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.
Click! Here: Meet Our New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine
Whether we are designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, or product owners, we are all in the same boat. We want to give users a good experience, but we also need them to take action. Meet “Click!”, our new practical guide on how to build trust, increase conversion and boost business KPIs effectively — without alienating people along the way. Written by Paul Boag. Jump to table of contents and get the
Smashing Podcast Episode 17 With Angie Byron: What’s New In Drupal 9? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re taking a look at what’s new in Drupal 9. What are the major upcoming changes to this nearly 20-year-old open-source project? Drew McLellan talks to Drupal core committer Angie Byron to find out.
Keep all your packages up to date with Dependabot
Keeping your dependencies updated is one of the easiest ways to keep the software you build secure. However, while it’s critically important to keep your dependencies updated, in a recent…
Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way
In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at Spotify) gear up with a lot of momentum in the beginning but tend to get stuck in the mud over time, eventually leading to a long tail of systems still left running on older versions. This is one of the ways fragmentation creeps into your tech infrastructure, like weeds sprouting in a garden — left unattende
Explore Your Inner Artist (June 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new wallpapers collection is for you. Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for June 2020.
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Converting the Dropbox Activity Log into Common Event Format Events
Convert events from your Dropbox activity log into Common Event Format events by following along with this post and using the sample script.
ShipIt! Presents: How Shopify Uses Nix - Shopify
On May 25, 2020, ShipIt!, our monthly event series, presented How Shopify Uses Nix. Building upon on my What is Nix post, I show how we rebuilt our developer tooling using Nix, and show off some of the tooling we actually use at Shopify on a day-to-day basis. I wasn't able to answer all the questions during the event, so I've included answers to those ones below. Would runix interop well with lorr
Smashing Meets Gives A Sneak Preview Of What To Expect At Live! — Smashing Magazine
In this post, Rachel Andrew looks back at our successful Smashing Meets, A free event across two days and many timezones, with three speakers each day and plenty of chance for attendees to chat and ask questions of the speakers. Toady, she considers how we will take everything we learned to make our Smashing Live conference even better.
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
Modern source-control systems provide powerful tools that make it easy to create branches in source code. But eventually these branches have to be merged back together, and many teams spend an inordinate amount of time coping with their tangled thicket of branches. There are several patterns that can allow teams to use branching effectively, concentrating around integrating the work of multiple de
GitHub Action Hero: Adam Dobrawy
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…
Introducing Hack Club’s Summer of Making
We’re partnering with Hack Club to support the students behind Summer of Making, a new remote, student summer program. From building Arduino-powered robots to creating an open source game, we’re excited to see students channel their passions and build with the Hack Club community this summer.
Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
We’re privileged to be in the business of bringing joy to our customers at Netflix. Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service…
Equivalent Experiences: What Are They? — Smashing Magazine
Our industry tends to place a lot of focus on how, often at the expense of why. An equivalent experience is one that has been deliberately conceived of and built to be able to be used by the widest possible range of people. To create an equivalent experience, you must understand all the different ways people interact with technology, as well as common barriers they experience. Once you have a comm
Stripe launches in five more European countries
Stripe is now generally available in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta.
How To Feel More Energized Even When You’re Stuck At A Desk All Day — Smashing Magazine
A desk is an essential piece of equipment for a web designer. Without it, you’d end up working from wobbly tables at cafes or staring down at your lap all day — uncomfortable options, to say the least. Then again, your desk could also cause you discomfort if you sit in it the wrong way or for too long. Rather than feeling like your desk is a torture device, Suzanne Scacca shares some pointers for
Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution
I was reading this article by Chris where he talks about block links — you know, like wrapping an entire card element inside an anchor — being a bad idea.
How to Convert a Date String into a Human-Readable Format
I'll be the first to admit that I'm writing this article, in part, because it's something I look up often and want to be able to find it next time. Formatting
Setting the story straight on quite a few issues
Discovering the hypocrisy gap in reliability the hard way
Releasing Cloudflare Access’ most requested feature
You can now configure a specific identity provider for applications secured with Cloudflare Access.
The Fastest Google Fonts
When you use font-display: swap;, which Google Fonts does when you use the default &display=swap part of the URL , you're already saying, "I'm cool with
Let's Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages
Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages. For example, as you scroll down the page products may slide into view, MacBooks fold open
Keep your secrets synced across multiple repositories with organization secrets
Now you can define secrets for an organization, making it easier to keep secrets synced across multiple repositories.
April service disruptions analysis
We had multiple service interruptions in April that may have impacted your projects and businesses. We know how important reliability is for our users and have detailed an analysis on the disruptions.
Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Sarah Vessels
In this edition of GitHub Protips, Sarah Vessels shares how she expresses ideas in code and doesn’t stress about the nitty-gritty details of how to neatly organize branches.
Resolve internal hostnames with Cloudflare for Teams
Cloudflare for Teams customers can customize the destination for any domain name queried by devices using Cloudflare Gateway.
Using BugHerd to Track Visual Feedback on Websites
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.