Just launched: Second cohort of the DPG Open Source Community Manager Program!
Are you looking to have a positive impact in open source development? This program may be for you! Apply by May 30 to join.
How Women Lead Data Engineering at Slack
The Data Engineering team is responsible for Slack’s data lake, analytics dashboards, and other data services. The team’s mission is to empower users to leverage data to make decisions quickly, accurately, and easily. Slack’s data lake grew in size from sub-petabyte to over 100 petabytes in recent years and it now spans millions of tables.…
Using Fortran on Cloudflare Workers
Work on LLVM has enabled Fortran to compile to WebAssembly. So, today, we’re writing about running Fortran code on Cloudflare Workers
How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
We’ve made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile is now generally available
With GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile, developers can collaborate, ask coding questions, and gain insights into both public and private repositories anywhere, anytime–all in natural language for users on all GitHub Copilot plans.
How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users — Smashing Magazine
How do we conduct UX research when there is no or only limited access to users? Here are some workarounds to run UX research or make a strong case for it. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.
Create a home for your community with GitHub Discussions
GitHub Community-in-a-box provides the tooling, resources, and knowledge you need to build internal communities of learning at scale with GitHub Discussions.
How To Harness Mouse Interaction Data For Practical Machine Learning Solutions — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Eduard Kuric discusses mouse interaction data, what kind of magic can be done with it, and some of the hidden pitfalls to watch out for so you get a head start incorporating them in your solutions.
Vercel Functions are now faster—and powered by Rust
Learn about how we've improved startup performance with our Rust-powered functions.
How Dub grew to 3,000 active domains with Vercel’s multi-tenant SaaS toolkit
Dependabot on GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners is now generally available
A quick guide on the advantages of Dependabot as a GitHub Actions workflow and the benefits this unlocks, including self-hosted runner support.
Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
Generate and verify signed attestations for anything you make with GitHub Actions.
Celebrating 1 year of A11y Design Bootcamp: Takeaways and tips
A11y Design Bootcamp is a live educational program that consists of exercises, discussions, and knowledge shares to raise awareness of web accessibility best practices, the role designers play in creating accessible products, and how to advocate for accessibility with cross-functional partners.
Combining CSS :has() And HTML For Greater Conditional Styling — Smashing Magazine
Amit Sheen demonstrates using `:has()` to apply styles conditionally when a certain `` in a `` element is chosen by the user and how we gain even more conditional styling capabilities when chaining `:has()` with other pseudo-classes, such as `:not()` — no JavaScript necessary.
Vercel AI SDK 3.1: ModelFusion joins the team
ModelFusion joins Vercel
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
The evolution of Figma’s mobile engine: Compiling away our custom programming language
Figma's team recently converted one of its codebases from a custom programming language to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.
Empowering accessibility: GitHub’s journey building an in-house Champions program
As part of GitHub’s dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams.
5 tips to supercharge your developer career in 2024
From mastering prompt engineering to leveraging AI for code security, here’s how you can excel in today’s competitive job market.
Reader feedback on autoconf and bugginess in general
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the motivation for investing into building a platformized solution at Spotify.
Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at
TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it. To alleviate this problem, we could run a sequential test or an A/A test. However, sequential tests are typically less sensitive and introduce bias to the treatment effect estimator. Moreover, A/A tests prolong the duration of the experiment and still don’t guarantee that the resulting sam
Where does your software (really) come from?
GitHub is working with the OSS community to bring new supply chain security capabilities to the platform.