The Power of :has() in CSS
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but
How Developers Can Strengthen Their Mental Health Amidst High-Pressure Projects — Smashing Magazine
There’s no shortage of articles about the mental health of developers, ranging from personal accounts of harrowing work experiences to round-ups of advice on how to preserve healthy work habits. But what working situations trigger things like stress, anxiety, burnout, and depression? Victor Ayomipo shares his personal triggers and how he manages them.
Design Engineering at Vercel: What we do and how we do it
Design Engineers at Vercel blend aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. Learn about Vercel's philosophy on what Design Engineering is and how we work.
Demant achieves global scalability and 30x faster response times with Vercel
Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.
Some Git poll results
Some Git poll results
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!
The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends — Smashing Magazine
Based on responses from over 1,200 product professionals, Maze’s Future of User Research Report uncovers how product teams conduct research to inform decision-making and build successful products. Learn about the top three trends defining the user research industry in 2024 and beyond.
From .com to .beauty: The evolving threat landscape of unwanted email
In this 2023-early 2024 email analysis, we examine how certain generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are primarily used for spam and phishing, and their evolution over a year.
Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons
This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves, and when millions of fans do it simultaneously, that’s a technical problem that we solved! At Hotstar,
Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads
Meta’s family of apps serves trillions of image download requests every day. And if you’re into high-quality images, you’ve probably noticed that Instagram and Threads have added support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos. Now people on Threads and Instagram can upload and share images that are more true-to-life, with the full color and range […]
Autonomous hardware diagnostics and recovery at scale
Operating hardware in 310 cities in 120 countries means that hardware can break anywhere and anytime. Detecting and managing server failure at scale requires automation. Here's how we automated
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
There are many ways to approach a “Dark Mode” feature that respects a user’s system color scheme preferences and allows for per-site customization. Henry Bley-Vroman walks through a new possibility that leans into cutting-edge CSS, with minimal JavaScript to support persisting the user’s color scheme preference across pages.
Linux Crisis Tools
Migrate to CYPEX
It is very easy to migrate your data with CYPEX. Try it out.
The "current branch" in git
The "current branch" in git
Protecting AI apps from bots and bad actors with Vercel and Kasada
Learn how Vercel protects the AI SDK Playground using our best-in-class DDoS mitigation, Next.js Middleware, and our partner Kasada.
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.
Threads has entered the fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse! As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from […]
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles — Smashing Magazine
Whether digital or physical, designing a customer touchpoint requires an understanding of the essential relationship between the brand and the user experience, which is also known as the **brand experience.** This article is a simple guide to building long-lasting customer relationships based on the seven rules of Rikyu in the Japanese tea ceremony for a creative and memorable twist.
Introducing WARP Connector: paving the path to any-to-any connectivity
Starting today, Zero Trust administrators can deploy our new WARP Connector for simplified any-to-any connectivity
AI + design: Figma users tell us what’s coming next
What do designers, developers, and executives really think about the promise of AI? Our new survey aims to find out.
Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL
Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.
Optimizing RTC bandwidth estimation with machine learning
Bandwidth estimation (BWE) and congestion control play an important role in delivering high-quality real-time communication (RTC) across Meta’s family of apps. We’ve adopted a machine learning (ML)-based approach that allows us to solve networking problems holistically across cross-layers such as BWE, network resiliency, and transport. We’re sharing our experiment results from this approach, some
Better video for mobile RTC with AV1 and HD
At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We’ve seen significant benefits by adopting the AV1 codec for RTC. Here’s how we are improving the RTC video quality for our apps with tools like the AV1 codec, the challenges we face, and how we […]
Now Shipping: Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book by Addy Osmani — Smashing Magazine
It’s here, and it’s shipping! Meet our newest Smashing book, ”Success at Scale”. It’s filled with practical insights and real-world case studies of how big changes can be made on projects of any size. Addy Osmani has curated finest examples, case studies and interviews to help you get successful at scale. Jump to the details and get the book right away.
Revolutionizing video editing on the web with Next.js and Vercel
Redefining fleet management at Cloudflare
Growing pains were inevitable given the sheer pace of Cloudflare’s growth. Processes around server provisioning, maintenance windows, repairs, and diagnostics reporting were reaching their limits
23 prototyping resources to bookmark right now
These resources will help you level up your process, whether you’re new to prototyping or ready to dive deeper.
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn. Qualitative metrics offer a powerful way to measure and understand developer productivity using data derived from developers themselves. Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity
Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that allows a malicious app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on an Android phone. I’ll show how this vulnerability can be exploited even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a powerful mitigation, is enabled on the device.
Logarithm: A logging engine for AI training workflows and services
Systems and application logs play a key role in operations, observability, and debugging workflows at Meta. Logarithm is a hosted, serverless, multitenant service, used only internally at Meta, that consumes and indexes these logs and provides an interactive query interface to retrieve and view logs. In this post, we present the design behind Logarithm, and […]
Sketchnotes And Key Takeaways From SmashingConf Antwerp 2023 — Smashing Magazine
How was the first SmashingConf in Antwerp, you ask? One of our online attendees, Krisztina Szerovay, shares her sketchnotes and takeaways of the talks that were held on both days of the conference — with photos and recordings saved as best for last. [See you live in Antwerp this year, maybe?](https://smashingconf.com/antwerp-2024)
Leonardo generates 4.5M images daily with Next.js and Vercel
WordPress monolith to Vercel: How Personio elevated site performance and efficiency
The Return of the Frame Pointers
Improved Cloudflare Workers testing via Vitest and workerd
Today, we’re excited to announce a new Workers Vitest integration - allowing you to write unit and integration tests via the popular testing framework, Vitest, that execute directly in our runtime, workerd
Mitigating a token-length side-channel attack in our AI products
The Workers AI and AI Gateway team recently collaborated closely with security researchers at Ben Gurion University regarding a report submitted through our Public Bug Bounty program. Through this process, we discovered and fully patched a vulnerability affecting all LLM providers. Here’s the story
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in the region
Upcoming Let’s Encrypt certificate chain change and impact for Cloudflare customers
Let’s Encrypt’s cross-signed chain will be expiring. To prepare for, Cloudflare will issue certs from Let’s Encrypt’s ISRG X1 chain. This change impacts legacy devices with outdated trust stores.
Listing the contents of all team-accessible namespaces
Learn how to list the contents of all of the namespaces across all members of a team using the Dropbox API
How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.
Brief History of Scaling Uber
This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author. On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when the idea for Uber was born. How great would it be if you could "push a button and get a ride?" Fast forward to today where Uber is the largest m
It’s a sellers’ market(place)
Today, the most innovative changes in marketplaces are about providing more value to sellers. Many of them hinge on the kind of financial infrastructure Stripe provides.
How we built a custom permissions DSL at Figma
When our permissions system broke at the seams, everything came to a halt. This is the story of how we fixed it.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2024
In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training. We are strongly committed to open […]
Event Calendars For Web Made Easy With These Commercial Options — Smashing Magazine
Collection of top-notch calendar components for seamless event scheduling. Whether you prefer ready-to-use setups or enjoy tweaking code for a tailored experience, these calendars have you covered.
Security Week 2024 wrap up
A summary of the blog posts and product announcements released during Security Week 2024
Stripe Apps more than doubles in size, offers new ways to discover apps
Through app collections and embeddable apps, Stripe is providing more ways to discover tools that help businesses work more effectively.
eBPF Documentary
Log Explorer: monitor security events without third-party storage
With the combined power of Security Analytics + Log Explorer, security teams can analyze, investigate, and monitor for security attacks natively within Cloudflare, reducing time to resolution and overall cost of ownership for customers by eliminating the need to forward logs to third-party SIEMs
Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
Launching email security insights on Cloudflare Radar
The new Email Security section on Cloudflare Radar provides insights into the latest trends around threats found in malicious email, sources of spam and malicious email, and the adoption of technologies designed to prevent abuse of email
Protocol detection with Cloudflare Gateway
Cloudflare Gateway, our secure web gateway (SWG), now supports the detection, logging, and filtering of network protocols using packet payloads without the need for inspection
Network performance update: Security Week 2024
Cloudflare is the fastest provider in 44% of networks around the world for 95th percentile connection time. Let’s dig into the data and talk about how we do it
Introducing Requests for Information (RFIs) and Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) for threat intelligence teams
Our Security Center now houses Requests for Information (RFIs) and Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs). These features are available via API as well and Cloudforce One customers can start leveraging them today for enhanced security analysis
Cloudflare’s URL Scanner, new features, and the story of how we built it
Discover the enhanced URL Scanner API: Now with direct access from the Security Center Investigate Portal, enjoy unlisted scans, multi-device screenshots, and seamless integration within the Cloudflare ecosystem