GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more!
The latest version of GitHub Desktop allows you to squash commits, squash and merge, reorder, amend your last commit, check out a branch from a previous commit, and more.
A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling — Smashing Magazine
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered HTML Emails and SVG Generators. This time we look into different kinds of tools to help you streamline your accessibility testing process. Don’t miss the next one.
USENIX LISA2021 BPF Internals (eBPF)
Enable secure access to applications with Cloudflare WAF and Azure Active Directory
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Active Directory have partnered to provide an integration specifically for web applications using Azure Active Directory B2C
Network hose: Managing uncertain network demand with model simplicity
Our production backbone network connects our data centers and delivers content to our users. The network supports a vast number of different services, distributed across a multitude of data centers. Traffic patterns shift over time from one data center to another due to the introduction of new services, service architecture changes, changes in user behavior, […]
Querying Strategies for GraphQL Clients - Shopify
As more clients rely on GraphQL to query data, we witness performance and scalability issues emerging. We share some query strategies for GraphQL at scale.
Spinning Up Multiple WordPress Sites Locally With DevKinsta — Smashing Magazine
When developing themes and plugins for WordPress, we need to test them in different environments. How can we create multiple testing sites on our computer, quickly and easily, without having to become a sysadmin? If our themes and plugins contain custom blocks, testing them for all different versions is imperative. At the very minimum, we need to worry about two versions of Gutenberg: the one ship
Smashing Podcast Episode 39 With Addy Osmani: Image Optimization — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about image optimization. What steps should we follow for performant images in 2021? We talk to expert Addy Osmani to find out.
Securing Your Website With Subresource Integrity
When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server
Collaborating and connecting in FigJam
How our team celebrates and syncs in the file
When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements For Accessible Components — Smashing Magazine
Spoiler alert: tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus are some of the user interface components that require more than CSS. To ensure accessibility of your interface, JavaScript is a necessary addition to accomplish focus management, respond to keyboard events, and toggle ARIA attributes.
Interconnect Anywhere — Reach Cloudflare’s network from 1,600+ locations
Today, Cloudflare is excited to announce a new wave of interconnection points and partners that quadruples our interconnectivity.
The Possibilities of Syndication
That's the one word that isn't an adjective in the acronym RSS.
Safari 15: New UI, Theme Colors, and... a CSS-Tricks Cameo!
There's a 33-minute video (and resources) over on apple.com covering the upcoming Safari changes we saw in the WWDC keynote this year in much more detail.
Adding Shadows to SVG Icons With CSS and SVG Filters
Why would we need to apply shadows to SVG?
Web Design Done Well: Making Use Of Audio — Smashing Magazine
Design often revolves around visuals, but the other senses deserve love too. In this article, we tune in to audio features that are making sites sing. Most of us have had the misfortune of crossing bad examples (auto-playing videos being a particularly egregious example) but audio can give web experiences a whole new dimension when applied well. What follows are some astounding sounds from the Wor
Introducing Zero Trust Private Networking
Starting today, you can build identity-aware, Zero Trust network policies using Cloudflare for Teams.
Equal Columns With Flexbox: It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
As awesome as flexbox is, what it’s doing under the hood is actually a little strange because, by default, it is doing two things at once. It first looks at the content size which is what we would get if by declaring width: max-content on an element. But on top of that, flex-shrink is also doing some work allowing the items to be smaller, but only if needed. Let’s break those two down and see how
Data warehousing: Making use of synchronized seq scans
Did you know PostgreSQL has the ability to synchronize sequential scans? If you are running data warehouses, you might have already used it without knowing.
Blacktocats turn five
What began as a small group effort in 2015 has now turned into a global initiative here at GitHub to amplify Black voices and talent in the tech community.
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? May 2021 Recap
In May, GitHub shipped a total of 20 new features. We love what we do, but we know it’s a lot to keep up with. So we’re trying something new on the GitHub Blog—a monthly recap of everything that shipped to Changelog in the past month. Check out some of the updates you might have missed.
Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
Deleting the Undeletable: Managing PII at Shopify - Shopify
Building Shopify’s schematization platform for managing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within our data warehouse.
Useful Front-End Boilerplates And Starter Kits — Smashing Magazine
We don’t need to write everything from scratch every single time. With boilerplates and starter kits, we can set up our projects faster, and get to work immediately. We’ve also just recently covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators, accessible front-end components and VS code extensions — you might find them useful, too. This collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things t
