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.
Quick Hit #30
"Waits are a price that developers ask users to pay and loading spinners only buy so much time." —Alex Russell (permalink)
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
Quick Hit #28
I like how I'm hearing animations distinguished as "time-based animations" (or TBA) and "scroll-driven animations" (or SDA). A third? Maybe "navigation-based
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.
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.
How I increased my visibility
Someone asked me this and here's my answer.
Set me right on whether caring is even possible
Our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Billing
At Stripe Tour New York, we shared new ways to orchestrate and grow your revenue with Stripe Billing, including new features to help you better understand your revenue data and give you more flexibility in how you bill for usage.
Friday night feed reader score report
Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs
Pop quiz! What's the difference between a Popover element and a Dialog element? The answer is not all that clear and is widely misunderstood, but Zell has a clear way to explain it so that you know which element to reach for in your work.
Is this thing on? Using OpenBMC and ACPI power states for reliable server boot
Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet.
sshfs isn't really what I wanted for my backup situation
BNP Paribas Open: Serving up scores and experiences in real time with Work & Co and Vercel
Janky remote backups without root on the far end
Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I'm feeling a bit more excitement than
GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.
PGDay Lowlands 2024 Reflections
In this blog posting I will tell you more about my trip to the PGDay Lowlands 2024. Find out more about my talk and general learnings.
Stripe Sessions is back on May 6, 2025
Join us May 6–8 in San Francisco for Stripe Sessions, our annual user conference. We’re doubling the number of breakout sessions, expanding our training program, and adding a demo stage to showcase more of Stripe’s key updates.
CJ Desai: Why I joined Cloudflare as President of Product and Engineering
I am thrilled to embark on this journey to run Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, driving forward the mission of helping build a better Internet.
Our top product updates from Stripe Tour New York
We announced increased interoperability, major upgrades to Stripe Billing, new embedded components for financial services, and a lot more.
Quick Hit #26
Looks like text-wrap: pretty has landed in Safari TP! Been in Chrome since 117. Let's see if Firefox follows suit.
Highlights from Git 2.47
Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here.
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO — Smashing Magazine
RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.
How Supabase increased signups through the Vercel Marketplace
Supabase increased signups through the Vercel Marketplace
Navigating Web3 dynamism: Ledger's solution to traffic spike stability with Vercel
Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch
Editor's note: This post is updated from time to time to catch up with notable developments. For timely updates, check out mullenweg.wtf or the less-anti-Matt
Serverless servers: Efficient serverless Node.js with in-function concurrency
Building a compute layer that is highly-optimized for interactive workloads, server-rendering, and APIs
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win.
Leading the way: 10 projects in the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024
Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
Introducing Stripe’s new API release process
Our new release cadence and versioning system combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements, giving you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.
Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration
Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week.
The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform
Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.
Crows, Ghosts, And Autumn Bliss (October 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to celebrate the beginning of a new month than with a collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to sweeten up your October. Enjoy!
Expanding Cloudflare’s support for open source projects with Project Alexandria
At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive.
