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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.
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.
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.
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 public beta of our new integration between GitHub and Microsoft Teams.
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…
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
Prebuilt payment pages save engineering hours and increase revenue. Learn more about the benefits of utilizing a prebuilt checkout page.
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
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
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.
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
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
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.
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.
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service.
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
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).
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
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…
Jim Nielsen:
Shuting Chang, Robert Saunders, Karen Xie, and Vrishti Dutta join us to talk about Shopify’s API Health Report, the tool built to surface breaking changes affecting Shopify Partner apps.
Customer needs should be one of the primary considerations when designing a website or landing page. The era of customer-centric landing pages has dawned. And if your job involves being concerned with metrics like conversion, engagement, and bounce-rates, this is a post that you may want to sit straight up for. In this article, Travis Jamison explains why customer-centricity is so important and ho
How I deprecated my most popular open source project in favor of a better library
Ever wanted to have a comments section for your blog, but were overwhelmed by the high cost and maintenance solutions? Firebase can be your savior. In this guide, Aman Thakur will show you how to add a comments section to your blog with Firebase, while learning the basics of Firebase on the way. Let’s build a super-simple comments section.
I was playing with GitHub Actions the other day. Such a nice tool! Short story: you can have it run code for you, like run your build processes, tests, and
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate and the content is now easy and enjoyable to read.
Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
At Cloudflare, we believe that expanding access to tools that election officials and political candidates need to combat a range of online threats both serves our mission to help build a better Internet and strengthens our democracy.
Customer Service. Business. Growth. While these three make up a large portion of what keeps most enterprise companies operating, they are just the beginning at Cloudflare. I am excited to share that I have joined Cloudflare as its Chief Customer Officer.
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that's a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple
Merchants worldwide rely on Shopify's Point Of Sale (POS) app to operate their brick and mortar stores. Unlike many mobile apps, the POS app is mission-critical. Any downtime leads to long lineups, unhappy customers, and lost sales. The POS app must be exceptionally reliable, and any outages resolved quickly. Reliability engineering is a well-solved problem on the server-side. Back-end teams are a
SEO is an ever-changing world. Blink and you’ll miss the latest best practices, thought leaders, and tools. Feeling out of touch is natural. Every tweak to major search engine algorithms sends shockwaves throughout the web. For those who don’t follow the SEO space it can be easy to lose track of the latest trends, authorities, and resources. That’s what this page is for. It will break down SEO’s h
Student Fellow Abigail Africa shares advice from mentors and reflects on the value of education
Some possible future zines
The first place Suzanne Scacca goes to whenever she’s curious about what more could be done to improve our users experiences is the Google Developers site or Think with Google to pull the latest consumer data. There’s a reason why Google dominates market share for things like search engines, web browsers, email clients and cloud storage services. It knows exactly what consumers want and it has des
Learn how Clipchamp integrated with Dropbox to make video editing easy for anyone and empower people to share stories through video.
Nós do GitHub estamos animados em anunciar nosso meetup virtual na América Latina, o GitHub ¡Presente!
We’re talking about Serverless architectures. What does that mean, and how does it differ from how we might build sites currently? Drew McLellan talks to Chris Coyier to find out.
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn's A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don't need
An anecdotal argument for contributing and using open source
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
Every website that’s made me oooo and aaahhh lately has been of a special kind; they’re written and designed like essays. There’s an argument, a playfulness
Tomáš Janoušek:
This is the third and final part of the tutorial in which we’ll create the wheels (rims and tires), and add all the final touches (including the racing decals on the car’s body).
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and
