GitHub Availability Report: October 2024
In October, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How developers spend the time they save thanks to AI coding tools
Developers tell us how GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools are transforming their work and changing how they spend their days.
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch!
Incident Management takes time Incidents need responders that are trained and experienced. At Slack, training is a foundation of our incident management program. Self-service training and live courses based mainly on prepared content are one piece of the puzzle, but there can be a missing piece in many organizations. How can staff get practical experience…
Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot — Smashing Magazine
Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards. Today, let’s explore its newly released Penpot Plugin System. So now, if there’s a functionality missing, you don’t need to jump into the code base straight away; you can create a plugin to achieve what you need. And you can even serve it from localhost!
Using ML to comply with SCA requirements
By applying ML to the process of navigating SCA requirements, we’re helping users reduce checkout friction while lowering fraud and increasing authorization rates.
Updating our web system for a new era
An inside look at how we leveraged Figma’s features to reimagine our web design system.
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.
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning
You've played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They're both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he's back with another game: Anchoreum.
How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring
Cryptographic monitoring at scale has been instrumental in helping our engineers understand how cryptography is used at Meta. Monitoring has given us a distinct advantage in our efforts to proactively detect and remove weak cryptographic algorithms and has assisted with our general change safety and reliability efforts. We’re sharing insights into our own cryptographic monitoring […]
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!
How we built it: Payment method A/B testing
Building our payment method A/B testing tool was an industry first, and we had to find creative solutions to some of the most complex scenarios in A/B testing. We’ll share the key decisions we made—and lessons we learned—along the way.
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
Empowering Engineers with AI
Background and motivation In the fast-paced world of software development, having the right tools can make all the difference. At Slack, we’ve been working on a set of AI-powered developer tools that are saving 10,000+ hours of developer time yearly, while meeting our strictest requirements for security, data protection, and compliance. In this post, we’ll…
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!
Vercel named a Visionary in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms
Vercel is proud to be recognized as a Visionary; we view this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ as a validation of the Frontend Cloud ecosystem.
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
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well Internet traffic increases across the US and other key trends.
Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps
Incremental replacement of a legacy mobile application is a challenging concept to articulate and execute. However, we believe by making the investment in the pre-requisites of legacy modernization, it is posible to yield benefits in the long term. This article explores the Strangler Fig pattern and how it can be applied to mobile applications. We chart the journey of an enterprise who refused to
Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website — Smashing Magazine
Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture. Learn how Lighthouse scores are measured differently than other tools, the impact that has on measuring performance metrics, and why you need real-user monitoring for a complete picture.
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of them, so that you can start using them in your work.