Thinking beyond SQL injection: OWASP tips for secure database access
When it comes to secure database access, there’s more to consider than SQL injections. OWASP Top 10 Proactive Control C3 offers guidance.
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more “Making the web better. With blocks!”
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Fixing the Dependency Confusion Vulnerability in 600+ Ruby Apps - Shopify
How Shopify solved the dependency confusion vulnerability in over 600 Ruby applications and created tailored large-scale migration tooling to make it easier.
Incorrect proxying of 24 hostnames on January 24, 2022
On January 24, 2022, as a result of an internal product migration, 24 hostnames (including www.cloudflare.com) that were actively proxied through the Cloudflare global network were mistakenly redirected to the wrong origin
Landscape of API Traffic
More than 50% of all traffic processed by Cloudflare is API-based, and it’s growing twice as fast as traditional web traffic. This growth calls for the development of dedicated security solutions.
Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks (Zig-Zag, Wavy, and More)
In this article, we look at modern CSS mask techniques to create three fancy CSS borders without having to use a background image.
Little Big Updates: 32 fixes and features for a better workflow
32 updates across everything from shortcuts to design features
Get ready for Campus TV Season 2: 🌱 New Beginnings
Learn new skills, build projects and meet like-minded students with the latest shows from the GitHub Education Stream Team.
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Don’t Underestimate The Software Administration UX — Smashing Magazine
Administration experience is often assumed or glossed over in software because 99% users never engage with it directly. Yet this is one critical area that, when used effectively, can tie closely to a company’s business strategy and affects the bottom line. In this article reveals how something as trivial as administration in both software and As-a-service can be either a booster or bottleneck to a
How to Make a Scroll-Triggered Animation With Basic JavaScript
Scroll-triggered events are very useful. There are libraries to create them but let's look at how to do it ourselves with a small handful of JavaScript.
Component Spacing in a Design System
How do you handle component spacing in a design system? Do you add margin directly to the components, or outsource it to another component?
Practical Examples of Data Normalization in PostgreSQL
Data normalization - Learn how to apply the theory from part 1 of Michał Małecki's blog to real life with practical examples.
Secure your GitHub account with GitHub Mobile 2FA
GitHub continues to improve account security and developer experience with a new 2FA mechanism in GitHub Mobile on iOS and Android.
Designing Uber - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Netflix: A Culture of Learning - Netflix TechBlog
Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, Colin McFarland, Mihir Tendulkar, and Travis Brooks Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of…
What’s New In DevTools? — Smashing Magazine
What’s new in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox? Patrick Brosset breaks it down with the latest features in DevTools across browsers. We hope you enjoy these updates, and that they’ll turn out useful when doing web development.
New Payment Links features to help you sell more, faster
Today, we’re adding new no-code Payment Links features to help businesses increase revenue and introducing an API to automate workflows.
Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Hosting my static sites with nginx
Hosting my static sites with nginx
Getting Started With CSS Cascade Layers — Smashing Magazine
We all have run into CSS collisions and sudden regressions in our codebases when new styles are written or 3rd-party styles are added. This is because of the interdependence of styles due to source order, specificity, and inheritance. Some ways to control the cascade have included methodologies like ITCSS and BEM and other newer native features. Cascade layers will be the ultimate native solution
Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage