In good company: How publishers use Figma to help design the news
At trusted titles like The New York Times, The Economist, and The Minnesota Star Tribune, great design can support great journalism.
Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction? — Smashing Magazine
Eduard Kuric discusses the significance and role of context in the creation of relevant follow-up questions for unmoderated usability testing, how an AI tasked with interactive follow-up should be validated for its capability to incorporate such context, and what the potential — along with the risks — of AI interaction in usability testing.
End of the road for PostgreSQL streaming replication?
In this blog posting you can read more about PostgreSQL streaming replication. It tells you about how to deal with it and how it works.
Protecting user data through source code analysis at scale
Meta’s Anti Scraping team focuses on preventing unauthorized scraping as part of our ongoing work to combat data misuse. In order to protect Meta’s changing codebase from scraping attacks, we have introduced static analysis tools into our workflow. These tools allow us to detect potential scraping vectors at scale across our Facebook, Instagram, and even […]
Mangled names get me to open my eyes a little
How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications — Smashing Magazine
The OWASP vulnerabilities list is the perfect starting point for web developers looking to strengthen their security expertise. Let’s discover how these vulnerabilities materialize in full-stack web applications and how to prevent them.
Helping civil society monitor cyber attacks with the CyberPeaceTracer and Cloudflare Email Security
At Cloudflare, we’re proud to collaborate with the CyberPeace Institute by powering its latest initiative, the CyberPeace Tracer, a platform that enables civil society organizations to proactively report cyber threats.
The What If Machine: Bringing the "Iffy" Future of CSS into the Present
My thesis for today's article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.
Searching for the cause of hung tasks in the Linux kernel
The Linux kernel can produce a hung task warning. Searching the Internet and the kernel docs, you can find a brief explanation that the process is stuck in the uninterruptible state. That explains the warning’s meaning, but doesn’t provide the reason it occurred. In this blog post we’re going to explore how the warning works.
Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts
A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.
Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day
Show your appreciation to the open source projects you love. You can help provide much-needed support to the critical but often underfunded projects that keep your infrastructure running smoothly. And remember—every day is a perfect day to support open source! 💖
Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
Today, we’re announcing our most ambitious subsea cable endeavor yet: Project Waterworth. Once complete, the project will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km (longer than the Earth’s circumference), making it the world’s longest subsea cable project using the highest-capacity technology available. Project Waterworth will bring industry-leading connectivity to the U.S., India, Brazi
Scroll Driven Animations Notebook
Adam's such a mad scientist with CSS. He's been putting together a series of "notebooks" that make it easy for him to demo code. He's got one for gradient
How to add a directory to your PATH
Looking back at our Bug Bounty program in 2024
In 2024, our bug bounty program awarded more than $2.3 million in bounties, bringing our total bounties since the creation of our program in 2011 to over $20 million. As part of our defense-in-depth strategy, we continued to collaborate with the security research community in the areas of GenAI, AR/VR, ads tools, and more. We […]
How To Test And Measure Content In UX — Smashing Magazine
The goal of content design is to reduce confusion and improve clarity. Yet often it’s difficult to pinpoint a problem as user feedback tends to be not specific enough. But: we can use a few simple techniques to assess how users understand and perceive content. Let’s take a look. Part of [How To Measure UX & Design Impact](https://measure-ux.com/) by yours truly.
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())
We've been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since... checks notes... 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the
GitHub Availability Report: January 2025
In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub
How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.
Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time — Smashing Magazine
Optimizing web performance means looking beyond surface-level metrics. Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial, but improving it requires more than tweaking server response time. Matt Zeunert breaks down what TTFB is, what causes its poor score, and why reducing server response time alone isn’t enough for optimization and often won’t be the most impactful change you can make to your website.
AI enhancements to Adaptive Acceptance
Stripe’s AI-powered Adaptive Acceptance increases payment acceptance by recovering false declines. Recent AI upgrades improved transaction retry accuracy, leading to a record $6 billion recovered in 2024—a 60% year-over-year increase.
Bridging the gap between design and code with v0
Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
This blog examines how diverse cultural celebrations — from Western Christmas to Orthodox and Lunar New Year festivities — shape global Internet traffic, revealing consistent offline patterns, and compares these trends with those observed in 2023.
