Working With GraphQL Caching
If you’ve recently started working with GraphQL, or reviewed its pros and cons, you’ve no doubt heard things like “GraphQL doesn’t support caching” or
Learn How to Build True Edge Apps With Cloudflare Workers and Fauna
There is a lot of buzz around apps running on the edge instead of on a centralized server in web development. Running your app on the edge allows your code to
Announcing npm’s new access token format
npm access tokens will now follow the established format of GitHub authentication tokens.
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on the Rust ecosystem!
Simplifying Form Styles With accent-color — Smashing Magazine
The new CSS `accent-color` property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. It has the potential to provide quick and easy styling for many of our form elements, especially where extensive customization isn’t needed, as well as allowing the browser to pick the best options for accessibility. In this article Michelle Barker will t
Container Units Should Be Pretty Handy
Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the
Twitter's div Soup and Uglyfied CSS, Explained
When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. "What
How to Implement Logging in a Node.js Application With Pino-logger
Logging, on its own, is a key aspect of any application. Logging helps developers comprehend what it is that their code is doing. It also helps save
Building an Oracle to PostgreSQL migrator: Lessons learned
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration - Lessons learned in building a migration tool. How to avoid errors, null bytes and broken content.
A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story
Making Shopify’s Flagship App 20% Faster in 6 Weeks Using a Novel Caching Solution - Shopify
We built a custom write-through cache for the Shop app's home feed that reduced database load by 15% and overall app latency by about 20%.
Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet — Smashing Magazine
We love little useful tools and techniques to help folks get their work done better and faster. Today, we’d love to shine the spotlights on a little helper that helps spot common performance bottlenecks easily: [ct.css](https://csswizardry.com/ct/).
Proposal for CSS @when
CSS is on a tear lately. Again, I've heard of a brand new thing I've never seen before, and again it's via Miriam: CSS Conditionals.
An Event Apart Fall Summit 2021! (Use Coupon AEACSST21)
The web's premier conference is online this fall, October 11–13, 2021: An Event Apart Fall Summit. If you already know how good of a conference this is (i.e.
7 Practical Uses for the ::before and ::after Pseudo-Elements in CSS
CSS ::before and ::after pseudo-elements allow you to insert "content" before and after any non-replaced element (e.g. they work on a <div> but not
Apache Dubbo: All roads lead to RCE
During an audit of Apache Dubbo v2.7.8 source code, I found multiple vulnerabilities enabling attackers to compromise and run arbitrary system commands on both Dubbo consumers and providers. In this blog post I detailed how I leveraged CodeQL as an audit oracle to help me find these issues.
How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment — Smashing Magazine
Building a development environment with the shell as a keystone offers multiple benefits. You can use tools that fit nicely with each other, you can customize everything depending on your own needs, and the biggest of all, you can control your entire development environment with your keyboard. This can save a lot of cognitive energy as well as deliver a pleasant user experience.
How Web Development Tools Are Helping Users Keep Pace With Rapid Change — Smashing Magazine
The last 18 months have been a time of unprecedented turbulence. As the people of the world have flooded online, businesses have joined them, using web development tools to adapt in real-time. Several years ago there seemed to be a gulf between drag-and-drop tools and full-blown web development. Today, it’s heartening to see the likes of Wix adding more code-heavy options to their repertoire.
How to customize your HTTP DDoS protection settings
We’re excited to announce the availability of the HTTP DDoS Managed Ruleset. This new feature allows Cloudflare customers to independently tailor their HTTP DDoS protection settings.
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Polygon Border
Nowadays, creating complex shapes is an easy task using clip-path, but adding a border to the shapes is always a pain. There is no robust CSS solution and we
Embracing Asymmetrical Design
I'll never forget one of Karen McGrane's great lessons to the world: truncation is not a content strategy. The idea is that just clipping off text
imba
It's not every day you see a new processor for building websites that reinvents the syntax for HTML and CSS and JavaScript. That's what imba is doing.
Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
