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Engineering — Cherry-Picking Commits in Git

Cherry-Picking Commits in Git

In part 5 of this series, we looked at rebasing and merging. Although there are a couple of differences between git merge and git rebase, both commands have the same goal: they integrate changes from one branch into another.

TGTobias GüntherTobias Günther·November 17, 2021Engineering
Frontend — The Gap (Design Engineering)

The Gap (Design Engineering)

Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey)

CCChris Coyier·November 17, 2021Frontend
Frontend — A Guide To Modern CSS Colors With RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB And LCH — Smashing Magazine

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors With RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB And LCH — Smashing Magazine

Did you know that your chosen color palette can have an impact on how much energy your website uses? Even a more environmentally friendly choice of colors can reduce the impact on the battery life of mobile devices. In this article, Michelle Barker shares advice on the not-so-obvious things you have to keep in mind when handling colors in CSS today.

MBMichelle BarkerMichelle Barker·November 17, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Building Stripe Tax

Building Stripe Tax

With Stripe Tax, we make it easier for businesses to calculate and collect the right sales tax, VAT, and GST without needing to know the intricacies of tax rules or rates.

KMKelly MoriartyKelly Moriarty·November 17, 2021Engineering
Frontend — Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers

Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers

Every time the Workers runtime code is built, a script runs over the public APIs and generates the Rust and TypeScript types as well as a JSON file containing an intermediate representation of the static types. The types are sent to the appropriate repositories and the JSON file is uploaded as well.

CCloudflare·November 16, 2021Frontend
Frontend — JavaScript modules are now supported on Cloudflare Workers

JavaScript modules are now supported on Cloudflare Workers

Now you can use JavaScript modules, also known as ECMAScript or “ES” modules, on Cloudflare Workers. This replaces the old “addEventListener” syntax with a new “import” and “export” semantics that makes it really easy to write reusable, modular code.

AAshconAshcon·November 16, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Developer Spotlight: James Ross, Nodecraft

Developer Spotlight: James Ross, Nodecraft

Nodecraft allows gamers to host dedicated servers for their favorite games. James Ross is the Chief Technology Officer for Nodecraft and has advocated for Cloudflare — particularly Cloudflare Workers — within the company.

KKristianKristian·November 16, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Jamstack TV

Jamstack TV

That's the name of Netlify's YouTube Channel. Love that. I linked up Rich's talk the other day, which was a part of this past JamstackConf, but now all the

CCChris Coyier·November 16, 2021Engineering
SRE & Ops — GraphQL global ID migration update

GraphQL global ID migration update

All newly created GraphQL objects now have IDs that conform to a new format, which we refer to as “next IDs.” Learn how to migrate older IDs to the new format and why we’re making the change.

AHAndrew HoglundAndrew Hoglund·November 16, 2021SRE & Ops
Career & Teams — The 2021 State of the Octoverse

The 2021 State of the Octoverse

The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers & repos to share trends across working habits, productivity, and career satisfaction.

EKEirini KalliamvakouEirini Kalliamvakou·November 16, 2021Career & Teams
Frontend — Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”

Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”

In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.

JWJosh W. Comeau·November 16, 2021Frontend
Databases — Introducing Relational Database Connectors

Introducing Relational Database Connectors

Customers can connect to a Postgres or MySQL database directly from their Workers using a Cloudflare Tunnel today. In the future, you can use Database Connectors to achieve this natively using a standardized Socket API.

KGKabir, GregKabir, Greg·November 15, 2021Databases