Making progress on routing security: the new White House roadmap
On September 3, 2024, the White House published a report on Internet routing security. We’ll talk about what that means and how you can help.
Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform
On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insights — think notebooks, dashboards, and metrics. To create solutions that connect with our users, it’s critical for us to first understand who our users are. However, the evolving landscape of data roles presents a challenge.
Goodbye Summer, Hello September (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s get ready for September with a fresh collection of desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Engineering with Empathy: My Journey to Understanding the User Experience
“What are your goals for this quarter?” It’s the question every manager asks, and one that often prompts a flurry of technical objectives and project milestones. Jumping into this internship, I knew my answer. I wanted to practice making informed decisions on my project, since that was one of the challenges I faced last summer.…
Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In the second part of this series, Joas Pambou aims to build a more advanced version of the previous application that performs conversational analyses on images or videos, much like a chatbot assistant. This means you can ask and learn more about your input content.
Shipping Tumblr and WordPress
Didya see that Tumblr is getting a WordPress makeover? And it's not a trivial move:
Breaking in: A guide to landing your first product design role
Curious about early career opportunities at Figma? Here are some tips on how to get your first product design job, along with insights on what we look for.
The “Other” C in CSS
I think it's worth listening to anything Sara Soueidan has to say. That's especially true if she's speaking at an event for the first time in four years,
Introducing <skelly-wc>
I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. We named it skellyCSS because… skeletons and
Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to
2024 is the biggest global election year in history. What’s at stake for developers?
GitHub is considering what is at stake for our users and platform, how we can take responsible action to support free and fair elections, and how developers contribute to resilient democratic processes.
Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography
The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet. Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran […]
Introducing the Vercel Marketplace
The Vercel Marketplace adds support for EdgeDB, Redis, and Supabase with unified billing and simpler installations.
Enhancing security of backend connectivity with OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Vercel OpenID Connect support helps you replace long-lived credentials with temporary tokens to reduce risk.
GitHub Enterprise: The best migration path from AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is discontinuing new customer access and will no longer introduce new features. Learn how to migrate to GitHub Enterprise and why it’s the best option for you.
How Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale
At Meta, we’ve been diligently working to incorporate privacy into different systems of our software stack over the past few years. Today, we’re excited to share some cutting-edge technologies that are part of our Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative. These innovations mark a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to honoring user privacy. PAI offers […]
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Merging a pull request
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.
RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability
We are introducing a new metric— real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage (e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in […]
Generating Unique Random Numbers In JavaScript Using Sets — Smashing Magazine
Want to create more randomized effects in your JavaScript code? The `Math.random()` method alone, with its limitations, won’t cut it for generating unique random numbers. Amejimaobari Ollornwi explains how to generate a series of unique random numbers using the `Set` object, how to use these random numbers as indexes for arrays, and explores some practical applications of randomization.
Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention
This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations.
Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
How PyTorch powers AI training and inference
Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient […]
Tophat: Crafting a Delightful Mobile Developer Experience - Shopify
Insight into how Shopify created a seamless one-click manual testing experience (known as "tophatting") for mobile applications by creating a macOS app.
Go wild: Wildcard support in Rules and a new open-source wildcard crate
We’re excited to announce wildcard support across our Ruleset Engine-based products and our open-source wildcard crate in Rust. Configuring rules has never been easier, with powerful pattern matching enabling simple and flexible URL redirects and beyond for users on all plans.