SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs):
View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL
How view permissions are checked, and how that changes if you use the security_invoker view option from PostgreSQL v15. Use row-level security effectively.
GitHub Team or Free? How to choose the right plan
Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you.
Welcome to Maintainer Month 2022! 🎉
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2022
In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April.
Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
Several ways for GitHub-hosted Actions runners to connect to resources on your private network.
GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Brazil—an exciting expansion for one of our fastest growing developer communities.
Building a Form with Polaris - Shopify
A tutorial to create the basic form design that's meant to introduction to React including additional logic to emulate a fully functional React form.
Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ken Harker explains what third-party resource requests really are and which common optimization strategies can help reduce the impact on the user experience. By carefully considering how third-party requests will fit into your website during the design stage, you’ll be able to avoid the most significant negative impacts.
How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify
TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure of user forecasts catch up to business needs. As the business evolves, we need an infrastructure in place that can satisfy the varying needs of stakeholders across the company. To enable fast iterations and facilitate model training, we built a system that allows user forecasts to run both
Say Hello to the Recipients of the 2022 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Today we’re announcing the recipients of the first Spotify FOSS Fund. The objective of this fund is to give the independent open source projects we care about a meaningful financial sponsorship to help ensure those projects have the means to continue maintaining and maturing the code we rely on.
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing , Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe the musical notes in a recording. Drop a recording of almost any instrument, including your voice, then get back a MIDI version, just like that. Unlike similar ML models, Basic Pitch is not only versatile and accurate, but also fast and computationally lightweight. It was b
Platform Week wrap-up
Recently, during Platform Week, we made a number of announcements expanding what’s possible with the Developer Platform. Let’s take a look at some of these and what this enables you to build
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security.
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them.
To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models - Shopify
An in-depth look at threads vs processes in Ruby web applications, and when you should use each.
Expand Your Horizons (June 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. The wallpapers in this collection come in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some designs from our wallpapers archives at the e
Smashing Podcast Episode 47 With Sara Soueidan: Why Does Accessibility Matter? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out.
“Much more than just writing.” How I got started as a content designer
Great content on an interface “just works”; it disappears into a delightful user experience while leading happy users to success, whatever it is they’re trying to get done with a given product
What’s That (Dev) Tool? — Smashing Magazine
How many browser DevTools panels do you commonly use in your day-to-day web development? One? Three? Probably not that many more. In this article, Patrick Brosset shines the spotlight on a number of tools that people don’t use or even know about. Let’s dive in!
We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned
In this blog post, we’ll cover the history of Cloudflare’s developer docs, why we made this recent transition, and why we continue to dogfood Cloudflare’s products as we develop applications internally
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And,
Full-scale expression with Grilli Type
A conversation with Thierry Blancpain from Grilli Type
Open-Source 3dicons Library: Case Study And Free Downloads — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Vijay describes his learning experiences during the design stages of creating his 3dicons image library (a free library for product screens, social media posts and marketing campaigns), which you can download and use for free.
