator shipped June 11, 2013, in the same commit that "blued the design." It has been naming your sites ever since. Reply with the best random name Netlify ever gave you. We know you remember it!

Choosing a programming language used to be a decision you'd live with for years. Matt Biilmann explains how Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust shows how AI is making foundational engineering changes more achievable than ever before.

Don't wait for the perfect starting point. Grab a template, get something live, and start iterating. Tania and KP explain why the best apps come from continuous refinement, not perfect first drafts.

In 2020 an internal memo said we should kill Netlify Drop. In 2026, 60%+ of new signups make their first deploy with it. Wade wrote up 13 years of Drop history: the 2013 commits, the HN false-positive, the sunset debate, and how agents adopted the claim-later flow. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee...

The 13-year story of Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop has offered anonymous drag-and-drop deploys since 2013 and pioneered the deploy-anonymously, claim-later flow AI agents use today

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Nuxt security update: multiple vulns patched in 4.5.1 and 3.21.10. Watch the route rule auth bypass. Uppercase keys like /Admin were silently skipped. It's a regression, so 4.4.7 / 3.21.7 isn't enough. www.netlify.com/changelog/20...

Claude Opus 5 is now available in Netlify AI Gateway and Agent Runners. Call it from your Functions with the Anthropic SDK. No API keys, no auth setup, and caching and rate limiting come along for free. www.netlify.com/changelog/cl...

Imagine a trivia app that never runs out of questions. KP explains how AI Gateway lets you route requests to models like Claude or OpenAI so your app can generate new content on the fly instead of relying on hardcoded data.

"Your environment variables exceed the 4KB limit." If that error message just triggered something in you: it's retired. The env var size limit no longer applies on the current Functions runtime. Your private keys can be as long as they need to be now. www.netlify.com/changelog/20...

Environment variable size limit removed for Serverless Functions

The 4KB total environment variable size limit no longer applies to Serverless Functions on the current Netlify Functions runtime.

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Your workflow. Your coding agent. KP and Tania explain why Netlify lets you choose the AI agent that fits your workflow instead of locking you into one option.

Five security vulnerabilities were disclosed in React Router today. All patched in react-router 7.18.0. Upgrade, then check your deploy previews. Public previews and branch deploys stay vulnerable until deleted. What Netlify users need to know: www.netlify.com/changelog/20...