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.
Lessons from a 2020 intern assignment
In this blog post, I want to explain the details of the full-stack take home exercise that we sent out to our 2020 internship applicants.
WebP Image Support Coming to iOS 14
Apple announced a ton of new updates at yesterday's WWDC20 keynote address, from new hardware to updated applications. There's lots to gawk at and enough
How Web Designers Can Help Restaurants Move Into Digital Experiences — Smashing Magazine
We’re at a point now where restaurants can no longer be reluctant or stingy about improving their digital presence. And, as a web designer, this should get you excited. The restaurant industry has begun to undergo a major digital transformation. Those that want to survive will need a website that can handle the new way of operating, which means they can no longer afford to hold onto that cheap web
An Overview of Scroll Technologies
Scroll-related animations have been used on the web for years. In recent years, they’ve started to become more common, perhaps in part due to devices being
New guides on error handling and detecting changes
New developer guides! Come check out two new Dropbox API developer guides and learn about error handling and detecting changes.
AHA Programming 💡
The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.
How I Record Educational Videos
My process for making high value-to-minute content.
Just another +1 for subgrid
I'd say 85% of my grid usage is in one of these two categories...
Cloudflare and Rackspace Technology Expand Partnership with Managed Services
Last year, Cloudflare announced the planned expansion of our partner program to help managed and professional service partners efficiently engage with Cloudflare and join us in our mission to help build a better Internet.
How to get closer with your developer
Three tips on involving engineers early, from a product designer at Coda.
Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more “HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world”
Virtual Interning Offers Unique Challenges and Opportunities
The working world has drastically changed in the past few months. Navigating this new reality as an intern can bring some unique challenges to light.
Welcoming the Octograds of 2020
Class of 2020, you did it! With schools turning to drive through diploma stops and recreating their campus in Minecraft, GitHub Education decided that celebrating this milestone for the next…
What is Developer Experience (DX)?
Developer Experience¹ is a term² with a self-declaring meaning — the experience of developers — but it eludes definition in the sense that people invoke it at
My Flywheel Landing Page
Flywheel is my WordPress hosting partner here. I use Local every day for my WordPress local development environment and use their hosting for all my WordPress
Should I write a test or fix a bug?
How to prioritize tests relative to everything else.
Which Video Conferencing Tools Are Most Accessible? — Smashing Magazine
With the right apps, working from home is a blessing for those with a disability. Working from home allows you to attend to your medical needs in ways that might be disruptive in an office, like running a nebulizer or using an IV. Or you may avoid the hassle of navigating a building that’s not truly accessible. In this article, Claudio Luis Vera explains what to keep in mind when choosing between
Questions to help people decide what to learn
Questions to help people decide what to learn
Health Check Analytics and how you can use it
Health Check Analytics is now live and available to all Pro, Business and Enterprise customers! We are very excited to help decrease your time to resolution and ensure your application reliability is maximised.
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it
Learn Z-Index Using a Visualization Tool
There are some neat interactive demos in here from Thiru Manikandan. There are a couple of very tricky things with z-index that never fail to confuse. In
Project Galileo’s 6th year Anniversary: The Impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable groups on the Internet
Six years ago, Cloudflare started Project Galileo to provide free services to vulnerable nonprofits, journalism and independent media voices online who might otherwise be in danger of being silenced by cyberattacks.
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Timing, Response And Passthrough (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
So far, we have seen how we can create records with Mirage, intercept API requests via route handlers and, last but not least, how the shape of the data returned to us from Mirage is affected. In this third part of Mirage JS Deep Dive series, Kelvin Omereshone will be focusing on using `response`, `timing` and `passthrough` in Mirage for a better handle on simulating an actual backend server. Howe
UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.
From Static Sites To End User Jamstack Apps With FaunaDB — Smashing Magazine
To make the move from “site” to app, we’ll need to dive into the world of “app-generated” content. In this article, Bryan Robinson will get you started in this world with the power of serverless data. He’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged application using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions
How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
Stop mocking fetch
Why you shouldn't mock fetch or your API Client in your tests and what to do instead.
Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd
As we’ve often seen in the past, real world protest and violence is usually accompanied by attacks on the Internet. This past week has been no exception.
Finding the Story
This is an archive of an old pseudonymously written post from the 90s from someone whose former pseudonym seems to have disappeared from the internet. I see that Star Trek: Voyager has added a new character, a Borg. (From the photos, I also see that they're still breeding women for breast size in the 24th century.) What ticked me off was the producer's comment (I'm paraphrasing), "The addition of
Understanding Programs Using Graphs - Shopify
I want to show you a little of what this sea-of-nodes graph data structure looks like and how it works, and I think it’s worth doing this for this for a couple of reasons.