Paula Scher’s 10 rules for play
We invited the Pentagram partner to share her “10 rules for play” noted down over a formidable and long-lasting career.
Release Radar
It’s been a while since we’ve published our Release Radar. You can blame IRL conferences coming back, getting influenza, and being struck down by the weather. But those are just…
(De)coding conventions
Navigating the ebb and flow of programming paradigms–from the shifts in the JavaScript ecosystem and TypeScript’s rise, to AI’s role in advancing accessibility, and strategies for encouraging non-code contributions–tune in to the latest episode of The ReadME Podcast for more.
Moving from a product to a service mindset
Thanks to DevOps, cloud computing and other industry trends, many organizations are shifting from a product mindset to a service mindset. Here’s how you can implement a service-led strategy.
Iterating from design to deploy: Guillermo Rauch's talk at Figma Config 2023
A reflection on Guillermo Roach's Config 2023 talk, "The shape of future builders: from design to deploy."
How the Cloudflare global network optimizes for system reboots during low-traffic periods
We run a wide fleet of machines on the Cloudflare global network. This post describes how we minimize customer disruption during large-scale machine reboots using math!
PostGIS, ArcGIS Enterprise and the Tour de France route
How to analyze a stretch of the Tour de France in a hybrid environment, ArcGIS Enterprise & PostGIS - we’ll utilize PostGIS native geometry types instead of ESRI geometry types to analyze this challenging stage both in ArcGIS Pro and PostGIS
GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub…
No cyber resilience without open source sustainability
Have your say to protect open source in the EU.
GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
Introducing passwordless authentication on GitHub.com
Passkeys are now available in public beta. Opting in lets you upgrade security keys to passkeys, and use those in place of both your password and your 2FA method.
How To Create A Rapid Research Program To Support Insights At Scale — Smashing Magazine
Accelerate your organization’s growth and innovation with the power of Rapid Research. From inception to implementation, here is the step-by-step roadmap on how to build the program from scratch and uncover the untapped ROI opportunities waiting to propel your initiatives to new heights.
Meet the Vercel AI Accelerator Participants
Meet the 40 startups and builders of the Vercel AI Accelerator.
The day my ping took countermeasures
Ping developers clearly put some thought into that. I wondered how far they went. Did they handle clock changes in both directions? Are the bad measurements excluded from the final statistics? How do they test the software?
Bring your own CA for client certificate validation with API Shield
API shield customers can now upload their own CA to use for client certificate validation. This ensures that only authorized clients and devices can make requests to your API endpoint or application.
Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023
On July 9, 2023, users in the Asia Pacific region experienced connection errors due to origin DNS resolution failures to .com and .net TLD nameservers
Subqueries and performance in PostgreSQL
This article discusses how subqueries perform in PostgreSQL and how to rewrite queries to improve their performance.
GitHub CLI project command is now generally available!
Level up your use of GitHub Projects on the command line and in GitHub Actions with the new project CLI command.
Demonstrating end-to-end traceability with pull requests
Reduce developer and auditor friction involved in demonstrating compliance and maintaining end-to-end traceability by focusing your efforts around the pull request.
Smashing Podcast Episode 63 With Chris Ferdinandi: What Is The Transitional Web? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about The Transitional Web. What is it, and how does it describe the technologies we’re using? Drew McLellan talks to Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Andy Budd, curator of UX London and Leading Design conferences, outlines some of the things that make a potentially amazing presentation, as well as a few big gotchas. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to get a speaking slot at a conference, this article is for you.
How Cloudflare Images addressed the aCropalypse vulnerability
Customers using Cloudflare Images or Image Resizing products are protected against the aCropalypse vulnerability.
Dropbox bug bounty program has paid out over $1,000,000
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Shines, Perspective, And Rotations: Fancy CSS 3D Effects For Images — Smashing Magazine
CSS has all kinds of tricks that are capable of turning images into neat, interactive elements. This article is a collection of fancy 3D effects for images that demonstrate those CSS powers.
Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view
A look at how we improved the readability of code on GitHub.
Keeping up with big shifts in tech
Deciding whether or not to adopt a tool can be hard enough, but what about when it seems to break the paradigms you know?
The UX Of Flight Searches: How We Challenged Industry Standards — Smashing Magazine
As of today, the world’s 50 top airlines have all agreed on the same flight search pattern. Yet the path to booking the right flight remains frustrating and confusing. Is there really only one solution? Explore the thought experiment which turned the seemingly untouchable pattern on its head and offered new food for thought.
GitHub achieves ISO/IEC 27701:2019, 27018:2019, and CSA STAR certifications
GitHub’s Information Security and Privacy Management System (ISPMS) has been certified against ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (PII Processor) and 27018:2019 standards, as well as the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). These standards and frameworks are internationally recognized for security and privacy program best practices.
Introduction to SELinux
SELinux is the most popular Linux Security Module used to isolate and protect system components from one another. Learn about different access control systems and Linux security as I introduce the foundations of a popular type system.
Introducing the Vercel Platforms Starter Kit
A fullstack template for building multi-tenant applications with custom domains using Next.js App Router, Vercel Postgres, and the Vercel Domains API.
Sustainable Design Toolkits And Frameworks — Smashing Magazine
How can we create products and experiences that don’t cause harm to the planet and to the people who use them? What do we need to consider to make more sustainable design decisions and reduce the carbon footprint of our websites? In this post, we compiled valuable resources that will get you familiar with the principles of sustainable design.
Cracking Electron apps open
I use the draw.io desktop app to make diagrams for my website. I run it on an actual desktop, like Windows or macOS, but the asset pipeline that converts .drawio files, to .pdf , to .svg , and then to .svg again (but smaller) runs on Linux. So I have a Rust program somewhere that opens headless chromium, and loads just the HTML/JS/CSS part of draw.io I need to render my diagrams, and then use Chro
Leading your platform migration with developer experience
Developer experience (DevEx) is a key theme when it comes to transforming businesses with GitHub.
Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 2): Sequential Testing
In of this series, we introduced the within-unit peeking problem that we call the “peeking problem 2.0”. We showed that moving from single to multiple observations per unit in analyses of experiments introduces new challenges and pitfalls with regards to sequential testing. We discussed the importance of being clear about the distinctions between measurement, metric, estimand, and estimator, and w
Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 1): The Peeking Problem 2.0
At Spotify, we’re constantly improving our data infrastructure, which means we can get feedback on experiments earlier and earlier. To allow for early feedback in a risk-managed manner, we use sequential tests to monitor regressions in the experiments. However, when moving toward smaller and smaller time windows, we’re faced with multiple measurements per unit in our analysis, which is known as lo
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Off To New Adventures (July 2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2023. Enjoy!
Building Boba AI
We are building an experimental AI co-pilot for product strategy and generative ideation called “Boba”. Along the way, we’ve learned some useful lessons on how to build these kinds of applications, which we’ve formulated in terms of patterns. These patterns allow an application to help the user interact more effectively with a Large-Language Model (LLM), orchestrating prompts to gain better result
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available. Organizations can now take advantage of more features that enable deeper collaboration, greater observability and faster workflows.
Meta’s Evenstar is transitioning to OCP to accelerate open RAN adoption
Meta is transferring its IP for Evenstar, a program to accelerate the adoption of open RAN technologies, to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Meta will contribute Evenstar’s radio unit design to OCP, giving the telecom industry its first open, white box radio unit solution. The TIP Open RAN community will leverage the Evenstar radio unit […]
What’s The Perfect Design Process? — Smashing Magazine
The design process is messy. You might be following a structured approach, but too often, it takes a life of its own. And before you know it, you are designing in chaos, with last-minute changes and missed deadlines. So, what’s the “perfect” design process?
Cloudflare Zaraz supports JSONata
Discover the seamless integration of Cloudflare Zaraz and JSONata, enabling precise data customization for enhanced workflows. Effortlessly optimize data transmission to providers and APIs with ease. Unlock the power of fine-tuned data today
The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot
Today at Collision Conference we unveiled breaking new research on the economic and productivity impact of generative AI–powered developer tools. The research found that the increase in developer productivity due to AI could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion.
Meta developer tools: Working at scale
Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme scale. In this article we’ll go through a few of the tools in the development process. And, as an added bonus, those we […]
Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks — Smashing Magazine
Let’s discover the most popular DevTools tips that can boost your productivity and revolutionize your debugging workflow.
Vercel Edge Config + LaunchDarkly: Low latency, global feature flags to your favorite frontend framework
We're excited to announce a new LaunchDarkly integration to bring low latency, global feature flags to your favorite frontend framework.
Recapping Speed Week 2023
Recapping all the announcements made during Speed Week 2023
Lost in transit: debugging dropped packets from negative header lengths
In this post, we'll provide some insight into the process of investigating networking issues and how to begin debugging issues in the kernel using pwru and kprobe tracepoints
How to identify and fix overly powerful GitHub Actions permissions using workflow monitoring
Introducing a new tool to monitor and control the permissions of the repository token for GitHub Actions.
Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign — Smashing Magazine
The Wikipedia team shipped a redesign of the ubiquitous and one of the [most visited websites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites) on the web. Alex Hollender and Jon Robson led the work and generously discussed the effort with us in a thorough, wide-ranging interview that covers the design, development, and processes that went into the project.
A step-by-step guide to transferring domains to Cloudflare
Getting the domain transfer process wrong could mean downtime and disruption. We’ve built a domain transfer checklist to help you quickly and safely transfer your domains to Cloudflare
All the way up to 11: Serve Brotli from origin and Introducing Compression Rules
Today, we're enhancing our support for Brotli compression, enabling end-to-end Brotli compression for web content. Compression plays a vital role in reducing bytes during transfers, ensuring quicker downloads and seamless browsing
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results
How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile
Making Cloudflare Pages the fastest way to serve your sites
Pages is now the fastest way to serve your sites across Netlify, Vercel and many others and we’re so proud
Speeding up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway
Today we’re announcing Ricochet for API Gateway, the easiest way for Cloudflare customers to achieve faster API responses through automatic, intelligent API response caching
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool — Smashing Magazine
In today’s article, let’s explore how we can use Flex Layout and see how it empowers designers with greater control over their work while saving everyone’s time.