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Introducing new plans for FigJam and Figma Enterprise

A deep dive into how GitHub adds support for new languages to CodeQL.

Starting today, we are rolling out mandatory 2FA to all maintainers of top-100 npm packages by dependents.

A toy DNS resolver

It’s shipping! Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide with guidelines and best practices to improve usability and accessibility on mobile. 400 pages. For designers and developers working with mobile UIs. Jump to details and get the book right away.

According to the documentation, Easy Peasy is an abstraction of Redux, providing a reimagined API that focuses on developer experience. It allows you to quickly and easily manage your state, whilst leveraging the strong architectural guarantees. We’ll use Easy Peasy as a state manager of choice to build a note application which would help us learn how it works.

Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped…

At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means we want everybody to be able to download our app without hiccups or constraints.

At Spotify, we aim to build and improve our product in a data-informed way. To do that, teams are encouraged to generate and test hypotheses by running experiments and gathering evidence for what works and what doesn’t.

I’m part of the Mambas team at Spotify, which is responsible for all the animation, presentation and personalized data in the Wrapped interactive mobile app. My job is to take the raw data from the backend and enrich it, translate it and format it for different regions before it goes to the frontend mobile engineers. That includes deciding what music to play during data stories and what images and

We’ve been building out the Cloudflare Partner Network for years, working alongside businesses of all sizes and types including our world-wide system integrator partners

The dependency graph helps developers and maintainers understand the code they depend on, and now includes GitHub Actions!

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2022 and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some timeless treasures from past February editions at the end of this post for you. Enjoy!

Reasons for servers to support IPv6

On this Data Privacy Day, we look back at how events in 2021 shaped the privacy world, and we look ahead to what 2022 may have in store

I found the CSS from-font value for the text-decoration-thickness property. I did a little research what I found (and learned) is interesting.

Never fear, HighScalability is here! Think your software diagram is complex? This is a single cell modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. Gael McGill My Stuff: * Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. * Know anyone who needs to fix their cloud-obliviousness? My book teaches them all they need to know about th

In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost, focusing on data-binding, reactivity, conditionals and lists. You will also take a look at the cost of using those frameworks.

With Email Routing, you can effectively start receiving Emails in any of your domains for any number of custom addresses you want and forward the messages to any existing destination mailboxes

Cloudflare’s Project Galileo provides free protection to at-risk groups across the world including Holocaust educational and remembrance websites

Say you're on the wrong Git branch with unstaged changes. There are a few to go about switching unstaged changes to a new branch.

TypeScript discriminated unions are types where a key or value can be used to differentiate between the keys and values of several types at once.

In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.