A list of new(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
Around The Artifacts Of Design Systems (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Everyone needs a design system. You can pick one off the shelf or put one together pretty quickly, and your problems are over. As with many things on the web, your mileage may vary. Like many things, a design system isn’t ever a finished thing — it’s a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. Before diving in and starting to plan anything out, be clear
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers.
Performance at GitHub: deferring stats with rack.after_reply
How we sped up GitHub.com by moving slow, non-critical code into rack.after_reply.
Boost Resource Loading With fetchpriority, A New Priority Hint — Smashing Magazine
Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. This new attribute will enable us to fine-tune relative resource priority, improve LCP performance, deprioritize JavaScript fetch calls, and much more. Let’s check out fetchpriority an
TensorFlow Library Performance
Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Leveraging Shopify’s API to Build the Latest Marketplace Kit - Shopify
In February, we released the second version of Marketplace Kit: a collection of boilerplate app code and documentation allowing third-party developers to integrate with Shopify, build selected commerce features and launch a world-class marketplace in any channel.
Dynamic Data-Fetching In An Authenticated Next.js App — Smashing Magazine
Data is among the most important things that make up a web application or a conventional native app. We need data to be able to see and perhaps understand the purpose of an application. In this article, we’ll look at another approach to obtaining data in an application that requires authentication or authorization using Next.js.
Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone
Ensuring secure access to your source code is more important than ever. Git Credential Manager helps make that easy.
Achieving SLSA 3 Compliance with GitHub Actions and Sigstore for Go modules
Learn how to build packages with SLSA 3 provenance using GitHub Actions.
Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun
GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Prevent the introduction of known vulnerabilities into your code
The new dependency review action and API prevents the introduction of known supply chain vulnerabilities into your code.
How Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
We want to take away the pain and effort of keeping your code secure, so check out how Dependabot empowers developers to keep to their projects secure.
You can do a lot with an empty file
The Magic of Merlin: Shopify's New Machine Learning Platform - Shopify
Merlin, Shopify’s machine learning platform that can handle different (often conflicting) requirements, inputs, data types, dependencies, and integrations.
Designing Effective Breadcrumbs Navigation — Smashing Magazine
Breadcrumbs UX are often neglected, but they can be extremely helpful when designing a complex navigation. We can improve them with sideways navigation, clearer breadcrumbs paths and accordions on mobile.
Devs For Ukraine, A Free Online Charity Conference 🇺🇦 — Smashing Magazine
[Devs For Ukraine](https://www.devsforukraine.io/) is a free online charity conference organized by the lovely people at Remote. Two days filled with talks from engineering leaders around the globe, in support of Ukraine. The conference will take place April 25–26, 2022, with the goal to raise funds and provide support to Ukraine. The funds raised during the two days of the event will be evenly di
PIPEFAIL: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down
This post tells the story of how a missing shell option called “pipefail” slowed Cloudflare down.
4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub.
That simple script is still someone's bad day
Handling Flaky Tests at Scale: Auto Detection & Suppression
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. The DevXp…
How To Get Work Done: Wrangling Stakeholders And Overcoming Obstacles — Smashing Magazine
Whether you work in-house or for an external agency, we all share one challenge — dealing with stakeholders, be they your boss, colleagues, or clients. In this post, veteran web designer Paul Boag shares his approach to getting things done in even the most challenging organizations. He will also change some of our prejudices along the way. Because let’s be clear; we need other people for our websi
