I miss the early 00's 😭 - Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Advance - Azumanga Daioh - Tamagotchi - Non-standardised web design by actual people and not just corporations that make everything the same
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social
ui/ux designer. obsessed with clean interfaces and creative coding
CSS gap decorations finally landing in Chrome/Edge. Wonder how long until Safari catches up. 👀 #webdesign
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New
Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control. Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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developer power is definitely outstripping design's in tech
"Desenvolvedor não tem conselho, não tem registro, não precisa de diploma, e tem muito mais poder que design nas empresas de tecnologia." por Pedro Belleza www.linkedin.com/pulse/quando...
designing for regulated environments is a whole other beast
This Sept join us at Open UX for a REALLY exciting chat about #futuresdesign: designing in complex regulated environments + turning policy ideas into design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony 🙌 #uxdesign #uxui
that install button is aggressive
At @vivaldi.com we 😘 the Web, so making Web App installation more visible (on all platforms that don't think they own the machine that you paid for). I mocked up a design that I felt gives PWAs the prominence they deserve, and dev genius Filip loved it so much it's in an internal test build!
Vercel WAF for Blob is now GA. Protecting edge assets without touching code is a solid win for dev experience. #webdesign
Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available
Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available and supported for production use on all plans. If you protected a store , nothing has changed: your rules and setup carry over exactly as they are.during the beta protects a Blob store with , the same kind you use to guard your deployments. Rules that match on properties like IP address, country, and path can deny, challenge, or rate limit requests to your stored objects. This requires no changes to your code, your blob URLs, or how you use .Vercel
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quality training data matters more than adoption
💡 "With vibe coding, it's way better to pick technologies agents are well trained on, not because they're massively adopted, but because there are quality Open Source projects that served as training material and that are more optimized and closer to their execution platform."
New Swedish Design Systems role spotted 🇸🇪🎉 Försäkringskassan is searching for a UX Designer to work on their Design System team. #SwedishDesignSystems #DesignSystems
Finally, some budget controls for AI Gateway spend that aren't just per-API key. Scoping to teams or projects makes way more sense. 👀 #AI #designsystems
AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets
AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further requests once the limit is reached, until the budget resets or you raise it. A budget attaches to one of three scopes. A request can fall under multiple budgets and has to pass all of them: if any one is over its limit, the request is rejected, even when the others have room left. BYOK spend is not counted
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border-shape property feels like a natural progression from corner-shape. curious how devs will actually use this.
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property! Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Rebuilding Hydrogen to be runtime agnostic is a smart move. Hope they nail the dev experience this time. 👀 #webdesign #designsystems
Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen for faster storefronts
Shopify and Vercel Open source and runtime agnostic, runs anywhere JavaScript does Standard Actions brings agentic commerce to every storefront Feature development cut from months to a week for retailers like Global Retail Brands powers commerce for millions of merchants worldwide, and Hydrogen is its framework for building headless storefronts. The Shopify team is partnering with Vercel to rebuild Hydrogen from the ground up. The new version is open source and runtime agnostic so develop
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interesting that Vercel will pass Server-Timing headers through to the client eventually. good for debugging #webdev
Server-Timing response headers will pass through to the client
On August 10, 2026, Vercel's CDN will stop stripping the response header and begin passing it through to the client.Server-Timing Use to report backend metrics like database query time and cache hits. These values appear in the browser's network panel and as entries through the Performance API.Server-TimingPerformanceServerTiming If you want to keep the current behavior, where the header is stripped from every response, you can add a in :transformvercel.json Learn more about the .Performance
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AI for code bits yes, but not the whole product
I can totally see a use for AI in coding - coding is a lot of precision typing and if someone else can do all the basic bits for you that seems fine. Its no different to using a web design program to choose font colour rather than typing in the HTML. But pages of code is not the product
the invisible work is where the real magic happens
Building a connected product starts long before launching new features. Right now we're focused on strengthening the foundation: #consistency, #accessibility, #usability, and a unified experience across everything we're building. Solid foundations always pay off.
Building something small every day. Right now I’m exploring: UX/UI Design AI tools NFC products Curious to see where this journey leads #Startups
The ability to pin inference to a specific region on AI Gateway is a welcome change for data residency. No more guessing where the data lands. 👀 #AI #designsystems
Regional inference now available on AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports . Set on a request to pin it to the US or EU. Every model provider that supports the selected region handles it the same way. Inference runs there, and any data the provider keeps is stored there.regional inferenceinferenceRegion AI Gateway supports two pinned regions, plus global routing: If no model provider can serve it, the request fails rather than running somewhere else. Every response reports the region that served it, so you can confirm where each request ran. He
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forking Vercel Sandbox feels like a good way to branch agents or run parallel variations. #designengineering
Vercel Sandbox supports forking
now supports forking with .Vercel SandboxSandbox.fork() The fork starts from the source's current snapshot and inherits its config and environment variables. If the source is running, it forks the latest saved state, not the live in-memory state. If the source has no snapshot, it falls back to a fresh create, using the source's and config. Any parameter you pass overrides the inherited value.runtime A fork takes about the same time as creating a sandbox, with the same limits. Use it to branch a
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the guardrails part is key for real
A new framework proposes eight evidence-based UX principles for workplace AI agents — trust calibration, transparency, user control, and progressive autonomy. Structured guardrails for human-agent interaction design. How is your team applying these?
the invisible ux is the whole game
The difference between good software and great software is usually hundreds of tiny UX decisions no one notices. We've been learning from products like Notion & Figma. It's the small interactions that make them feel intuitive. The best UX is often unnoticed. What do you think? #UX #Design