GitHub Availability Report: October 2023
In October, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Designing Web Design Documentation — Smashing Magazine
Words alone aren’t enough to safeguard best practices in the world of web design and development. Web design documentation must be like its medium — interactive and constantly evolving.
Some notes on nix flakes
Some notes on nix flakes
API updates to better support team spaces
Learn about changes and updates to the Dropbox API to support the latest features of Dropbox teams
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
Creating Accessible UI Animations — Smashing Magazine
Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana García explains how her team at Mercado Libre tackled the challenge by creating guiding principles for applying animation to user interfaces and incorp
Three reasons a liberal arts degree helped me succeed in tech
A traditional liberal-arts degree provides skills that are highly relevant for a product manager
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community, honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for their impactful work, innovation, thought leadership, and creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
WordPress Playground: From 5-Minute Install To Instant Spin-Up — Smashing Magazine
WordPress Playground began as an experiment to see what a self-hosted WordPress experience might look like without the requirement of having to actually install WordPress. A year later, the experiment has evolved into a full-fledged project. Ganesh Dahal demonstrates how WordPress Playground works and gets deep into how it might be used.
Partial prerendering: Building towards a new default rendering model for web applications
PPR combines ultra-quick static delivery with fully dynamic capabilities and we believe it has the potential to become the default rendering model for web applications, bringing together the best of static site generation and dynamic delivery.
Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
Our grant program empowers the community to create free resources for all to use. These tools are some of the highlights.
Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.
Introducing AI-powered application security testing with GitHub Advanced Security
Learn about how GitHub Advanced Security’s new AI-powered features can help you secure your code more efficiently than ever.
Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls
New optional features in WhatsApp have helped make calling on WhatsApp more secure. “Silence Unknown Callers” is a new setting on WhatsApp that not only quiets annoying calls but also blocks sophisticated cyber attacks. “Protect IP Address in Calls” is a new setting on WhatsApp that helps hide your location from other parties on the […]
The future is arriving fast in the insurance industry
Startups and innovative enterprises are revolutionizing the way insurance policies are sold. Stripe provides the financial infrastructure that makes it possible.
Using multiple triggers on the same table in PostgreSQL
What happens if you deploy many triggers on the very same PostgreSQL table? What order do the multiple triggers fire in?
Headless Component: a pattern for composing React UIs
As React UI controls become more sophisticated, complex logic can get intertwined with the visual representation. This makes it hard to reason about the behavior of the component, hard to test it, and necessary to build similar components that need a different look. A Headless Component extracts all non-visual logic and state management, separating the brain of a component from its looks.
Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
Addressing Accessibility Concerns With Using Fluid Type — Smashing Magazine
The CSS `clamp()` function is often paired with viewport units for “fluid” font sizing that scales the text up and down at different viewport sizes. As common as this technique is, several voices warn that it opens up situations where text can fail WCAG Success Criterion 1.4.4, which specifies that text should scale up to at least 200% when the user’s browser reaches its 500% maximum zoom level. M
git rebase: what can go wrong?
git rebase: what can go wrong?
How Meta built Threads in 5 months
In about five short months, a small team of engineers at Meta took Threads, the new text-based conversations app, from from an idea to the most successful app launch of all time, pulling in over 100M users in its first five days. But this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without Meta’s existing systems and infrastructure. […]
Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5
Building the most ambitious sites on the Web with Vercel and Next.js 14
Vercel and Next.js 14: Server Actions, Experimental Partial Prerendering, Next.js faster startups, and other announcements.