Vite crossed 40M weekly downloads! 🥳 2x the beginning of 2025! Or +0.5M downloads per week. Huge shoutout to the contributors and the community for making Vite the gold standard for web dev. 🥂
jekyll not working on ruby 4 and only a few people upvoting the issue and the pr sitting unreviewed is probably not a great sign for the great old framework github.com/jekyll/jekyl...
might be the year of 11ty i suppose 
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Drop your URL into the Prerendering Checker and get a fast read on whether your important content is missing from initial HTML. do-you-need-prerender.netlify.app 
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Prefer video? This is the “what it is / why it matters” explainer for AI Gateway.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzrz... 
Checkout our docs on logging 👇
pris.ly/d/logging Debug like a pro with Prisma logging 🎯
✨ See raw SQL queries
✨ Track query duration
✨ Monitor errors in real time
✨ Subscribe to custom events
Two modes: simple stdout or event-based for advanced use cases. 
The best kind of infra is the one you don’t think about.
Prisma Postgres:
- Instant spin-up
- Zero cold starts
- Smart global caching
Runs fast, stays out of your way.
pris.ly/postgres Prerendering is back (and it matters more than ever).
If your SPA ships an empty HTML shell, some crawlers and AI bots will see…nothing.
The new Netlify Prerender extension fixes that. 🛠️
https://www.netlify.com/blog/prerendering-an-old-trick-new-again/ 
⚖️ Database scaling is often the first challenge you'll encounter as your application grows.
Our 22 lesson database scaling course covers query tuning, partitioning, replication, connection management, sharding, and more.
planetscale.com/learn/course... 
Happy New Year from the Zed team! 🎉
We’re excited to be back after the holiday break, but before we put 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to share how Zed progressed this past year.
Thank you for all the feedback and contributions to Zed. ❤️
zed.dev/2025 If you’ve ever lost momentum at “now configure keys,” this is for you: docs.netlify.com/build/ai-gat... Quickstart shows the exact dev loop: add an AI-backed endpoint in a Netlify Function, run it, deploy it.
New year. Same reality: breaches happen when small gaps stack up.
Run this checklist before your next release. It’s a fast sweep across dependencies, access, secrets, and protections you want on by default.
www.netlify.com/guides/secur... Don't see the extension you need?
Let us know here 👇
pris.ly/i-want-exte... Did you know Prisma Postgres supports Postgres extensions?
You can use:
- pgvector
- pgcrypto
- fuzzystrmatch
...and more.
Take a look👇
pris.ly/ppg-extensions Vitest hit 20 million weekly downloads in December, right before Christmas break. To put that into context: 5 million @vitest.dev weekly downloads were reached in June 2024, meaning a 4x increase in just 1.5 years. 🎉 
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voidzero.dev/newsletter 🛠️ Fix Friday: 404s happen. The problem is not knowing which ones are getting hit, and by who.
Use real traffic to:
1. find top 404 routes
2. see referrers
3. prioritize redirects + broken links
Quick walkthrough:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_KK... possibly! honestly i'm not sure what level of debunking-the-debunking-the-debunking we're at currently
as in, the most popular leading complaint about a generally valid problem but also the most wrong
"genai consumes a lot of water" was the "your phone's microphone is listening to you" of 2025
Good overview + example code here: www.netlify.com/blog/ai-gate...