2020 Stack
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack"
Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta
We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
Announcing GitHub India
We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.
Outcome Over Output
How To Book More Appointments And Events With A WordPress Booking Plugin — Smashing Magazine
Appointment and event booking can be a time-consuming and tedious task. Business owners don’t want to deal with it and their assistants aren’t always the most effective way to capture or handle this information. Web designers, on the other hand, can help. By using the Amelia booking plugin for WordPress, you can create booking widgets that collect more appointments (and revenue) for your clients.
Vetflare, Cloudflare's Military Veteran Employee Group Launches
If you’re a veteran reading this, know that Cloudflare has a seat at the table for you.
An Argument for Automation
Why it can be worth spending 1 hour automating a 10 second task
Oh, don't worry, I've screwed up plenty of things too
Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
The tools you'd miss if you left a company
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?
I mean, kinda.
Trying to be too (io)nice created a "killer" directory
Get more information at a glance with issue and pull request linking
Now, anyone can connect an issue to a pull request from the issue directly using the new linked pull request section providing greater context to your workflow.
Manage secrets and more with the GitHub Actions API
Manage secrets, make use of self-hosted runners, and more with the GitHub Actions API—now available in beta.
Bug Bounty Year in Review 2019 - Shopify
We’re reflecting on our Bug Bounty program for 2019 and introducing new program changes for 2020.
Advanced Project Settings on Vercel
Fully customize your project’s behaviour or hit the ground running using our new framework presets.
Select an Element with a Non-Empty Attribute
Short answer:
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
CSS4 is a Bad Idea
Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:
PHP is A-OK for Templating
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic
Overcomplicatin’
There's some famous quote that goes something like...
Highlight your project on Local Hack Day: Share
GitHub and Major League Hacking (MLH) came together to organize Local Hack Day: Share.
Hacking the 'scope from a distant land
The Three Types of Code
Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to
Freezing User-Agent Strings
There's been news about Chrome freezing their User-Agent string (and all other major browsers are on board). That means they'll still have a User-Agent (UA)
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
Fix the "not wrapped in act(...)" warning
There are a few reasons you're getting this warning. Here's how you fix it.
Get support from the dashboard
Get in touch with Vercel Support easier than ever before, without having to leave your dashboard.
Full Stack Panic
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
Suspicious discontinuities
95%-ile isn't that good
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few streaming platforms that has existed since before 2010, Spotify had a unique opportunity to be able to provide users with a
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or we’re making a relatively quick decision about which track to add to one of our editorially-programmed playlists, data provides a foundation for sound decision making. An insight is a conclusion drawn from data that can help influence decisions and drive change. To ena
29 Days Of February (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Artists and designers from across the globe once again got out their favorite tools and created unique and inspiring wallpapers to welcome the new month. The wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for February 2020 and can be downloaded for free.
Log Drains on Vercel
Easily forward and collect your logs using Log Drains.
Announcing Built with Workers
You ask "What can I build with Cloudflare Workers?" @cloudflare responds:
Four Layouts for the Price of One
Pretty notable when a tweet about a flexbox layouts gets 8K+ likes on Twitter!
GitHub Desktop 2.3 removes obstacles to help you be more productive
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
Empowering Your Privacy
Happy Data Privacy Day! At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet, and we believe data privacy is core to that mission. But we know words are cheap — even data brokers who sell your personal information will tell you that “privacy is important” to them.
aviationstack
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
This Page is Designed to Last
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what
A Complete Guide To WordPress Multisite — Smashing Magazine
WordPress Multisite allows you to run multiple websites on your server using the same WordPress installation. From setting up Wordpress Multisite to optimizing its various features, with this article, Manish Dudharejia will help you understand every facet of this unique WordPress tool. Read on to find out more.
The Web in 2020: Extensibility and Interoperability
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward
Eleventy Love
Been seeing a lot of Eleventy action lately. It's a smaller player in the world of static site generators, but I think it's got huge potential because of how
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers $200k worth of tools and training to every student
The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.
Introducing Cloudflare for Campaigns
Cloudflare for Campaigns is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties to get access to cybersecurity services.
How We Tagged Google Fonts and Created goofonts.com
GooFonts is a side project signed by a developer-wife and a designer-husband, both of them big fans of typography. We’ve been tagging Google
The Deal with the Section Element
Two articles published the exact same day:
On Pair Programming
Many people who work in software development today have heard of the practice of pair programming, yet it still only has patchy adoption in the industry. One reason for its varying acceptance is that its benefits are not immediately obvious, it pays off more in the medium- and long-term. And it's also not as simple as “two people working at a single computer”, so many dismiss it quickly when it fe
Business Dad
Congrats to Chris Enns, our podcast editor on ShopTalk and CodePen Radio, for landing a really cool new podcast to edit: Business Dad. It's Alexis Ohanian,
The GitHub for Android beta is here
The GitHub for mobile beta is now available on Android—learn more and sign up to be part of a limited test group.
Game Off 2019 Winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.
Highlights from Git 2.25
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.
The Auto-Flowing Powers of Grid's Dense Keyword
Let's say we're working on the homepage of a news website. You're probably used to seeing some card-based content in a grid layout, right? Here's a classic
Jetpack Slideshow Block
One of the many (many) useful things that Jetpack does is give you extra-fancy custom blocks in the WordPress block (AKA Gutenberg) editor: a slideshow,
Why You Should Choose HTML5 article Over section — Smashing Magazine
Browsers’ visual display of headings nested inside `` elements makes it look as if they are assigning a logical hierarchy to those headings. However, this is purely visual and is not communicated to assistive technologies. In this article, Bruce Lawson explains what use we have of `` and how authors should mark up headings that are hugely important to AT users.
Introducing Increment subscriptions
You can now subscribe to Increment, Stripe’s software engineering magazine.
PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
Is "is" Useful?
God I'm funny.