CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-14)
I was just going over the latest CSSWG minutes (you can subscribe to them at W3C.org) and came across a few interesting nuggets I wanted to jot down for
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Discover effective pricing strategies for digital projects. Learn how to balance fixed pricing, time and materials, and value-based approaches while managing client expectations and scope creep.
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How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI
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Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity
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How To Defend Your Design Process — Smashing Magazine
Ever felt pressure to speed up your design process? Here’s how to address unrealistic expectations and foster a shared understanding with stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to a successful delivery. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
Using the AI SDK to fix edge-case errors in our code
Leveraging the AI SDK to build with and solve problems with AI
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
As the Paris 2024 Olympics ended, our analysis shows the event’s impact on the Internet in France and other countries at different moments, its effect on specific web properties, and a spike in cyber threats and emails related to Simone Biles and others.
Dialogues Blog
“This isn’t a website. Or even a blog. It’s a conversation.”
GitHub Availability Report: July 2024
In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix
With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog of security debt.
How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale
We launched Meta AI with the goal of giving people new ways to be more productive and unlock their creativity with generative AI (GenAI). But GenAI also comes with challenges of scale. As we deploy new GenAI technologies at Meta, we also focus on delivering these services to people as quickly and efficiently as possible. […]
Decoding an old SkyScan wireless weather sensor
Mitigating Deadlocks in high concurrency environments - Shopify
The problem In order to guarantee data integrity, MySQL requires locks prior to updating existing records. If multiple processes update data in the same table in parallel, deadlocks can occur depending on how the data is stored in disk and managed by MySQL. That can happen even if the different processes target different records. This blog post explores the problem of deadlocks in MySQL while upda
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The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages.
Database industry: The Rise and Rise of PostgreSQL
In this blog I will tell you more about the database industry in general. How did the rise of PostgreSQL come about?
Remote Sinks in pgwatch3 by Akshat Jaimini
I have the pleasure of working on an project that aims to enhance PostgreSQL monitoring through the development of RPC sinks for pgwatch3.
The Atlassian method: The power of developer joy
How developer joy became the north star for a workstream that overhauled tooling, systems, and company culture.
What are AI agents and why do they matter?
Learn how AI agents and agentic AI systems use generative AI models and large language models to autonomously perform tasks on behalf of end users.
The ultimate guide to developer happiness
Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.
From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2024-5830, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.
Advancing Threat Intelligence: JA4 fingerprints and inter-request signals
Explore how Cloudflare's JA4 fingerprinting and inter-request signals provide robust and scalable insights for advanced web security and threat detection.
HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input
A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this:
Mental Health in Tech Podcast Interview
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