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GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
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At Meta, our internal data tools are the main channel from our data scientists to our production engineers. As such, it’s important for us to empower our scientists and engineers not only to use data to make decisions, but also to do so in a secure and compliant way. We’ve developed SQL Notebooks, a new […]
By Laura Nolan, with contributions from Glen D. Sanford, Jamie Scheinblum, and Chris Sullivan. Assessing conditions Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack, including the author — which certainly made my role as Incident Commander more challenging! This incident was a…
Given our increasing dependency on digital interactions, advocating for good UX will become increasingly necessary, as our reliance on digital tools continues to grow. When bad UX has lingered in a product for so long, it can feel like a mountain to overcome. In this article, Ceara Crawshaw shares her advice on how you can invoke joy and assure the quality in the work done on product teams.
HashiCorp used ISR and on-demand ISR in Next.js 12 to cut build times, update pages instantly, and scale docs across 8 products without full site rebuilds.
Insights and Logs are now available to everyone using Cloudflare Email Routing
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
Creative Coding to level up your skills is fundamental. But when so much of the web is very “set in its way”, it takes a little more for us to think “outside the box” and have fun! In this article, Jhey Tompkins explores one of GreenSocks’ newest plugins alongside React to create an impractical whimsical spin on a well-known native element: ``.
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active – creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Today, we are happy to announce that we are bringing Green Compute to all our developers
Front-end testing is awesome. We can write code, click on things like a user would, then make assertions. In this post, we'll go over strong tests.
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here’s how we think of them at GitHub.
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account.
Companies organize and automate their internal processes with a multitude of business systems, Shopify, Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Netsuite, Google Sheets and many more. Since companies function as a whole, these systems need to be able to talk to one another.
Have you ever wondered, why do people write CLI tools? When is a good time to think about yours? Today we’ll touch on these questions, along with some tips to remember when creating one. However, all of this serves as a prelude to the real topic: end-to-end testing of CLI tools.
Stripe is expanding global payouts with crypto. Businesses can now use Stripe to send cryptocurrency payouts around the world, and Twitter has chosen Stripe to enable their creators to be paid out in crypto, starting with USDC.
A brief history of washi tape, and how our digital version follows form
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work.
The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safely replacing them.
There are a few navigation patterns that are often forgotten or dismissed. We can think of them as navigation shortcuts, helping users get where they want to go, faster — without having to use traditional navigation at all. As it turns out, sometimes they are much more effective, especially on large sites with thousands of pages, many of which have been gathering dust over the years. In UX, we can
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April
Nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow. It isn't even close. Here is how to set that up.
