GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub…
No cyber resilience without open source sustainability
Have your say to protect open source in the EU.
GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
Introducing passwordless authentication on GitHub.com
Passkeys are now available in public beta. Opting in lets you upgrade security keys to passkeys, and use those in place of both your password and your 2FA method.
How To Create A Rapid Research Program To Support Insights At Scale — Smashing Magazine
Accelerate your organization’s growth and innovation with the power of Rapid Research. From inception to implementation, here is the step-by-step roadmap on how to build the program from scratch and uncover the untapped ROI opportunities waiting to propel your initiatives to new heights.
Meet the Vercel AI Accelerator Participants
Meet the 40 startups and builders of the Vercel AI Accelerator.
The day my ping took countermeasures
Ping developers clearly put some thought into that. I wondered how far they went. Did they handle clock changes in both directions? Are the bad measurements excluded from the final statistics? How do they test the software?
Bring your own CA for client certificate validation with API Shield
API shield customers can now upload their own CA to use for client certificate validation. This ensures that only authorized clients and devices can make requests to your API endpoint or application.
Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023
On July 9, 2023, users in the Asia Pacific region experienced connection errors due to origin DNS resolution failures to .com and .net TLD nameservers
Subqueries and performance in PostgreSQL
This article discusses how subqueries perform in PostgreSQL and how to rewrite queries to improve their performance.
GitHub CLI project command is now generally available!
Level up your use of GitHub Projects on the command line and in GitHub Actions with the new project CLI command.
Demonstrating end-to-end traceability with pull requests
Reduce developer and auditor friction involved in demonstrating compliance and maintaining end-to-end traceability by focusing your efforts around the pull request.
Smashing Podcast Episode 63 With Chris Ferdinandi: What Is The Transitional Web? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about The Transitional Web. What is it, and how does it describe the technologies we’re using? Drew McLellan talks to Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Andy Budd, curator of UX London and Leading Design conferences, outlines some of the things that make a potentially amazing presentation, as well as a few big gotchas. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to get a speaking slot at a conference, this article is for you.
How Cloudflare Images addressed the aCropalypse vulnerability
Customers using Cloudflare Images or Image Resizing products are protected against the aCropalypse vulnerability.
Dropbox bug bounty program has paid out over $1,000,000
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Shines, Perspective, And Rotations: Fancy CSS 3D Effects For Images — Smashing Magazine
CSS has all kinds of tricks that are capable of turning images into neat, interactive elements. This article is a collection of fancy 3D effects for images that demonstrate those CSS powers.
Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view
A look at how we improved the readability of code on GitHub.
Keeping up with big shifts in tech
Deciding whether or not to adopt a tool can be hard enough, but what about when it seems to break the paradigms you know?
The UX Of Flight Searches: How We Challenged Industry Standards — Smashing Magazine
As of today, the world’s 50 top airlines have all agreed on the same flight search pattern. Yet the path to booking the right flight remains frustrating and confusing. Is there really only one solution? Explore the thought experiment which turned the seemingly untouchable pattern on its head and offered new food for thought.
GitHub achieves ISO/IEC 27701:2019, 27018:2019, and CSA STAR certifications
GitHub’s Information Security and Privacy Management System (ISPMS) has been certified against ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (PII Processor) and 27018:2019 standards, as well as the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). These standards and frameworks are internationally recognized for security and privacy program best practices.
Introduction to SELinux
SELinux is the most popular Linux Security Module used to isolate and protect system components from one another. Learn about different access control systems and Linux security as I introduce the foundations of a popular type system.
