Account Takeover Protection and WAF mitigations to help stop Global Brute Force Campaigns
Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.
It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them — Smashing Magazine
When writing front-end tests, you’ll find a lot of pitfalls along the way. In sum, they can lead to lousy maintainability, slow execution time, and — in the worst case — tests you cannot trust. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this article, I will talk about common mistakes developers make, at least in my experience, and, of course, how to avoid them. Testing doesn’t need to be painful, afte
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20,000 startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
Supercharge your Vercel Projects with Integrations
Connect your Vercel project to databases, monitoring tools, commerce providers, developer tools, and more.
Cloudflare’s Network Doubles CPU Capacity and Expands Into Ten New Cities in Four New Countries
Cloudflare's global network is always expanding. We've recently added ten new cities and four new countries to our network.
When a Click is Not Just a Click
The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element
Fixing a Bug in Low-Resolution Mode
I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on
GitHub Copilot research recitation
GitHub Copilot: Parrot or Crow? A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions.
The State Of Web Workers In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer
The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Chromium spelling and grammar features
Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we
What does `font: 110%/1.4 system-ui` mean?
I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it's not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger
:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post
Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
Today, we’re launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.
Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that. Additionally, we pair it up with Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration for the best user and developer experience. And, of course, benchmark those results!
Smashing Podcast Episode 40 With Mike Cavaliere: What Is Chakra UI For React? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavaliere to find out.
System *Things
I think we're all largely aware of colors like this:
Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari
Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn't resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome
Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform
To make some terminology clear here:
Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid
Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Asicmon: A platform agnostic observability system for AI accelerators
Accelerators are special-purpose hardware devices optimized for specific applications, like AI prediction and video encoding. And Application-specific hardware platforms play an important role in meeting the growing latency and compute demands of workloads like deep learning, content understanding, and video encoding. At Facebook, the inevitable rise in use of accelerators in our data centers has
Driving towards an open internet ecosystem to help tackle the digital divide
Connectivity is an integral part of Facebook’s mission to bring people closer together, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the demand for critical internet access. According to the latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index, nearly 70 percent of people around the world believe that increased internet usage in all aspects of their lives […]
Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how you can create custom Emmet snippets in Visual Studio Code to help you improve your front-end workflows even more. It takes some time to create these snippets, but it’s worth the effort because you can customize Emmet to your personal preferences, automate repetitive tasks and sav
Seven years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
GitHub’s bug bounty program is now a mature component of how we improve product security. We’re excited to highlight some achievements (and interesting vulnerabilities)!
