1,148 articles published in 2024.
“A complex system can fail in an infinite number of ways.” -“Systemantics” by John Gall Incidents are stressful but inevitable. Even services designed for availability will eventually encounter a failure. Engineers naturally find it daunting to defend their systems against the “infinite number of ways” things can go wrong. Our team found ourselves in…
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level. For 2024, we added several new metrics, as well as the ability to do year-over-year and geographic comparisons for selected metrics.
The 2024 popular Internet services landscape highlights rising generative AI, e-commerce shifts, and the continued dominance of platforms like Google and Facebook, as revealed by Cloudflare’s rankings.
As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.
Ten years after the introduction of PEP 484, we surveyed the current state of the Python type system and the tools developers are using. […]
What are Slack Audit Logs? Like many Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, Slack provides audit logs to Enterprise Grid customers that record when entities take an action on the platform. For example, when a user logs in, when a user updates their profile, when an app downloads a file, etc. The actual list of…
SVG arcs demystified! Akshay Gupta explains how to master radii, rotation, and arc direction to create stunning curves. Make arcs a powerful part of your SVG toolkit for creating more dynamic, intricate designs with confidence.
Vercel has been selected for a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) partnership with AWS—to deliver the next generation of AI-enabled developer tools
Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics:
Whether you’re hunting for the perfect gift for your significant other, the colleague you drew in the office gift exchange, or maybe (just maybe) even for yourself, we’ve got you covered with our top 10 gifts that any developer would love.
Few things are as frustrating to a user as when a site won’t respond. Unfortunately, it’s also an all-too-common scenario. Many websites and apps depend on so many elements that one of any number of errors could cause the whole thing to fail. As prevalent as such instances may be, they’re preventable through the practice of graceful degradation.
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Learn how to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot and get specific examples, a tutorial, and best practices.
In most countries, the dominant means of exchange has rarely pivoted—and yet in many places around the world, it’s changing right now with RTPs.
The Vercel Firewall automatically prevents over 1B malicious requests every week, with 5x that amount coming in over Black Friday-Cyber Monday. Learn how Vercel protects every request so you can focus on building, not fighting attacks.
From flagship features to little big updates, we take a look at how you shaped what we shipped in 2024.
The Gaady Awards are like the Emmy Awards for the field of digital accessibility. And, just like the Emmys, the Gaadys are a reason to celebrate! On November 21, GitHub was honored to roll out the red carpet for the accessibility community at our San Francisco headquarters.
How significant are Cyber Week shopping days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does E-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? We try to answer these questions and more.
Learn about the technical background of the chess tournament at PG Conf EU 2024 and how to join future tournaments at Postgres conferences.
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Forms are already notoriously tough to customize and style — to the extent that we’re already starting to see new ideas for more flexible control. But what we don’t often discuss is designing good-form experiences beyond validation. That’s what Jima Victor discusses in this article, focusing specifically on creating multi-step forms that involve navigation between sections.
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much additional nuance.) This is called the Fermi paradox: The Fermi Paradox is a contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence o
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Andromeda is Meta’s proprietary machine learning (ML) system design for retrieval in ad recommendation focused on delivering a step-function improvement in value to our advertisers and people. This system pushes the boundary of cutting edge AI for retrieval with NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip and Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) hardware through innovations in ML […]
TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for that response? In certain applications, especially in the financial domain, confidence scores are required. In a document-parsing task related to financial automation, we tested three approaches to address confidence level: calibrator models, logarithmic probabilities (logprobs), and majority
December is almost here, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by creatives from all around the world, they are bound to lighten up the last few weeks of the year and, who knows, maybe even spark new ideas. Enjoy!
In this blog posting you will read more about the vip-manager and Patroni and what are the advantage of it.
PostgreSQL at an enterprise-level enables professional database management. Comply your enterprise requirements with matching tools.
What's it look like to create a dashboard within the WordPress admin for analyzing Google Analytics data across 900 blogs across 25 multisite instances? It involves designing a user-friendly interface, leveraging the WordPress REST API, implementing a plugin for data retrieval, and addressing challenges like rate limits and authentication.
From KnockoutJS to modern UI libraries like SolidJS, Vue.js, and Svelte, signals revolutionized how we think about reactivity in UIs. Here’s a deep dive into their history and impact by Atila Fassina.
On November 14, 2024, Cloudflare experienced a Cloudflare Logs outage, impacting the majority of customers using these products. During the ~3.5 hours that these services were impacted, about 55% of the logs we normally send to customers were not sent and were lost. The details of what went wrong and why are interesting both for customers and practitioners.
The designer of Ableton’s Note app shares unconventional principles for creating unforgettable digital experiences.
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share the framework I use for deciding whether or not to use a modern CSS feature
The Performance Engineering team at GitHub assessed how CPU performance degrades as utilization increases and how this relates to capacity.
I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen to include some bits of code. And because I’m a perfectionist, I would like this code to be syntax highlighted, like this: let addr : SocketAddr = config . address . parse () ? ; let ln = TcpListener
Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024's @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance while managing global CSS complexities.
Many talented professionals hold back from speaking at tech events, believing they need years of experience or expert status first. Drawing from her experience as a first-time speaker at WordPress Accessibility Day 2024, Victoria Nduka discusses how speaking at events benefits both individuals and the tech community.
UI3 prompted us to rebuild our own design system from the ground up. Here’s how designers and engineers came together to create a new foundation for building consistent, accessible products.
The GitHub Foundations Certification exam fee is now waived for all students verified through GitHub Education.
AI is changing how hiring works, and that makes in person connections even more important.
If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or is it closer to a linear growth? Our analysis found the growth is not linear but rather is exponential, with the slope varying depending on the metric (rps, pps or bps).
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come with some new events that we can listen for.
With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions.
Announcing the acquisition of Grep to further our mission of helping developers work and ship faster.
We used Cloudflare’s Developer Platform and Durable Objects to build authentication and a WebSockets API that developers can use to call AI Gateway, enabling continuous communication over a single, persistent connection.
Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you're reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he's reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You're likely familiar with Andy's great writing here on CSS-Tricks.
In this blog you can read more about how a small chess tournament can help, to bring the PGConf.eu community together.
Advocating for Dev Mode changed my team’s workflow. Here’s how you can do the same.
Applications for the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund are now open! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until they close on January 7 at 11:59 pm PT. Programming and funding will begin in early 2025.
AI plays a fundamental role in creating valuable connections between people and advertisers within Meta’s family of apps. Meta’s ad recommendation engine, powered by deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), has been instrumental in delivering personalized ads to people. Key to this success was incorporating thousands of human-engineered signals or features in the DLRM-based recommendation syst
Discover how AI is reshaping web design, boosting productivity in design, coding, UX, and copywriting while amplifying human creativity in a new article by Paul Boag.
"Waits are a price that developers ask users to pay and loading spinners only buy so much time." —Alex Russell (permalink)
I'm interviewing Alex Russell tomorrow for Smashing Magazine — it's free so come and join the chat as we discuss the expensive JavaScript, browser choice, app
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