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Hi! I’m Steve Feldman, Senior Ad Ops Manager at Stack Overflow. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by advertising. Even as a kid, I wondered what a company was trying to tell me by using one word instead of another in an ad. Over time, I developed a strong (read: subjective) opinion of what makes an ad ’good,’ and…
We are deeply saddened by the news that our member, colleague, and friend Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away.
Making email safer for you with two new security features in Gmail on the web.
Posted by Daniele Procida, Adrienne Lowe on Feb. 4, 2016
Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Due to the long lead time inherent in the game development and distribution process, the…
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
Build 3103 is out now. Downloads and a full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
Researchers have finally determined that concrete material acts at once as a continuous solid and like an aggregate of small particles. The work may help researchers engineer more durable, sustainable concrete.
Read about how we turned off Flash support for VHS, the New York Times video player.
Being a startup in the SaaS segment, customer acquisition has been one of the most challenging topics for us. In this article, we describe our experiences.
The technology behind Canva. We're sharing how we solve complex engineering problems to empower everyone in the world to design.
Gage Skidmore has photographed nearly every presidential candidate since 2008 — and by giving away all of his images for free, he has quickly become the Internet's most prominent political photographer.
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…
I’m extremely happy to announce the Zcash project. Zcash (formerly “Zerocash”/“Zerocoin”) is a project to create a new currency for the Internet, inspired by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an amazing and complex…
EPFL’s Metamedia Center will soon finish digitizing the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, and an initial selection of concerts has been made available at montreuxjazz.com.
Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.
The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and...
The team at InfluxData is excited to announce the stable version of InfluxDB 0.10! Read about it here and see what are the new changes!
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Python 3 Support with Scrapy 1 - Upgrade your Scrapy projects to Python 3. Leverage the latest features and improvements.
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
Posted by Lucas Ballard, Safe Browsing Team In November , we announced that Safe Browsing would protect you from social engineering attack...
