Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts (MoE) - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on Cramer's rule - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: October - December 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae - Eli Bendersky's website
The forecast is clear: clouds on e-paper, powered by the cloud
Follow along as I build a custom weather display using Cloudflare Workers and a popular e-paper display. While the embedded electronics I used have their limitations, Workers provided an elegant solution to overcome these challenges and bring the project to life.
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025 — Smashing Magazine
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.
New Year, New Hopes, New Dreams (January 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Maybe 2025 has already started as you’re reading this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin — either way, it’s never too late or too early for some New Year’s inspiration! Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has got you covered.
Sometimes I cache: implementing lock-free probabilistic caching
If you want to know what cache revalidation is, how it works, and why it can involve rolling a die, read on. This blog post presents a lock-free probabilistic approach to cache revalidation, along with its implementation.
When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year’s, and the Internet’s holiday rhythm
From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms, drawing insights from the previous holiday season.
Global elections in 2024: Internet traffic and cyber threat trends
In 2024, as elections took place across over 60 countries, the Internet became both a battleground for cyberattacks and a vital platform for democratic engagement.
Hi Claude, build an MCP server on Cloudflare Workers
Want Claude to interact with your app directly? Build an MCP server on Workers. That will enable you to connect your service directly, allowing Claude to understand and run tasks on your behalf.
What does the future hold for real-time payments?
In the third and final installment in our three-part series, we examine the most important questions for the future of real-time payments: will they ever take off in the US and the UK, and will they emerge as a truly global payment method?
Optimizing secure build infrastructure with Secure Compute
We built Hive, our general compute platform, after outgrowing off-the-shelf solutions. See how it's now powering secure connections to private networks, cutting initialization from 90s to 5s and improving build speeds by 30%.
PGDay/MED 2024 Napoli Edition
In this blog posting Pavlo Golub will tell you more about his trip to the PGDay Napoli on the 5th of December.
27 FigJam activities to spark creativity in the classroom
Looking for ways to shake up your teaching? These collaborative templates help students connect, create, and learn together.
Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer
How to build a mixed reality headset
How do you take a mixed reality (MR) headset from idea to finished product? Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Labs, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast for a discussion on the realities (no pun intended) of building MR hardware. Jones shares his strategy for […]
Please upgrade past Pleroma 2.7.0 (or at least patch it)
In a competitive landscape, RTPs move to stand out
To compete with other payment methods for consumer preference, real-time payments are expanding their “bundle” of services to include subscriptions, credit, and in-person transactions.
Circular dependencies for socket activation and WireGuard
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry
The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We've got coverage of both presentations for ya.
Designing data products
Working backwards from the end goal is a core principle of software development, and we’ve found it to be highly effective in modelling data products. In this article we'll explore a step-by-step, methodical approach to identifying data products that avoids overdesign while providing just enough clarity for teams to begin implementation. Starting with a use case, we work backward to define data pr
Inside Facebook’s video delivery system
We’re explaining the end-to-end systems the Facebook app leverages to deliver relevant content to people. Learn about our video-unification efforts that have simplified our product experience and infrastructure, in-depth details around mobile delivery, and new features we are working on in our video-content delivery stack. The end-to-end delivery of highly relevant, personalized, timely, and respo
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Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level. For 2024, we added several new metrics, as well as the ability to do year-over-year and geographic comparisons for selected metrics.
The top 10 gifts for the developer in your life
Whether you’re hunting for the perfect gift for your significant other, the colleague you drew in the office gift exchange, or maybe (just maybe) even for yourself, we’ve got you covered with our top 10 gifts that any developer would love.
The forces behind the rise of real-time payments
In most countries, the dominant means of exchange has rarely pivoted—and yet in many places around the world, it’s changing right now with RTPs.
Life of a request: Securing your app's traffic with Vercel
The Vercel Firewall automatically prevents over 1B malicious requests every week, with 5x that amount coming in over Black Friday-Cyber Monday. Learn how Vercel protects every request so you can focus on building, not fighting attacks.
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much additional nuance.) This is called the Fermi paradox: The Fermi Paradox is a contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence o
Building Confidence: A Case Study in How to Create Confidence Scores for GenAI Applications
TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for that response? In certain applications, especially in the financial domain, confidence scores are required. In a document-parsing task related to financial automation, we tested three approaches to address confidence level: calibrator models, logarithmic probabilities (logprobs), and majority
Dreaming Of Miracles (December 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
December is almost here, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by creatives from all around the world, they are bound to lighten up the last few weeks of the year and, who knows, maybe even spark new ideas. Enjoy!
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
Retailer sees $10M increase in sales on Vercel
Pablo Sánchez’s 7 rules for designing the unexpected
The designer of Ableton’s Note app shares unconventional principles for creating unforgettable digital experiences.
How Notion powers rapid and performant experimentation
Students: Start building your skills with the GitHub Foundations certification
The GitHub Foundations Certification exam fee is now waived for all students verified through GitHub Education.
Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from multiple cable cuts
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.
How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences
With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions.
PGConf.eu Chess Tournament: A New Experience in Athens
In this blog you can read more about how a small chess tournament can help, to bring the PGConf.eu community together.
Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone
Applications for the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund are now open! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until they close on January 7 at 11:59 pm PT. Programming and funding will begin in early 2025.
Astra Dynamic Chunks: How We Saved by Redesigning a Key Part of Astra
Introduction Slack handles a lot of log data. In fact, we consume over 6 million log messages per second. That equates to over 10 GB of data per second! And it’s all stored using Astra, our in-house, open-source log search engine. To make this data searchable, Astra groups it by time and splits the data…
Accelerating partner success: Vercel’s new Partner Program benefits
At Vercel, we see partnership and collaboration as keys to driving innovation and customer success. Vercel partners with consultants, agencies, global system integrators, tech partners, and cloud hyperscalers.
What’s new in Cloudflare: Account Owned Tokens and Zaraz Automated Actions
Cloudflare customers can now create Account Owned Tokens, allowing more flexibility around access control for their Cloudflare services. Additionally, Zaraz Automation Actions streamlines event tracking and third-party tool integration.
8 ways to craft an unforgettable Config talk
Where do inspirational people find inspiration? Our Config speakers share their favorite talks from 2024, revealing what makes a session truly stand out.
My 2024 thoughts on the state of social media
I see a continued fragmentation of social media as people leave X(Twitter).
Subscription business leaders are looking for a better way to combat churn
Our new report highlights trends and insights from more than 2,000 subscription business leaders. We learned that churn continues to be a looming concern, with 72% of survey respondents saying they’re worried about churn impacting their bottom line.
Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops — Smashing Magazine
It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the subjects you care about most. Let’s bundle up and save!
Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold a conversation about it with Robin when I finished it.
New microblog with TILs
Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations — Smashing Magazine
Thomas Bohm rethinks technical illustrations and data visualizations, sharing interesting and uncommon examples of how to present data and information. Bar graphs and pie charts are great, but there’s so much more to explore!
A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates
NIST has standardized four post-quantum signature schemes so far, and they’re not done yet: there are fourteen new candidates in the running for standardization. In this blog post we take measure of them and discover why we ended up with so many PQ signatures.
MotorTrend: Shifting into overdrive with Vercel
I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
Game Off 2024 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you’re a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about having fun and making something awesome!
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open source ecosystem and to lend a monetary hand to those projects we use most at Spotify. This year, we’ve selected five projects to share the €100,000 fund (€20,000 each):
Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Break the news, not the site: Leading news organizations upgrade their infrastructure ahead of the election
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
A deep dive into Vercel’s build infrastructure
Vercel’s low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform is designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds.