PostgreSQL: Bulk loading huge amounts of data
This article is about bulk loading, which is the quickest way to import large amounts of data into a PostgreSQL database.
In the file at Config 2021
The tactics, processes, and systems that keep teams running
Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better
Table of contents Executive summary Key findings Key takeaways for developers and software teams About the study What we found Interruptions and meetings have a large influence on our days…
How Shopify Built An In-Context Analytics Experience - Shopify
Whether determining which orders to fulfill first or assessing how their customer acquisition efforts are performing, our merchants rely on data to make informed decisions about their business. In 2013, we made easy-access to data a reality for Shopify merchants with the Analytics.
A Guide To Undoing Mistakes With Git (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Mistakes. These cruel villains do not even stop at the beautiful world of software development. But although we cannot avoid making mistakes, we can learn to undo them! In this article, Tobias Günther will show you the right tools for your daily work with Git. You might want to check the first article of the series as well.
A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors — Smashing Magazine
Web fonts are often terrible for web performance and none of the font loading strategies are particularly effective to address that. If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT). Neither option has really “won out” because neither is really satisfactory, to be honest. Upcoming font options may finally deliver on the pro
Links on Performance III
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver
proxy-www
I like a good trick. What if... a URL was... a promise... that fetched said URL?
Wrangling Control Over PDFs with the Adobe PDF Embed API
By our last estimate, there are now more PDFs in the world than atoms in the universe (not verified by outside sources) so chances are, from time to time,
Blog about what you've struggled with
Blog about what you've struggled with
Array reduce vs chaining vs for loop
A comparison of different approaches to operating on an array
Role Management at Slack
Controlling which users are able to take which actions is no simple task. Building this into Slack has always been an interesting challenge. In large enterprise organizations, the standard types of roles we offered to customers were too broad, and delegating a generic admin role can grant someone with too much power — what if…
CSS Container Queries: Use-Cases And Migration Strategies — Smashing Magazine
CSS Container queries bring media queries closer to the target elements themselves and enables them to adapt to virtually any given container or layout. In this article, Adrian Bece is going to cover CSS container query basics and how to use them today with progressive enhancement or polyfills.
What is Observability
Reader feedback on CPUs: pay attention to those frequencies
CDN-Cache-Control: Precision Control for your CDN(s)
A new set of HTTP response headers provide control over our CDN’s caching decisions. CDN-Cache-Control allows customers to control how our CDN behaves without affecting the behavior of other caches.
Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?
Stefan Judis, two days before I mouthed off about using (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity, has a great blog post not only using that format, but
Svelte for the Experienced React Dev
This post is an accelerated introduction to Svelte from the point of view of someone with solid experience with React. I’ll provide a quick introduction, and
CSS Hell
Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them
Other Driven Developments - Shopify
Mental models within an industry, company, or even a person, change constantly. As methodologies mature, we see the long term effects our choices have wrought and can adjust accordingly. As a team or company grows, methodologies that worked well for five people may not work as well for 40 people.
Building A Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Shalabh Vyas will show you how to build a WYSIWYG/Rich-Text Editor that supports rich text, images, links and some nuanced features from word processing apps. We will use SlateJS to build the shell of the editor and then add a toolbar and custom configurations. The code for the application is available on GitHub for reference.
Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana
Here at Labyrinth Labs, we put great emphasis on monitoring. Having a working monitoring setup is a critical part of the work we do for our clients. Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana
Learn CSS!
Ooo look at this mighty SEO flex from Google: Learn CSS! Well deserved — this is great content. Twenty-three chapters taking you through all the fundamentals
JSON in CSS
Jonathan Neal tweeted a heck of a little CSS trick the other day, putting JSON inside CSS and plucking it out with JavaScript. Valid values for custom