1,342 articles published in 2023.
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict.
A manager’s guide to redesigning our jobs
Policymakers around the world are developing policies that impact how software gets built and who gets to build it, see the latest now.
CVE-2022-25664, a vulnerability in the Qualcomm Adreno GPU, can be used to leak large amounts of information to a malicious Android application. Learn more about how the vulnerability can be used to leak information in both the user space and kernel space level of pages, and how the GitHub Security Lab used the kernel space information leak to construct a KASLR bypass.
Cache only part of your page as static data, while fully dynamically rendering the rest of your application, including accessing real-time and personalized data.
SEO is a critical priority in Next.js on Vercel, letting you rank higher in search engine results and better optimize your content for users.
When you’re new to coding, it’s easy to get stuck completing endless tutorials. You can apply what you’ve learned (and learn even more) through GitHub Codespaces. The best part is you don’t need a powerful computer to get started.
GitHub Copilot boosts developer productivity, but using it responsibly still requires good developer and DevSecOps practices.
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website. How does consistent hashing work? At a high level, consistent hashing performs the following operations: 1. The output of the hash function is placed on a virtual ring structure (known as the ha
Brand new conference on design & UX, for designers and UI engineers who love the web. On design systems, usability, product design and complex UIs. That’s SmashingConf Antwerp, taking place in magical Bourla on October 9–11, 2023.
Let’s see how to achieve phenomenal web performance and great developer experience with Astro and a headless CMS, resulting in the best possible experience for users, developers and content creators alike.
Automate repetitive tasks using Vercel Cron Jobs and Vercel Functions. Available today in beta.
Implementing Zero Trust can be challenging, and efforts may stall. The need for a Chief Zero Trust Officer (CZTO) is driven by the increasing importance of Zero Trust security in the face of escalating cyber attacks.
A look at what happened on January 30, what measures we’re putting in place to prevent surprises, and how we’ll handle future changes.
We’re sharing how we’re enabling production and delivery of AV1 for Facebook Reels and Instagram Reels. We believe AV1 is the most viable codec for Meta for the coming years. It offers higher quality at a much lower bit rate compared with previous generations of video codecs. Meta has worked closely with the open source […]
Monkey patching is considered one of the more powerful features of the Ruby programming language. However, by the end of this post I’m hoping to convince you that they should be used sparingly, if at all, because they are brittle, dangerous, and often unnecessary. I’ll also share tips on how to use them as safely as possible in the rare cases where you do need to monkey patch.
This article will show you the impact of internationalization, its fundamental logic, how to approach it with Remix, and optionally, how to manage it more conveniently using a headless CMS.
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask what’s the key to a great keyboard? Is this essential part of our daily toolkit easily overlooked? Vitaly Friedman talks to expert Marcin Wichary to find out.
An accessible product can be daunting to build as there’s so much nuance and technical depth to consider. In this article, Daniel Yuschick demonstrates three keys for approaching and developing accessible content without leaving you lost in the weeds.
Most carousels come along with usability and accessibility issues. To avoid these issues, this article addresses step-by-step design considerations as well as semantic requirements for carousels to be accessible. It is intended to create an in-depth understanding of the implementation and its impact on users.
Version 1 of Wrangler has served us well for years. But with a new major version to focus on, it’s time to say goodbye
Established UI patterns are often underutilized in the frontend development world, despite their proven effectiveness in solving complex problems in UI design. This article explores the application of established UI building patterns to the React world, with a refactoring journey code example to showcase the benefits. The emphasis is placed on how layering architecture can help organize the React
Learn about CodeQL’s improved user experience and enhancements that let you scan new languages, detect new types of CWEs, and perform deeper analyses of your applications.
Writing Javascript without a build system
What’s new: Meta is sharing the inside story of how it developed the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Why it matters: Creating Ray-Ban Stories meant Meta’s engineers had to take on new challenges to build smart glasses that married complex engineering dynamics. How do you make something that features cameras, microphones, audio, and touch controls, all […]
Let’s talk about technical debt. Let’s talk about practical usable approaches for actually paying it down on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Let’s talk about what debt needs to be fixed now versus what can wait for better planning.
SVG `` provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. In this article, Paul Scanlon shares an idea of how to use it by animating race cars in an infinite loop as easy as one-two-three!
If you use retrospectives, or any kind of meeting where people are supposed to discuss and learn from their discussions, you will have experienced less efficient sessions from time to time. There is no wonder in that, and it happens to most people. This article describes and offers solutions for three of these unfortunate situations: skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't c
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.
How to apply powerful storytelling to design a compelling and memorable digital experience on a landing page. A case study of the [Smart Interface Design Patterns landing page](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/).
How can I find the current timestamp in PostgreSQL? Read more about real time, statement time and transaction time.
We’re launching new improvements to GitHub Copilot to make it more powerful and more responsive for developers.
GitHub Copilot is the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool and we’re now offering it to every developer, team, organization, and enterprise.
We recently released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a powerful self-serve tool which enables merchants to explore their business metrics without any SQL expertise. Here’s how we used ShopifyQL and commerce data models to make it possible.
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead of the game
We're fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc.
Meta’s augmented reality (AR) platform is one of the largest in the world, helping the billions of people on Meta’s apps experience AR every day and giving hundreds of thousands of creators a means to express themselves Meta’s AR tools are unique because they can be used on a wide variety of devices — from […]
We tackle some of the unique challenges of scaling multimodal machine learning models that operate on media assets (video, audio, and text).
Print copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging have arrived
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does
In the first part of the series, Kirill Myshkin covers some aspects of JavaScript that help bring objects closer to primitive values, which allow benefiting from common language features that aren’t usually associated with an object, like comparisons and arithmetic operators.
Fetching data in Next.js 13 has been vastly improved with Server Components, smarter caching, and Loading UI.
While we’re working on getting our Shopify Functions infrastructure ready for the public beta, we thought we’d use this opportunity to shine some light on how we brought JavaScript to WebAssembly, how we made everything fit within our very tight Shopify Function constraints, and what our plans for the future look like.
With so many image editing services available nowadays, it’s good to have one good solution that is applicable for all websites and web apps that need to provide image editing as a feature. Hristo Chakarov explains how Pixo Editor’s easy integration (just a few JavaScript lines) and rich API can save your time and improve your end users’ workflow.
Navigating large scale migrations
Today we're announcing Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud.
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has…
Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
The intensive data work behind Shopify's Tax Insights feature required building functionality to handle dynamically changing information
