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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 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
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
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.
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.
How to use MobilityDB for contact tracking. Extension built on top of PostGIS, specializing on processing and analysing spatio-temporal data
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…
We’ve recently made a few updates to provide additional clarity about the data we collect and how it’s used.
A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress:
New zine: How Containers Work!
Developers often worry about the SEO of their SPAs (Single Page Applications) and how well they would do on Google searches (blogs, portfolio websites, product websites, and so on). Sometimes, they also worry about how complex building a server-side rendered application might be. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create server-side rendered applications by using Nuxt.js, how to configu
The @property is totally new to me, but I see it's headed to Chrome, so I suppose it's good to know about!
There was just a bug late last year where system fonts (at least on Mac, I don't know what the story was on other platforms) in Chrome appeared too thin and
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We've also written a series of articles explaining how traditional databases built
Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!
Node.js is an interesting tool for web developers. With its high level of concurrency, it has become a leading candidate for people choosing tools to use in web development. In this article, we will learn about what makes up Node.js, give it a meaningful definition, understand how the internals of Node.js interact with one another, and explore the project repository for Node.js on GitHub.
Today, we’re opening Stripe Issuing access to everyone in the US, so you can sign up and start creating cards instantly.
Matthias Ott's posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y'all, I
We’re dedicated to making notifications as simple and valuable as they can be, so you can be as productive on GitHub and you can be.
Flutter has already made quite a splash on the mobile development scene. Now it’s taking on bigger devices as well. In this article, Carmine Zaccagnino will show you what you need to know to be ready to take on the task of developing web and desktop apps using this wonderful cross-platform framework. Flutter is a lovely framework, very easy to use, and its extreme cross-platform support only makes
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
A history of an anomaly in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, an independent research project about it, and what we need to learn about our next steps.
6:45 am My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during Vancouver’s long summer days, when the sun is up from 5:10am to 9:10pm and already peeking through my blinds, but it sometimes happens in the winter when it’s still dark out.…
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about running online workshops. How can a traditional event adapt when participants can’t attend in person? Drew McLellan talks to Rachel Andrew to find out.
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to get my system fully upgraded! 🥱 I’ve been slogging away at this for quite some time now. My PC build blog entry series spans 13 glorious years: *
The Internet has been vital to our response to the COVID-19 crisis: enabling researchers to communicate with the rest of the world, connecting resources with people who need them, and sharing data about the spread.
Interesting research from Dan Luu¹:
Cloudflare Enterprise customers can now authenticate themselves for phone support using TOTP tokens, either by using an authenticator app or generating single-use tokens from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. Here you’ll find an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Of course, you can always find us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and also stay updated with our RSS feed as well as our Smashing Newsletter (sent out every second week with all sorts of goodies!).
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) with
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public.
PostGIS' functions can be used to trace down infected people and their contact with healthy individuals | GPS-Tracks | spatial data
In this article I walk through a set of refactorings from a real code base. This is not intended to demonstrate perfection, but it does represent reality.
Prevent unwanted edits to your files by using the new file locking feature in the Dropbox API.
Nils Binder covers the ways:
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast we’re talking about online privacy. What should web developers be doing to make sure the privacy of our users is maintained? Drew McLellan talks to an expert on the subject, Laura Kalbag, to find out.
Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo
7am I’m definitely not a morning person, so when my alarm goes off, I can’t help but stay in bed a little while longer. I have two cats, Stella and Orion, who are especially cuddly in the mornings, so it’s hard to leave them and get out of bed. My cats are well known by…
When I prefer to use function declarations instead of arrow functions
When I arrived at Cloudflare for an internship in the summer of 2018, I was taken on a tour, introduced to my mentor who took me out for coffee (shoutout to Preston), and given a quick whiteboard overview of how Cloudflare works.
I just can't stop bookmarking great links related to typography. I'm afraid I'm going to have to subject you, yet again, to a bunch of them all grouped up. So
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