Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
Using The WordPress Editor And CPTs To Configure Plugins — Smashing Magazine
If we want our WordPress plugins to offer a settings page that is fully powered by blocks, how can we do it? Since *Full Site Editing* doesn’t support this feature yet, we need to code a custom solution. In this article, we will learn how we can do it.
Deep dive into a post-quantum key encapsulation algorithm
In this blog post, we will look at what Key Encapsulation Mechanisms are and why they matter in a post-quantum world
Deep dive into a post-quantum signature scheme
How can one attest to an identity and prove it belongs to one self? And how can one do it in the face of quantum computers? In this blog post, we examine these questions and explain what post-quantum signatures are
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
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
Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
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
Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
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
Google Cloud PostgreSQL under pgwatch2 monitoring
Find out how to monitor PostgreSQL databases on Google Cloud with the pgwatch2 monitoring solution to get extended metrics for added clarity!
Lean Inception
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
Get started with ease using security workflows!
GitHub Actions workflows in the Security category will now appear among the workflow recommendations based on a repository’s content.
GitHub Advisory Database now open to community contributions
Anyone can now provide additional information to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
How To Develop A Text Editor For The Web — Smashing Magazine
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
Smashing Podcast Episode 45 With Jeremy Wagner: What Is Responsible JavaScript? — Smashing Magazine
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.
The post-quantum state: a taxonomy of challenges
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
The quantum solace and spectre
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
Results without all of the brackets
Testing Pipeline 101 For Frontend Testing — Smashing Magazine
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
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
Returning values and errors
Detecting Magecart-Style attacks with Page Shield
How we’re using content-based analysis to identify Magecart-style attacks
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
I linked to Jay's front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well.
How to Get an Engineering Internship at Shopify: A Complete Guide - Shopify
The complete guide to getting an internship at Shopify. Interns work on real projects, solve hard problems, and gain practical feedback along the way.
Changing a polymorphic_type in Rails - Shopify
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.
Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack
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…