1,122 articles published in 2024.
Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that’s pretty delicate and can be negated by a lot of things, so here’s another one to add to your mental catalog: Sticky elements don’t play nicely if they have to coordinate with other elements to make up a combined height, like `100vh`. Philip Braunen explores why this happens and presents a solution to fix it.
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Seems like we're always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we've already explored.
How GitHub volunteers built an open source metrics dashboard for the World Health Organization and some best practices they picked up along the way.
Designing for digital products requires a different mindset than traditional websites. It’s all about continuous adaptation, refining, and iterating as user behavior and needs evolve. Paul Boag reflects on the key differences, including how the frequency of usage impacts your design approach and what you can do about it.
At Vercel, we integrated AI into our support workflow. Our AI agent reduced human-handled tickets by 31%, allowing us to maintain high support standards while serving a growing customer base.
On September 3, 2024, the White House published a report on Internet routing security. We’ll talk about what that means and how you can help.
On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insights — think notebooks, dashboards, and metrics. To create solutions that connect with our users, it’s critical for us to first understand who our users are. However, the evolving landscape of data roles presents a challenge.
Let’s get ready for September with a fresh collection of desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
“What are your goals for this quarter?” It’s the question every manager asks, and one that often prompts a flurry of technical objectives and project milestones. Jumping into this internship, I knew my answer. I wanted to practice making informed decisions on my project, since that was one of the challenges I faced last summer.…
In the second part of this series, Joas Pambou aims to build a more advanced version of the previous application that performs conversational analyses on images or videos, much like a chatbot assistant. This means you can ask and learn more about your input content.
Didya see that Tumblr is getting a WordPress makeover? And it's not a trivial move:
Curious about early career opportunities at Figma? Here are some tips on how to get your first product design job, along with insights on what we look for.
I think it's worth listening to anything Sara Soueidan has to say. That's especially true if she's speaking at an event for the first time in four years,
I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. We named it skellyCSS because… skeletons and
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to
GitHub is considering what is at stake for our users and platform, how we can take responsible action to support free and fair elections, and how developers contribute to resilient democratic processes.
The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet. Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran […]
The Vercel Marketplace adds support for EdgeDB, Redis, and Supabase with unified billing and simpler installations.
Vercel OpenID Connect support helps you replace long-lived credentials with temporary tokens to reduce risk.
AWS CodeCommit is discontinuing new customer access and will no longer introduce new features. Learn how to migrate to GitHub Enterprise and why it’s the best option for you.
At Meta, we’ve been diligently working to incorporate privacy into different systems of our software stack over the past few years. Today, we’re excited to share some cutting-edge technologies that are part of our Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative. These innovations mark a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to honoring user privacy. PAI offers […]
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.
We are introducing a new metric— real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage (e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in […]
Want to create more randomized effects in your JavaScript code? The `Math.random()` method alone, with its limitations, won’t cut it for generating unique random numbers. Amejimaobari Ollornwi explains how to generate a series of unique random numbers using the `Set` object, how to use these random numbers as indexes for arrays, and explores some practical applications of randomization.
This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations.
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient […]
Insight into how Shopify created a seamless one-click manual testing experience (known as "tophatting") for mobile applications by creating a macOS app.
We’re excited to announce wildcard support across our Ruleset Engine-based products and our open-source wildcard crate in Rust. Configuring rules has never been easier, with powerful pattern matching enabling simple and flexible URL redirects and beyond for users on all plans.
A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events
This year, as part of its annual Magic Quadrant series, Gartner published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing the state of play in the AI Code Assistants market–and named GitHub a Leader.
In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Joel Colburn, a software engineer at Meta, technical lead Junqiang Lan, and software engineer Jack Montgomery discuss the second generation of MTIA, Meta’s in-house training and inference accelerator. They cover the co-design process behind building the second generation of Meta’s first-ever custom silicon for AI workloads, […]
Finding the right typeface for a logo is a challenge and can be a very time-consuming process that requires both creativity and a practical approach. Levi Honing provides the essential background and tools to enhance your typography journey and apply this knowledge to your logo design. Let’s dive deep to learn how to create a logo that is not only expressive but also purposeful and well-thought-ou
You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I fancy). There's a pattern to it, right? Stop,
A client asked if we could mimic the "rubber band" scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. It’s a behavior that
After integrating Dev Mode into our design system workflow, I’ve gathered several insights to help teams navigate this powerful tool. Here are my top takeaways.
Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.1 will enable new workflows, such as synthetic data generation and model distillation with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models. At AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Meta engineers discussed every step of how we […]
NIST has published the first cryptographic standards for protecting against attacks from quantum computers. Learn what this means for you and your organization.
A couple of weeks ago I was super excited about publishing my first CSS-Tricks post: "Letter Spacing is Broken. Forget about that though, what's important is
The anime streaming service supports 15 platforms and is available in 12 languages. Here’s how they deliver a consistent experience across touchpoints.
We surveyed 2,000 people on software development teams at enterprises in the U.S., Brazil, India, and Germany about the use, experience, and expectations around generative AI tools in software development.
Delivering new AI technologies at scale also means rethinking every layer of our infrastructure – from silicon and software systems and even our data center designs. For the second year in a row, Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams returned for the AI Infra @ Scale conference, where they discussed the challenges of scaling up an […]
Although JavaScript regexes used to be underpowered compared to other modern flavors, numerous improvements in recent years mean that’s no longer true. Steven Levithan evaluates the history and present state of regular expressions in JavaScript with tips to make your regexes more readable, maintainable, and resilient.
This summer, Cloudflare welcomed approximately 60 interns from all around the globe, on a mission to #HelpBuildABetterInternet. Join us as we dive into what we accomplished and our experiences!
Every programming language has loops. Loops perform an operation (i.e., a chunk of work) a number of times, usually once for every item in an array or list,
Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS
We’ve been testing new developer tools with thousands of users, and today, we’re announcing that the first is available: Stripe Workbench, our new home for developers that helps you debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration.
From the U.S. elections and geopolitical conflict to tens of millions in corporate dollars lost, phishing remains the root cause of cyber damages. Learn why a comprehensive solution is the best way to stay protected.
Cloudflare Stream is an end-to-end solution for video encoding, storage, delivery, and playback. Newly uploaded or ingested portrait videos will now automatically be processed in full HD quality
Meet Cloud Connector — a new free product to simplify your cloud routing and object storage configurations. Say goodbye to frustrating Host Header workarounds and hello to protecting your assets, accelerating applications, and routing your traffic between multiple cloud providers seamlessly
I was just going over the latest CSSWG minutes (you can subscribe to them at W3C.org) and came across a few interesting nuggets I wanted to jot down for
Discover effective pricing strategies for digital projects. Learn how to balance fixed pricing, time and materials, and value-based approaches while managing client expectations and scope creep.
I spend a lot of my time helping others learn the basics of Figma. Here’s how I approached it, what I would do differently now, and the framework you can use to get started today.
Using Git in the CLI can improve your development speed and power. Here are our top eight commands for using GitHub via your command line.
