Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
Today, we’re launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.
Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that. Additionally, we pair it up with Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration for the best user and developer experience. And, of course, benchmark those results!
Smashing Podcast Episode 40 With Mike Cavaliere: What Is Chakra UI For React? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavaliere to find out.
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I think we're all largely aware of colors like this:
Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari
Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn't resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome
Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform
To make some terminology clear here:
Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid
Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Asicmon: A platform agnostic observability system for AI accelerators
Accelerators are special-purpose hardware devices optimized for specific applications, like AI prediction and video encoding. And Application-specific hardware platforms play an important role in meeting the growing latency and compute demands of workloads like deep learning, content understanding, and video encoding. At Facebook, the inevitable rise in use of accelerators in our data centers has
Driving towards an open internet ecosystem to help tackle the digital divide
Connectivity is an integral part of Facebook’s mission to bring people closer together, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the demand for critical internet access. According to the latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index, nearly 70 percent of people around the world believe that increased internet usage in all aspects of their lives […]
Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how you can create custom Emmet snippets in Visual Studio Code to help you improve your front-end workflows even more. It takes some time to create these snippets, but it’s worth the effort because you can customize Emmet to your personal preferences, automate repetitive tasks and sav
Seven years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
GitHub’s bug bounty program is now a mature component of how we improve product security. We’re excited to highlight some achievements (and interesting vulnerabilities)!
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 25th, 2021 - High Scalability -
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Only listen if you want a quantum earworm for the rest of the day. Not your style? This is completely different. No, it’s even more different than that. Today in things that nobody stopped me from doing: The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag. pic.twitter.com/ocyVLf8WlUMay 28, 2021 Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to help keep this stuff going. Do em
Creating A Multi-Author Blog With Next.js — Smashing Magazine
This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we can add any kind of one-to-one, one-to-many, or even many-to-many relationship to our projects. Today, Dom Habersack is going to build a blog with Next.js that supports two or more authors. You will attribute each post to an author and show their name and picture with their posts.
How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
A UX audit is a simple and efficient way to check whether design elements are performing their function. It’s also a good way to look at an existing design from a fresh perspective. This article is a case study of how a UX audit affects a UI. It explains how a famous educational platform can be analyzed edX against Jakob Nielsen’s usability guidelines. To get started, Mark Lankmiller shares all of
Browser VNC with Zero Trust Rules
Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now shift another traditional client-driven use case to a browser. Teams can now provide their users with a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client fully rendered in the browser with built-in Zero Trust controls.
Chapter 9: Community
In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its
Constraints over multiple rows in PostgreSQL
Constraints over multiple rows: How to cope with complex PostgreSQL constraints. Advanced techniques - enforce integrity; manage concurrency.
Figma's Series E
We have closed a new round of funding led by Durable Capital Partners
Run online campus events with your favorite tools at no cost with the new GitHub Virtual Event Kit
We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the Student Developer Pack, the GitHub Virtual Event Kit! Access the best virtual event tools in one place at no cost.
Let’s Encrypt x Shopify: Securing the Web 4.5 Million Domains at a Time - Shopify
Let's Encrypt is a game changer for the industry. For a big software-as-a-service company like Shopify, it saves time because their implementation is built around an open specification.
The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy — Smashing Magazine
In the dynamic and unpredictable environments in which we work, even the most carefully crafted solutions can have a short shelf life. When we accept that our work is impermanent and our problem-solving abilities are limited, our goal can shift from delivering full solutions to developing tools that empower our users to adaptively design for themselves.
Announcing Rollbacks and API Access for Pages
Today we announce two new features: rollbacks and the Pages API.
Introducing the new GitHub Issues
Announcing new beta features for GitHub Issues for better planning and tracking of your projects in GitHub, including project tables, task lists, and issue forms.
Smashing Online Workshops (July-October 2021) — Smashing Magazine
What’s the state of HTML Email? How do we build and establish a successful design system? Frontend and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run [online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) for all of us to learn together. And we have new ones coming up, and we’d like to kindly welcome you to join in.
