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The blog post walks through the full clone-to-canvas-to-PR workflow with concrete examples — more detail than the digest summary covers.
└─·design,web
Code Layers lets designers clone repos, generate code from flows, and push changes back — the full walkthrough shows how deep the canvas-to-codebase integration actually goes.
└─·design

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Running `npx shadcn init` now scaffolds new projects on Base UI instead of Radix, following data showing new projects picked Base UI over Radix two-to-one.
└─·web,design·shadcn/ui changelog
Figma shipped Code Layers, a full animation timeline, shader fills, and general availability of its AI agent all at once at Config 2026.
└─·design,web,ai-ml·Figma
Jul 9
Jul 9·cat news/20260709-design-systems-figma-make-gpt56
cat news/20260709-design-systems-figma-make-gpt56
GPT-5.6 Now Powers Initial Builds in Figma Make
Figma Make swapped in GPT-5.6 as its default model, with the goal of producing stronger first-pass builds before you touch a prompt.
└─Figma
Jul 9
Jul 9·cat news/20260709-design-systems-figma-ai-credit-api
cat news/20260709-design-systems-figma-ai-credit-api
Figma Adds AI Credit Usage API for Enterprise
Enterprise orgs can now pull AI credit consumption data programmatically, broken down by user, product, workspace, and team.
└─Figma
Jul 1
Jul 1·cat news/20260701-design-tools-figma-code-layers-ea
cat news/20260701-design-tools-figma-code-layers-ea
Figma Code Layers Early Access Opens in July
Code Layers — the most interesting piece of the Config bundle — has moved from waitlist to early access, letting teams clone a GitHub repo directly onto the Figma canvas and sync changes back to the codebase.
└─Figma Blog
Jun 18
Jun 18·cat news/20260618-design-systems-figma-agent-web-se
cat news/20260618-design-systems-figma-agent-web-se
Figma Design Agent Gains Live Web Search
The Figma design agent can now search the web mid-session, letting designers pull in live references, best practices, and real-world content without leaving the file.
└─Figma
Jul 1
Jul 1·cat news/20260701-css-edge-150-css-features
cat news/20260701-css-edge-150-css-features
Edge 150 Ships AccentColor, light-dark() Images, Comma @container, and text-fit
Microsoft Edge 150 lands four CSS features worth knowing: OS accent color tokens, image-aware light-dark(), comma-separated @container fallback queries, and text-fit for automatic font scaling.
└─Microsoft Learn
Jun 15
Jun 15·cat news/20260615-css-state-of-css-2026-survey-c
cat news/20260615-css-state-of-css-2026-survey-c
State of CSS 2026 Survey Closes June 15
The annual State of CSS survey wraps up tomorrow — if you haven't filed a response yet, this is the last call.
└─Devographics
May 20
May 20·cat news/20260520-css-html-in-canvas-api-google-io
cat news/20260520-css-html-in-canvas-api-google-io
Google I/O 2026: HTML-in-Canvas API Brings Accessible, Searchable 3D Web Experiences
Google announced the HTML-in-Canvas API at I/O 2026, enabling developers to render HTML content inside canvas elements for immersive 3D experiences that remain fully accessible and indexable.
└─Google Developers Blog
May 5
May 5·cat news/20260505-css-chrome-148-container-lazy
cat news/20260505-css-chrome-148-container-lazy
Chrome 148 Adds Name-Only Container Queries and Lazy Loading for Video and Audio
Chrome 148 ships two web-platform improvements: container queries that match by name without requiring container-type, and lazy loading support via loading="lazy" on video and audio elements.
└─Chrome Developers
May 1
May 1·cat news/20260501-css-w3c-css-snapshot-2026
cat news/20260501-css-w3c-css-snapshot-2026
W3C Publishes CSS Snapshot 2026
The W3C released CSS Snapshot 2026, the authoritative reference cataloguing which CSS specifications are stable and suitable for implementation.
└─W3C
Jul 2
Jul 2·cat news/20260702-accessibility-wcag-em-20-published
cat news/20260702-accessibility-wcag-em-20-published
W3C Publishes WCAG-EM 2.0 Evaluation Methodology
The W3C has published WCAG-EM 2.0 as a Group Note, updating the standard methodology for evaluating website conformance to WCAG 2.
└─W3C
Jun 4
Jun 4·cat news/20260604-accessibility-wordpress-a11y-ready-dead
cat news/20260604-accessibility-wordpress-a11y-ready-dead
WordPress Accessibility-Ready Tag Requires WCAG Compliance by June 30
Theme authors have until June 30 to update their themes to current WCAG standards or lose the accessibility-ready tag in the WordPress theme directory.
└─WordPress Accessibility Team
May 1
May 1·cat news/20260501-motion-svelte-motion-types-exported
cat news/20260501-motion-svelte-motion-types-exported
Svelte 5.55.0 Exports Motion Primitive Types from svelte/motion
Svelte 5.55.0 now exports TweenOptions, SpringOptions, EasingFunction, and related types directly from the svelte/motion module, making them available for typed consumer code.
└─Svelte Blog
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