Release Radar
The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…
Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, More em Units, and Global Privacy Control
In this week's news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get "donut" scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it's time to ditch pixels
Octoverse spotlight: Exploring the people and stories behind GitHub data
In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency. Even before the novel coronavirus had an official name, it set off global travel restrictions, widespread closures,…
How to execute an object file: Part 1
Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way.
The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes
When we launched Cloudflare for Teams almost ten years later, the vision was very much the same — build a secure and powerful Zero Trust solution that is ridiculously easy to use.
The Netflix Cosmos Platform - Netflix TechBlog
Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive…
State Of GDPR In 2021: Cookie Consent For Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. In this article, Danny Bluestone will take a look at two developments that have impacted cookies, plus a third on the horizon.
Spotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user is receiving the right “treatment” with a population of hundreds of millions of users, poses technical challenges. Adding to the complexity, some of these experiments must be coordinated in the sense that the same user cannot be in two experiments at the same time. These ar
2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain who built this product experience (??Give them a hand!).
Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
At the moment, I’m living with my wife and step daughter in London and working from home like most people. Which means I get up around 8am, drink lots of coffee (way too much!) and log onto my computer an hour later – ready to check my messages and start getting my brain into thinking mode.
Weekly Platform News: Reduced Motion, CORS, WhiteHouse.gov, popups, and 100vw
In this week's roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new <popup> element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to
Now Available: Scoped apps and enhanced permissions
The Dropbox API has released support for scopes, PKCE, and refresh tokens. You can find the announcement and summary of new features here.
Nuxt Analytics on Vercel
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Nuxt projects – without any configuration.
2020 Transparency Report
At GitHub, we put developers first, and we work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration. This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption…
Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders
February is Black History Month in the US and Canada, a month when we celebrate our amazing Black/African American heritage and what it represents in our society, our work, and…
Dr. Bernice King on how technology can transform the Black economy
As technology transforms the global economy, Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, is striving to make sure these new economic opportunities are available…
Open source in the 5G stack
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital sovereignty. One…
Before You memo()
Rendering optimizations that come naturally.
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this mechanism to our advantage.
An incomplete list of complaints about real code
State Of GDPR In 2021: Key Updates And What They Mean — Smashing Magazine
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018.
Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads
Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt.
Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
On a default left-to-right web page, "hanging" an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal
Your guide to Developer Experience Week at GitHub InFocus
This year we hosted our first all-virtual GitHub Universe—and you tuned in to join us from 174 regions around the world! We knew there was even more to cover, so…
MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, welcomes American Express and Adobe to the Summer 2021 Program
Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility…
Building Your Own Personal Learning Curriculum — Smashing Magazine
As developers, we’re constantly learning new languages and frameworks. But how can you structure this learning to ensure maximum benefit while still progressing? Here’s how you can devise your own curriculum to keep moving in the right direction. The following are simply steps that worked for Kirsty Simmonds when she needed to learn over time, without burning out or placing undue pressure on mysel
Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation
Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics.
Context And Variables In The Hugo Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we take a look at the topic of context and variables in Hugo, a popular static site generator. You’ll understand concepts such as the global context, flow control, and variables in Hugo templates, as well as data flow from content files through templates to partials and base templates.
Introducing GitHub Campus TV!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of GitHub Campus TV! With new shows every week, tune in to hear from experts, participate in workshops, and join a community of passionate…
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 is now generally available
Today we’re announcing general availability of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0. Introduced during the GitHub Universe 2020 keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server. Every company using GitHub can…
Bound to Round: 8 Tips for Dealing with Hanging Pennies - Shopify
We want to avoid having many hanging pennies. And when faced with such a situation, we want to identify such calculations and put a plan in place on who to notify and what to do with them.
Weekly Platform News: WebKit autofill, Using Cursor Pointer, Delaying Autoplay Videos
In this week's roundup, WebKit's prefixed autofill becomes a standard, the pointer cursor is for more than just links, and browsers are jumping on board to
Don’t put pointer-events: none on form labels
Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how
Progressive Web Apps in 2021
Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are:
iframe feedback
What if an <iframe> had within it another <iframe> of the exact same source? Inception, as they say. Baptise Crespy does this all-important
How we designed and wrote the narrative for our homepage
This post is the fifth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox
Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs
New global ID format coming to GraphQL
The GitHub GraphQL API has been publicly available for over 4 years now. Its usage has grown immensely over time, and we’ve learned a lot from running one of the…
Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
Technical Mentorship Reimagined: Time-bound and No Awkward Asks Necessary - Shopify
Authors: Sarah Naqvi and Steve Lounsbury Struggling with a concept and frantically trying to find the answers online? Are you thinking: I should just ping a teammate or Is this something I should already know? That’s fine, I’ll ask anyway. And then you do ask and get an answer and are feeling pretty darn proud of yourself and move forward. But wait, now I have about 25 follow-up questions. Sound f
A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column
We've covered that individual <table> cells, <th> and <td> can be position: sticky. It's pretty easy to make the header of a table stick to
How we sped up Dropbox Android app startup by 30%
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Getting The Most Out Of Git — Smashing Magazine
Git has so many powerful features under the hood! From Interactive Rebase to Submodules and from the Reflog to File History, these advanced features help you become more productive and make fewer mistakes. In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. You’ll learn how to recover deleted commits, clean up your commit history, use submodules to manage third
Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners
We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings
Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game
The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question.
Release Radar
Not everyone takes a break over the festive season. Some people in the community have been busy shipping releases. So we’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases…
Day 53: a little nginx, IPv6, and wireguard
Day 53: a little nginx, IPv6, and wireguard
Fighting for developers: GitHub policy 2020 in review
GitHub is committed to shaping public policies that support developers around the globe. Last year, we advised policymakers, supported legal action, and spoke directly to developers on policy in jurisdictions…
Push some big numbers through your system and look for bugs
npm 7 is now generally available!
After much anticipation, the npm CLI version 7 is now generally available!
How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams — Smashing Magazine
On your list of places where people might access your web app, Teams is probably number “not-on-the-list”. But it turns out that making your app accessible where your users are already working has some profound benefits. In this article, Tomomi Imura and Daisy Chaussee will take a look at how Teams makes web apps a first-class citizen, and how it enables you to interact with those apps in complete
Open Web Docs
Robert Nyman:
"Cancelable" Smooth Scrolling
Here's the situation: Your site offers a "scroll back to top" button, and you've implemented smooth scrolling. As the page scrolls back to the top, users see
February 2021 GitHub Campus Experts applications are open
GitHub Education is on a mission to build communities and support emerging tech talent around the world. We’re looking for the next batch of student leaders to apply to the GitHub Campus Experts Program!
Inspiring Wallpapers For February 2021 And A Little Creativity Challenge — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity challenge waiting for you this month. It’s the perfect occasion to share your ideas with the world — and win a smashing prize along the way. The wallpapers in this post come with and without a calendar for February 2021, and, as a little bonus goodie, you’ll also discover some famili
Cloudflare Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
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How to Make Dashboards Using a Product Thinking Approach - Shopify
A step-by-step guide to how you can create dashboards that are user-centred and impact-driven.