Inside the redesigned Figma, where your work takes center stage
Our biggest redesign of Figma’s interface in five years clears space on the canvas for designers to turn their wildest imagination into reality.
What is minimum viable data?
As many focus on the possibilities and limitations of AI tools and their output, Ovetta Sampson reminds us to pay attention to the power of the input.
Config 2024 in review
We’re launching a redesigned Figma, Figma Slides, and a new suite of AI features, along with major updates to Dev Mode and usability improvements.
Welcome to The Prompt
AI promises to reinvigorate the way we design and build, but how we realize that potential is still an open question.
Meet Figma AI: Empowering designers with intelligent tools
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
Stack the deck with Figma Slides
Say goodbye to lackluster presentations. Today, we’re announcing the open beta of Figma Slides, here to set a new standard for telling visual stories that move work forward.
Making Figma work better for freelancers and agencies
As part of a broader effort to refine our billing model, we are sharing our roadmap to better address the needs of independent freelancers and agencies.
Attack of the clones: Getting RCE in Chrome’s renderer with duplicate object properties
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2024-3833, an object corruption bug in v8, the Javascript engine of Chrome, that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
Gaining buy-in for accessibility can be challenging due to common myths and misunderstandings. For many, accessibility remains a big mystery. Here are some practical techniques for winning stakeholder support. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
Making the PostgreSQL visibility map visible
This article explains how to examine the PostgreSQL visibility map and showcases performance improvements added in recent releases.
The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship
The history of Rust at Meta goes all the way back to 2016, when we first started using it for source control. Today, it has been widely embraced at Meta and is one of our primary supported server-side languages (along with C++, Python, and Hack). But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any growing pains. Aida […]
Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
In November 2020, we introduced the concept of prioritized load shedding at the API gateway level in our blog post, Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding. Today, we’re excited to…
Three ways our usage-based billing product is unique
Our usage-based product integrates naturally alongside your other billing pathways, while scaling with you as your usage-based pricing ambitions grow.
Using machine learning to detect bot attacks that leverage residential proxies
Cloudflare's Bot Management team has released a new Machine Learning model for bot detection (v8), focusing on bots and abuse from residential proxies
Helping keep customers safe with leaked password notification
To help protect against account compromise via credential stuffing attacks, Cloudflare will notify dashboard users when we detect that a password was found in an external data breach
Beginner’s guide to GitHub repositories: How to create your first repo
Git started on your first repository in the third installment of GitHub for Beginners. Discover the essential features and settings to manage your projects effectively.
Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
We’re sharing how we streamline system reliability investigations using a new AI-assisted root cause analysis system. The system uses a combination of heuristic-based retrieval and large language model-based ranking to speed up root cause identification during investigations. Our testing has shown this new system achieves 42% accuracy in identifying root causes for investigations at their […] Read
Feed reader score project participants: I made a mistake
Catching Compromised Cookies
Slack uses cookies to track session states for users on slack.com and the Slack Desktop app. The ever-present cookie banners have made cookies mainstream, but as a quick refresher, cookies are a little piece of client-side state associated with a website that is sent up to the web server on every request. Websites use this…
So Your Website Or App Is Live… Now What? — Smashing Magazine
The biggest mistake you can make in UX design is to launch a website or app and then walk away. Monitoring and improving after launch will benefit users and your metrics. Nothing will bring bigger gains.
How the UEFA Euro 2024 football games are impacting local Internet traffic
Discover how UEFA Euro 2024 is shifting Internet traffic patterns during games across Europe with insights into traffic drops and cybersecurity concerns during national team games
Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing — Smashing Magazine
Balancing the age-old simplicity of words on paper with the myriad creative possibilities of the web is a tension as old as the web itself. Leaning into that overlap can bring new dimensions not just to the things we write but also to how we write them.
Introducing Stream Generated Captions, powered by Workers AI
With one click, users can now generate video captions effortlessly using Stream’s newest feature: AI-generated captions for on-demand videos and recordings of live streams
