2023: Year in review
2023: Year in review
The Magic Of New Beginnings (January 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s start into the new year with a little inspiration boost: wallpapers created with love by the community for the community. Happy 2024!
GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.
Making Sense Of “Senseless” JavaScript Features — Smashing Magazine
JavaScript may be the most popular client-side language in the world, but it’s far from perfect and not without its quirks. Juan Diego Rodriguez examines several “absurd” JavaScript eccentricities and explains how they made it into the language as well as how to avoid them in your own code.
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
A year-end wrapup of responses to reader feedback
Have your data and hide it too: an introduction to differential privacy
Providing software and web services that deliver value for users often requires measuring user behavior. In this blog we discuss emerging cryptographic and statistical techniques that enable collecting such measurements without violating user privacy
The View Transitions API And Delightful UI Animations (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
The View Transitions API is a new — but game-changing — feature that allows us to do the types of reactive state-based UI and page transitions that have traditionally been exclusive to JavaScript frameworks. In the first part of this mini two-part series, Adrian Bece thoroughly explains why we need the API and demonstrates its basic usage.
A return to US net neutrality rules?
Cloudflare has long supported the open Internet principles that are behind net neutrality, and we still do today. That’s why we filed comments with the FCC expressing our support for these principles
The 2023 PGconf.EU in Prague
The PGConf.eu took place 2023 in Prague. It was a great time with other CYBERTEC members and of course interesting topics.
The developer experience of the Frontend Cloud
Vercel's Frontend Cloud offers a complete Developer Experience (DX) Platform, to automate complex systems and offer best-in-market iteration velocity.
Don’t let the cyber grinch ruin your winter break: Project Cybersafe Schools protects small school districts in the US
In August of this year, as part of the White House Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit, Cloudflare announced Project Cybersafe Schools to help support eligible K-12 public school district
Broken foreign keys: how can that happen in PostgreSQL?
Do you have a broken foreign key? This article shows possible causes for broken foreign keys, so that you know what to avoid in the future.
2023 in Review
A review of what happened in the life of Kent C. Dodds in 2023
Launching Epic Web
The story of how Epic Web came to be
New CSS Viewport Units Do Not Solve The Classic Scrollbar Problem — Smashing Magazine
Since the introduction of CSS viewport units in 2012, many of us have been using `width: 100vw` as a way to set an element’s width to the full width of the viewport. But, as Šime Vidas explains in this deep dive, `100vw` does not always represent the full width of the viewport due to differences in how browsers handle scrollbars.
Vercel at AWS re:Invent 2023: The Frontend Cloud, Generative UI, iteration velocity
Go composable with Vercel's Frontend Cloud to unlock faster iteration velocity, from AI-ready architecture and instant previews to generative UI with v0 that turns text prompts into production code.
How we organize and get things done with SERVICEOWNERS
Take CODEOWNERS and GitHub teams to the next level. Learn about how GitHub engineering solves the age old problem of who owns what.
From migration tools to updates to Enterprise Managed Users, what’s new in GitHub Enterprise
Read a round-up of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Enterprise.
Release Radar
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the…
How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads
On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work. While the app’s production […]
AI debugging at Meta with HawkEye
HawkEye is the powerful toolkit used internally at Meta for monitoring, observability, and debuggability of the end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflow that powers ML-based products. HawkEye supports recommendation and ranking models across several products at Meta. Over the past two years, it has facilitated order of magnitude improvements in the time spent debugging production issues. […] Read
Australia’s cybersecurity strategy is here and Cloudflare is all in
In support of the Australian Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 (The Strategy), we want to share how we can help empower Australian organizations and individuals to become more secure
Integrating Turnstile with the Cloudflare WAF to challenge fetch requests
By editing or creating a new Turnstile widget with “Pre-Clearance” enabled, Cloudflare customers can now use Turnstile to issue a challenge when a page’s HTML loads, and enforce that all valid responses have a valid Turnstile token
Migrating App Permissions and Access Tokens
Learn to migrate your legacy Dropbox app to the new scoped app model. This document guides you through permissions, scopes, short-lived tokens, and refresh tokens.
Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
Smashing the stack for pain and misery
Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Part 2 concentrates on the key points from Luis’ framework and practical tips about managing a design system that should be both robust and easy to adopt.
What you should know about PostgreSQL minor upgrades
Read all there is to know about minor upgrade in PostgreSQL: how, why and when to install them, and what if your software vendor forbids it.
Using DNS to estimate the worldwide state of IPv6 adoption
In the last decade, IPv6 adoption on the client side went from under 1% to somewhere in the high 30 to low 40 percent, depending on who’s reporting, but there’s also the other end of the equation: the server side
Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings
Learn about how we run a scalable vulnerability management program built on top of GitHub.
Stripe Sessions 2024—come join us
Stripe Sessions takes place April 23–25 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
Software And Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: November 2023
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Securing our home labs: Frigate code review
This blog post describes two linked vulnerabilities found in Frigate, an AI-powered security camera manager, that could have enabled an attacker to silently gain remote code execution.
Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered by CodeQL
We’ve added new improvements to default setup, including automatically scheduling scans on repositories and support for all CodeQL covered languages.
CSS Scroll Snapping Aligned With Global Page Layout: A Full-Width Slider Case Study — Smashing Magazine
Have you run into a situation where you need the padding of one element to align with the padding of another element? In this article, Brecht De Ruyte demonstrates the issue with a full-width slider component that breaks out of the main page container and shares a couple of techniques to keep it visually aligned with other elements on the page.
Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review
The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level...
From Google to Generative AI: ranking top Internet services in 2023
Building on similar reports we’ve done over the past two years, we have compiled a ranking of the top Internet properties of 2023
When net zero isn’t enough: Deepening our commitment to climate action by investing in the future
With our biggest ever investment in sustainability, Figma ensures that vanguard technologies the future depends on will continue to scale.
Our Journey Migrating to AWS IMDSv2
We are heavy users of Amazon Compute Compute Cloud (EC2) at Slack — we run approximately 60,000 EC2 instances across 17 AWS regions while operating hundreds of AWS accounts. A multitude of teams own and manage our various instances. The Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is an on-instance component that can be used to gain an…
As payments evolve, enterprises turn to Stripe
Enterprise businesses turn to Stripe for innovation and reliability. Stripe has invested in enterprise payment solutions such as payment optimizations, payment method coverage, faster payouts, multiprocessor support, and streamlined account structure.
Issue no.2: Rework your work
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Test Driven Development
A Chain Reaction
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Design systems can be of immense help, but failure to adopt them invalidates the hard work that goes into building the thing in the first place! In this two-part series of articles, Luis shares his experience with design systems and how you can overcome the potential pitfalls.
Enforcing device trust on code changes
How the Figma security engineering team protects GitHub release branches.
Why cultivating a prototyping culture will help you build better products
Prototyping, once an eleventh-hour nice-to-have, has risen to become a critical tool at multiple points in the product development workflow.
Top 10 things we shipped this year
From the Handoff Hero to the Scroll-stopper, we crown our favorite updates and features rolled out in 2023.
Figma’s 2023 Handoff
Signing off to 2023 and bringing the best of Figma into 2024.
From Slack-lash to Toggle Tax: The new vernacular of work
New norms call for new terms. Our new unofficial work term glossary uncovers how work defined us and how we define it.
Shipping hype: PMs on what it takes to bring AI features to market
Explore how to build AI features that users trust with insights from Product Managers at Figma, Duolingo, Asana, and LinkedIn.
Tap into shortcuts with a new custom keyboard from Figma x Work Louder
How mechanical keyboards unite joy and efficiency, and a look at our collaboration with Work Louder.
Come together: A multiplayer guide to great meetings
Facilitators and participants alike can take meetings from “meh” to magical.
Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.
From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions
Read a roundup of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Actions.
GitHub Innovation Graph Q2 2023 Data Release
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua
Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital — Smashing Magazine
Starting in March 2024, Interaction to Next Paint will formally replace First Input Delay as a Core Web Vital metric. Learn how the two metrics differ, why we needed a new way to measure interaction responsiveness, and how you can start optimizing the performance of your site now for a seamless transition to the latest Core Web Vital metric.
How we used OpenBMC to support AI inference on GPUs around the world
This is what Cloudflare has been able to do so far with OpenBMC with respect to our GPU-equipped servers
