Congratulations to Waela, Ash, and David, and thank you to every builder who put an app on the wall this month. Everything shipped is still live: ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app/showcase
His final plate, "The Revival," is a links page in the Neocities dialect: 34 addresses on the living old web, every one requested on August 24, with what each one answered printed beside it. yahew.com/plates/revival/ Second place and 5,000 credits go to David Kimball for YAHEW!, a field guide to the old web built one interactive plate at a time over the whole month. yahew.com Ash's final build is "The Hall of Human Knowledge," an immersive circular library tracing how humanity has gathered, verified, and shared what it knows. hall-of-human-knowledge.netlify.app
Waela's final build is "Behind the Click," an interactive explainer of what happens after you type a URL and press Enter. behind-the-click.netlify.app
Tied for first place, with a perfect 31 apps in 31 days each: Waela Felnert and Ash Wesley. Each takes 10,000 credits. Between August 1 and August 31, neither of them missed a day.
Thirty-one days of #NetlifyBackToSchool are done, and the final board is set. Two builders never missed a single day, and 25,000 credits are going out this morning. Here are the winners of the August challenge: 
Introducing Skills. Teams can now turn expertise into repeatable research processes that anyone in the organization can use.
The best part: Create your own or use the prebuilt Skills based on industry best practices.
Blog: elicit.com/blog/ai-pow... 
Recently: macwright.com/2026/09/01/r... 
This is a SF database meetup you should not miss. We are bringing members of the Neki team from across the world to dive into how Neki works.
luma.com/tym2h9zq 
In case you missed it, our last release added the ability to hold ⌘ or Ctrl while using the drawing tool to hot-swap to the eraser. 
We're at the WebMCP Challenge office hours in 30 minutes, 11 a.m. PT. Sean C. Davis is answering questions on tool definitions, auth, deploys, and what your agent should be allowed to do on your site. Bring what's stuck!
The link to join is on this page: openai.com/webmcp-chall... 
You've just been paged. Every database query is failing to execute. Figure out why.
This exact question is how early GitHub hired its DBAs.
The answer in our latest blog: https://planetscale.com/blog/debugging-live-database-connections 
The Public Suffix List is “just a list”
dotcom.press/archive/public-suffix-list In the next version of tldraw, the text and bookmark shapes created by pasting will also be selected. This matches the select-on-paste behavior of other types of shapes. Nura Williams didn't come from a technical background. She came with ideas. After Claude pointed her to Netlify, she built a site to support her book, generated revenue, and discovered a new way to bring her creativity to life. "AI really democratizes innovation.
In the next version of tldraw, pasting from the context menu will center the pasted content on the canvas location where you first opened the menu, rather than on your cursor's position when you clicked Paste. 
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In the next version of tldraw, your screen's refresh rate no longer affects the speed of edge scrolling. 
In the next version of tldraw, your screen's refresh rate no longer affects the friction of camera panning movements. 