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.
Uncovering GStreamer secrets
In this post, I’ll walk you through the vulnerabilities I uncovered in the GStreamer library and how I built a custom fuzzing generator to target MP4 files.
Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer
Three Approaches To Amplify Your Design Projects — Smashing Magazine
There are many ways to elevate a design project from good to incredible. For web and product designers, it’s not just about adding more animations and flair. What it truly comes down to is a reframing of your thought processes starting before the project even kicks off. Olivia De Alba presents three approaches that designers can implement and which will change the way they make their projects more
The rise of the AI crawler
New research reveals how ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI crawlers process web content, including JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior and patterns—with recommendations for site owners, devs, and AI users.
Migration Automation: Easing the Jenkins → GHA shift with help from AI
Overview The past few months have been exciting times for Slack’s CI infrastructure. After years of developer frustration with Jenkins (everything from security issues to downtime to generally poor UX) internal pressure led us to move a majority of Slack’s CI jobs from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. My intern project at Slack this summer involved…
GitHub Availability Report: November 2024
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Design Token-Based UI Architecture
Design tokens are design decisions as data and serve as a single source of truth for design and engineering. Utilizing deployment pipelines, they enable automated code generation across platforms, allowing for faster updates and improved consistency in design. Organizing tokens in layers—progressing from available options to tokens that capture how they are applied—ensures scalability and a better
So many tokens, so little time: Introducing a faster, more flexible byte-pair tokenizer
We released a new open source byte-pair tokenizer that is faster and more flexible than popular alternatives.
"Rules" that terminal programs follow
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.
The ML flywheel: How we continually improve our models to reduce card testing
Card testing is one of the most significant fraud threats to Stripe users and the broader financial ecosystem. Stripe’s machine learning–based approach has led to successful card testing attacks on Stripe decreasing by 80% over the last two years.
Technical audits: Optimizing cost, performance, and productivity
See what we've learned from hundreds of real-world audits—what to look for and what you can do to improve your applications.
CodeQL zero to hero part 4: Gradio framework case study
Learn how I discovered 11 new vulnerabilities by writing CodeQL models for Gradio framework and how you can do it, too.
Circular dependencies for socket activation and WireGuard
An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines — Smashing Magazine
10 years after scroll-driven animations were first proposed, they’re finally here — no JavaScript, no dependencies, no libraries, just pure CSS.
Extra Space Storage's build times became 17x faster with Vercel
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.
Smashing Meets Product Design
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
Quick start: How to build your first PostgreSQL container
Learn to build your first PostgreSQL container and optimize it effectively in our Docker and Kubernetes series.
CYPEX Online Academy - Application Design Best Practice
Design best practice for CYPEX: Learn how to add a drop-down field, send an email using pg_timetable, create table dependencies & much more
CYPEX Academy - Application Authentication Section
Authentication overview of the CYPEX Online Academy - find out how to manage users & roles, configure login settings, LDAP and repositories.