How to Build a Chrome Extension
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd living through a
User agents
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
Infra teams: good, bad, or none at all
What Is Nix - Shopify
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
Prototyping at Slack
Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is proposed and researched, then designed or spec’d, then built, in that order. It’s not the most efficient way to work and as a company grows — with more people involved…
Smashing Podcast Episode 16 With Ben Frain: How Can I Optimize My Home Workspace? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about shaping our physical spaces when working from home. What can you do to take a step up from working at your kitchen table? Drew McLellan talks to workspace geek Ben Frain to find out.
DeepLinks and ScrollAnchor
One of the interesting challenges with deep linking in the Cloudflare Dashboard is that most interesting resources are “locked” behind the context of an account and a zone/domain/website. To illustrate this, look at a tree of possible URL paths into Cloudflare’s Dashboard.
Improve test error messages of your abstractions
How to manipulate stack traces to get beautiful error messages with Jest and your test helper functions.
Stripe’s first carbon removal purchases
Announcing our first four recipients and expanding our commitment to support the negative emissions ecosystem.
Ludum Dare 46 staff picks
10 games from Ludum Dare 46 for your entertainment and source code-viewing pleasure.
Accessible Images For When They Matter Most — Smashing Magazine
Creating accessible images seems like a simple topic at first glance — you just need to add alt text to an image, right? But the topic is much more nuanced than some people think. In this article, Carie Fisher will review the different types of images, dive into some real-world examples of inaccessible public service announcements (PSAs), and discuss which elements matter most when critical messag
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Luke Hefson
With Luke Hefson’s many different roles at GitHub, he’s learned about tons of hacks and protips that he can’t wait to share with you.
Backblaze B2 and the S3 Compatible API on Cloudflare
In May 2020, Backblaze, a founding Bandwidth Alliance partner announced S3 compatible APIs for their B2 Cloud Storage service. We are excited to see Backblaze introduce a new level of compatibility in their Cloud Storage service.
New File and Folder Embedder Launched in Preview
Dropbox has released the File and Folder Embedder in Preview. Start here to learn how to embed Dropbox content in your app using shared links.
Dev Degree: Behind the Scenes - Shopify
On April 24th, 2020, we proudly celebrated the graduation of our first Dev Degree program cohort. This milestone holds a special place in Shopify history because it’s a day born out of trial and error, experimentation, iteration, and hustle. The 2016 cohort had the honor and challenge of being our first class, lived through the churn and pivots of a newly designed program, and completed their educ
How To Convince Others Not To Use Dark Patterns — Smashing Magazine
Arguing that dark patterns are unethical is not enough on its own. We will also need to make the case to clients and colleagues that they are damaging to business. That’s what Paul Boag has also written in his new Smashing book, “[Click](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/05/encouraging-clicks-book-pre-release)”. In this post, he will put together a compelling argument you can present to stakeh
Making Video Intuitive: An Explainer
At Cloudflare, we work to provide a great viewing experience while keeping our service affordable. In this post, let's have some fun to see changes between different versions of a video.
Create and push tags in the latest GitHub Desktop 2.5 release
The latest GitHub Desktop release includes the most requested feature of the past six months: tags! Create, push, and view tags directly from GitHub Desktop.
Meet “Click!”: Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks — Smashing Magazine
How, then, do we encourage users to act? By establishing trust with small commitments, at the right time, and in the right order. Click! explains how to do just that. Meet 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. Coming up in June. Jump to table of contents and get the boo
Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols — Smashing Magazine
For hundreds of years, we have been using white space in typography. Today, in 2020, how do we add spacing to punctuation marks and other symbols, and how do we adjust the space on the left and right side in an easy and consistent way? It is actually not as easy and quick as it should be.
Whacker News updated for 2020
Metaphors in man pages
Metaphors in man pages
Responses to reader feedback
Feature Branch
Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs.
Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020
Peter Tasker on creating blocks right now:
Static Hoisting
The other day in "Static or not?" I said:
New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Discussions, Codespaces, securing code in private repositories, and more
See what we announced at our first virtual GitHub Satellite including a full dev environment on GitHub powered by VS Code, a new way to have discussions with your communities, new ways to secure projects with code scanning and secret scanning, and more.
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences
Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage
A Complete Guide To Mechanical Keyboards — Smashing Magazine
How much thought have you put into your primary input device? Ever considered how much better your interface with your computer might be? For decades, keyboards have been the primary mechanisms by which we interact with our computers. In this article, Ben Frain is going to dive into the possibilities of mechanical keyboards. The different layouts, switch types and even keycap material. Strap yours
More flexibility with Stripe Billing
New Stripe Billing features to help you support more business models, shave time off of your operations, and let you bill customers globally with advanced invoicing features.
Cinco de Mayo - What are we celebrating anyway?
Latinflare explores the Cinco de Mayo holiday and shares the perspective of various employees from around the globe.
Setting up Cloudflare for Teams as a Start-Up Business
S2 Systems, recently acquired by Cloudflare, provides a start-up’s perspective of setting up Cloudflare for Teams and how it solved some problems that we struggled with for way too long.
Meet SmashingConf Live: Our New Interactive Online Conference — Smashing Magazine
The cat is out of the bag! Meet SmashingConf Live (Aug 20–21), our very first online conference. For SmashingConf Live, our new online conference, we don’t want to replicate in-person experiences online. Instead, we’ve designed an entirely new conference experience, focusing around interactive live sessions and discussion zones where you actively shape what happens next, and learn along the way.
Smashing Podcast Episode 15 With Phil Smith: How Can I Build An App In 10 Days? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about building apps on a tight timeline. How can you quickly turn around a project to respond to an emerging situation like COVID-19? Drew McLellan talks to Phil Smith to find out.
How one student curbed panic buying with the Pack
Learn how Ben Sassoon used the Pack to curb panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Announcing the MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub
Now more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their growth, using real tools, and an experienced understanding of how to work remotely and globally. With this new program, we’re helping to support the next generation of developers and the open source projects that companies use every day.
A simple way to get more value from tracing
A simple way to get more value from metrics
Bad times in corporate wireless networks
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%.
Protecting Deployments
Empowering our Customers and Service Partners
We wanted to highlight some amazing partners and our growing support and training for MSPs around the globe.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Brian Douglas
Make better contributions, triage your issues efficiently, save time with saved replies, and more with @bdougie’s protips.
Why My Blog is Closed-Source
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering whether a project should be open-source or not, I hope you'll find it valuable.
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Mirage JS Models And Associations (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Mirage JS borrowed some terms and concepts which are very much familiar to back-end developers, however, since the library would be used mostly by front-end teams, it’s appropriate to learn what these terms and concepts are. In this first part of the Mirage JS Deep Dive series, Kelvin Omereshone will be looking at Mirage JS models and associations. He’ll take a closer look at what they are and the
Brighten Up Someone’s May (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
As designers, we usually turn to different sources of inspiration, and, well, as a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one: wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. In this collection, Cosima Mielke brings you wallpapers for May 2020. They come in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. As a bonus goodie, we also added some favorites fr
Doubling the intern class - and making it all virtual
We have found interns to be invaluable. Not only do they bring an electrifying new energy over the summer, but they also come with their curiosity to help solve problems, contribute to major projects, and bring refreshing perspectives to the company.
Keystone Interface
Dark Launching
Humble Object
Rolling out the "push train"
How to Redirect a Search Form to a Site-Scoped Google Search
This is just a tiny little trick that might be helpful on a site where you don't have the time or desire to build out a really good on-site search solution.
Intersecting Tracks of individuals – MobilityDB
How to use MobilityDB for contact tracking. Extension built on top of PostGIS, specializing on processing and analysing spatio-temporal data
Engineering a disruption tolerant supply chain
Boiling the machines when they really needed to just chill
Development Environments at Slack
In this article, development environments refer to sandboxes where you can test your code changes before deploying, and should not be confused with integrated development environments (IDEs) like Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio. Dev environments have always been a mystery to me. Despite learning about them on my first day at Slack, and using them…
Updates to Stripe’s advanced fraud detection
We’ve recently made a few updates to provide additional clarity about the data we collect and how it’s used.
