Retrospective on Fela
I really appreciate a real-world walkthrough of a technology. Not only in what that technology does, but why it was chosen and how it worked for a team.
A quirk in the SUNBURST DGA algorithm
On Wednesday, December 16, the RedDrip Team from QiAnXin Technology released their discoveries (tweet, github) regarding the random subdomains associated with the SUNBURST malware which was present in the SolarWinds Orion compromise. I
Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working
How the team moved to a virtual-first model
Improving Cloudflare’s products and services, one feature request at a time
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about Cloudflare’s feature request process, and how we turn customer feedback into product improvements.
Introducing the new Campus Advisors program
GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing…
Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program
What we look for from applicants, plus an overview of how the application process works.
We Need You In The Smashing Family — Smashing Magazine
Do you like building relationships and exploring creative options? At Smashing, we are looking for a team member who’ll take good care of advertising and sponsorships across the range of everything we do at Smashing — from the magazine to our conferences. Interested? We’d love you to join us.
Adding it all up: The math behind designing your career
How to think about the 90,000 hours you spend at work
What A Time To Be Smashing! — Smashing Magazine
With so much going on, it’s nice to have an overview of what’s new at Smashing — all in one place. Read on to find out what’s been keeping the team busy alongside some inspiring community resources that have made it to the top list of our newsletters!
Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.
Veterans Day spotlight: Finding careers and camaraderie through code
Today in America, it’s Veterans Day, a federal holiday to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. As a veteran myself, I know that honoring veterans is…
GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
2020 GitHub Universe Micro-Mentoring Application
We’re thrilled to announce an opportunity to connect with employees at GitHub during GitHub Universe. This year, Universe will take place virtually December 8-10 and we’d love to “see” you…
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2020
Like our global community, we’ve had a year of challenges and extremes at GitHub, and I’m grateful everyday for our culture as our foundation of strength and resilience. We started…
How a Customer's Trust in Cloudflare Led to a Big Win against Bots
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how a customer trusted Cloudflare to help them fight bots and improve their customer experience.
Learning and failing as a team
Watch the breakout sessions from Config Europe
Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users
Slack brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done. Normally, team members can invite one another to Slack via email invitation. Invited users can accept the invitation to activate their account, but if they don’t, then their team members can’t collaborate with them. To solve this problem we created Email Bridge:…
GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
GitHub Action Hero
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Cloudflare’s Always Online and the Internet Archive Team Up to Fight Origin Errors
Today is exciting for all those who want the Internet to be stronger, more resilient, and have important redundancies: Cloudflare is pleased to announce a partnership with the Internet Archive to bring new functionality to our Always Online service.
GitHub Action Hero: Stefan Zweifel and “git-auto-commit”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
What Happens When The Whole World Goes Remote? Not To Worry, We Were Built For This
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how a telemedicine provider used Cloudflare to stay connected when the world went remote.
Smashing Magazine Is Fourteen!
This week we celebrate the 14th birthday of Smashing Magazine. We didn’t quite have the year that we planned though! I took a look back at some memories from this year and previous years — with the help of the team and some Smashing friends.
Starting an Initiative
Early in my career at Slack I was looking for ways to have an impact. I asked my manager what I could work on to add value to the team. She said that we wanted to catch bugs earlier in the development process and that Cypress testing might be one way to do this. I…
Two clicks to add region-based Zero Trust compliance
Starting today, you can make geography-based compliance easy again in Cloudflare Access with just two clicks. You can now build rules that require employees to connect from certain countries. You can also add rules that block team members from connecting from other countries.
GitHub Action Hero: Eddie Jaoude
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
SmashingConf Live! Is A Wrap — Smashing Magazine
The SmashingConf team had such fun at their first SmashingConf Live! event last week. In this post, editor-in-chief Rachel Andrew shares highlights and feedback from the online conference.
Wizard Zines' first print run: Help! I have a Manager!
Wizard Zines' first print run: Help! I have a Manager!
GitHub Action Hero: Keirron Stach
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Maintainer spotlight: Managing dependencies and the Metasploit pen testing toolkit
Keeping open source software secure is a community responsibility. But with millions of projects, it’s hard to pinpoint the right signal from noise—and find and fix the vulnerabilities that really…
Require hard key auth with Cloudflare Access
Using Cloudflare Access, we can now restrict the ability to reach our admin panel only to team members who authenticate with a hard key. Starting today, we’re making that feature available to all teams.
Introducing The ReadME Project
Open source powers software on a planetary scale: 99% of code is built on it. The rewards and challenges of creating open source are deeply familiar to the maintainers and…
Introducing the Rally + GitHub integration
GitHub’s Professional Services Engineering team has decided to open source another project: Rally + GitHub. You may have seen our most recent open source project, Super Linter. Well, the team has done…
GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
GitHub Action Hero: Swechhya Bista
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools
Simon Bennetts is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Project Leader and a Distinguished Engineer at StackHawk, a company that uses ZAP to help users fix application security bugs before they hit production. Prior to making the move into security, he was a developer for 25 years and strongly believes that you can’t build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.
Announcing the GitHub public roadmap
The public roadmap is designed to give your team more information about what features and functionality you can expect from GitHub over the coming quarters.
How to secure your GitHub organization and enterprise account
Protect your team’s code with secure software development best practices like setting up SAML/SCIM integrations, enforcing policies to avoid code leakage, and more.
Bringing You The Best Of Smashing — Smashing Magazine
What’s new at Smashing? When’s the next event? Did you miss out on anything? Don’t worry, you’ll find everything gathered here in one place so you don’t need to have a hundred tabs open. (Yes, it has been that busy!) Unfortunately, the effects of COVID-19 are still so wide-reaching throughout the world, so that the Smashing team has had to make big changes to our plans this year.
Cloudflare's first year in Lisbon
We landed in Lisbon with a small team of transplants from other Cloudflare offices. We’ve almost quadrupled in a year and we intend to keep growing to around 80 by the end of 2020.
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
How We Built Size.link - Shopify
On July 20, 2020 we held ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify. Daniel talked about what we’re doing with AR/VR at Shopify. The video of the event is available. Size.link is a free tool built by Shopify’s Augmented Reality (AR) team that lets anyone view the size of a product in the space around them using their smartphone camera. The tool came out of our April Hack Days focused on helping retailers
Remote work: Sales and Support on being customer-centric while working remotely
Sales and Support leaders share advice and strategies to help you navigate a remote-first customer approach.
GitHub Action Hero: Casey Lee
The GitHub community is capable of incredible things and GitHub Actions is the tool. Do you want to automate your workflow, increase your productivity, and empower your developer experience? Then…
How Clearstep simplifies the experience of finding care online
The team at Clearstep shares how they designed their symptom checking and care routing platform.
Machine intelligence at Dropbox: An update from our DBXi team
Remote work: Reshaping the workplace experience
The GitHub Workplace Experience team weighs in on how to get creative during COVID-19 and what the future holds.
Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows
Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years…
Shopify's Data Science & Engineering Foundations - Shopify
Shopify’s Data team uses these foundational approaches to data warehousing and analysis empowering us to deliver the best results for our ecosystem.
Improving your User Lifecycle Management with the Dropbox API
Take control of your Dropbox team by improving your user lifecycle management with the Dropbox API
12 Ways To Improve User Interview Questions — Smashing Magazine
Right questions don’t simply roll off the tongue, but it’s a handy skill everyone can train. The following pieces of advice will help you to formulate questions that foster reliable answers from your users and clients. Slava Shestopalov will talk about 12 kinds of questions explained with examples. The first part includes six frequent mistakes and how to fix them. The second part presents six ways
#BlackLivesMatter — Smashing Magazine
We stand firmly behind the Black Lives Matter movement. We have always stood strongly behind introducing a wide range of voices to Smashing publications and conferences. Positive change is difficult, but it’s possible. It takes work, time, and dedication. We are fully committed as a team to see it through.
Jetpack Scan
Fresh from the Jetpack team at Automattic, today, comes Jetpack Scan. Jetpack Scan scans all the files on your site looking for anything suspicious or
Stripe’s remote engineering hub, one year in
Since May 2019, Stripe has operated a fully remote engineering hub. Today, our remote culture is the backbone of a new working model for the whole company.
Intentional Career Building
A challenge and ideas for you to do something to build your career.
Remote work: How parents are adapting and working during COVID-19
GitHub parents share their tips for adapting during COVID-19 and working from home with kids.
Remote work: How Finance, Legal, and IT made the shift to working from home
Traditional in-office teams share how they are adjusting to remote life
Learning Resources In Challenging Times: Online Workshops, Meetups And Events — Smashing Magazine
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. In today’s monthly post, Iris Lješnjanin brings you an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Here at Smashing, we believe that is is now more important than ever to stay in touch and support each other. Behind the scenes, the team is working tirelessly on ways to keep the community connected,
Reflecting on joining GitHub and what’s next for GitHub Insights
With GitHub’s focus on developers, community, and customers, we can’t imagine a better place for our team to be.
Why does writing matter in remote work?
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they'll tell you it's been valuable to them. Maybe it's opened doors. Maybe it's got them a job. Maybe it's