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Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption
That's a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web
On several occasions, I’ve needed to send off an HTTP request with some data to log when a user does something like navigate to a different page or submit a
Find out how to monitor PostgreSQL databases on Google Cloud with the pgwatch2 monitoring solution to get extended metrics for added clarity!
An inception is an activity done at the start of a project to gather together the people involved and set a common direction and working style for the on-going work. The lean inception is a focused form of inception, which can be done in a single week. During this time we understand the key features and customers for the product, and build a canvas to formulate the characteristics of a Minimum Via
GitHub Actions workflows in the Security category will now appear among the workflow recommendations based on a repository’s content.
Anyone can now provide additional information to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. In this article, Ilya Medvedev will explain the challenges his company faced and the solutions they used to create a text widget in their application. He’ll also dive into how they implemented it and what they learned along the way — a
In this episode, we’re talking about Responsible JavaScript. What does it mean for code to be responsible, and how should we approach projects differently? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeremy Wagner to find out.
At Cloudflare, we strive to help build a better Internet, which means a quantum-protected one. In this post, we look at the challenges for migrating to post-quantum cryptography and what lies ahead using a taxonomy
What is quantum computing and what advances have been made so far on this front? In this blog post, we will answer this question and see how to protect against quantum adversaries
Automated testing can give you much confidence in merging your changes, especially in extensive refactoring or working with your teammates. As a result, you might have thought about including testing as part of your build routine to get the most value out of it. Don’t know where to start? Let’s implement your testing pipeline together from scratch.
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
How we’re using content-based analysis to identify Magecart-style attacks
I linked to Jay's front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well.
The complete guide to getting an internship at Shopify. Interns work on real projects, solve hard problems, and gain practical feedback along the way.
How my team redefined the way we store one of the polymorphic associations in the Shopify codebase. This post is the solution we wish we found when we were looking.
In 2021, we changed developer testing workflows for Webapp, Slack’s main monorepo, from predominantly testing before merging to a multi-tiered testing workflow after merging. This changed our previous definition of safety and developer workflows between testing and deploys. In this project, we aimed to ensure frequent, reliable, and high-quality releases to our customers for a…
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web.
We are open sourcing the production tooling we’ve built for the sk_lookup hook we contributed to the Linux kernel, called tubular
First things first, if you didn't know Netlify had a CLI, they do. One of my favorite things about it running the command netlify dev on nearly any
By subsetting Font Awesome, we can remove any unused glyphs from the font files that it provides to reduce the overall file size.
