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by David Berg, Ravi Kiran Chirravuri, Romain Cledat, Jason Ge, Savin Goyal, Ferras Hamad, Ville Tuulos tl;dr Today, we are releasing a new job scheduler integration with AWS Step Functions. This…
We’re welcoming Malta and Cyprus to the GitHub Sponsors community. Check out this exciting news plus the latest from GitHub Sponsors.
We’re asking if modern best practices are bad for the web? Are modern frameworks taking us down the wrong path? Drew McLellan speaks to Lean Web expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
Sometimes our sites need a little sprinkling of content management. Not always. Not a lot. But a bit. The CMS market is thriving with affordable, approachable
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That's because bold text is often larger and takes up more
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
The GitHub REST API has been through three major revisions since it was first released, only a month after the site was launched. We often receive feedback that our REST…
What problems can happen when you use && to conditionally render content in JSX
I was inspired to write about my first year in Cloudflare, because John, our CTO, encouraged more women to write for our Cloudflare blog after reviewing our blogging statistics and found out that more men than women blog for Cloudflare.
Cloudflare values diversity in our workforce and we are genuinely interested in recruiting as well as retaining under-represented groups and creating a collective learning environment for everyone.
Why? Fingerprinting. Rather than these APIs being used for what they are meant for, they end up being used for gross ad tech. As in, "hey, we don't know
Submit your ideas for talks and workshops at Config Europe, a virtual conference.
GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love, and have more freedom to innovate and be creative. With GitHub Actions, you can…
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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
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 behind-the-scenes look at how we built deep search
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
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.
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.
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
Guillermo:
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…
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.
As of today, you can customize the Production Branch of your Projects right in the Project Settings.
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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
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.
This is a masterclass from Dave:
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.
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…
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.
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.
The build/dev tools and scripts I use for Node backends.
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scanimage: scan from the command line!
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
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
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…
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
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.
The Dropbox App Center is launched in beta. The App Center is a centralized place to find tools that enhance your Dropbox experience.
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
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
My silver bullet answer to this frequently posed question, and how to get started
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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…
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…
Racism is antithetical to Stripe’s mission. We stand with the Black community against discrimination and police violence.
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…
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.
Check out our seventeenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
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
