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In 2020 we launched Instagram Messaging (referred to in this post simply as “Messaging”) for personal desktop computers. We believe that this feature will improve everyday experiences and enable new use cases for all of our desktop web users. In this post, we go through some of our overall learnings from our desktop users, and […]
Cloudflare Deployment in Guam - Delivering a Better Internet for Faraway Pacific Ocean Archipelagos Residents
The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) due to imprecise observed solar time (UT1) and the long-term slowdown in the Earth’s rotation. This periodic adjustment mainly benefits scientists and astronomers as it allows […]
We may tend to think largely in terms of end-users when it comes to HTML. However, writing HTML that is easy to understand and self-explanatory for whoever will work on it is sufficient reason to use the correct semantic element. In this article, Olushuyi explores a mental model that helps you decide between the `` and `` elements when writing documents. You will explore how grouping content affec
Design is one of those disciplines that has a very low barrier to entry. But what isn’t so easy is acquiring the softer skills that you’ll need when entering this job market. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to a mentor or a guide, which is why we often have to rely on “working it out” by ourselves. In this article, Luis Ouriach tries to help you in this task so that you can walk into the de
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the
The hidden challenges of a (seemingly) simple request
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.
Our journey building a message classification model for Shopify Inbox with the data-centric approach, from defining our classification taxonomy to training our annotators on labeling.
Every codebase starts off small and modern. While it’s still small, the team can easily keep it up-to-date with current standards, upgrade libraries, and handle any code hygiene issues that may arise. Updating the API of a framework you built is easy when it’s only called in a handful of places. However, as the codebase…
Now that some time has passed since the team returned from SmashingConf San Francisco, we’ve had time to think about the event and wrap up some of the things we all learned. In this article, we would like to share our perspective as organizers and take a look at our upcoming events.
The Build Output API enables any framework, including your own custom-built solution, to take advantage of Vercel’s infrastructure building blocks.
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.
What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
At Meta, our Bug Bounty program is an important element of our “defense-in-depth” approach to security. Our internal product security teams investigate every bug submission to assess its maximum potential impact so that we can always reward external researchers based on both the bug they found and our further internal research assessment of where else […]
Our inaugural Bug Bulletin report […]
Ebun breaks down how she used a not-so-great performance review to set clear development goals for herself and increase alignment with her lead, ultimately leading to a successful next review.
Optimizing the size of images can have a bigger impact on performance than all other areas combined. In this article, Louis Lazaris covers different tools available for reducing the size of images. You might already know that Smashing Magazine has published the book Image Optimization by Addy Osmani, which covers this topic in full detail. But consider this post a compliment to the book, as this w
We learnt a lot about Kafka on the way to 1 trillion messages, and built some interesting internal tools to ease adoption that will be explored in this blog post
gexec PostgreSQL poweruser practice: Learn how to use the gexec command and the `||` operator to get the best results out of your psql.
From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.
A crash in a development version of flowtrackd (the daemon that powers our Advanced TCP Protection) highlighted that libxdp (and specifically the AF_XDP part) was not Linux network namespace aware.
July’s Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.
