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“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a Tech Tree, a human-readable selection of works describing s
Blocked: How to Ask For Help as an Intern
You grinded LeetCode, nailed the interview process, and got an internship at an amazing company. Congrats! But now it’s week three of your internship, you have no idea how anything works, and you’ve written one line of code in the past two days. How do you ask for help? Whom do you ask for help?…
Smashing Podcast Episode 53 With Rémi Parmentier: Can HTML Email Use Modern CSS? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about HTML email. Do we still have to design like we would for IE5? Vitaly talks to expert Rémi Parmentier to find out.
What’s New In Gatsby 2022? — Smashing Magazine
Gatsby has evolved quite dramatically in the last two years. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains what Gatsby can do today, and how he used some of the new features when upgrading his personal website from Gatsby 2 to Gatsby 4.
Introducing Cloudflare Adaptive DDoS Protection - our new traffic profiling system for mitigating DDoS attacks
Cloudflare’s new Adaptive DDoS Protection system learns your unique traffic patterns and constantly adapts to protect you against sophisticated DDoS attacks
Introducing Advanced DDoS Alerts
Cloudflare’s Advanced DDoS Alerts provide tailored and actionable notifications in real-time
Account WAF now available to Enterprise customers
Do you manage more than a single domain? If the answer is yes, now you can manage a single WAF configuration for all your enterprise domains
Improved Access Control: Domain Scoped Roles are now generally available
Starting today, it is possible to scope your users’ access to specific domains with Domain Scoped Roles becoming generally available
5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub Universe
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!
5 tips for prioritizing Dependabot alerts
Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.
Scaling data ingestion for machine learning training at Meta
Many of Meta’s products, such as search, ads ranking and Marketplace, utilize AI models to continuously improve user experiences. As the performance of hardware we use to support training infrastructure increases, we need to scale our data ingestion infrastructure accordingly to handle workloads more efficiently. GPUs, which are used for training infrastructure, tend to double […]
Building A Retro Draggable Web Component With Lit — Smashing Magazine
In today’s article, Andrico Karoulla explains how to create a cool draggable effect by listening to the drag events and writing some custom logic inside the handlers.
Welcome to GA Week
Over the course of the next week, you’re going to hear about Cloudflare products that are out of beta and generally available
How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
Rethinking Star Ratings For Readers — Smashing Magazine
How can companies change their rating and review systems to better benefit users? Matt Athanasiou shares some steps to improve the experience of reviewing literature and other products — while also building stronger connections.
Using Cloudflare R2 as an apt/yum repository
Host your apt/yum repositories like how Cloudflare Tunnel does. Here's how
More Details on `details`
A lot of chatter around the ol' <details> and <summary> elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation about the element's display
A new collaboration with Adobe
Today, we’re announcing the exciting news that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe.
What is a Full Stack Data Scientist? - Shopify
At Shopify, we've embraced full stack data science, so we chatted with our data scientists to share what it means to be a full stack data scientist.
Headless In Times Of Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
Do you want to make your new website as accessible as possible? Amazing, that’s a great mindset! Let’s have a closer look at the factors you should take into consideration when choosing a content management system (CMS) in terms of web accessibility.
How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
We’re using TTVC to measure performance on the web—and now you can too
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.
How thermal simulation helps optimize Meta’s data centers
Data center optimization has always played an important role at Meta. By optimizing our data centers’ environmental controls, we can reduce our environmental impact while ensuring that people can always depend on our products. With most other complex systems, optimization of energy consumption is a trial-and-error process. But experimenting on any component of a live […]
Managing React Form State Using the React-Form Library - Shopify
We’ll delve further into Shopify’s open source Quilt repo that contains 72 npm packages, one of which is the react-form library.
JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see what they are, where we should use them, and how to use them.
Ethereum Gateway support for Görli + Sepolia Testnets and the Ethereum Merge
Today we are excited to announce support for the upcoming Ethereum Merge and Sepolia and Görli testnet support
WebKit Features in Safari 16.0
Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and
What is an inner join in SQL? And what is an outer join?
Joins: Learn how to use an inner join and an outer join in PostgreSQL today by reading our tutorial. Also covers semi and full joins.
Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.
Join GitHub at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022
We’re thrilled to be back at the Grace Hopper Celebration at Open Source Day, the largest celebration of women in open source. Stop by and say hi at one of our workshops.
Our Hybrid and Collaborative Summer @ Slack’s Data Eng
An internship at Slack is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, meet other engineers, and build cool stuff. This was the reality for three interns on the Data Engineering team this summer. Throughout our time in this flex-work environment, we got to experience both the wide reach of the virtual environment and the benefits…
Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way that’s helpful to the many disabled people who use [assistive technology](https://makeitfable.com/glossary/?utm_source=Smashing+Magazine&utm_medium=sponsored+content&utm_campaign=Upskill&utm_term=Fable&utm_content=Sept2022) to navigate the Internet. Let’s dive in!
Using the latest Next.js 12.3 features on Vercel
Vercel natively supports and extends Next.js 12.3, allowing teams to improve their workflow and iterate faster.
Building Interactive Figma Widgets
Figma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins.
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality user experience on web applications. MemLab has helped engineers and developers at Meta improve user experience and make significant improvements in memory optimization. We hope it will […]
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists” (Deck With 166 Cards) — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists”, a deck of 166 checklist cards to help you design and build better interfaces, faster. With accordions, mega-drop-downs, data tables, carousels, and everything in-between.
Building a viral application to visualize train routes
How Benjamin Td built a viral application called Chronotrains to visualize train routes across Europe.
SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you?
We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.
Leveraging Go Worker Pools to Scale Server-side Data Sharing - Shopify
How Shopify scaled our Server Pixels service to increase its event processing performance by 170%.
One Formula To Rule Them All: The ROI Of A Design System — Smashing Magazine
Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses, and virtually every major player works with one. Still, they can sometimes be hard to sell to management. Here’s a ready-to-use formula to calculate the ROI of any design system.
How to run A/B tests with Next.js and Vercel
Learn how to run A/B tests with Next.js and Vercel Edge Middleware.
Curve fitting for charts: better visualizations for Vercel Analytics
How we made your Vercel Analytics data more actionable to drive performance for your application.
GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus.
Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico
Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.
UX Checklists For Interface Designers — Smashing Magazine
UX checklists with best design practices, accessibility guidelines, design system checklist, tables UX checklist, UX research methods, form design UX and flowcharts.
Overlapping Bar Charts
As the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us to compare
GitHub Availability Report: August 2022
In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.
Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
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I've struck out on my own again to focus on my most ambitious project yet.
Open-sourcing TAOBench: An end-to-end social network benchmark
What the research is: The continued emergence of large social network applications has introduced a scale of data and query volume that challenges the limits of existing data stores. However, few benchmarks accurately simulate these request patterns, leaving researchers in short supply of tools to evaluate and improve upon these systems. To address this issue, […]
Network Entitlement: A contract-based network sharing solution
Meta’s overall network usage and traffic volume has increased as we’ve continued to add new services. Due to the scarcity of fiber resources, we’re developing an explicit resource reservation framework to effectively plan, manage, and operate the shared consumption of network bandwidth, which will help us keep up with demand and limit network disruptions during […]
Four Approaches to Debugging Server-side WebAssembly - Shopify
While it has many benefits for customizing business logic, WebAssembly poses new challenges when debugging. In this post, Jeff covers four approaches that can be taken to step debug code that will be running in a WebAssembly environment.
Cloudflare named a Leader by Gartner
Gartner has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in the 2022 "Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)" report that evaluated 11 vendors for their ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’
Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time
In a nutshell, my project is nothing but a carefully scripted long CSS animation. Plus a few instances of the checkbox hack.
Join us for OctogatosConf 2022
Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices.
