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.
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? ("Transitional Apps")
A big heaping 19-minute bowl of not-too-hot, not-too-cold baby bear porridge website building from Rich Harris.
Buttons vs. Links
There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don't mind. I wrote my own
So, You Want to Build an @mention Autocomplete Feature?
There’s no reason a composition box has to be a dull text area. You can mention another person, a channel, a file, or some other queryable object using triggers, such as the @ or # characters.
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
Individuals matter
Culture matters
Game Off 2021 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… …BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1 incorporating the theme…
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @yvvdwf
We’re excited to highlight another top contributing researcher to GitHub’s Bug Bounty Program: @yvvdwf
GitHub keeps getting better for open source maintainers
Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.
Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is one of the most common requests for infrastructure teams and, as such, we constantly seek to improve our infrastructure toolchain.
The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part I)
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality music and podcasts on the Home page. In this two-part blog series, we will talk about the ML models we build and use to recommend diverse and fulfilling content to our listeners, and the lessons we’ve learned from building the ML stack that serves these models.
The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part II)
In of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to recommend content on Home, including:
CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons
Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have
A Splash Of Color For Misty Days (November 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner, and with it, a new collection of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the beginning of the month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Let’s make November colorful!
Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
Create Your Own Automated Social Images With Resoc
There has been a lot of talk about automated social images lately. GitHub has created its own. A WordPress plugin has been acquired by Jetpack. There is
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested…