Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.
Smashing Podcast Episode 62 With Slava Shestopalov: What Is Design Management? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we ask what is a design manager? What does it take and how does it relate to the role of Designer? Vitaly talks to Slava Shestopalov to find out.
Protecting GraphQL APIs from malicious queries
Starting today, Cloudflare’s API Gateway can protect GraphQL APIs against malicious requests that may cause a denial of service to the origin
GitHub’s revamped VIP Bug Bounty Program
GitHub’s VIP Bug Bounty Program has been updated to include a clear and accessible criteria for receiving an invitation to the program and more. Learn more about the program and how you can become a Hacktocat, and join our community of researchers who are contributing to GitHub’s security with fun perks and access to staff and beta features!
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.
Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can seamlessly move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, bringing your code and collaboration history with you so your team doesn’t miss a beat.
Gatsby Headaches And How To Cure Them: i18n (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this first part of a two-part hands-on guide, Juan Rodriguez explains how to use several i18n plugins for Gatsby and reviews some others.
Design Under Constraints: Challenges, Opportunities, And Practical Strategies — Smashing Magazine
Unleash the power of creative limitation! Learn how constraints aren’t barriers but instead stepping stones to innovative design. Find out how to challenge unproductive restrictions and leverage the rest to your advantage.
Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers.
Developer experience: What is it and why should you care?
Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.
Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers’ new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities.
Testing Sites And Apps With Blind Users: A Cheat Sheet — Smashing Magazine
While compliance with accessibility checklists is essential, it doesn’t necessarily mean a pleasant experience. That’s why live sessions can give you lots of priceless insights.
Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol
Swift support brings broader mobile application security to GitHub Advanced Security
We’ve launched the beta of code scanning support for Swift. This launch, paired with our launch of Kotlin support in November, means that CodeQL covers both IOS and Android development languages, bringing a heightened level of security to the mobile application development process.
Animated Pride Flags
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️🌈
Exploring Universal And Cognitive-Friendly UX Design Through Pivot Tables And Grids — Smashing Magazine
This article highlights practical design guidelines and techniques to get around frequent and painful UX challenges with tables and grids.
Visual Editing meets Markdown with Tina.io
TinaCMS adopts Visual Editing
Nine years of Project Galileo and how the last year has changed it
For the ninth anniversary, we want to focus on access to affordable cyber security tools and what we have learned protecting the most vulnerable communities
Announcing the Stale Repos Action
A tool to help you keep your open source catalog organized and up to date.
Some blogging myths
Some blogging myths
Primitive Objects In JavaScript: When To Use Them (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In the second part of the series, Kirill looks at the usefulness of primitive objects, exploring how reducing capabilities could be a benefit for your project.
Feedback: the feed seems just fine...
Dynamic data collection with Zaraz Worker Variables
A guided tour of Cloudflare Zaraz new exciting premium feature, available for Workers paid account: Worker Variables, that allows to pipe a Worker’s response to third-party tools
Applying GitOps principles to your operations
Could we use our Git repository as the source of truth for operational tasks, and somehow reconcile changes with our real-world view?
How To Enable Collaboration In A Multiparty Setting — Smashing Magazine
As Artificial Intelligence becomes more widespread, so too does the adoption of digital agents and voice interactions. Explore the power of mixed reality systems and multimodal communication to enhance collaboration between consultants and clients, transforming advisory services.
iA Presenter: A Case Study On Product Pricing Considerations — Smashing Magazine
Pricing a product or service is one of the more challenging aspects of product development. Pricing is an inexact science, and chances are you will not get it right the first time. But where do you even begin? Let’s explore the important considerations that go into product pricing.
How to build an engaging virtual product tour
Learn how and why we designed the Vercel virtual product tour to address some of the most prominent needs in our marketing funnel.
Reduce latency and increase cache hits with Regional Tiered Cache
Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away
Cloudflare is deprecating Railgun
Cloudflare will deprecate Railgun on January 2024
Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers.
Highlights from Git 2.41
The open-source Git project just released Git 2.41. Take a look at our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.41.
Advanced Form Control Styling With Selectmenu And Anchoring API — Smashing Magazine
Thanks to the Open UI working community group, there’s a new element on the horizon, , that will make styling this type of form control a whole lot better. You’re going to walk through an early implementation of this new experimental element by creating a pattern that you would never have thought possible with CSS alone — a radial selection menu.
Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home serves as a personalized surface where users retrieve familiar content and discover new content tailored to their preferences. We are constantly trying to optimize the Home experience to provide more value to our users; however, doing so can be tricky.
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team powers and creates delightful foreground and background communications across the Spotify experience, experimenting with and tailoring the perfect journey for each user across our platform. Today we are able to send messages through WhatsApp, SMS, email, push notifications, contextual in-line form
Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production workloads are in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If we detect suspicious behavior in our workloads, we need to be able to quickly analyze it and determine if something malicious has happened. Today we leverage commercial solutions to
Create Your Own Path In June (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar for June 2023. Enjoy!
ERROR: invalid byte sequence - Fix bad encoding in PostgreSQL
Fix ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding - Wrong encoding causes data corruption in PostgreSQL. How to fix bad encoding.
Stop Being a Junior
Some advise for people who still consider themselves junior developers
Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer"
Administrivia: new web hosting arrangements
How Oxy uses hooks for maximum extensibility
Let's take a look from the perspective of an Oxy application developer, and then we can discuss the implementation of the framework and some of the interesting design decisions we made
How a Figma slide deck helped indie rock duo Tanlines launch a comeback
Musician Jesse Cohen explains how he harnessed the corporate lingua franca (and the Google Meet integration for Figma) to launch his band’s latest album.
Designing A Better Design Handoff File In Figma — Smashing Magazine
This article provides practical tips for improving the handoff process between design and development in product development. The guidance covers effective communication, documentation, design details, version control, and plugin usage.
Unbounded memory usage by TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems. Recently, we noticed that some of our TCP sessions were allocating more memory than expected. This blog post describes in detail the root cause of the problem and shows the test results of a solution
The 2023 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey is live!
Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey.
Rooting with root cause: finding a variant of a Project Zero bug
In this blog, I’ll look at CVE-2022-46395, a variant of CVE-2022-36449 (Project Zero issue 2327), and use it to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root privileges from the untrusted app domain on an Android phone that uses the Arm Mali GPU. I’ll also explain how root cause analysis of CVE-2022-36449 led to the discovery of CVE-2022-46395.
New playground: memory spy
New playground: memory spy
Meet Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Success At Scale”, our upcoming book with best-practice case studies from industry experts. Print shipping in early March 2024. eBook now available. Pre-order the book.
The Impact Of Agile Methodologies On Code Quality — Smashing Magazine
Say goodbye to traditional workflows and embrace Agile to unlock the power of high-quality code. Discover how Agile methodologies promote simplicity, modularization, readability, and continuous improvement, resulting in faster turnaround times, more responsive development processes, and ultimately, the creation of high-quality software that meets customer needs.
How to automate a Microsoft Power Platform deployment using GitHub Actions
Low-code enables developers and non-developers to build custom applications and solutions with less effort. In this blog, we show you how to automate your low-code deployments using GitHub Actions.
Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes
In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success.
Dependency Composition
Based on frustrations with conventional framework-based dependency injection, I have adopted a composition strategy that utilizes partial application to inject context into modules. When combined with test-driven development as the design process and a focus on functions over classes, modules can be kept clear, clean, and mostly free of unintended coupling.
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.
Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2
Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. Behind these perfect moments of entertainment…
Smashing Podcast Episode 61 With Rachel Andrew: What Is Web Platform Baseline? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Web Platform Baseline. What is it, and how can it help determine your browser support policy? Drew McLellan talks to expert Rachel Andrew to find out.
Recapping Developer Week
Developer Week 2023 is officially a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we shipped last week
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program and broadening the eligibility criteria to support more projects.
Announcing Cohort #2 of the Workers Launchpad
Announcing the second cohort of the Workers Launchpad - we can't wait to work with them and showcase these incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform!
Bombyx is being licensed for product development
When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in […]
Practical Design Tips And Guidelines For Beginner Designers — Smashing Magazine
It’s easy for beginner designers to get overwhelmed and lose confidence when creating presentations, landing pages, app and web design mockups, and even cards. Laurent Baumann shares a few simple guidelines and practical tips to help you in such situations.
