The upcoming RocksDB 10.7 release includes a major revamp of parallel compression that dramatically reduces the feature’s CPU overhead by up to 65% while maintaining or improving throughput for compression-heavy workloads. We expect this to broaden the set of workloads that could benefit from parall...

The $FLY Airdrop is live! Claim your share of the token powering Fly.io’s global network of 3M+ apps and (🤮) own a piece of the sky! We know. Our Twitter got owned. We knew within moments of it happening. We know exactly how it happened. Nothing was at risk other than our Twitter account (and one Fl...

Safari recently implemented a non-standard (yet?) CSS random() function (currently only in WebKit, and not yet part of any CSS specification). Since many recent CSS features are directly aimed at replacing common JavaScript functionality, I expected this function to do the same. While it has some ne...

Imagine a responsive hero image that becomes more transparent as the viewport gets narrower, helping text readability on small screens or a card that scales up slightly as the viewport grows, adding a subtle polish.

Jon Miller has spent his career building category-defining marketing platforms. Now, as co-founder and CEO of a stealth AI startup, he shares why the old marketing automation playbook is broken—and how AI will drive personalization at scale.

In Blender 5.0, Geometry Nodes support for volumetric data will be significantly better.

Retool has long been the platform teams turn to for building internal software fast. At this year’s Retool Summit, they announced a big step forward – a new generation of AI-powered capabilities designed to take that speed to another level. They call it enterprise AppGen. Now, enterprises can use Re...

It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak by 90% and continuing to trend downward. We’re a year and half into the Deploy Safety Program at Slack, improving the way we deploy, uplifti...

I've set my Mac up such that video calls such as Zoom use the microphone and earphones attached to my Behringer UMC204HD, which all other audio plays through the my normal speakers which are the default. One issue I have with this is that it's quite hard to change the volume when a call as the volum...

In a talent landscape full of competitive opportunities, where change and turnover are part of the norm, Kogan.com stands out as a place where people choose to stay, grow, and advance their careers. Many of our team members have long tenures, with some contributing as long as 12 or 15 years, reflect...

Feature flags are high stakes. An outage affects not only our customers, but our customer's customers, who's experience it impacts. When flags are…

Use the vector data editor to simplify or smooth lines and polygons on your maps to make them look cleaner and load faster.

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

On August 28, just before the long Labor Day weekend in the United States, PagerDuty experienced a service disruption in our U.S. service region. If... The post In Incident Response, It’s the People Who Make all the Difference appeared first on PagerDuty.

More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your app

A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...

More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your app

After a bit of a summer lull the contests are starting to gain steam again. Last week started with the Codeforces Round 1053 on Wednesday (problems, results, top 5 on the left, analysis). I got stuck in the implementation details of problem D for almost a full hour, then spent some time implementing...

Windows turns programmers into mouse operators. macOS, built on Unix, keeps the command line alive—where everything is a file, tools connect through pipelines, and real programmers stay in control.

Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are rewarded.

This blog really isn't just for beating up on Apple for the way it harms users, the web, standards, and society to maintain power and profits. So here's some fun stuff I've been doing in my 11ty setup to improve page performance. ContentsPage-Specific Resources via Shortcodes and the 11ty BundlerMo ...