Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day
Show your appreciation to the open source projects you love. You can help provide much-needed support to the critical but often underfunded projects that keep your infrastructure running smoothly. And remember—every day is a perfect day to support open source! 💖
How to add a directory to your PATH
Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
This blog examines how diverse cultural celebrations — from Western Christmas to Orthodox and Lunar New Year festivities — shape global Internet traffic, revealing consistent offline patterns, and compares these trends with those observed in 2023.
Introducing credits for usage-based billing
The strategic importance of billing credits is only growing. That’s why we recently incorporated a new credits feature into Stripe Billing, enabling businesses to offer their customers both promotional and paid credits with flexibility and control.
Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No.
One day after testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on debanking, a bank CEO asked me to retract my essay on that topic. I declined.
Integrations: From Simple Data Transfer To Modern Composable Architectures — Smashing Magazine
In today’s web development landscape, the concept of a monolithic application has become increasingly rare. Modern applications are composed of multiple specialized services, each of which handles specific aspects of functionality. This shift didn’t happen overnight - it’s the result of decades of evolution in how we think about and implement data transfer between systems. Let’s explore this journ
Preserving content provenance by integrating Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images
Media and journalism companies can now build end-to-end workflows that support Content Credentials by using Cloudflare Images.
Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running
When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. This happens because of
Look Closer, Inspiration Lies Everywhere (February 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make the most of the shortest of all months, with a new collection of desktop wallpapers celebrating new opportunities, sweet memories, happy little moments, and everything in between. All of them created with love by the community for the community. Enjoy!
Forest And Desert
4 steps to building a natural language search tool
Empowering humanitarian action with open source: A natural language search tool for UN Resolutions.
What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages.
A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions. This quarter, notable outages were caused by cable cuts, power outages, natural disasters, military action, maintenance, and government direction. Read on for the details.
Cloudflare meets new Global Cross Border Privacy standards
Cloudflare is the first organisation globally to announce we have been successfully audited against the brand-new international ‘Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules’ system and the brand new ‘Global Privacy Rules for Processors’. Cloudflare will be certified from day one when the certifications launch later in 2025.
Cloudflare thwarts over 47 million cyberthreats against Jewish and Holocaust educational websites
January 27 marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day — a solemn occasion to honor the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, along with countless others who fell victim
New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started
Explore our simple guide to finding projects, understanding guidelines, and making an impact.
Some Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles
I was reading through Juan's recent Almanac entry for the @counter-style at-rule and I'll be darned if he didn't uncover and unpack some extremely interesting
That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 & Q3 2024 data for the Innovation Graph.
Feedback on lessons, leap seconds, and LLMs
The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trump’s inauguration, and how alternatives like RedNote surged.
A first look at Config 2025: Two cities, one global community
This year, we’re bringing Config to San Francisco and London. Here’s a first look at what we’re building for our community on both sides of the Atlantic.
Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem
Explore insights into open source community growth, innovation, and inclusivity with an updated survey dataset.
Navigating The Challenges Of Modern Open-Source Authoring: Lessons Learned — Smashing Magazine
Alvaro Saburido delves into the current state and challenges of Open-Source authoring, sharing lessons learned from both community- and company-driven initiatives.
TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
Supporting the next generation of developers
Here’s your opportunity to empower the teen in your life to get a start in open source development.
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An Ode To Side Project Time — Smashing Magazine
A once-revered perk of some tech workplaces, the status of ‘side project time’ seems to have slipped in recent years. Frederick O’Brien believes it deserves a comeback.
The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling — Smashing Magazine
How do we determine the most suitable illustration style? How should illustrations complement and reflect your corporate identity? What will resonate most with your target audience? And regarding the content, what type of illustration would best enhance it, and how would it work for the age range it is primarily for? Thomas Bohm shares insightful examples and discusses the key qualities of effecti
Game Off 2024 winners
Secrets spilled, discovered, and hidden again—Game Off 2024 brought over 500 jaw-dropping submissions that redefined creativity in gaming. From cult quests for free furniture to spellbinding mysteries, these games will have you hooked. Ready to uncover the winners?!?
Highlights from Git 2.48
The open source Git project just released Git 2.48. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Transforming how you work with v0
v0 lets all creators—not just developers—bring their ideas to life. Explore v0 use cases and prompt inspiration for designers, marketers, project managers, customer support, data analysis, and more.
Six memos for the future of digital creation
We asked devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists to double click on some of their ideas. Here’s what they said.
Making space for a handmade web
There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.
The new competitive moat is emotion
With more apps than ever, features will only get you so far. It’s time to put resonance on the roadmap.
Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
Open source all the way down: Upgrading our developer documentation
At Cloudflare, we treat developer content like an open source product. This collaborative approach enables global contributions to enhance quality and relevance for a wide range of users. This year, we scaled our documentation site to better meet the needs of users by migrating to the Astro ecosystem.
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
The best advice to bring to work in 2025
Industry leaders from companies like Ableton, Snapchat, and Coda set resolutions for managing teams, shipping products, and sparking great ideas in the year ahead.
Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
This article is the last in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need to…
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need…
Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors
Consistent hashing
Summary of reading: January - March 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Bloom filters - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on even and odd functions - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: July - September 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Reproducing word2vec with JAX - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on implementing Attention - Eli Bendersky's website
LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology - Eli Bendersky's website
Cross-entropy and KL divergence - Eli Bendersky's website
Making any integer with four 2s - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: April - June 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Understanding Numpy's einsum - Eli Bendersky's website
Reverse mode Automatic Differentiation - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI - Eli Bendersky's website
