Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too.
Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement
On July 21st, 2021, Slack officially became a part of Salesforce at the price tag of $27.7 billion. This was undoubtedly Slack’s most significant event in the past year. As a frontend intern on Slack’s Customer Acquisition team this summer, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be directly involved with announcing the closing of one…
What’s New With DevTools: Cross-Browser Edition — Smashing Magazine
Learn what’s new with developer tools in Firefox, Edge, Chrome and Safari. Discover new and powerful features that will help you be more comfortable and productive when testing and debugging across browsers. With this article, Patrick Brosset tries to make you want to try them out, and maybe will help you get more comfortable next time you need to debug a browser-specific issue.
ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU
Early Days for CSS Scoping
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now. Other than a weird period where <style scoped> shipped and then was subsequently removed from the
HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this part 3, Robin Marx will look at how to practically use and deploy QUIC and HTTP/3, by looking at most best practices and lessons learned from HTTP/2. You’ll discuss that it might take a while before off-the-shelf web server packages provide full HTTP/3 support, and how most major browsers have HTTP/3
Code runs on people
Release Radar
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of…
Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web — Smashing Magazine
Websites, unfortunately, aren’t as environmentally friendly as we might like them to be. In this article, Berwyn Powell takes a look at his experience in trying to make websites better for the environment. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas for things to try on your own websites. It can be quite disheartening to run a page through the Website Carbon Calculator and be told that it could be em
Quick Tunnels: Anytime, Anywhere
Cloudflare Tunnel now supports a free version that includes all the latest features and does not require any onboarding to Cloudflare. With today’s change, you can begin experimenting with Tunnel in five minutes or less.
Inside Figma: getting out of the (secure) shell
Tips from the Figma security team to help other teams secure Systems Manager and protect their most sensitive data
Introducing the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track
Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13.
CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine for web-scale services
Caching plays an important role in helping people access their information efficiently. For example, when an email app loads, it temporarily caches some messages, so the user can refresh the page without the app retrieving the same messages. However, large-scale caching has long been a complex engineering challenge. Companies must balance the fast experience people […]
A Kotlin Style .copy Function for Swift Structs - Shopify
Swift’s struct isn’t as convenient as Kotlin’s data class because it doesn't have a similar copy function. Learn how to adopt this pattern in Swift.
Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers — Smashing Magazine
There are plenty of interactive ways to learn new web development skills. We learn better by playing games. So we’ve collected interactive coding tools and games to help you learn CSS, JavaScript, SQL, React, Vim, regular expressions, Jamstack and pretty much everything in-between. Louis shares a comprehensive, categorized list of such tools covering a variety of different development technologies
Some Typography Links VII
All-things-typography, from a hard-edged monospaced variable font to fonts in the "Twilight Zone" ... and much, much more.
The value of in-house expertise
GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.
Introducing GitHub Global Campus
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus.
Followup on the dashboard story
The Four Agile Values and Slack
Agile development methods can bolster company culture and empower teams to move quickly, with a focus on frequently adding value for customers. Whether you are a program manager, game developer, event planner, or architect, within businesses where change is constant, it’s key to have flexibility, and that’s where agile shines. While there are a variety…
A Deep Dive Into The Wonderful World Of SVG Displacement Filtering — Smashing Magazine
What exactly is a displacement filter? In this article, Dirk Weber will be diving into one of the most spectacular filter effects: the SVG feDisplacementMap filter primitive. In order to make it all easier to digest, Dirk has divided the article into three parts in which you’ll be exploring how the feDisplacementMap works, methods to create fancy displacement maps in SVG, and methods to animate th
Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced , Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use studio-quality audio effects in your code, rather than just in your digital audio workstation (DAW).