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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
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.
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
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.
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: How to cope with complex PostgreSQL constraints. Advanced techniques - enforce integrity; manage concurrency.
We have closed a new round of funding led by Durable Capital Partners
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 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.
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.
Today we announce two new features: rollbacks and the Pages API.
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.
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.
Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader.
Vercel has added an additional $102 million of investment at a valuation greater than $1BN. This is a major milestone for our company, customers, and community in our mission to build a faster web, together.
Customers can now use our dashboard to push HTTP, Spectrum, Firewall, and NEL Events directly to Datadog, Sumo Logic, Splunk, or an S3-compatible storage provider.
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.
There are four keywords that are valid values for any CSS property (see the title). Of those, day to day, I'd say I see the inherit used the most. Perhaps
Svelte fully supports custom elements (e.g. <my-component>) without any custom configuration or wrapper components and has a perfect score on Custom
I'm not here to raise a shield protecting CSS utility frameworks. I don't even particularly like the approach, myself, and nothing is above fair criticism.
We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.
Dubbing and subtitling are inherently creative processes. At Netflix, we strive to make shows as joyful to watch in every language as in the original language, whether a member watches with original…
GraphQL opens new possibilities for rate limiting. I’ll show you Shopify’s rate limiting system for the GraphQL Admin API and how it addresses some limitations of common methods commonly used in REST APIs.
After years of innovation in both tools and processes, the struggle between design and development is still real. This article focuses on the best practices for improving the design to development processes and how cutting-edge solutions, such as UXPin powered by Merge technology, can help in facilitating the change.
