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Understanding 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.

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Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting

Many UX professionals often find themselves working alone, and usually face more projects impacting user experience than they can handle. In this article, Paul Boag explains how UX teams can be transformed into a significant driver of customer-centric innovation within organizations.

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Effortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager

Empower Your Web Development: Leveraging Adobe’s New Experience Manager for Streamlined SharePoint Content Publishing and Enhanced Workflow Efficiency Continue reading Effortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager on SitePoint.

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Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (PartΒ 1)

Joas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help for people with sight challenges to understand what’s in an image. But how this does it even work? Joas explains how these AI systems work and their potential uses, including how he built the app and ways to further improve...

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Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size

WCAG provides guidance for making interactive elements more accessible by specifying minimum size requirements. In this article, Eric Bailey discusses the nuances of interactive element sizes and clarifies what it looks like to provide accessible interactive experiences using WCAG-compliant target sizes.

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Build Design Systems With Penpot Components

In today’s turbulent landscape of design, Penpot stands out with its commitment to open-source, free unlimited access, and its unique, robust features. An example could be its new components system that takes another leap forward in aligning design with code. Let's dive into how it empowers both designers and developers to create more maintainable and scalable design systems.

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How To Design Effective Conversational AI Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide

This in-depth guide takes you through the three crucial phases of conversational search, revealing how users express their needs, explore results, and refine their queries. Learn how AI agents can overcome communication barriers, personalize the search experience, and adapt to evolving user intent.

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From Idea to Prototype in Minutes: Claude Sonnet 3.5

Check out how easier it has become to go from doc to design and prototype with Claude's latest model: Sonnet 3.5 Continue reading From Idea to Prototype in Minutes: Claude Sonnet 3.5 on SitePoint.

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Essential Plugins for WordPress Developers: Top Picks for 2024

A review of top WordPress developer plugins in 2024 for crafting perfect websites, booking pages, and more. Continue reading Essential Plugins for WordPress Developers: Top Picks for 2024 on SitePoint.

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WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison

We compare WebAssembly and JavaScript, examining their performance, portability, ease of use, security, and community support. Continue reading WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison on SitePoint.

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Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing

Process separation remains one of the most important parts of the Firefox security model and securing our IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interfaces is crucial to keep privileges in the different processes separated. We take a more detailed look at our newest tool for finding vulnerabilities in these interfaces – snapshot fuzzing. The post Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer...

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The Functional Depth of Docker and Docker Compose

Learn how to create a multi-container Flask application using Docker Compose, manage Docker images with Vultr Container Registry, and more. Continue reading The Functional Depth of Docker and Docker Compose on SitePoint.

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Sponsoring sqlite-vec to enable more powerful Local AI applications

Today we’re proud to announce the next Mozilla Builders project: sqlite-vec. Led by independent developer Alex Garcia, this project brings vector search functionality to the beloved SQLite embedded database. Alex has been working on this problem for a while, and we think his latest approach will have a great impact by providing application developers with a powerful new tool for building Local AI applications. The post...

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How Top HR Agencies Build Trust Through Logo Designs

Learn five key ways a well-structured, professional corporate identity can help to cultivate trust in an audience. Continue reading How Top HR Agencies Build Trust Through Logo Designs on SitePoint.

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Leveraging Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for Enhanced Mobile User Engagement

Discover how Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) enhance mobile user engagement with features like offline access, push notifications, and more. Continue reading Leveraging Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for Enhanced Mobile User Engagement on SitePoint.

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10 Artificial Intelligence APIs for Developers

Discover the top 10 Artificial Intelligence APIs that help developers add intelligent features like speech recognition, image analysis, & more. Continue reading 10 Artificial Intelligence APIs for Developers on SitePoint.

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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly

Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers. The post Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the...

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The Ultimate Guide to Navigating SQL Server With SQLCMD

Dive into our comprehensive guide on the SQL Server command-line interface. Learn how to connect to SQL Server, execute queries, work with SSMS and PowerShell, and more. Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Navigating SQL Server With SQLCMD on SitePoint.

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Retrieval-augmented Generation: Revolution or Overpromise?

Learn what RAG promises and its practical reality as we explore how RAG works, its potential benefits, its challenges and solutions. Continue reading Retrieval-augmented Generation: Revolution or Overpromise? on SitePoint.

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How to Deploy Apache Airflow on Vultr Using Anaconda

Learn how to deploy an Airflow app in a Conda environment and secure the app using Nginx and request SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt. Continue reading How to Deploy Apache Airflow on Vultr Using Anaconda on SitePoint.

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Cloud Native: How Ampere Is Improving Nightly Arm64 Builds

Learn how the CNCF make their nightly native arm64 builds more secure, more efficiently use resources, and be much faster. Continue reading Cloud Native: How Ampere Is Improving Nightly Arm64 Builds on SitePoint.

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How to Create Content in WordPress with AI

Learn how to install and use the AI Bud WordPress plugin, a powerful AI tool for simplifying your WordPress content creation process. Continue reading How to Create Content in WordPress with AI on SitePoint.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Project in Laravel

In this Laravel tutorial, you'll learn about the building blocks of Laravel and how to use it to set up a small project. Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Project in Laravel on SitePoint.

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Enhancing DevSecOps Workflows with Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide

The advent of generative AI is set to revolutionize DevSecOps practices by addressing the manual aspects of the development lifecycle Continue reading Enhancing DevSecOps Workflows with Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide on SitePoint.

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Llamafile’s progress, four months in

When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. The post Llamafile’s progress, four months in appeared first on Mozilla...

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Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust

In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also share insights into the technical nuances of the implementation, demonstrating how Rust's features are leveraged to handle crashes more effectively and securely. The...

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Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function

We dive into the intricacies of how to use the CSS clamp() function to scale the size of text across a range of device sizes. Continue reading Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function on SitePoint.

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Comparing Full Stack and Headless CMS Platforms

This article dives CMS, both full stack and headless, to help you understand which CMS is suitable to what conditions. Continue reading Comparing Full Stack and Headless CMS Platforms on SitePoint.

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7 Easy Ways to Make a Magento 2 Website Faster

Is your Magento site running slowly? In this article, we cover seven practical tips for making a Magento 2 online store faster. Continue reading 7 Easy Ways to Make a Magento 2 Website Faster on SitePoint.

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Powerful React Form Builders to Consider in 2024

We survey four React form builders, noting their core features and important aspects to consider when picking a form builder. Continue reading Powerful React Form Builders to Consider in 2024 on SitePoint.

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Prototype even faster with the Gradio UI for Figma component library

In the fast-paced world of generative AI, staying ahead means moving swiftly and smartly. That's why we've embraced Gradio, the low-code prototyping toolkit from Hugging Face, as our go-to for bringing new ideas to life. The post Prototype even faster with the Gradio UI for Figma component library appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

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Quick Tip: How to Animate Text Gradients and Patterns in CSS

In this quick tip, we show how easy it is to add animated background gradients and images to text on the Web, with handy demos. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Animate Text Gradients and Patterns in CSS on SitePoint.

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Sending Email Using Node.js

Learn how to send email in Node.js, exploring concepts and challenges of creating and sending email no matter what system you're using. Continue reading Sending Email Using Node.js on SitePoint.

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Creating a Navbar in React

How to build a navbar in React, covering everything from design considerations to implementation and accessibility best practices. Continue reading Creating a Navbar in React on SitePoint.

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A Complete Guide to CSS Logical Properties, with Cheat Sheet

Learn what CSS logical properties are, how they work, and what they're useful for, even if you're not working on a multilingual site. Continue reading A Complete Guide to CSS Logical Properties, with Cheat Sheet on SitePoint.

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