ICYMI: CodeQL enhancements
Learn about CodeQL’s improved user experience and enhancements that let you scan new languages, detect new types of CWEs, and perform deeper analyses of your applications.
Writing Javascript without a build system
Writing Javascript without a build system
Inside Meta’s first smart glasses
What’s new: Meta is sharing the inside story of how it developed the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Why it matters: Creating Ray-Ban Stories meant Meta’s engineers had to take on new challenges to build smart glasses that married complex engineering dynamics. How do you make something that features cameras, microphones, audio, and touch controls, all […]
The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt - Shopify
Let’s talk about technical debt. Let’s talk about practical usable approaches for actually paying it down on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Let’s talk about what debt needs to be fixed now versus what can wait for better planning.
Putting Gears In Motion: Animating Cars With HTML And SVG — Smashing Magazine
SVG `` provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. In this article, Paul Scanlon shares an idea of how to use it by animating race cars in an infinite loop as easy as one-two-three!
Retrospectives Antipatterns
If you use retrospectives, or any kind of meeting where people are supposed to discuss and learn from their discussions, you will have experienced less efficient sessions from time to time. There is no wonder in that, and it happens to most people. This article describes and offers solutions for three of these unfortunate situations: skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't c
2022 Transparency Report
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.
Five Steps To Design Your Product With Powerful Storytelling — Smashing Magazine
How to apply powerful storytelling to design a compelling and memorable digital experience on a landing page. A case study of the [Smart Interface Design Patterns landing page](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/).
PostgreSQL: Finding the current timestamp
How can I find the current timestamp in PostgreSQL? Read more about real time, statement time and transaction time.
GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities
We’re launching new improvements to GitHub Copilot to make it more powerful and more responsive for developers.
GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
GitHub Copilot is the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool and we’re now offering it to every developer, team, organization, and enterprise.
ShopifyQL Notebooks: Simplifying Querying with Commerce Data Models - Shopify
We recently released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a powerful self-serve tool which enables merchants to explore their business metrics without any SQL expertise. Here’s how we used ShopifyQL and commerce data models to make it possible.
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead of the game
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
We're fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc.
Building a cross-platform runtime for AR
Meta’s augmented reality (AR) platform is one of the largest in the world, helping the billions of people on Meta’s apps experience AR every day and giving hundreds of thousands of creators a means to express themselves Meta’s AR tools are unique because they can be used on a wide variety of devices — from […]
Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix - Netflix TechBlog
We tackle some of the unique challenges of scaling multimodal machine learning models that operate on media assets (video, audio, and text).
More than five whys and "layer eight" problems
Print copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging have arrived
Print copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging have arrived
Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does
Discovering Primitive Objects In JavaScript (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In the first part of the series, Kirill Myshkin covers some aspects of JavaScript that help bring objects closer to primitive values, which allow benefiting from common language features that aren’t usually associated with an object, like comparisons and arithmetic operators.
Less code, better UX: Fetching data faster with the Next.js 13 App Router
Fetching data in Next.js 13 has been vastly improved with Server Components, smarter caching, and Loading UI.
