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.
AI is taking your job
AI is changing how hiring works, and that makes in person connections even more important.
Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade
If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or is it closer to a linear growth? Our analysis found the growth is not linear but rather is exponential, with the slope varying depending on the metric (rps, pps or bps).
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.
Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come with some new events that we can listen for.
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.
Vercel acquires Grep to accelerate code search
Announcing the acquisition of Grep to further our mission of helping developers work and ship faster.
DO it again: how we used Durable Objects to add WebSockets support and authentication to AI Gateway
We used Cloudflare’s Developer Platform and Durable Objects to build authentication and a WebSockets API that developers can use to call AI Gateway, enabling continuous communication over a single, persistent connection.
Complete CSS Course
Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you're reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he's reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You're likely familiar with Andy's great writing here on CSS-Tricks.
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.
Why devs should play an active role in design
Advocating for Dev Mode changed my team’s workflow. Here’s how you can do the same.
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.
Sequence learning: A paradigm shift for personalized ads recommendations
AI plays a fundamental role in creating valuable connections between people and advertisers within Meta’s family of apps. Meta’s ad recommendation engine, powered by deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), has been instrumental in delivering personalized ads to people. Key to this success was incorporating thousands of human-engineered signals or features in the DLRM-based recommendation syst
AI’s Transformative Impact On Web Design: Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry — Smashing Magazine
Discover how AI is reshaping web design, boosting productivity in design, coding, UX, and copywriting while amplifying human creativity in a new article by Paul Boag.
Quick Hit #30
"Waits are a price that developers ask users to pay and loading spinners only buy so much time." —Alex Russell (permalink)
Quick Hit #29
I'm interviewing Alex Russell tomorrow for Smashing Magazine — it's free so come and join the chat as we discuss the expensive JavaScript, browser choice, app
Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together
Microsoft and GitHub are committed to empowering developers around the world to innovate, collaborate, and create solutions that’ll shape the next generation of technology.
Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says
Findings in our latest study show that the quality of code written with GitHub Copilot is significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise.
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system
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…
AI SDK 4.0
Introducing PDF support, computer use, and an xAI Grok provider
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.
