Great read from @leerob.com leerob.com/reflections

I'm joining Cursor to teach the future of coding! There are millions of developers learning how to use AI and they need pragmatic advice: 1. We need to teach new developers strong foundations, so they know what to learn, and how to solve issues when debugging. (1/5)

I'm doing an AMA on /r/vercel, come hang out and ask questions! www.reddit.com/r/vercel/com...

If you're using AI models, how are you making sure it uses the right version of a given library? llms.txt? MCP? Context7? RAG? Web search? Another acronym? Seems like there's a million ways.

Just shipped improved deployment docs for Next.js. Tbh, there was unnecessary promotion for Vercel. It now lists Vercel the same as any other provider. Let me know what other changes you'd like to see. nextjs.org/docs/app/get...

One of the hardest parts about community management is that even after you ship, it sometimes takes *years* for people to update their knowledge of the product.

We're hosting our first Next.js global hackathon. • 500 teams • 10 days of hacking • Credits from 25+ partners Sign up today. Hackathon starts April 7th ↓

RFC: Deployment Adapters API We are planning to support adapters to deploy Next.js to any provider. github.com/vercel/next....

Clicked the link, was not disappointed

I spent 6 months trying code editors. My experience with Neovim, Zed, and Cursor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmI...

Next.js 15.2 • Redesigned Error UI & Improved Stack Traces • Streaming Metadata • Turbopack Performance Improvements • View Transitions (experimental) • Node.js Middleware (experimental) nextjs.org/blog/next-15-2

I've been (officially) doing "Developer Experience" work for 4.5 years. But tbh, I've never really talked about the work itself. Last week, I gave my first talk about writing great docs, getting product feedback, and teaching developers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfJM...

When the manager (me) decides to open a PR

I’m giving a talk on DevRel / DX, which I’ll publish online after. Anything you’d love to hear me cover?

New open source template: • Next.js • Postgres • Drizzle • Stripe • Tailwind CSS • shadcn/ui github.com/nextjs/saas-...

React meetup @ Vercel HQ

Learn more about the API design and benefits of experimental 'use cache'. nextjs.org/blog/composa...

I don't think people realize how obvious it is when you reply to posts with AI slop. There are certain words (cc delve) that are immediate red flags. The vibe just feels off.

Thank you Vercel Plus I get to make the "see you next year" jokes (I'm that guy)

I built a clone of the Yeezy store: nextzy.vercel.app Built with @nextjs.org, @v0.dev, and @motion.dev. Code is open source!

I think I've finally figured out the best way to teach next/image, and that's to build a small version from scratch (including the image optimizer) so you really appreciate the abstraction. Working on a video... anything you want to see me touch on here?

Happy holidays! Thankful for my wife, daughter, family, and friends today. Hope y'all have a great day 🎄

Need a database? Vercel now has first-party billing and integrations with 7 different providers (3 more coming soon 👀) Just posted a new demo video with @supabase.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxbk...

Now that the dust has settled on the funny naming of the experimental Taint APIs. Have you tried them? Did you find them useful? Did they help protect against any mistakes? react.dev/reference/re... react.dev/reference/re... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_c...

New video! I walk through my Next.js demo app that connects to DSQL Postgres. I also explain how I connect with OIDC (no hardcoded secrets needed). www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKP...

Wait... SQLite is coming to Node.js? I missed this.

Love to see this. @nextjs.org customer incrementally migrated from Pages → App Router with 100,000 lines of code 🤯 "We didn't have to change any core logic of code; components and routes from a year back still work."

Built a smol demo of AWS DSQL (new Postgres database). Vote for your favorite movies: dsql.vercel.app

Next.js 15.1 • React 19 (stable) • Improved errors and source maps • `after` (stable) • `forbidden` / `unauthorized` (experimental) • CSS inlining (experimental) nextjs.org/15-1

This is the proper way to review a PR, I will not elaborate further

Domains on Vercel: ✅ Unlimited custom domains ✅ Unlimited wildcard domains ✅ Automatic SSL certificates ✅ Low-latency Anycast IP range ✅ Programmatic issuance and verification ✅ Lead by @dillonis.online 🐐 ✅ And now lower prices!

I'm finally revisiting our multi-tenant Next.js starter template. Planning to make it much easier/approachable to use, as well as using our new Vercel TypeScript SDK for managing domains. Anything we should add in this example?

Loading SVGs that support light/dark mode is painful. If you try to inline a <style> tag, it won't work in Safari. And unless you're going inline the SVG, the only solution as far as I can tell is to make two SVG files. Then you have to use a <picture> element to include each file.

Checking in on Next.js usage from the HTTP Archive (Oct 24) • 28,000 of the top 1M sites on the web are now using Next.js • 23% (5,000+) are on the App Router (RSC in production!) More thoughts in the thread ↓ vercel.fyi/http-archive

If you're a developer interested in AI, but not as familiar with machine learning and neural networks, I wrote a post to demystify some of the common terms you might hear. leerob.com/n/ai

Narrative violation (yes, you can build CSR apps with Next)

New video: MDX with Next.js! Learn how to combine the power of React components with markdown in the App Router. We also cover some of the built-in metadata features as well as CSS view transitions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34bR...

Coachella tickets secured. See you weekend one 🫡

Thanks for putting this in the world @leerob.com for web devs wanting to learn some AI this is a great intro leerob.com/n/ai

Happy holidays

Most developer marketing is just... not very good. And it's usually because developers aren't involved. Sounds obvious, yet still surprisingly common. How are you going to market F1 cars and not know anything about racing?

Installing PWAs on iOS has gotten pretty nice. • I can add the app to my home screen w/ an icon • I can send push notifications • On desktop, I display my app in a 3 column layout • On mobile, each column is a tab in the bottom navbar

If you're a developer interested in AI, but not as familiar with machine learning and neural networks, I wrote a post to demystify some of the common terms you might hear. leerob.com/n/ai

Built with @v0.dev — working on a new blog post! If you've worked with ML / neural nets, would love early feedback. Shoot me a DM.

Two things I'm excited about at Vercel right now: 1. Saving developers $$$ 2. Improved observability Turn on in-function concurrency, redeploy, and save ~40-70% on usage. Plus, more info on cold/hot starts, initial load performance, and more coming soon. vercel.com/changelog/in...

Minimum Buyable Product > Minimum Viable Product

Use your domain as your Bluesky handle. Get started with one-click on Vercel. vercel.com/changelog/ve...

I'm going to try switching my daily browser to Safari. Paired with the new Passwords app, this is feeling good so far. I still might keep dev work in Chromium, not sure. Anyone else default to Safari?

The canvas/artifacts/blocks style UI is really interesting. We're still in the early innings of figuring out "AI-native" user interfaces. This @nextjs.org template is open source if you wanna check it out! chat.vercel.ai

My daughter is finally sleeping through the night. We are somewhat back. Now I just need to catch up on two months of sleep 😂 Shoutout to all the parents. I wasn't familiar with your game.