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
How we’re making Dropbox data centers 100% carbon neutral
Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eva PenzeyMoog to find out.
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Image Fragmentation Effect
In my previous article, I created a fragmentation effect using CSS mask and custom properties. It was a neat effect but it has one drawback: it uses a lot of
Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs
It might be the very first thing a lot of people learn in JavaScript:
The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports
We've got viewport units (e.g. vw, vh, vmin, vmax), and they are mostly pretty great. It's cool to always have a unit available that is relative to the entire
August 2021 Campus Experts applications are open!
The GitHub Campus Expert applications are officially open for the August 2021 generation!
The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Risk-driven backbone management during COVID-19 and beyond
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study detailing our backbone management strategy to ensure high service performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic moved most social interactions online and caused an unprecedented stress test on our global network infrastructure with tens of data center regions. At this scale, failures such as fiber cuts, router misconfigurations, […] Read
HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. Earlier iterations were already available as an experimental feature, but you can expect the availability and use of HTTP/3 proper to ramp up over in 2021. So what exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does it improve web performance? Let
Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages
Today, we are proud to announce a new way to connect your Pages application with your headless CMSs and databases: introducing Deploy Hooks for Pages.
New Nuxt Features past v2.10
Nuxt offers an incredible developer experience, with a lot of performance and application setup best practices baked in. In recent releases, they’ve been
Efficient Infinite Utility Helpers Using Inline CSS Custom Properties and calc()
I recently wrote a very basic Sass loop that outputs several padding and margin utility classes. Nothing fancy, really, just a Sass map with 11 spacing
How we built a general purpose key value store for Facebook with ZippyDB
ZippyDB is the largest strongly consistent, geographically distributed key-value store at Facebook. Since we first deployed ZippyDB in 2013, this key-value store has expanded rapidly, and today, ZippyDB serves a number of use cases, ranging from metadata for a distributed filesystem, counting events for both internal and external purposes, to product data that’s used for […]