The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators,
Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
This article describes how PostgreSQL v14 reduces B-tree index bloat with "bottom-up index tuple deletion". A test case shows the difference.
Ship / Show / Ask
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that combines the features of Pull Requests with the ability to keep shipping changes. Changes are categorized as either Ship (merge into mainline without review), Show (open a pull request for review, but merge into mainline immediately), or Ask (open a pull request for discussion before merging).
GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist.
Using Rich Image and Text Data to Categorize Products at Scale - Shopify
We reevaluated our existing product categorization model to ensure we’re understanding what our merchants are selling, to build the best products that help power their sales.
Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components — Smashing Magazine
Being able to look past the apparent simplicity, break down a component into its constituent parts, ask key questions, and even consider future uses, are all skills that will serve any developer well when building websites In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mi
New Smashing Online Workshops on Front-End & UX — Smashing Magazine
What’s the state of HTML Email, Vue.js and Next.js? What are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s figure it out. With our brand new online workshops on front-end & design. Now with **free workshops** for you to test the waters.
What’s new with Cloudflare for SaaS?
Today, we’re excited to announce all the customizations that our team has been working on for our Enterprise customers — for both Cloudflare for SaaS and SSL for SaaS.
Can we have custom media queries, please?
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it's
Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible
When requirements read "when visible" your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That's exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation
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.