Scroll-Linked Animations With the Web Animations API (WAAPI) and ScrollTimeline
The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you
Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu
A Q&A with Tekeste on the FigJam widgets he built and what he's working on next
GitHub Availability Report: October 2021
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.
10 GitHub Actions resources to bookmark from the basics to CI/CD
Tips on how to get started using GitHub Actions and resources to learn more about making it work for you.
How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
The Vitality of Core Web Vitals - Shopify
A deep dive into each metric of Google Core Web Vitals.
How Two Interns Are Helping Secure Millions of Lines of Code
At Slack, proactively securing our systems is a top priority. One way we achieve this is by automating the detection of security issues with static code analysis, which are tools that inspect programs without executing them. They’re often used with security-based rules to automate identification of vulnerabilities and insecure programming practices, which frees up more…
Smashing Podcast Episode 43 With Matthew Phillips: What Is Astro? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Astro. Will this modern static site builder launch you into the stratosphere? Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out.
GraphQL On The Front-End (React And Apollo) — Smashing Magazine
Within the last decade, technologies like GraphQL have changed how we build web apps and how they communicate with each other. GraphQL provides certain benefits over REST APIs — let’s find out what they are. In this article, David Atanda will cover advanced topics to achieve real-time update of data using the update() function, subscription, and Optimistic UI. All in a bit to improve user experien
The tale of a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
Building the next phase of GitHub, together
This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers.
Thank you, GitHub
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.
How to React ⚛️
Let's see how learning React ⚛️ in the right order can make it less overwhelming.
A Deep Dive Into Serverless UI With TypeScript — Smashing Magazine
Serverless UI is simply a free, open-source command-line utility for quickly building and deploying serverless applications on the AWS platform. In this article, we will learn and cover everything needed on using Serverless UI to deploy our projects or serverless applications to cloud services providers.
How we build software at Cloudflare
Cloudflare has a broad range of products -- ranging from security, to performance and serverless compute. These products are built by multiple teams in close collaboration and delivering those products can be a complex task. So ever wonder how we do so consistently and safely at scale?
Rebase vs. Merge: Integrating Changes in Git
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 the next articles!
Responsible JavaScript
High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a
Proxying Third-Party JavaScript as First-Party JavaScript (and the Potential Effect on Analytics)
First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL:
GUI Challenges
I keep bookmarking Adam's GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published!
Compliance in a DevOps Culture
Integrating the necessary Security Controls and Audit capabilities to satisfy Compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales. Understanding the second order implications and unintended consequences caused by the chosen implementation is key to building an effective, secure, and scalable solution.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: creating a security advisory process
This blog post is the first in a series about hardening the security of the Exiv2 project. My goal is to share tips that will help you harden the security of your own project.
Always on Calibration with a Quarterly Summary - Shopify
Learn how an always-on approach to career development improves your team. Leverage quarterly calibrations, weekly syncs, and more. Template available!
Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alex Husar sheds the spotlight on Magento PWAs and explains why business owners are getting them (often instead of native applications). Alex introduces ways of how progressive web applications can be developed on Magento, as well as go over the major pros and cons of each development path.
Global support for Chinese payment methods
Stripe users in North America, Europe, and most of Asia can now support the top three ways Chinese buyers want to pay: UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, which collectively account for 85% of online purchases by Chinese consumers.
