From Slack-lash to Toggle Tax: The new vernacular of work
New norms call for new terms. Our new unofficial work term glossary uncovers how work defined us and how we define it.
Come together: A multiplayer guide to great meetings
Facilitators and participants alike can take meetings from “meh” to magical.
From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions
Read a roundup of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Actions.
GitHub Innovation Graph Q2 2023 Data Release
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua
PGSQL Phriday #014: Wrapping up!
This post wraps up the PGSQL Phriday #014 event, links the participating authors and articles, and briefly reviews the "submissions".
Building Custom Animations in the Workflow Builder
Slack users have more power than ever to automate routine tasks and processes, saving themselves time each day. Workflow Builder, a task automation tool built into Slack, has continued to improve since its launch back in 2019. Along with various new steps and triggers, we built a new sidebar section for all available workflow steps.…
The ultimate gifts for the developer in your life this holiday season
If you’re on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for the developer who has it all, look no further. We’ve curated a list of 10 must-have items (plus a few more) that strike the perfect balance between practicality and style.
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree — Smashing Magazine
Git is designed to assure us that we can track a project’s files at different points in time. But it doesn’t assure us that those files are always safe along the way. For those of you who have dealt with the sinking feeling that you’ve irrevocably deleted and lost files, Sanmi has a couple of approaches that, in the right situations, may help bring them back.
I Fight For The Users
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment to celebrate that Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. I can’t possibly say it better than Paul Ford, so I’ll just refer you there: Every five or six minutes, someone in the social sciences publishes a PDF with a tit
clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
Cold Days, Shining Lights (December 2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to sweeten up the last few weeks of the year and, if you’re celebrating, to get you in the holiday mood.
Cyber Week: analyzing Internet traffic and e-commerce trends
How significant are Cyber Week days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does e-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time?
That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net
Do hackers eat turkey? And other Thanksgiving Internet trends
Which US states logged off on Thanksgiving Day? Is there a difference between coastal and central states? Do hackers take a Thanksgiving break? Are food delivery services gaining or losing traffic?
git branches: intuition & reality
git branches: intuition & reality
An Introduction To Full Stack Composability — Smashing Magazine
A well-designed composable system should not only consider the technical aspects but also take into account the nature of the content it handles. To help us with that, we can use a Headless Content Management system such as Storyblok.
For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.
2024, the year of elections
We want to ensure that all groups working to promote democracy around the world have the tools they need to stay secure online
Highlights from Git 2.43
The last Git release of 2023 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.43.
Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead…
My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products
Introducing advanced session audit capabilities in Cloudflare One
Administrators can now easily audit all active user sessions and associated data used by their Cloudflare One policies. This enables the best of both worlds: extremely granular controls, while maintaining an improved ability to troubleshoot and diagnose
Introducing hostname and ASN lists to simplify WAF rule creation
Today we are expanding Custom Lists by enabling you to create lists of hostnames and ASNs
Diving Deeper into Psyberg: Stateless vs Stateful Data Processing
In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework…
Some notes on nix flakes
Some notes on nix flakes
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
WordPress Playground: From 5-Minute Install To Instant Spin-Up — Smashing Magazine
WordPress Playground began as an experiment to see what a self-hosted WordPress experience might look like without the requirement of having to actually install WordPress. A year later, the experiment has evolved into a full-fledged project. Ganesh Dahal demonstrates how WordPress Playground works and gets deep into how it might be used.
Partial prerendering: Building towards a new default rendering model for web applications
PPR combines ultra-quick static delivery with fully dynamic capabilities and we believe it has the potential to become the default rendering model for web applications, bringing together the best of static site generation and dynamic delivery.
Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
Our grant program empowers the community to create free resources for all to use. These tools are some of the highlights.
Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5
Celebrating the first round of GitHub Accelerator and what’s next
Celebrate the maintainers of the first GitHub Accelerator cohort, learn what they have been up to since, and hear what’s next for GitHub Accelerator.
In Search Of The Ideal Privacy Icon — Smashing Magazine
Icons are capable of enhancing the content that surrounds them, but they have to be self-explanatory for that to happen. We have icons for things we like (a thumbs up), things we can share (a box topped with an up arrow), and even for protection against malicious online attacks (a shield), but what are the options we have for representing “privacy”?
GitHub Game Off 2023 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?
Confusing git terminology
Confusing git terminology
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the benefits of these features, new users are enticed to sign up for the app, and we get to write more code. At first glance, it appears to be a perfect symbiotic relationship — a win-win-win scenario where everybody’s happy and nothing goes wrong, right?
Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their . This is the second time we’ve received the honor, having previously won the award in — and we are even more proud this time around as it’s a testament to our continued commitment to the cloud native ecosystem and open source community.
Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.
Tales Of November (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner, and with it, a new collection of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the beginning of the month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Let’s make this November colorful!
Release Radar
As Hacktoberfest comes to a close, you still have a day or so left to complete and submit your pull requests. If you’re struggling to think of projects to contribute…
Hackable Halloween games MMXXIII
13 spooktacular games plus source code for readers to jam on.
Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing
As a follow-up to the most recent Okta breach, we are making a HAR file sanitizer available to everyone, not just Cloudflare customers, at no cost.
Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the third quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
Cache Reserve goes GA: enhanced control to minimize egress costs
We're excited to announce the graduation of Cache Reserve from beta to GA, accompanied by the introduction of several exciting new features. These new features include adding Cache Reserve into the analytics shown on the Cache overview section of the Cloudflare dashboard
Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
Server-side sandboxing: An introduction
The first of our three-part series on deploying and operating sandboxing techniques
How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
Empowering our partners with the new Tenant Platform dashboard
We are proud to announce the general availability of our first dashboard for our Tenant Platform, providing an intuitive user interface for agencies and partners to manage their client accounts
Some miscellaneous git facts
Some miscellaneous git facts
A Roundup Of WCAG 2.2 Explainers — Smashing Magazine
WCAG 2.2 officially became a “W3C Recommended” web standard on October 5, 2023, and with it, new success criteria and changes to existing guidelines for accessible user experiences. What are the changes, and how can you conform to them? This roundup provides links to WCAG 2.2 explainers that have been published or updated since the release.
The clock is ticking: Atlassian’s support for Bitbucket Server ends on February 15, 2024
Atlassian is ending support for its Server products—including Bitbucket Server—in February 2024. In this post, you’ll learn what that means for you, your options, and how you can move to GitHub.
Smashing Podcast Episode 66 With Ethan Marcotte: What Is A Tech Union? — Smashing Magazine
In today’s Smashing Podcast episode, we’re talking about Tech Unions. What part can unions play in a modern tech workplace? Drew McLellan talks to Ethan Marcotte to find out.
getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In the final part of this two-part series on solving headaches when working with media files in Gatsby projects, Juan Rodriguez demonstrates strategies and techniques for handling various types of documents, including Markdown files, PDFs, and 3D models.
How To Choose Typefaces For Fintech Products: Our Best Practices Guide (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Fintech products are systems that are overloaded by many types of data like numerals, texts, spreadsheets, and so on. Working with these products requires the designer to pay a high level of attention and responsibility, as he becomes a provider between user and data. Daria shares her approach to digital product typography and reviews the key points to consider when choosing typefaces.
How Prisma saved 98% on distribution costs with Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare products provide much of the underlying infrastructure for Prisma Accelerate and Prisma Pulse, empowering user-focused product development. This ongoing collaboration extends to enhancing the Prisma ORM
Ensuring the next generation of open source leaders are truly “all in”
If you are a student from a U.S. minority-serving institution looking to start your journey into open source, join us!
