Cloudflare Developer Summer Challenge
We’re giving away 300+ boxes of our most popular swag, while enabling collaboration with other participants through our Workers Discord channel.
Building the Cloudflare Summer Challenge Application
If you haven’t already heard, we’re hosting the Cloudflare Summer Developer Challenge, a contest for the Cloudflare community at large. Anybody – yes, including you – can sign up for free and compete for a chance to win one of 300 available prizes.
Building a Cool Front End Thing Generator
Whether you are just starting out on the front end, or you’ve been doing it for a long time, building a tool that can generate some cool front-end magic can
Modelling Developer Infrastructure Teams - Shopify
I’ve been managing Developer Infrastructure teams (alternatively known as Developer Acceleration, Developer Productivity, and other such names) for almost a decade now. Developer Infrastructure (which we usually shorten to “Dev Infra”) covers a lot of ground, especially at a company like Shopify that’s invested heavily in the area, from developer environments and continuous integration/continuous
More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users
Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devices.
Introducing Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private Web Attestation with Cross/Multi-Vendor Hardware
In Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood the server sends a message to the browser that the hardware security signs, demonstrating its authenticity.
Stay alert
A few days ago, Chris wrote up his thoughts about how alert(), confirm(), and prompt() were being deprecated by Chrome and collected a bunch of thoughts from
Securing internal web apps
A deep-dive into how we provide access to internal applications
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? July 2021 Recap
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more.
Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code.
Useful Figma Plugins And Tools — Smashing Magazine
Useful Figma plugins that will help you fix all the little slowdowns and boost your productivity. From color management and image assets to SVG shapes and animation. Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother.
Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where's The Line?
You'll often hear developers talking about “static” vs. “dynamic” sites, or you may have heard someone use the term Jamstack. What do these terms mean, and
Wanna see a whiter white?
Heck of a CSS trick here from Dongsung Kim.
Napkin
We took a surface level look at Pipedream the other day, which really does look cool. It's like a much more modern and fancy version of what Yahoo Pipes was.
PostgreSQL vs Redis vs Memcached performance
PostgreSQL vs Redis vs Memcached: How would it look on the performance side, if one just skips the cache & hits the database directly?
GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance. With the help of the OCP community, we […]
Bridging the Gap Between Developers and End Users - Shopify
In every business, regardless of industry, it is important to keep an open communication line between the consumer and the producer. In the tech world, this line of communication comes in the form of customer support, chatbots, or contact forms.
How We Design Our APIs at Slack
More than five years ago, we launched the Slack Platform, giving developers an easy way to build apps in Slack and publish them in our App Directory. Today, millions of users bring their work into Slack, and those apps built by over 885,000 active developers on the platform are key to further improving collaboration in…
New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design — Smashing Magazine
How do we build and establish a successful, bulletproof design system? What’s the state of HTML Email? And what are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s find out. With our [brand new online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) on front-end & design — to help us all boost skills online.
Handling Mounting And Unmounting Of Navigation Routes In React Native — Smashing Magazine
Often you need two different sets of navigation stacks for pre and post user authentication. Usually, to see more content, you have to be authenticated in some way. In many Apps, authentication is one of the most important parts because it confirms that the person trying to gain access to protected content has the right to access the information. Learning how to do it right is an important step in
WooCommerce With Apple Pay and Google Pay
Got a WooCommerce store? It behooves you to offer a variety of payment methods. Just anecdotally, I'm sure both you and me have been annoyed and even
View Source (on Mobile)
Have you ever wished you could see the HTML source of a web page while on a mobile browser, which generally doesn't offer that feature? If you have a desktop
CSS Nesting, specificity, and you
Here’s Kilian Valkhof on CSS nesting which isn't available in browsers yet, but will be soon. There are a few differences he notes between CSS nesting and