Adam Argyle is clear with some 2025 CSS advice: I think every front-end developer should know how to enable page transitions, transition a , popover, and , animate light n’ dark gradient text, type safe their CSS system, and add springy easing to animation. Nobody asked me, but if I had to pick a favorite of Adam’s six, it’s all the stuff about animating…
I’m inclined to take a few notes on Eric Bailey’s grand post about the use of inclusive personas in user research. As someone who has been in roles that have both used and created user personas, there’s so much in here What’s the big deal, right? We’re often taught and encouraged to think about users…
A perfect storm is brewing in cyberspace as sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actors escalate attacks on cloud environments and telecommunications, while new research confirms AI-powered hacking teams can now autonomously exploit critical vulnerabilities. A series of new reports from leading cybersecurity firms paints a concerning picture of the evolving digital threat landscape. Nation-state hackers from China…
I found myself saying “The Edge” in a recent podcast with Stephen. I was talking about some server-side JavaScript that executes during a web request, and that it was advantageous that it happens at CDN nodes around the world rather than at one location only, so that it’s fast. That was kinda the whole point…
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. Web designs were very square at the time, so to have border-radius was super cool,…
Normally, a penetration tester or hacker uses Metasploit to exploit vulnerable services in a target server or to create a payload to set up a backdoor on a compromised system. Nevertheless, Metasploit has evolved with many plugins and modules, and now it can do much more than that. Today, it can also be used to…
Chris and Stephen hop on the podcast to discuss the concept of a proxy. Possibly the most “gray hat” thing that CodePen does. We use a third-party analytics tool called Fullres. We could just put a link to the necessary to make that work directly to fullres.com, but being an analytics tool, it’s blocked by…
Introduction In an era where data privacy is paramount and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a revolutionary paradigm. This innovative approach allows multiple entities to collaboratively train a shared prediction model without exchanging their raw data. Imagine scenarios where hospitals collectively build more accurate disease…
Color interpolation, loosely speaking, is the process of determining the colors between two color points. It allows us to create unique colors, beautiful palettes, better gradients, and smooth transitions. I recently wrote a Guide to CSS Color Functions but didn’t have the chance to explain color interpolation in any great depth — which is a…
You might have heard a lot of buzz around this topic of “Threat Hunting” and want to try your hand at proactive detection. Great! But how does one actually go about building a hunting program? To begin, let’s clarify what threat hunting is: Threat hunting is the human-driven, proactive and iterative search through networks, endpoints,…