Why Python keeps growing, explained
A deep dive into why more people are using Python than ever, its key use cases, and why it’s still so popular 30-plus years after it was first released.
New GitHub CLI extension tools
Support for GitHub CLI extensions has been expanded with new authorship tools and more ways to discover and install custom commands. Learn how to write powerful extensions in Go and find new commands to install.
FAAS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust - Eli Bendersky's website
Sign in with GitHub in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
RPC-based plugins in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Introduction to CORS for Go programmers - Eli Bendersky's website
Higher-order functions in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Common pitfalls in Go benchmarking - Eli Bendersky's website
Retrieval Augmented Generation in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Ungrammar in Go and resilient parsing - Eli Bendersky's website
Using Gemini models from Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Preview: ranging over functions in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
The power of single-method interfaces in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)
Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming - Shopify
Shopify is adopting Rust as our systems programming language, and joining the Rust Foundation.
A couple of Rust error messages
A couple of Rust error messages
How to Export Datadog Metrics for Exploration in Jupyter Notebooks - Shopify
A step-by-step guide for extracting Datadog metrics in Python for in-depth analysis in Jupyter Notebooks.
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.
On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta.
Assembly within! BPF tail calls on x86 and ARM
We have first adopted the BPF tail calls when building our XDP-based packet processing pipeline. BPF tail calls have served us well since then. But they do have their caveats
Open Source Work Is Work
Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s open source activities to our developers as part of our internal Spotify Engineering Conference, aka SpEC. In the presentation, I go over where we currently are with our open source efforts, what challenges we face, and the vision for where we are going.
GitHub for Startups is generally available
We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world’s largest developer platform.
Going originless with Cloudflare Workers – Building a Todo app – Part 1: The API
Custom Domains are now in Generally Available! Today we go through Part 1 in a series on building completely serverless applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Transform your software engineering practices with GitHub Enterprise
Go beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices.
Smashing Podcast Episode 52 With Yiying Lu: How Do You Become An NFT Artist? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask how do you go from running a creative studio to designing NFTs. Vitaly talks to artist Yiying Lu to find out.
2022 attacks! An August reading list to go “Shields Up”
In 2022, cybersecurity, more than ever, is a must-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack with difficult to deal with consequences. Here’s a reading list what you need to know about attacks that is also a guide on how to be protected
Resolving Conflicts Between Designers And Engineers — Smashing Magazine
Often, it’s easier for an engineer to see the aspects of a good user experience than for a designer to understand the technical aspects of how something functions, let alone how feasible it is. Regardless, the two sides work best when both lower their guards and reach across the aisle. In this article, Scott Himmer will go over some areas where you might find the design and engineering conflicts m
Making Page Shield malicious code alerts more actionable
In this post we go over improvements to script status, metadata and categorization.
Adding Search To Your Site In 15 Minutes — Smashing Magazine
Do you need search for your site, but haven’t found the time to add it? Within 15 minutes, Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can add a super powerful search that also looks super good. In this article, you’ll learn how to go from 0 to 100 with search.
How To Apply UX Principles To Embedded Systems: Learnings From The Field — Smashing Magazine
Embedded systems make our lives easier. We unawarely interact with embedded systems all the time, and they go largely unnoticed — until things do not work as expected. In this article, Eva gives an overview of what embedded systems are and how they impact our lives. She presents three main learnings gained across her quest for creating better-embedded systems to enable the world as we know it.
Smashing Podcast Episode 46 With Vitaly Friedman: Who Is Elliot Jay Stocks? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask how one man can go from designing websites for local bands to heading up Google Fonts Knowledge. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks to Elliot Jay Stocks to find out.
Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust - Shopify
In this post, I want to give a nuanced perspective on our experience porting YJIT from C to Rust. I'll talk about the positives, but also discuss the things that we found challenging or suboptimal in our experience.
Maximize Your Front-End Test Locators
Front-end testing is awesome. We can write code, click on things like a user would, then make assertions. In this post, we'll go over strong tests.
Around The Artifacts Of Design Systems (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Everyone needs a design system. You can pick one off the shelf or put one together pretty quickly, and your problems are over. As with many things on the web, your mileage may vary. Like many things, a design system isn’t ever a finished thing — it’s a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. Before diving in and starting to plan anything out, be clear
Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams — daily. The majority of our pipelines rely on two tools: (for the Python folks) and (for the Java folks). In 2019, the data orchestration team at Spotify decided to move away from these tools. In this post, the team details why the decision was made, and the journey they took to make the t
Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
That's a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web
Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web.
Web Design Done Well: Perfectly Pointless — Smashing Magazine
The web can feel like a very businesslike place nowadays. Most places you go there seem to be legions of glossy products and unnervingly personalized ads competing for our attention. Kick back, relax and enjoy. Maybe even think about a pointless project of your own. This installment of *Web Design Done Well* celebrates weird and wacky websites. Sites with sweet, innocent, sometimes pointless purpo
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
Before the advent of evergreen browsers, you would need to go to the manufacturer’s website and manually download and install the update.
Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch
Say you're on the wrong Git branch with unstaged changes. There are a few to go about switching unstaged changes to a new branch.
One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly
How I went about learning Rust - Eli Bendersky's website
Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs - Eli Bendersky's website
Error handling with Go tooling - Eli Bendersky's website
SSH port forwarding with Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Parent links in Go ASTs - Eli Bendersky's website
The Y combinator in Go with generics - Eli Bendersky's website
Serving static files and web apps in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
File-driven testing in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Sudoku, Go and WebAssembly - Eli Bendersky's website
Interface method calls with the Go register ABI - Eli Bendersky's website
Basic Go tooling for generics - Eli Bendersky's website
Exploring function parameter types with Go tooling - Eli Bendersky's website
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? November 2021 recap
We shipped a ton of updates in November, from the push notification for PR review activities on the go, to an easy way to create Markdown links.
Precise code navigation for Python, and code navigation in pull requests
Code navigation is now available in PRs, and code navigation results for Python are now more precise.
A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users all around the world? From inception, to prototyping, to QAing, and finally shipping, releasing a new playlist at Spotify is a long process full of new learnings every time.
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving.
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August.
Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alex Husar sheds the spotlight on Magento PWAs and explains why business owners are getting them (often instead of native applications). Alex introduces ways of how progressive web applications can be developed on Magento, as well as go over the major pros and cons of each development path.
YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby - Shopify
A team of skilled engineers from Shopify and GitHub on YJIT, a new Just-in-time (JIT) compiler built inside CRuby.