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In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods.
Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and
This article focuses adding WebGL effects to <image> and <video> elements of an already “completed” web page. While there are a few helpful
GitHub Actions are like free computers.
We've come across many clients who are interested in taking the computational notebooks developed by their data scientists, and putting them directly into the codebase of production applications. Data science ideas do need to move out of notebooks and into production, but trying to deploy that notebooks as a code artifact breaks a multitude of good software practices. Predictably, that results in
Day 8: Start with something that works
What it is: FioSynth is a benchmark tool used to automate the execution of storage workload suites and to parse results. It contains a base set of block level storage workloads, synthesized from production I/O traces, that simulate a diverse range of Facebook production services. It is useful for predicting how a storage device will […]
Working with native HTML Form Controls has been such a pain point for web developers, from styling to extending them, the limitations are so great that countless dev hours have been spent recreating them. But why are form controls so difficult to work with? In this article, Stephanie dives into the past by going back to the beginning of HTML and tracing the evolution of form controls through to th
As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale.
Tracking changes is a quintessential copyediting feature for comparing versions of content. While we’re used to tracking changes in a word processing
It's no secret that CSS-Tricks is a WordPress site. And as such, we like to keep things WordPress-y, like enabling the block editor and creating some custom
The latest version of GitHub Desktop includes split diffs, PRs with Actions status, more control over stashing, and discarding changes from files.
Meet our new practical guide on everything you need to know about TypeScript, its type system, and all its benefits in 50 lessons. Jump to table of contents and get the book right away.
We’re asking what it looks like to dogfood the Jamstack at Netlify. Can you deploy an entire app to a CDN? Drew McLellan talks to Netlify Staff Engineer Leslie Cohn-Wein to find out.
Announcing a Free Tier for Workers KV that opens up global, low-latency data storage to every developer on the Workers platform.
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how building trusted relationships resulted in an improved security posture and better solution for one of our customers.
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to
Learn to build your first Dropbox Extension using sample code in node.js
As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material…
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
