ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify - Shopify
On June 20, 2020, ShipIt!, our monthly event series, presented AR/VR at Shopify. Daniel Beauchamp, Head of AR/VR at Shopify talked about how we’re using this increasingly ubiquitous technology at Shopify.
How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
This tutorial is for illustrators who also happen to be passionate car enthusiasts. If you follow along, you will learn how to draw from scratch in Sketch the legendary Porsche 911 — all in vectors.
Internationalizing the Cloudflare Dashboard
Cloudflare’s dashboard now supports four new language: Spanish (with country-specific locales: Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain), Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
CMD+Z for Git is Here
Version control with Git has become a "commodity" by now: virtually every software project today uses Git, and virtually every developer knows Git to some
Safeguarding trans-Atlantic developer collaboration
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism governing personal data transfers from the EU to the US, is invalid due to concerns…
Pausing a GIF with details/summary
Steve Faulkner has a clever idea here. You can show an (animated) GIF and overlay a pause/play button on top of it — which is really a
How to Make a Monthly Calendar With Real Data
Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or
A deep dive on deep search
A behind-the-scenes look at how we built deep search
How We’re Solving Data Discovery Challenges at Shopify - Shopify
Humans generate a lot of data. Every two days we create as much data as we did from the beginning of time until 2003! The International Data Corporation estimates the global datasphere totaled 33 zettabytes (one trillion gigabytes) in 2018. The estimate for 2025 is 175 ZBs, an increase of 430%. This growth is challenging organizations across all industries to rethink their data pipelines. The natu
Don’t trust that tweet…or that email from "Bill Gates"
On July 16th, 2020, an email appearing to be from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was sent to numerous recipients, seeking donations for the Foundation in Bitcoin.
Levels of Fix
On the web, we have the opportunity to do work that fixes things for people. It's fascinating to me how different the scope of those fixes can be.
Creating a Gatsby Site with WordPress Data
In my previous article last week, I mentioned creating a partially ported WordPress-Gatsby site. This article is a continuation with a step-by-step
Develop, Preview, Test
Guillermo:
GitHub Action Hero: Nikita Sobolev
The GitHub community is capable of incredible things. GitHub Actions is just one of our newest tools made available to developers around the world. Automate your workflow, and take control…
It’s Good To Talk: Thoughts And Feelings On Creative Wellness — Smashing Magazine
With so much pressure to be our best selves and use every waking moment to develop skills, it’s easy to lose track of our own wellbeing. Self-improvement and commitment to your craft are great — but only if you find the right balance.
Set a custom production Git branch on Vercel
As of today, you can customize the Production Branch of your Projects right in the Project Settings.
On dependency
Rob Weychert:
Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid
Michelle Barker covers a situation where you need offset rectangles part of a clickable area. The tricky part is having just the rectangles be clickable. That
GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.
Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
This is a masterclass from Dave:
How we ensure credible analytics on Dropbox mobile apps
Build your own Dropbox Extensions
Dropbox Extensions are now open to all developers. Give users the ability to trigger a workflow in your app directly from their file in Dropbox.
How organizations can tackle securing the world’s code
We all play a role in securing the world’s code. No one company can solve things alone, including GitHub, which is why it is critical to combine the energies of…
SmashingConf Fully Online For 2020 — Smashing Magazine
We’re moving all of the 2020 conferences online. We hope this means that more of you can join us for these great line-ups! All of our online conference events will take place on the Hopin platform. We roadtested this platform for our Smashing Meets, and we love the way it allows for social chat and side events alongside the main conference. It’s as close as we can get to an in-person experience.
Smashing Podcast Episode 20 With Marcy Sutton: What Is Gatsby? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about Gatsby. What is it and how does it fit into your web development stack? Drew McLellan talks to expert Marcy Sutton to find out.
How I structure Express apps
The build/dev tools and scripts I use for Node backends.
The WET Codebase
Come waste your time with me.
scanimage: scan from the command line!
scanimage: scan from the command line!
GitHub Action Hero: Jeremy Shore
The GitHub community is capable of incredible things! GitHub Actions is just one of the amazing tools made available for developers. Actions is here to help you automate your workflows,…
Twitter summary from 2020 so far
Twitter summary from 2020 so far
A Book Release For Click! And A Chance To Rethink Our Routines — Smashing Magazine
We shipped the first copies of *[Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/click/)* in June, with a little extra something for preorder customers. The book is one of our most creative — beautifully designed and filled with great strategies for increasing conversion without falling into the dead-end routine of dark patterns. It’s a well-time
What we learned from building an industry coalition
Securing the open source supply chain is critically important for developer communities and the entire software ecosystem. In recent years, the industry has seen an uptick in the adoption of…
Removing Panic From E-Commerce Shipping And Inventory Alerts — Smashing Magazine
There was a time when marketers used things like urgency, scarcity and FOMO to drive online shoppers to a sale. But scare tactics can actually hurt a brand’s relationships with customers. By their very nature, we run into similar problems with shipping and inventory alerts. That said, there are ways that web designers can keep panic and frustration from seeping into the shopper’s experience. If yo
Building Cloudflare TV from scratch
Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.
Dropbox App Center in Beta
The Dropbox App Center is launched in beta. The App Center is a centralized place to find tools that enhance your Dropbox experience.
WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs
A couple of WordPress contributors are currently looking for folks to sponsor them to work on the documentation for the WordPress block editor (often referred
Building Serverless GraphQL API in Node with Express and Netlify
I’ve always wanted to build an API, but was scared away by just how complicated things looked. I’d read a lot of tutorials that start with “first, install
What open source project should I contribute to?
My silver bullet answer to this frequently posed question, and how to get started
saturday comics: a weekly mailing list of programming comics
saturday comics: a weekly mailing list of programming comics
How we launched docs.github.com
ICYMI: docs.github.com is the new place to discover all of GitHub’s product documentation! We recently completed a major overhaul of GitHub’s documentation websites. When you visit docs.github.com today, you’ll see…
GitHub Supports the Open Technology Fund
Last week, GitHub joined over 500 organizations signing a letter to the U.S. Congress seeking continued support for the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and its mission of funding open source…
Opposing racism
Racism is antithetical to Stripe’s mission. We stand with the Black community against discrimination and police violence.
Launching docs.github.com
Leia este artigo em português Sabemos como a aprendizagem é importante para o seu sucesso na utilização do GitHub. Quando você estiver usando nossos produtos, esperamos que você se sinta…
Erick Camacho: iOS Engineer
Usually when I’m commuting into the office, I have to get up at 7am and catch the subway. But these days, I can sleep a little later – I make myself a tea or coffee and check my emails and Slack messages at the kitchen table. Then I get to work and start to review code and pull requests that have come in overnight from developers in the US timezones.
Automating Dropbox File Request Workflows using Tray.io
Learn to automate the collection and organization of files using Dropbox File Requests within a Tray.io workflow.
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
Finding Inspiration In The Simple Things (July 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What could be a better way to welcome July than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe.
Introducing the Billing customer portal
The new customer portal makes it even easier to create a great experience for your customers while minimizing engineering investment.
entr: rerun your build when files change
entr: rerun your build when files change
Introducing Regional Services
Cloudflare launches Regional Services, giving customers control over where their data is processed.
In Defense of a Fussy Website
The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and
Migrating from Underscore to Lodash
Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox
Enhancing Bandaid load balancing at Dropbox by leveraging real-time backend server load information
Firefly: Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox (Part 1)
Building better compression together with DivANS
RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points
Some Typography Links III
I just can't stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open
Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine
Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving t
Writing Better, Type-safe Code with Sorbet - Shopify
I want to talk about one contribution that has takeaways for any Ruby developer. Here are 4 reasons for why we adopted Sorbet for static type checking.