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01Safari 27 makes <select> fully customizable, Firefox hasn't caught upStyle a select with real HTML and CSS on 70 percent of the web. On the other 30 percent it degrades gracefully.02Safari 27.1 arrives with iPhone DuoiPhone launch day brought Safari 27.1 and another long WebKit changelog. What a point release this big means for small sites.03WebKit blocks identity-resolution trackers in Safari 27Apple named the post-cookie tracking scheme and cut its network access: email-based identity graphs now stop at the device.04Vercel made v0 navigations instant with Partial PrefetchingThe team wrote up how they made v0's navigations feel instant with Next.js 16.4's partial prefetching, in a really honest post.05How v0 made navigation instant with Next.js 16.4, measured not guessedThe Next team's October 16 case study: partial prefetching in v0, with a coding agent doing the mechanical work.06Next.js ships out-of-band fixes for two critical upstream holesAnnounced October 8, shipped October 14: two Critical and one High severity vulnerabilities fixed in upstream dependencies.07Next.js 16.4 lands with smaller Turbopack output and React 19.3Lazy compilation, smaller disk cache, React 19.3 features in Turbopack. Shipped October 6.08Next.js formalizes its security release cadenceSeptember 30 brought a scheduled security release on a published calendar; the era of surprise emergency patches is over.09Google ships Search Console reports for AI searchGenerative AI performance reports land in Search Console, and multimodal search gets documented. This changes what 'being indexed' means.10Next.js closed 1,500 GitHub issues in one month, with an agentThe September 4 playbook: an agent researched years-old reports, humans approved every batch of closures.11How Turbopack decides which bytes each page getsThe September 3 deep dive into Turbopack chunking, plus the experimental split knobs that landed in Next 16.3.12llms.txt is growing. Are AI crawlers actually reading it?The convention for telling AI agents what your site says about itself went from proposal to something real sites publish. Adoption by the biggest AI crawlers is the open question.13The small web revival is realCheap static hosting, better generators, RSS back, and time. Why many people are publishing small sites again.14Next.js 16.3 introduces Instant NavigationsJune 25: a suite for single-page responsiveness on the server-centric model, plus faster dev and agent-aware tooling.15MDN ships an MCP server so agents read real docsPublished June 15: MDN's MCP server feeds documentation and browser-compatibility data straight into your editor's AI.16Under MDN's new frontend: a public rebuild postmortemMDN's April 8 writeup names the stack behind their rebuild, the measurement habits, and the tradeoffs they accepted.