Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity
Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models.
How To Defend Your Design Process — Smashing Magazine
Ever felt pressure to speed up your design process? Here’s how to address unrealistic expectations and foster a shared understanding with stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to a successful delivery. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
Using the AI SDK to fix edge-case errors in our code
Leveraging the AI SDK to build with and solve problems with AI
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
As the Paris 2024 Olympics ended, our analysis shows the event’s impact on the Internet in France and other countries at different moments, its effect on specific web properties, and a spike in cyber threats and emails related to Simone Biles and others.
Dialogues Blog
“This isn’t a website. Or even a blog. It’s a conversation.”
GitHub Availability Report: July 2024
In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix
With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog of security debt.
How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale
We launched Meta AI with the goal of giving people new ways to be more productive and unlock their creativity with generative AI (GenAI). But GenAI also comes with challenges of scale. As we deploy new GenAI technologies at Meta, we also focus on delivering these services to people as quickly and efficiently as possible. […]
Decoding an old SkyScan wireless weather sensor
Mitigating Deadlocks in high concurrency environments - Shopify
The problem In order to guarantee data integrity, MySQL requires locks prior to updating existing records. If multiple processes update data in the same table in parallel, deadlocks can occur depending on how the data is stored in disk and managed by MySQL. That can happen even if the different processes target different records. This blog post explores the problem of deadlocks in MySQL while upda
Introducing HTTP request traffic insights on Cloudflare Radar
The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages.
Database industry: The Rise and Rise of PostgreSQL
In this blog I will tell you more about the database industry in general. How did the rise of PostgreSQL come about?
Remote Sinks in pgwatch3 by Akshat Jaimini
I have the pleasure of working on an project that aims to enhance PostgreSQL monitoring through the development of RPC sinks for pgwatch3.
The Atlassian method: The power of developer joy
How developer joy became the north star for a workstream that overhauled tooling, systems, and company culture.
What are AI agents and why do they matter?
Learn how AI agents and agentic AI systems use generative AI models and large language models to autonomously perform tasks on behalf of end users.
The ultimate guide to developer happiness
Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.
From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2024-5830, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.
Advancing Threat Intelligence: JA4 fingerprints and inter-request signals
Explore how Cloudflare's JA4 fingerprinting and inter-request signals provide robust and scalable insights for advanced web security and threat detection.
HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input
A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this:
Mental Health in Tech Podcast Interview
Mental health is always tough to talk about, especially in an industry that, to me, often rewards ego over vulnerability. I still find it tough even after
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Creating a pull request
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to create pull requests. This will enable you to suggest changes to existing repositories.
An update on another feed reader from its author
Feedback on github, mangling code, and a feed reader
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. In Part 2, Andrii speaks about how you can grow faster in your brand-new junior UX job.
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on August 7, 2024
Understanding the service disruption and Vercel's next steps
Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
This new Automatic SSL/TLS setting will maximize and simplify the encryption modes Cloudflare uses to communicate with origin servers by using the SSL/TLS Recommender.
Celebrating one year of Project Cybersafe Schools
August 8, 2024, marks the first anniversary of Project Cybersafe Schools, Cloudflare’s initiative to provide small K-12 public school districts in the United States with a package of Zero Trust cybersecurity solutions – for free, and with no time limit.
Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web
Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I'm linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve in me. The increasing complexity of
How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services.
Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries — Smashing Magazine
For teams working remotely across the globe or together in an office, as well as for any group of collaborating users, a scheduler can be a valuable tool indeed. In this post, you’ll find some of the best commercial web scheduler libraries (JavaScript based) with amazing UX and high efficiency that are currently available.
CSS Olympic Rings
It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated 3D Olympic rings. I like it, it looks great, and I love the
State of the fasterthanlime 2024
It’s time for some personal and professional news! TL;DR: I started a podcast with James , I’m stable on antidepressants, I’m giving a P99 CONF about my Rust/io_uring/HTTP work , I’m trying on “they/them” as pronouns, I’m open-sourcing merde_json , rubicon and others, I got a divorce in 2023, I found a new business model. Now that we’re on the same page: let’s unpack this a bit!
How to use AI coding tools to learn a new programming language
Explore how AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot can accelerate your journey to learn new programming languages.
Issue no.6: The prompt
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
Vercel AI SDK 3.3
Vercel AI SDK 3.3 introduces tracing, multi-modal attachments, JSON streaming to clients, and more.
How to integrate AI into your business
Learn to build robust AI use cases, evaluate initiatives, and integrate AI into your team's workflow. Discover how Vercel's platform accelerates AI development and drives innovation.
RoCE networks for distributed AI training at scale
AI networks play an important role in interconnecting tens of thousands of GPUs together, forming the foundational infrastructure for training, enabling large models with hundreds of billions of parameters such as LLAMA 3.1 405B. This week at ACM SIGCOMM 2024 in Sydney, Australia, we are sharing details on the network we have built at Meta […]
DCPerf: An open source benchmark suite for hyperscale compute applications
We are open-sourcing DCPerf, a collection of benchmarks that represents the diverse categories of workloads that run in data center cloud deployments. We hope that DCperf can be used more broadly by academia, the hardware industry, and internet companies to design and evaluate future products. DCPerf is available now on GitHub. Hyperscale and cloud datacenter […]
It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5” — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever wondered what happened after CSS3? It’s common knowledge that we never saw CSS4 come after it, yet we have a plethora of new features that have no similar way of defining when they were introduced. The W3C CSS-Next community group is actively searching for better approaches for how we describe the evolution of CSS over time and identify feature sets as effectively as we did with CSS3
Surprising findings from our analysis of 3DS transactions in the US
Businesses tell us they’re interested in replicating the fraud prevention success seen in Europe by requesting 3DS. We had a front-row seat as Stripe users chose to do exactly that, but the results were very different from what we see in Europe.
Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens
Two months of feed reader behavior analysis
Shipping support for module script integrity in Chrome & Safari - Shopify
How we shipped ES module integrity in browsers and made commerce and the web better for everyone!
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. Learn why mastering design tools is crucial, how to build a strong portfolio, and tips for acing your first interviews.
Protecting your app (and wallet) against malicious traffic
Learn how to block traffic with the Firewall, set up soft and hard spend limits, apply code-level optimizations, and more.
A recent spate of Internet disruptions
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela.
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js — Smashing Magazine
Handling translations for multilingual websites is famously difficult and, yet, crucial for many companies and organizations that serve a global audience. Thankfully, modern tooling abstracts away a great deal of the work, allowing for seamless translations that dynamically update the rendered content on a page, as demonstrated in this step-by-step tutorial.
Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly whipping up new dashboards for stakeholders and themselves, helping answer those big data-driven questions every day. These dashboards tackle everything from frequently used key metrics to exploratory insights and operational reports. It’s clear to us: dashboards help us move faster and st
Achieving feature rollouts with ultra-low latency and zero impact to conversion
CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes
Most days, I'm writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach
What’s new with GitHub Copilot: July 2024
To enhance your coding experience, AI tools should excel at saving you time with repetitive, administrative tasks, while providing accurate solutions to assist developers. Today, we’re spotlighting three updates designed to increase efficiency and boost developer creativity.
Unified Grid: How We Re-Architected Slack for Our Largest Customers
All software is built atop a core set of assumptions. As new code is added and new use-cases emerge, software can become unmoored from those assumptions. When this happens, a fundamental tension arises between revisiting those foundational assumptions—which usually entails a lot of work—or trying to support new behavior atop the existing architecture. The latter…
Sweet Nostalgia In August (2024 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 the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar for August 2024. Enjoy!
Javascript SEO: How Google Crawls, Renders & Indexes JS
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.
How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic
This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue.
What you should know about Linux memory overcommit in PostgreSQL
Understand why and how to disable memory overcommit to make PostgreSQL run reliably on Linux, including implications for containerization.
How HP powers up design handoff with Dev Mode
HP’s design system team reveals how they used Figma to streamline processes, break down silos, and save developers 98 minutes per week across their diverse product ecosystem.