Blog

Notes from the workshop

Engineering notes, design decisions and announcements — written while building Velora in public. The blog itself is part of the free template, MDX pipeline included.

Industry & Policy4 min read

EU orders Google to open Android system to rival AI assistants

Under new Digital Markets Act enforcement, third-party AI agents will gain deep system-level integration and voice activation on Android devices, opening up mobile distribution across Europe.

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Web Infrastructure3 min read

Cloudflare revives HTTP 402 for automated AI payments

Cloudflare opened waitlists for its Monetization Gateway powered by the x402 protocol, enabling websites and APIs to charge autonomous AI agents for data access instantly.

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Engineering5 min read

Tech leaders unite behind shared AI agent connection standards

A broad coalition of enterprise software platforms agreed on open protocols to link AI agents into company workflows, moving past proprietary, single-vendor ecosystems.

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Announcements4 min read

Introducing Velora UI: the free tier is the whole product

32+ animated shadcn components and a complete multi-page landing template — blog, pricing, auth, changelog — free under MIT. Here's why we're giving away the thing everyone else sells.

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Engineering3 min read

Animations with receipts: publishing the cost of every component

Animated component libraries love a pretty demo and hate a bundle-size column. Every Velora docs page now shows gzipped size, dependency count and reduced-motion behavior.

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Design3 min read

Rebrand your landing page in one token block

We moved Velora's entire visual identity from violet to blue by editing seven CSS variables. That's the point: animated components should read your design tokens, not fight them.

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