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
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!
