Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends — Smashing Magazine
Based on responses from over 1,200 product professionals, Maze’s Future of User Research Report uncovers how product teams conduct research to inform decision-making and build successful products. Learn about the top three trends defining the user research industry in 2024 and beyond.
From .com to .beauty: The evolving threat landscape of unwanted email
In this 2023-early 2024 email analysis, we examine how certain generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are primarily used for spam and phishing, and their evolution over a year.
Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons
This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves, and when millions of fans do it simultaneously, that’s a technical problem that we solved! At Hotstar,
Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads
Meta’s family of apps serves trillions of image download requests every day. And if you’re into high-quality images, you’ve probably noticed that Instagram and Threads have added support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos. Now people on Threads and Instagram can upload and share images that are more true-to-life, with the full color and range […]
Autonomous hardware diagnostics and recovery at scale
Operating hardware in 310 cities in 120 countries means that hardware can break anywhere and anytime. Detecting and managing server failure at scale requires automation. Here's how we automated
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
There are many ways to approach a “Dark Mode” feature that respects a user’s system color scheme preferences and allows for per-site customization. Henry Bley-Vroman walks through a new possibility that leans into cutting-edge CSS, with minimal JavaScript to support persisting the user’s color scheme preference across pages.
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Protecting AI apps from bots and bad actors with Vercel and Kasada
Learn how Vercel protects the AI SDK Playground using our best-in-class DDoS mitigation, Next.js Middleware, and our partner Kasada.
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.
Threads has entered the fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse! As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from […]
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles — Smashing Magazine
Whether digital or physical, designing a customer touchpoint requires an understanding of the essential relationship between the brand and the user experience, which is also known as the **brand experience.** This article is a simple guide to building long-lasting customer relationships based on the seven rules of Rikyu in the Japanese tea ceremony for a creative and memorable twist.
Introducing WARP Connector: paving the path to any-to-any connectivity
Starting today, Zero Trust administrators can deploy our new WARP Connector for simplified any-to-any connectivity
AI + design: Figma users tell us what’s coming next
What do designers, developers, and executives really think about the promise of AI? Our new survey aims to find out.
Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL
Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.
Optimizing RTC bandwidth estimation with machine learning
Bandwidth estimation (BWE) and congestion control play an important role in delivering high-quality real-time communication (RTC) across Meta’s family of apps. We’ve adopted a machine learning (ML)-based approach that allows us to solve networking problems holistically across cross-layers such as BWE, network resiliency, and transport. We’re sharing our experiment results from this approach, some
Better video for mobile RTC with AV1 and HD
At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We’ve seen significant benefits by adopting the AV1 codec for RTC. Here’s how we are improving the RTC video quality for our apps with tools like the AV1 codec, the challenges we face, and how we […]
Now Shipping: Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book by Addy Osmani — Smashing Magazine
It’s here, and it’s shipping! Meet our newest Smashing book, ”Success at Scale”. It’s filled with practical insights and real-world case studies of how big changes can be made on projects of any size. Addy Osmani has curated finest examples, case studies and interviews to help you get successful at scale. Jump to the details and get the book right away.
Revolutionizing video editing on the web with Next.js and Vercel
Redefining fleet management at Cloudflare
Growing pains were inevitable given the sheer pace of Cloudflare’s growth. Processes around server provisioning, maintenance windows, repairs, and diagnostics reporting were reaching their limits
