Slicing and Dicing Instant Logs: Real-time Insights on the Command Line
Today, I am going to introduce you to Instant Logs in your terminal
Color Spaces for More Interesting Gradients
Think of color spaces as a physical map where individual colors are points on the map. Gradients walk from one point on the map to the next.
CSS Scroll Snap Slide Deck That Supports Live Coding
We’ll build a CSS-only slide deck that supports live coding, using native web functionality and modern styling, like CSS scroll snap.
Using QR Codes In Your Business: Best Practices And Pitfalls — Smashing Magazine
While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customer’s journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with a list of things to keep in mind when using QR codes for your business.
Release Radar
Here’s January’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.
React Server Components Best Practices You Can Use with Hydrogen - Shopify
A deep dive into the patterns and best practices for React Server Components learned while building Hydrogen, Shopify's React-based framework for building custom storefronts.
What Web Frameworks Solve: The Vanilla Alternative (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
rameworks provide convenient ways to achieve complicated tasks, and they have benefits beyond technical ones, such as aligning a group of developers to a particular style and pattern. The web platform offers many choices, and adopting a framework gets everyone at least partially on the same page for some of those choices. In this second part, Noam suggests a few patterns of how to use the web plat
Need to keep analytics data in the EU? Cloudflare Zaraz can offer a solution
Zaraz offers a way to use tools like Google Analytics, but doing so with an approach that protects the privacy of personal information and keeps it in the EU
Building a newbie-friendly codebase
Pedro Santos suggests:
Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll look specifically at what we can do to reduce the impact of social media embeds and social sharing widgets — or even some strategies to avoid them altogether. While the spotlight is on reducing the environmental impact, many of these tips will be great for performance too.
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
Here's a super classy demo from Michelle Barker over on Codrops that shows how to build a scrollable and draggable timeline with GSAP. It's an interesting
User Registration With Firebase and React
This tutorial will work us through on how to implement user registration, verification, and authentication in React using Firebase.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2022
In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps
A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool—and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it.
New sponsors-only repositories, custom amounts, and more
Along with the release of sponsors-only repositories, here’s a look at what’s new and what’s next for Sponsors.
Rapid Development with Hydrogen: Building a Product Page - Shopify
Hydrogen's currently in developer preview and I'm excited to show you how you can rapidly build out a simple product page by leaning on Hydrogen's components.
Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian Bece shares more about the benefits and caveats of code-splitting and how page performance and load times can be improved by dynamically loading expensive, non-critical JavaScript bundles.
The evolution of the Web: What we learned and where we’re going
Announcing the public launch of Cloudflare's bug bounty program
Today we are launching Cloudflare’s paid public bug bounty program. We believe bug bounties are a vital part of every security team’s toolbox.
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
Before the advent of evergreen browsers, you would need to go to the manufacturer’s website and manually download and install the update.
The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
Jim Nielsen's mom couldn't open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
Misidentifying talent
