ASCII control characters in my terminal
ASCII control characters in my terminal
Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Break the news, not the site: Leading news organizations upgrade their infrastructure ahead of the election
Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30, 2024, OVHcloud outage
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage.
State of CSS 2024 Results
The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
How We Built the BFCM 2023 Globe - Shopify
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for better visuals, a big focus was performance. We've put together an interactive deep d
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
A deep dive into Vercel’s build infrastructure
Vercel’s low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform is designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds.
AI Flame Graphs
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.
Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
According to a survey done by W3Techs, as of October 2024, Cloudflare is used as an authoritative DNS provider by 14.5% of all websites
Tooltip Best Practices
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
Pure CYBERTEC power in Athens!
The CYBERTEC team was also present at PGConf.eu in Athens in 2024. Jan has included all his experiences for you in this blog post.
New from Universe 2024: Get the latest previews and releases
Find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases.
Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
How I increased my visibility
Someone asked me this and here's my answer.
Set me right on whether caring is even possible
Our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Billing
At Stripe Tour New York, we shared new ways to orchestrate and grow your revenue with Stripe Billing, including new features to help you better understand your revenue data and give you more flexibility in how you bill for usage.
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature.
How we built AI search in Figma
How we built a search tool that’s changing the way designers find and use existing work
Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta
At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Sarita and Moritz, two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a […]