What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
Getting it or not getting it, and then what?
Todas as novidades do GitHub Universe 2022
Read this post in English Veja o que estamos construindo para aprimorar a plataforma de desenvolvimento mais integrada e que permite que pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas impulsionem a inovação com…
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
Understanding the social impact of open source technologies
Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good.
The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters.
Apollo Cache is Your Friend, If You Get To Know It - Shopify
Shopify's Raman Lally delves into the Apollo GraphQL client cache and the life cycle of objects that are cached within it.
Your organization should run its own Mastodon server
Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence
Practical Steps To Build Transparency In Your Remote Business — Smashing Magazine
Transparency is part of the fabric of many remote businesses. It doesn’t, however, come naturally to everyone, especially if you’ve only recently become remote. In this article, Siobhan takes you through some of the practical ways that you can build transparency within your organization.
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop
Advocating for developers to the US Copyright Office
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations
Reducing BigQuery Costs: How We Fixed A $1 Million Query - Shopify
We discovered a query that nearly cost us $1 million USD a month in BigQuery. Below, we’ll share our tips for lowering costs in BigQuery.
Game Off 2022 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?
Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img>
Release Radar
Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to…
The Management Poles of Developer Infrastructure Teams - Shopify
There are 3 management poles for developer infrastructure teams that are thus tricky to balance: management support, system and domain expertise, and road maps.
Choose your own GitHub Universe 2022 adventure
You can now build your agenda on GitHubUniverse.com! Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned industry professional, there’s a session for you.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2022
As GitHub continues to grow, our vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding our progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.
A Software Engineer's Guide to Working Across Time Zones - Shopify
Words I've often heard associated with cross-time zone software engineering teams include “challenging”, “tricky”, and “difficulties”. Here are a few tips to make asynchronous communication a positive experience.
Holographic Trading Card Effect
Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)'s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.
Typographic Hierarchies — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alma Hoffmann discusses six basic variables to establish a typographic hierarchy, explains how to look at each differently, and in turn, designs pieces by intentionally modifying each variable to create a typographic hierarchy effectively.
Email Routing leaves Beta
Today Email Routing leaves Beta and an update on all the new things we've been adding to the service, including behind-the-scenes and not-so-visible improvements
PostGIS: Upgrade GEOS with Ubuntu in 3 Steps
How to upgrade current library versions such as GEOS or GDAL in PostGIS - use the latest stunning spatial features. Upgrade GEOS with Ubuntu.
Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics
Introducing the next generation of Vercel Analytics
Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences
I love it when there's a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer's coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its
Conway's Law
Unboxing fork improvements
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal
Cloudflare's peering portal allows users to log in with existing PeeringDB credentials and request peering sessions with cloudflare direct from the portal
Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies - Shopify
As packages frequently depend on other packages, could some of these big (more than 180M downloads) packages depend on small (less than 180M downloads) packages?
Understanding Privacy: A New Smashing Book Is Here — Smashing Magazine
Meet Understanding Privacy, our brand new Smashing Book to make sense of privacy, and learn how to create inclusive, safe and privacy-aware digital experiences. eBook now available, print shipping in early December.
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
WordPress Full-Site Editing: A Deep Dive Into The New Feature — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Nick Schäferhoff will take a deep dive into WordPress Full-Site Editing, examine the tools it provides for theme development, and provide a tutorial on how to use it to make changes to your site.
Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic
As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a
Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver
An Event Apart 2022 Denver wrapped up yesterday. And while I was unable to make it to all three days this time, I did catch yesterday's action — and it was
On the Importance of Pull Request Discipline - Shopify
Unorganized pull requests are the bane of large codebases. Follow Yash's tips to prevent your PRs from getting roasted in the group chat.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
How to Write Code Without Having to Read It - Shopify
Do we need to read code before editing it? In order to safely fix a bug or update a feature, we may need to learn some things about the code. However, we’d prefer to learn only that information.
Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization — Smashing Magazine
Climate change and sustainability are increasing concerns for digital organizations, as well as individuals working in tech. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways we can raise awareness and effect change within an organization to create a more positive environmental impact.
How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into
Behind the feature: Find and replace
Designer Jackie Chui on how we translated learnings from a plugin to build a native functionality
Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.
Join our upcoming live roadshow series: ‘Zero Trust, Zero Nonsense’
Starting in a couple of weeks, and continuing through the end of the year, we’re hosting a series of Zero Trust Roadshows in various North American cities
Bringing the best live video experience to Cloudflare Stream with AV1
Cloudflare Stream now supports the AV1 codec for live video in open beta, unlocking live-streaming at higher resolution, with lower bandwidth
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
Defending against future threats: Cloudflare goes post-quantum
The future of a private and secure Internet is at stake; that is why today we have enabled post-quantum cryptography support for all our customers
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.38.
How to Mentor Interns to Become Skillful Engineers
Internships are a great opportunity for companies to invest in great talent and train future engineers. It is important to prepare a good mentorship plan for the interns, so that they make the best use of their time and acquire experiences that will help make them full-time employees in the future. The first step is…
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are, in one way or another, fairly misleading. Since the texts aren't all that long, if y
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have been integrating sustainability into our everyday engineering practices. This year, climate action was the theme of our company-wide Hack Week, we made climate responsibility part of our official engineering handbook, and we partnered with Thoughtworks to release the Cloud Carbon Footprint pl
Don't roll your own high cardinality analytics, use Workers Analytics Engine
Join our open beta and start collecting telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers today!
Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings
Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country.
The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share.
Lights, Camera, Action! Business and Pro customers get bundled streaming video
If you have a Business or Pro subscription, soon you will receive a free allocation of Cloudflare Stream.
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Giving Feedback that Actually Matters - Shopify
A few tips for software engineers who want to deliver effective feedback during pull request reviews.
October Vibes For Your Desktop (2022 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about a little inspiration boost? Well, we might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. They are available in versions with and without a calendar for October and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
