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Everything You Want To Know About Creating Voice User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing visual interfaces.
Neat Optional Custom Property Values Trick
Imagine a multi-value CSS property like transform and you don't want every value applied. You might think of CSS optional custom property values.
Getting started with project planning on GitHub
Stop context switching. Keep your team’s project planning next to your code.
Shopify's Playbook for Scaling Machine Learning - Shopify
Through our experience building our first few models, Shopify Data carved out a pragmatic step-by-step guide that has enabled us to successfully scale machine learning across our organization.
Hydrogen & Tailwind: The Perfect Match for Building Beautiful Storefronts - Shopify
Learn about Tailwind, our preferred way to style websites that enables developers to build beautiful storefronts quickly with Hydrogen, our React-based framework for building custom storefronts.
Building Self-driving Kafka clusters using open source components
In this article, I will talk about how Slack uses Kafka, and how a small-but-mighty team built and operationalized a self-driving Kafka cluster over the last four years to run at scale. Kafka is used at Slack as a pub-sub system, playing an essential role in the all-important Job Queue, our asynchronous job execution framework…
Web Design Done Well: Perfectly Pointless — Smashing Magazine
The web can feel like a very businesslike place nowadays. Most places you go there seem to be legions of glossy products and unnervingly personalized ads competing for our attention. Kick back, relax and enjoy. Maybe even think about a pointless project of your own. This installment of *Web Design Done Well* celebrates weird and wacky websites. Sites with sweet, innocent, sometimes pointless purpo
Adding a CASB to Cloudflare Zero Trust
Earlier today, Cloudflare announced that we have acquired Vectrix, a cloud-access security broker (CASB) company focused on solving the problem of control and visibility in the SaaS applications and public cloud providers that your team uses
Cloudflare acquires Vectrix to expand Zero Trust SaaS security
We are excited to share that Vectrix has been acquired by Cloudflare! Vectrix helps IT and security teams detect security issues across their SaaS applications
Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting
A Chrome Extension for Cloudinary That Helps You Pluck Out Useful Media URLs From Your Library Quickly |
Cloudinary is a host for your digital assets like images and video. If you don't already know them, you should, because you can build it into the asset
How to start using reusable workflows with GitHub Actions
Reusable workflows offer a simple and powerful way to avoid copying and pasting workflows across your repositories.
SVGcode for Live Tracing Raster Images
A free online tool called SVGcode by Thomas Steiner is capable of an effect called "Live Trace" that converts a raster image into a vector image.
How to Make CSS Slanted Containers in 3 Steps
Here's how to created a CSS slanted container where the container itself is slanted, but the text and images are balanced for better legibility.
Building Infrastructure Platforms
Infrastructure Platform teams enable organisations to scale delivery by solving common product and non-functional requirements with resilient solutions. This allows other teams to focus on building their own things and releasing value for their users. But nobody said building scalable platforms was easy... In this article Poppy and Chris explore 7 key principles which can help you build the right
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) for open source projects
A comprehensive guide for vulnerability reporters.
A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other
Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts’ Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products.
Email Routing is now in open beta, available to everyone
Cloudflare Email Routing transitioned from closed beta to open beta. It’s now available to everyone, including free zones
Implement restrictive access using the Dropbox API
Learn to implement restricted access with nested permissions and folders in the Dropbox API.
Jamming on FigJam: A journey from beta to GA
Product Manager Emily Lin shares the process of bringing FigJam to life, from beta to GA.
Improving the developer experience for Dependabot alerts
Today, we’re shipping improvements to Dependabot alerts that make them easier to understand and remediate.
Statoscope: A Course Of Intensive Therapy For Your Bundle — Smashing Magazine
Statoscope is an instrument that analyses your webpack-bundles. Created by Sergey Melukov, it started out as an experimental version in late 2016, which has now become a full-fledged toolkit for viewing, analyzing, and validating webpack-bundles. Editor’s Note: This article is a transcription of Sergey’s live performance (Russian).
