GitHub availability report: July 2026
In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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A deep dive into building a flexible Three.js Geometry Painter with WebGPU and TSL, from surface picking and procedural geometry to live controls, custom shaders, lighting, and post-processing.

In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report bre...

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The most valuable thing you own dies with you, unless you get it out of your head. Let a machine and the person next to you finally use it.

An annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.

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Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.
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A look inside two connected studios building brands across strategy, design, and experience, with the same instinct for clarity, culture, and edge.

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The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.
How automated output turns taste into the primary filter for software and product design.

A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.

Fifty years after its formal introduction, the discipline of IA is still widely misunderstood. Here‘s a corrective.

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A film-led website for Chems Studio, bringing years of creative direction and moving image together through a quiet, flexible digital framework.

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Nine stages of how people operate at work, in strict order, where each one is measured by a job it removes from your manager.
In an era where AI has made execution nearly free, the designer’s true value no longer lies in craft alone but in having a genuine point of view.

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Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook.

A social network for a one day workshop, or for a friend group.

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Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copi...

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Kevin Powell tries out Prop For That, makin it look so slick and easy 🫶 Watch on YouTube
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A selection of websites that show why individuality, not trends, creates the most memorable experiences on the web.
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How to use typed event objects to improve the payload you send to plugin and theme extenders.

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The soon-Baseline sibling-index() function for animations, CSS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, use cases for the infinity keyword, container "stuck" queries, and more. What’s !important #16: sibling-ind...
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July 2026 - CodeTV GSAP Webflow contest, Astro Germany, and more!
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Learn how to build an infinite GSAP gallery with parallax scrolling, reveal animations, and Flip-powered fullscreen transitions.

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I’ve been playing around with AT Protocol. The posts on this site are now published to standard.site, and I’ve written a (very basic) WordPress plugin to display posts from my PDS on the N...

WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing!  This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on productio...

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Why are the world's most powerful websites still stuck in the early 2000s? While boutique brands chase "sleek" designs that only end up frustrating users, giants like Amazon and Google have realized t...