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With the explosion in popularity of the Jamstack has come the proliferation of new options for managing your content. Headless has become quite the hot topic in development circles of late, but where do you start if you are embarking on a new project and haven’t yet decided where to store and organize your content? In this article, David Eglin will give you a little bit of a primer on the CMS land
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter in order to serve more traffic and accommodate a more resilient platform architecture. We adopted a replicated Redis backend with…
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used […]
In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time around, let’s look at vanilla JavaScript code snippets — resources and lightweight libraries to help you solve a problem without a large overhead or third-party dependencies.
What problems do people solve with strace?
The COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on phishing and cyberattack lures is clear. Area 1 Security identified over 2 million phishing spoofs that exploited the World Health Organization between May 2020 and February 2021.
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations.
Today, we’re announcing a new feature within the Teams Dash. We called it “Home”. We created Home with a simple goal in mind: design an adaptive and informative landing page where users can see a round-up of their environment.
Quick, constant change is a given on the web. It is often one of its greatest strengths. As ever, though, there is a balance to find. Although longevity takes a different form online, its value is immeasurable.
It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those little cheap-o
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.
By systemizing the fundamentals of typography and space, and leaning into the inherent fluidity of the web, a free new **CSS tool** called [Utopia](https://utopia.fyi/) offers an alternative to breakpoint-driven design. This shared language between design and development streamlines communication and encourages the creation of bespoke constraints for your projects to ensure consistent and harmonio
When a design system first starts out, the promise of visual consistency glows bright — the ideal product would have only one set of buttons, a unified typography scale, and elements that look the same no matter which designer made the design or which developer programmed them to be real and deployed.
These days, I don’t need an alarm clock – I get woken up bright and early by my daughter! I live in Jersey City, just across the river from the Spotify NY office, and often used to take the ferry into work. But now, there’s no need to commute – instead, I squeeze in an hour of yoga whilst Leya is entertained by her dad.
Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind of search, they already have something in mind, whether they come looking for one thing in particular or are open to becoming inspired. Spotify Search is no exception, helping a vast majority of users find joy through search, regardless of the language or method used to se
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player.
As of today, Durable Objects beta access is available to anyone with a Cloudflare Workers® subscription.
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced which brands attackers exploited for phishing campaigns in 2021. For example, the World Health Organization and DocuSign made Area 1 Security’s 2021 March Hackness “Not-so-Sweet 16.”
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to
I would hope all our web designer/developer spidey senses trigger when the solution to an accessibility problem isn't "fix the issue" but rather "add extra
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I'm just taking notes
What it took to build and ship a (seemingly) simple user request
A tool to spy on your DNS queries: dnspeep
