My Car Accident
I was involved in a very bad car accident in 2022. Here's the story.
React Native Skia: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead - Shopify
A look at React Native Skia in 2022 and what kept Christian Falch, Colin Gray, and William Candillon busy. Plus, a look at what's ahead for the library in 2023.
JSON logs in PostgreSQL 15
Find out how JSON logs can be configured in PostgreSQL 15 and get all the advantages of this brand new feature
Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native - Shopify
In 2020, we announced that React Native is the future of mobile at Shopify. As part of that journey, we’ve been migrating Shopify Mobile (our largest app at 300 screens per platform) from native to React Native. Here’s how it’s going.
A Guide To Command-Line Data Manipulation — Smashing Magazine
No more random scripts in Python and JavaScript to transform CSV or JSON data. In this article, Alvin Bryan shows you how to use Miller, a small and powerful CLI tool, to do all your data processing.
Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console
Optimizing Ruby’s Memory Layout: Variable Width Allocation - Shopify
Shopify is improving CRuby’s performance in Ruby 3.2 by optimizing the memory layout in the garbage collector through the Variable Width Allocation project.
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
Deploying CSS Logical Properties On Web Apps — Smashing Magazine
You may have already heard of CSS logical properties or RTL adaptations but are still deciding whether to deploy them widely. To help raise your awareness of their possibilities, Nicolas Hoffmann shares his experience of how he and his team at Proton carried out a massive move from CSS logical props to production and how you can consider them from a different perspective in your very own projects.
Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year
hex, oct, bin integers in PostgreSQL 16
NEW in PostgreSQL 16 - support for non-decimal notation of integer constants. Find out how the changes will affect you-- adds possibilities!
WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)
Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions - Shopify
Senior Staff Engineer and Rails core team member Aaron Patterson recaps his favourite Ruby and Rails updates of 2022 and some predictions (okay, so maybe it’s more of a wish list) for 2023.
How Remote Caching decreased publish times by 80%
The Next.js release process got 80% faster using Turborepo Remote Caching.
One of our most requested features is here: DNS record comments and tags
Today, we’re releasing DNS record comments and tags, making it easier to keep track of and manage DNS records of your domain
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees.
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering
Optimize your Next.js site: Tips from industry leaders
Hear from industry leaders on how you can best use React Server Components, the latest in Web UI, powerful layouts, and more to create a fast site.
UNION ALL, data types and performance
Find out the impact of PostgreSQL column data types on the performance of queries that involve a UNION ALL.
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding.
Not just flightless birds: How EMUs secure and scale identity and access management for your GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise has evolved to support the needs of enterprise administrators, corporate security teams, and individual developers who contribute to open source.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens (So You Don’t Have To) - Shopify
GitHub personal access tokens (PATs) are like a key: a very, very large key that opens a very, very wide door. Long-lived tokens that have all the access of a developer’s account won’t just cause a leak—it’ll be a flood. Here’s how we rotate tokens automatically, and how you can do t too.