Introducing storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
Make Your May Magnificent (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
May is almost here, so what better occasion could there be for some fresh and inspiring desktop and mobile wallpapers? Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools
This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress
Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials.
Write Better CSS By Borrowing Ideas From JavaScript Functions — Smashing Magazine
Many problems with website layouts happen when we don’t write CSS with the same care we’d use when writing a JavaScript function. Let’s look at how we can borrow best practices and ideas from writing good JavaScript functions for writing CSS.
Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval - Netflix TechBlog
Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. While actionability is subjective and may vary by use-case, reliability is non-negotiable. In other words, false…
Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet — Smashing Magazine
Practical guidelines to prevent rage taps and rage clicks with accessible tap targets for icons, links and buttons — on desktop and on mobile. With useful techniques and guidelines.
CLI tricks every developer should know
Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers.
SLP: a new DDoS amplification vector in the wild
Researchers have recently published the discovery of a new DDoS reflection/amplification attack vector leveraging the SLP protocol. Cloudflare expects the prevalence of SLP-based DDoS attacks to rise in the coming weeks
Using ChatGPT as a technical writing assistant
An experienced technical author explores using ChatGPT to assist with a number of writing projects. He finds ChatGPT can provide time-savings through drafts and prompting for additional content, but lacks accuracy and depth - as well as suffering from bubbly optimism. Overall it is useful if you work iteratively, asking for small chunks with well-crafted prompts.
Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May!
Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity!
Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life.
What Does a Technical Author Look Like?
Asking Stable Diffusion for "portrait of technical author"
The “const” Deception
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between “assignment” and “mutation” in JavaScript.
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices — Smashing Magazine
In this piece, a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance. Let’s explore what to look out for with this omnipresent piece of the web interface.
Improving Instant Payouts
Stripe is rolling out new tools that enable you to start, run, and manage an Instant Payouts program with a faster integration process, streamlined monetization, and no-code build options.
Why I joined Cloudflare as Chief Security Officer
As someone who is passionate about technology, security, and its potential to improve our lives, I knew that I wanted to work for a company that shared those values.
Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Sarah Oke Okolo explores the importance of Web Workers for multithreading on the web, including the limitations and considerations of using them and the strategies for mitigating potential issues associated with them.
Oxy: Fish/Bumblebee/Splicer subsystems to improve reliability
We split a proxy application into multiple services to improve development agility and reliability. This blog also shares some common patterns we are leveraging to design a system supporting zero-downtime restart
Secure by default: recommendations from the CISA’s newest guide, and how Cloudflare follows these principles to keep you secure
In this post we’ll review some of the authors’ recommendations, discuss how Cloudflare applies these principles to the products that we build, and provide some suggestions on what other organizations can do to support similar initiatives internally
Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta
Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better.
Building And Dockerizing A Node.js App With Stateless Architecture With Help From Kinsta — Smashing Magazine
Dockerizing your Node.js apps can lead to smashing success—offering consistency, easy debugging, and hassle-free dependency management. When you host this container on Kinsta, you also benefit from high-speed performance, robust security, and top-notch scalability. By combining these two, you
How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic
DDR4 memory organization and how it affects memory bandwidth
In this blog, we will study the concepts of memory rank and organization, and how memory rank and organization affect the memory bandwidth performance by reviewing some benchmarking test results
