Streamline virtual hackathon events with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience
Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.
Mastering React’s Stable Values - Shopify
In this post, Colin Gray, Principal Developer at Shopify, delivers a crash course in how to make sense of stable values in React and when they matter most.
Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers
After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed
Fluid Sizing Instead Of Multiple Media Queries? — Smashing Magazine
If you like math and CSS, you’ll love this one. We don’t need to use media queries to change the values of some CSS properties — *font-size*, *padding*, *margin* etc. — depending on the viewport width, with the CSS `clamp` function. But: we still need to use media queries for changing colors, borders, shadows and other CSS styles.
How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle
TL;DR The (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software solutions have all the necessary features and functions. Because of the growing number of cyberattacks, software development stakeholders have been forced to implement security testing as the main track in SDLC to prevent vulnerabilities and flaws in applications or software (assets). A software security assessment
Memories Of August (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. In this post, you’ll find their wallpapers for August 2022. All of them come in versions with and without a calendar, so no matter if you need to count down the days to a big deadline or plan to use your favorite wallpaper even after the month has ended, we’ve got you covered. Designed by artists and
Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On.
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with
Recreating MDN's Truncated Text Effect
It's no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It's gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those
Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors
Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.
GitHub Sponsors available in 30 new regions
GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68.
A toy remote login server
A toy remote login server
Five security principles for billions of messages across Meta’s apps
At Meta, our messaging apps help billions of people around the world stay connected to those who matter most to them. This scale brings potential threats from criminals and hackers, so we have a responsibility to keep people and their data safe. We’re sharing a set of principles to ensure that security is central to […]
10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems - Shopify
Top ten tips and tricks for building resilient payment systems from a Staff Developer working on Shopify’s payment infrastructure.
Testable Frontend: The Good, The Bad And The Flaky — Smashing Magazine
How to organize their testing between unit, integration, and E2E testing and how to test their UI components? Testing is not just about tools and processes. It’s about architecture. In this article, Noam Rosenthal will share his experience on how to organize testing and find the right balance between front-end and subsystems and between different strategies.
Build your own web framework
Historical tutorial for building a web framework on Vercel, updated with current Vercel Functions and Routing Middleware terminology.
What’s new in Figma: July 2022
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
Release Radar
It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…
Corrupting memory without memory corruption
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.
Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.
Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Supporting a programming language at Meta is a very careful and deliberate decision. We’re sharing our internal programming language guidance that helps our engineers and developers choose the best language for their projects. Rust is the latest addition to Meta’s list of supported server-side languages. At Meta, we use many different programming languages for a […]
When the window is not fully open, your TCP stack is doing more than you think
In this blog post I'll share my journey deep into the Linux networking stack, trying to understand the memory and window management of the receiving side of a TCP connection
Better SQL functions in PostgreSQL v14
New syntax for SQL functions was introduced in PostgreSQL v14, this article gives you vital tips for this important change & its advantages.
Launching GitHub Community: Powered by GitHub Discussions
Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
