Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
Today we’re announcing Private Access Tokens, a completely invisible, private way to validate that real users are visiting your site
Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
Start your open source journey with Community Exchange
Are you a student who is new to open source or just starting your maintainer journey? GitHub Global Campus’ Community Exchange can help you make that first contribution or grow your open source project.
Introducing Zelos: A ZooKeeper API leveraging Delos
Within large-scale services, durable storage, distributed leases, and coordination primitives such as distributed locks, semaphores, and events should be strongly consistent. At Meta, we have historically used Apache ZooKeeper as a centralized service for these primitives. However, as Meta’s workload has scaled, we’ve found ourselves pushing the limits of ZooKeeper’s capabilities. Modifying and tu
Cache made consistent
Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-replicated caches. It’s thanks to many caches working behind the scenes that you can read this blog post right now. Phil Karlton famously said, “There […]
Simplify Your Color Palette With CSS Color-Mix() — Smashing Magazine
Defining a color palette and theme can be a lot of work, especially when considering contextual colors for elements’ various states. While CSS `color-mix()` *only* blends two colors together, this little function may be the key to maximizing your colors without maximum effort.
Let’s celebrate the 8th anniversary of Project Galileo!
We started Project Galileo in 2014 with the simple idea that organizations that work in vulnerable yet essential areas of human rights and democracy building should not be taken down because of cyber
Figma and Chromebook: Empowering the next generation of designers
Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses our new partnership with Google Chromebooks
One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world.
Building Background Effects for Clips
Last September, Slack released Clips, allowing users to capture video, audio, and screen recordings in messages to help distributed teams connect and share their work. We’ve continued iterating on Clips since its release, adding thumbnail selection, background blur, and most recently, background image replacement. This blog post provides a deep dive into our implementation of…
Digital Museums For Digital History — Smashing Magazine
Computer technologies have simplified the process of recording historical events, technological breakthroughs, contemporary art, and everyday life. However, the notion of digital archiving can be deceptive. Often our technical footprints are carved in sand rather than stone.
HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used
Introducing GitHub Skills
Today, we’re announcing GitHub Skills, a new learning experience to help you throughout your GitHub journey.
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Rust community
The Rust community can now discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.
The Case For Prisma In The Jamstack — Smashing Magazine
Jamstack has surged in popularity over the past few years as an approach to building websites. As developers are building Jamstack sites, finding a well-integrated method to interact with a database can be a major stumbling block. In this article, Sam Poder explores how Prisma integrates with the Jamstack and why it’s a great solution for Serverless databases in JavaScript or TypeScript-based proj
Cloudflare observations of Confluence zero day (CVE-2022-26134)
UTC Atlassian released a Security Advisory relating to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center products.
Cloudflare customers are protected from the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134
On June 02, 2022 Atlassian released a security advisory for their Confluence Server and Data Center applications, highlighting a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability.
A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub
CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows.
Making technical interviews better for everyone
How to interview for skill, not spare time.
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will be discussing how typefaces work, ways to test typefaces, and broader typographic issues. Though this article is slightly high-end and academic, fear not. The content will be of interest, especially for committed typeface designers and typographers. If you like complex issues and problems, this is for you.
What’s new in security and user management for GitHub Enterprise
Learn how you can securely manage users with the latest ships for GitHub Enterprise.
GitHub All In: Our first student cohort and what’s next
Join us on the GitHub All In journey.
How To Build A Group Chat App With Vanilla JS, Twilio And Node.js — Smashing Magazine
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. The front-end will be built using Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS. It will allow users to log in, make new groups, invite friends, and trade messages. By the end, you should have a working app where multiple pa
How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0
Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the
