The Paper Prototype Rule
I’ve been lucky to have worked with some of the best designers in the industry, including Zhenya Rynzhuk, Louis Paquet, Maria de la Paz Vargas, and of course,
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 1)
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses that we test by running experiments — normally in the form of an A/B test — to learn what works and what doesn’t. The learnings give us insights and fuel new product ideas.
Introducing Cloudflare Radar
Today we are launching a new service, Cloudflare Radar, that shines a light on the Internet’s patterns. Our goal is to help build a better Internet and we want to do this by exposing insights, threats and trends based on the aggregated data that we have.
Free, privacy-first analytics for a better web
We’re announcing a brand new, privacy-first analytics service that’s open to everyone — even if they're not already a Cloudflare customer. And if you're a Cloudflare customer, we've enhanced our analytics to make them even more powerful than before.
When fonts fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
Birthday Week on Cloudflare TV: 24 Hours of Live Discussions on the Future of the Internet
This week marks Cloudflare’s 10th birthday, and we’re excited to continue our annual tradition of launching an array of products designed to help give back to the Internet. (Check back here each morning for the latest!)
Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside
Today, we are excited to launch Cron Triggers to the Cloudflare Workers serverless compute platform. We’ve heard the developer feedback, and we want to give our users the ability to run a given Worker on a scheduled basis.
How to Use Quasi-experiments and Counterfactuals to Build Great Products - Shopify
A/B tests are not the only tool to understand causality: quasi-experiments and counterfactuals are powerful tools for causal inference if used right.
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old.
ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now
This is a written version of my talk from Jamstack Conf London 2019.
Don't Compare Averages
In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely avail
Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help…
GitHub India Virtual Meetup – Open Source & Hacktoberfest
The developer community in India is thriving and growing. There’s lots of developers, open source maintainers, and contributors. Here at GitHub India, we’re excited to announce our next Virtual Meetup…
Answers to a reader's questions about bits of tech
Unexpected Learnings From Coding Artwork Every Day For Five Years — Smashing Magazine
Coding thousands of pieces of artwork teaches you a thing or two about the creative process. Whether you want to overcome perfectionism, learn new skills, or simply explore the playful side of coding, regular projects may be just what you need. In this article, Saskia Freeke will share her thoughts and experience. We hope to yield the inspiration you need to start similar projects of your own.
Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor
If we need to show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor, what is the best way to do it?
A better logs experience with GitHub Actions
It’s now even easier to review logs from your GitHub Actions workflow runs. We’ve introduced several improvements to make the experience more performant, precise, and pleasing to use. Why these…
Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk - Shopify
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
Simplify Your Stack With A Custom-Made Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. Because these tools are built for diverse use cases, they have to have a lot of features. Those features make them powerful. They also make them quite complex and opaque for new developers. In this article, Bryan Robinson will explore how to take a humble
Jamstack Conf
Here's an important detail here: It's free!
ztext.js
Super cool project from Bennett Feely! It makes any web type into 3D lettering with a mouseover effect that moves the 3D objects in space. It's reminiscent of
Smashing Podcast Episode 25 With Anthony Campolo: What Is RedwoodJS? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about RedwoodJS. What exactly does it mean to be a full-stack Jamstack framework? Drew McLellan talks to community champion Anthony Campolo to find out.
Just how many people do we need doing that job, anyway?
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to provisioning thousands of EC2s instances across multiple AWS regions, using the latest AWS services to build reliable and scalable infrastructure. One of the pain points inherited from the early…
Snackwatch: when credit card readers land at the office
How a hypothetical learning project might evolve
SmashingConfs, Inspiring Talks And Birthday Cake — Smashing Magazine
There’s a lot of information out there — that’s a fact. In these monthly editions, Smashing’s senior editor Iris brings it all in one place because we know how hard it can be to stay on top of things. So with no further ado, here’s what was, what is, and what will be!
Changing Emoji Skin Tones Programmatically
So, you know how many emoji have different skin tones? Emoji skin tones are extremely popular, especially over text and on social media. The raised black fist
We are excited to announce our next event for Latin America, GitHub ¡Presente! In Spanish
Lee este artículo en español Estamos muy entusiasmados en anunciar nuestro siguiente evento virtual en América Latina: GitHub ¡Presente! en Español El primer evento será el Martes 22 de Septiembre…
Weaved Webs
There is a bit of an irony with Jamstack.
On pitching and presenting
How to create and deliver a great presentation
Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office
This post is the second in a series on access and the U.S. elections. Hear from Software Engineer and GitHub Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Kyle Daigle, on his experience volunteering at his local election office.
Advanced GraphQL Usage In Gatsby Websites — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will take a closer look at GraphQL and how we can integrate it into a Gatsby website by building and implementing advanced data sourcing and transformation in Gatsby.
Thunderbolt 3 dock plus 2020 MacBook equals crash
Add Watermarks to your Cloudflare Stream Video Uploads
The Watermark API lets you add a watermark to a video at the time of uploading. It consists of two new features to the Stream API.
Defining "View Source"
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of "View Source," I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams
Announcing the public beta of our new integration between GitHub and Microsoft Teams.
Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics every week to help…
Get Up And Running With Craft CMS — Smashing Magazine
Choosing what CMS to use in your next development project is a critical decision for any business, large or small. In this guide, Jonathan Kelley is going to run through the potential of Craft CMS, setting up a local environment and creating a basic cat blog with an API endpoint to accompany it. It’s a perfect jumping off point for anyone looking to expand from their current CMS system, or make th
How prebuilt checkout pages maximize efficiency
Prebuilt payment pages save engineering hours and increase revenue. Learn more about the benefits of utilizing a prebuilt checkout page.
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new
AVIF has landed
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake's blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web
Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
Release Radar
It’s back! We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for September 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from…
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup
The developer community in Africa continues to thrive. Here at GitHub, we’re excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for African developers. This meetup is happening on Tuesday, September 15th,…
Introducing the GitHub Stars Program ⭐️
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of those millions of developers on GitHub, there…
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
What is your take on checking return values?
Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections?
Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for Spotify’s open source efforts: has accepted , our open source developer portal, as an early stage project in the . It’s just the first step in a longer journey with the CNCF, but it’s an important one for Spotify as it underlines our renewed commitment to open source — and developers
Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected to have about 1,500 attendees from a dozen different cities — seven separate tracks running for three days jam-packed with talks and, of course, social events, similar to the year before. The event was organized by 16 engineers from different parts of Spotify with added support f
Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch , we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to make this year’s experience even better for audio fans, like you, around the world.
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you could somehow see these musical connections as they were happening and connecting us with people we’ve never met, miles apart.
Asynchronous HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service.
Demystifying Django’s Magic — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links
Monorepos
How to Track State with Type 2 Dimensional Models - Shopify
In this post, I’ll show how you can create Type 2 dimensional models using modern ETL tooling like PySpark and dbt (data build tool).
Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
Nowadays whether you’re consuming or sharing content on the web, it is likely to be via a big website. Twitter, Youtube, or a Facebook-owned service are popular examples. Whilst this gives us the advantage of being able to participate in a larger conversation at almost no monetary cost, there is also the downside of potentially losing all our content if a company closes, as has happened in the pas
Adacats Mentorship Program: A growth journey
Last year, the Adacats (GitHub’s employee resource group for marginalized genders) started a mentorship program. We’re sharing insights and fun stories from this experience for anyone interested in starting a…
Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics
Jim Nielsen: