fitts' law added by @merycodes

our transactional emails have improved - ~32% word count reduction for higher signal - styling is consistent (links, buttons, lists, code snippets, titles) - casing is consistent for buttons/titles (sentence casing) - passive to active voice collab with @mamuso

middle truncation - a11y - text selection + copy preserved (doesn't copy the ellipsis) - no ellipsis gap - preserves the meaningful start + end based on content (file paths, subdomains, branch names, ai model provider/name)

http request context for agents

vercel theme is available in the codex app ty @ajambrosino for the collab

email copywriting

we're improving the typography for the vercel docs to make it easier to read

new ▲ drop

delete confirmation

terminalcore graphs

reflect back system state

docs content negotiation for agents - no dead when models hallucinate paths or ends up with a 404

doing another batch for enterprise or pro teams with $1000+/mo bills we’ve collectively - reduced bills by over $13k/mo - reduced p50 and p90 api latencies - improved cache hits for pages/routes x.com/johnphamous...

paper ascii fan art

an app plays a soundscape that's reactive to everything the local agents are doing - binaural beats for focus

we audited how icons were used found inconsistencies for icon choice, sizing, color & variants to fix - crawls the abstract syntax trees to find icon uses + context

`[` & `]` keyboard shortcuts to jump to previous/next time periods - doesn't use ↑←↓→/PgUp/PgDown because those are reserved by wai-aria grid pattern - previous/next period calculated based on calendar day math instead of raw milliseconds (re: falsehoods of time)

when creating a new database, we'll prefill a default name for you - autofocus & selects all for fast editing

in the worlds oldest and largest nextjs codebase PRs now merge 66% faster (p50) and 83% faster (p90) - guardrails for shipping faster & safe - cut the noise from test outputs

we’re exterminating all papercuts on the vercel dashboard lmk the papercuts you want gone

jakob's law

we improved the vercel ai gateway model table let us know any feedback you have

half empty state

empty search state is not a dead end

tapping the screen makes dog move faster - speeds up sprite animation & chevrons - colors of chevrons represent speed

model names - copy button progressively shown on hover - button overlays with fade to prevent hard cut with label

159 visual hash exporations

vercel's visual hash for avatars update original added in jan 2020 we explored 159 styles × 17 color palettes prototype is open to see

visual hash - bayer 4x4 dither - oklch monotone gradient

designing with ai demos next thursday at the vercel sf office

visual hash shader - signed distance function determines shape - key hashes to color, breathing & flicker

bresenham's line algorithm used to get the pixelated line style - makes staircase diagonals - each path segment snapped to 4px grid

dog follows pointer + avoids collisions with no dependencies - builds the page as a graph, more subdivisions towards the text for perf - dijkstra shortest path

middle truncation

when your build fails - loading state shows for at least 1.5s to prevent super faster transition that's dependent on the network

i added my dog to my website

mermaid theme + animations x.com/marijanapav...

come jam with us x.com/bramirezz_/...

started as a scout for a16z let’s collab devtools & design, pre-a

dog following cursor has a dead zone - once dog becomes idle, movement in deadzone doesn't trigger movement - better experience for users without precise movement - adds more intentionality to the dog moving, feels more dog-like than robot

labels drop insignificant values once the y-axis range max is large enough

better labels in vs code/cursor for next.js files

searching for settings within a project also shows the team level settings - helps people find a setting but don't remember which scope it's under

datadog for humans - realtime heart rate - correlates with typing speed, clicks, pointer travel distance & what app you're in - breakdowns by websites & slack channels - insights in deep focus, context switching, hr per-app - local, native app

vip startup in the new dashboard

can tap the screen to call dog over to you faster - dog has base speed (similar to irl) - each tap gives +1pts speed, exponentially decaying with each successive tap - speed decays over time (dog gets tired) - speed resets when reaching cursor

jam with us - high agency, low ego team - design + interface building - unlimited opus 4.5 credits if you obsess over perceived performance, interaction design & typography dm me

searching for settings searches team-level and within your projects - helps people find a setting but don't remember which scope it's under

pov: inspecting an animation

typography details - tabular nums - right-aligned number columns - curly quotes, not straight - no text widows - no ligatures in code blocks