Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Coders
I saw some Mondrian Art in CSS going around the other day and figured I'd go looking for others I've seen over the years and round them up.
Making Your First Custom Svelte Transition
The Svelte transition API provides a way to animate components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions.
Search at Shopify—Range in Data and Engineering is the Future - Shopify
At Shopify, we draw very few lines between “data” and “engineering” work. Instead we have “search” work.
Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
If you are a beginner at design and are willing to learn UI (user interface), UX (user experience) and product design, then this article is definitely for you! In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/ten-tips-aspiring-designer-beginners-part1/), Luis Ouriach shared advice he wished he had when starting out in his career. In this second and last part of this series, Luis continues shar
8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022
Every so often, I accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of them! Here are 8 helpful accessibility links.
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don't provide
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions
From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions.
The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together
My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit.
Building A Web Code Editor — Smashing Magazine
If you’re a developer who’s thinking about building a platform that requires a code editor in one form or another, then this article is for you. This article explains how to create a web code editor that displays the result in real time with the help of some HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle
You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle
Open Source & Sustainability
I don't feel confident operating or maintaining open source. That makes me scared of it, and my fear makes me avoid doing it at all.
Netlify Identity for Jamstack Aiuthentication
Netlify Identity is a robust offering that provides authentication on a Jamstack site. It’s super easy to enable and opens up a bunch of possibilities.
How we ship GitHub Mobile every week
Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions.
That Old Certificate Expired and Started an Outage. This is What Happened Next - Shopify
In distributed systems, there’s plenty of occasions for things to go wrong. This is why resiliency and redundancy are important. But no matter the systems you put in place, no matter whether you did or didn’t touch your deployments, issues might arise. It makes it critical to acknowledge the near misses: the situations where something could have gone wrong and the situations where something did, b
Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases
When do you need to overhaul a large code base to address tech debt? What is the best way to address widespread inconsistencies and outdated patterns? How can you make significant architectural improvements to a complex application while still continuing to ship features? These were questions we grappled with at the beginning of 2020, when…
How To Hire For Digital Accessibility Roles — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. There are many ways to increase your team’s capacity for accessibility and it’s less important where you start than it is that you do start. Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. You wouldn’t just do one round of security testing and consider it taken care of. In this a
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here is the latest case update, along with our second round of winners.
Designing Instagram - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Make Beautiful Gradients
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers around the world
The year ahead: a conversation with Soleio, Julie Zhuo, and May-Li Khoe
Reflections, predictions, and guidance for 2022
A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients — Smashing Magazine
CSS gradients are a useful CSS feature that can be used to create interesting UI effects or even help us in drawing something without the need to create HTML elements for it. In this article, we’ll be taking a closer look at two gradients: `conic-gradient` and `radial-gradient`. You’ll see how each one of them works in detail, what the differences and similarities are between them, how and where t
