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On September 29th 2021, the Apache Security team was alerted of a path traversal vulnerability being actively exploited (zero-day) against Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49. Customers running the affected Apache version, should update to 2.5.51 as soon as possible.
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That's an enticing title to me. I've had
A good essay from Jean Yang.
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I've said in the past that I don't think server-side languages haven't quite nailed "building in components" as
Today we will be learning how to build a tennis trivia app using Next.js and Netlify. This technology stack has become my go-to on many projects. It allows
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories…
Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let
Today, we are announcing Waiting Room’s general availability and several new features that have user experience in mind — an alternative queueing method and support for custom web/mobile applications!
Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place.
In Mon Cheri Bridals, LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Cloudflare’s motion for summary judgment and concluded that no reasonable jury could find Cloudflare liable for the alleged copyright infringement at issue.
KendoReact can save you boatloads of time because it offers pre-built componentry you can use in your app right away. They look nice, but more importantly,
Importing OpenStreetMap data into PostGIS is time-consuming. Download OpenStreetMap offers two dataset types periodically served as sql dumps.
Giving back to open source projects is a great way to practice skills you don’t get to use in your day job. Check out ways to get involved!
Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the `npm audit` protocol. This means that every version of the npm CLI that supports security audits is now talking directly to the GitHub Advisory Database.
Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development Engineering department supports engineers throughout Slack that develop, build, test, and release high-quality services to Slack’s customers. In this article, we share how teams at Slack evolved our internal tooling and made infrastructure bets.…
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We are excited to announce that Enterprise customers now have the ability to test custom uploaded certificates in a staging environment before pushing them to production.
In HTML, there is a very clear input type for dealing with passwords:
Shopify optimization expert Meinolf Sellmann collaborated with his former colleagues to win the AI4TSP Competition that focuses on solutions to the Travelling Salesperson Problem.
Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. Today, Stephanie Eckles will look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how you can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs.
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies.
In this article I'm going to talk about branching strategies and different types of Git branches. I’m also going to introduce you to two common branching workflows: Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s…
Tools to explore BGP
