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2022 2

  1. Safer Internet Day and Open Source Codes of Conduct
  2. A Pluggable Solution for API Observability on our PHP System

2021 1

  1. Flickr Engineering Team Vision & Guiding Principles

2018 1

  1. Together

2017 2

  1. Introducing Similarity Search at Flickr
  2. A Year Without a Byte

2016 5

  1. Personalized Group Recommendations on Flickr
  2. We Want You… and Your Teammates
  3. Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in NodeJS
  4. Our Justified Layout Goes Open Source
  5. Configuration management for distributed systems (using GitHub and cfg4j)

2015 9

  1. The 32 Days Of Christmas!
  2. Flickr’s experience with iOS 9
  3. Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr
  4. Powering Flickr’s Magic view by fusing bulk and real-time compute
  5. The Data Freshener
  6. Optimizing Caching: Twemproxy and Memcached at Flickr
  7. Real-time Resizing of Flickr Images Using GPUs
  8. Much Photos!
  9. 33 Browser Stats You Just Might Believe

2014 9

  1. Introducing: Flickr PARK or BIRD
  2. The Ins and Outs of the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million Dataset
  3. Performance improvements for photo serving
  4. Exploring Life Without Compass
  5. Redis Sentinel at Flickr
  6. Computer vision at scale with Hadoop and Storm
  7. Flickr API Going SSL-Only on June 27th, 2014
  8. Building Flickr’s new Hybrid Signed-Out Homepage
  9. New SSL Endpoints for the Flickr API

2013 4

  1. A Summer at Flickr
  2. Pre-generating Justified Views
  3. Adventures in Jank Busting: Parallax, performance, and the new Flickr Home Page
  4. Using Redis as a Secondary Index for MySQL

2012 17

  1. Redis Global Locks Redux
  2. Highly Available Real Time Push Notifications and You
  3. Avoiding Dragons: A Practical Guide to Drag ’n’ Drop
  4. Flickr at SF Web Performance
  5. Join the Flickr Frontend team tonight at the SF Web Performance meet up!
  6. We saved you a step…
  7. Designing an OSM Map Style
  8. The great map update of 2012
  9. Web workers and YUI
  10. Parsing Exif client-side using JavaScript
  11. Group APIs
  12. Liquid Photo Page Layout
  13. Building The Flickr Web Uploadr: The Grid
  14. Raising the bar on web uploads
  15. Building an HTML5 Photo Editor
  16. Scott Schiller on Web Audio
  17. Farewell FlickrAuth

2011 17

  1. Pleiades: A guest post
  2. Talk: Real-time Updates on the Cheap for Fun and Profit
  3. How Photo Session Brings Photos Alive
  4. Realtime Photo Sharing: Flickr Photo Session
  5. Creating an interface for geofences
  6. The Code Behind Geofences
  7. In the privacy of our homes
  8. Engage Kitten Hose
  9. Join Us at the NYC Photo Hack Day!
  10. Lessons Learned from the Flickr Touch Lightbox
  11. Don’t be so PuSHy
  12. Flickr now Supports OAuth 1.0a
  13. Refreshing The API Explorer
  14. Inspiration Tuesday
  15. A YUI3 Module for the Flickr API
  16. The Joy of Popup Windows
  17. Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0

2010 18

  1. The Flickr Developer Guide
  2. The Not-So-New Image Size: Medium 640
  3. A lil’ time with… Stephen
  4. A lil’ time with… mroth
  5. A lil’ time with… Chris
  6. Creating a dashboard for the help team
  7. Now in Belorussian…
  8. A lil’ time with… Timoni
  9. A lil’ time with… Nolan
  10. Stats API Redux
  11. Ishmael – a UI for mk-query-digest
  12. Galleries APIs
  13. Flickr Stats API
  14. 5 Questions for Simon Willison
  15. Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap
  16. Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr
  17. People in Photos: The API Methods
  18. A Chinese puzzle: Unicode and EXIF metadata parsing

2009 48

  1. Language Detection: A Witch’s Brew?
  2. Flipping Out
  3. On The Importance of Fun (And Some Holiday Snow)
  4. Building authorized Flickr apps for the iPhone
  5. In case you wanted to bake us a cake ….
  6. Introducing The App Garden
  7. Small Bridges (to Proximate Spaces)
  8. “That’s maybe a bit too dorky, even for us.”
  9. Flickr is hiring
  10. “Introducing astrotags”
  11. 5 questions for Matt Biddulph
  12. horse=yes
  13. Matthias Gansrigler: On flickery, and making your API apps fly
  14. extra:extra=extra
  15. Twitter in the API
  16. Slides from Velocity 2009
  17. Every Step A Story
  18. Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0
  19. The Absence and the Anchor
  20. What Would Brooklyn Do?
  21. [changelog] “Find my location” button
  22. Kittens vs Sunsets
  23. I See Smart People, AKA: We Do Stuff …
  24. Integrating Flickr into your Rails website
  25. The Only Question Left Is
  26. How the contact cache was won
  27. Tags in Space
  28. Building Fast Client-side Searches
  29. [changelog] High Definition Kitten Tuesday (New HD Search option)
  30. [changelog] Revision of the Places page, also Neighborhoods
  31. Moar Panda: Is a Firehose of Snowflakes a Nor’easter?
  32. Panda Tuesday; The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You
  33. Videos in the Flickr API: Part Deux
  34. YUI Blog: Improving The Flickr Upload Exprience With YUI Uploader
  35. Found in space
  36. Mise en hack
  37. [changelog] Delete Tag Cross Things inspired by Delete Tag Cross Things
  38. Dorks
  39. 5 Questions for David Wilkinson
  40. [changelog] Yahoo! updated map tiles and some OSM ones.
  41. Birthday Kitten Tuesday
  42. Things I’m Standing Next To
  43. 100,000,000 geotagged photos (plus)
  44. 5 Questions for Fraser Speirs
  45. 5 Questions for Jonnie Hallman
  46. Living In the Donut Hole
  47. Front-end Performance: Doing More With Less
  48. Pancake Friday

2008 50

  1. We ate 10 fuckin terabytes yesterday in uploads. Not bad.
  2. Web Ops Visualizations Group on Flickr
  3. Machine Tag Hierarchies
  4. [change log] Add as contact link
  5. Lightweight Layout Management in Flash
  6. Boundaries, a tool to explore Flickr’s shapefiles
  7. 5 Questions for Gustavo
  8. On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing
  9. EXIF, Machine Tags, Groupr, and more Paul Mison
  10. 5 Questions for Paul Mison
  11. The Shape of Alpha
  12. KrazyDad » Sunrise, Sunset
  13. Counting & Timing
  14. Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
  15. Kitten Tuesday, ASCII Edition
  16. A Little About The Flickr Bike
  17. 5 Questions for Jim Bumgardner
  18. Kitten Tuesday
  19. Flickr Digs Ganglia
  20. What’s in a Resource?
  21. Flickr Engineers Do It Offline
  22. Kittens from Ipanema
  23. Cal Henderson Tuesday
  24. Kitten Tuesday – Office Hygiene Edition
  25. Who’s On First?
  26. Open! Hack! Day!
  27. Kitten Tuesday
  28. Machine Tags, last.fm and Rock’n’Roll
  29. Kitten Tuesday
  30. Flickr [heart] Burning Man [heart] OpenStreetMap
  31. API Responses as Feeds
  32. Kitten Tuesday
  33. Standard Photos Response, APIs for a civilized age.
  34. Defining the boundaries we are all within
  35. Location, keeping it real on the streets, yo!
  36. Wildcard Machine Tag URLs
  37. Trickr, or Humanising the Developers (Part 2)
  38. WebMonkey, Flickr API and Python
  39. Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development
  40. Trickr, or Humanising the Developers (Part 1)
  41. Slides: Capacity Planning for Web Operations
  42. Flickr at XTech (and slides from SXSW…)
  43. Videos in the Flickr API
  44. Twitter API updates, FireEagle and new Flickr API fun
  45. FireDopplGängEaglr
  46. Inside Photophlow: an interview with Neil Berkman
  47. Making a better Flickr Web Uploadr (Or, “Web Browsers Aren’t Good At Uploading Files By Themselves”)
  48. Web 2.0 Expo: You’re in Our Town Now
  49. Flickr Uploadr, start to finish now
  50. Welcome to the Flickr DevBlog!