Exactly What You Want
What is one thing people can do to make their website better?
Embrace the Unpredictable
In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently
The container throttling problem
Some thoughts on writing
Some latency measurement pitfalls
GitHub Availability Report: November 2021
In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers
You can multiply the impact of your domain experts by building their common workflows into ChatOps.
Remote rendering: Shopify’s take on extensible UI - Shopify
A deep dive into the latest generation of technology that allows developers to extend Shopify’s UI.
A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users all around the world? From inception, to prototyping, to QAing, and finally shipping, releasing a new playlist at Spotify is a long process full of new learnings every time.
How Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but it may actually be more accurate to say there are 381 million individual versions of Spotify, each one filled with different Home pages, playlists, and recommendations. But with a library of over 70 million tracks to thumb through, how do our ML models actually go about m
The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s based on how they listened this year. I like to think of it like this: if your music listening data became a person and walked down the street to the neighborhood aura reader, what would that person’s aura look like? That’s the 2021 Wrapped Audio Aura story.
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season.
A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level
Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation
I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It's a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the
Using the Reflog to Restore Lost Commits
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!
What’s new in Figma: November 2021
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
GitHub Externships: enabling India’s next generation of developers
Are you a student in India? Applications are open for the GitHub Externships Winter Cohort!
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows.
Architecture of Max reHIT Workout - High Scalability -
Today I have the pleasure of announcing my new app—Max reHIT Workout—on Product Hunt. Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I won’t pitch the app here. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately. That's because there’s been very little evolut
Smashing Podcast Episode 44 With Chris Ferdinandi: Is The Web Dead? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re asking if changes to best practises over the last year have negatively impacted the web. Is it all downhill from here? Drew McLellan talks to expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
It’s That Time Of The Year (December 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome December with some new wallpapers! Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for the month. All wallpapers in this post are created with love and come in versions with and without a calendar for December 2021. Enjoy!
Attack Maps now available on Radar
We love line and bar graphs, but some data is best represented with different visualizations. We’re introducing world maps and sankey visualizations as part of Radar Maps, which are being used today to show you the top layer 7 attacks in real time.
Recreating the Apple Music Hits Playlist Animation in CSS
Apple Music has this "Spatial Audio" feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It's tough to explain
GitHub Actions: reusable workflows is generally available
DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!)
