Research roadmap update: August 2024
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Read moreEnterprise 2024.5: Encouraging and growing community contributions
The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more.
Read moreUnderstanding Vultr Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Explore Vultr CDN's advanced features like CORS, Gzip compression, AI bot blocking, and seamless CMS integration for optimized content delivery. Continue reading Understanding Vultr Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) on SitePoint.
Read moreHow Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots
Josh Zhang, a staff site reliability engineer at Stack Overflow, tells Ryan and Eira how the Stack Exchange network defends against scraping bots. They also cover the emergence of human botnets, why DDoS attacks have spiked in the last couple of years, and the constant balancing act of protecting sites
Read moreSphere spilling out
Center a small blue sphere on every corner of an n-dimensional unit hypercube. These are the points in ℝn for which every coordinate is either a 0 or a 1. Now inflate each of these small spheres at the same time until they touch. Each sphere will have radius 1/2. For
Read moreChris’ Corner: Variables
CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. html { --brandColor: red; } .card { border-color: var(--brandColor); h2 { color: var(--brandColor); } } People also — somewhat interchangeably — refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a stickler
Read moreA variation on Rock, Paper, Scissors
Imagine in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors one player is free to play as usual but the other is required to choose each option the same number of times. That is, in 3n rounds of the game, the disadvantaged player much choose Rock n times, Paper n times, and
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