I could build this during the weekend
How many times have you heard that (or even uttered it under your own breath)? I know I've heard it in conversations. I also know I've wondered the same thing
Join GitHub on June 5 to celebrate the Class of 2021
This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to…
The OSI model doesn't map well to TCP/IP
The OSI model doesn't map well to TCP/IP
Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them
How eliminating problems can drastically simplify your codebases and life
A Primer On CSS Container Queries — Smashing Magazine
In more recent years, design systems and component libraries have gained popularity. There is also a desire to build once, deploy anywhere. Meaning a component developed in isolation is intended to work in any number of contexts to make building complex interfaces more efficient and consistent. CSS container queries have landed and are now available for experimentation. Let’s look at what problem
The Conference Platform We Use For Our Online Events: Hopin — Smashing Magazine
At the beginning of 2020, the SmashingConf team was ready for a new year. We had so many things that excited us. New speakers, new workshops, new cities, new attendees, new experiences. And as we all know, 2020 had other ideas. With so many people working from home, we thought we would bring our [Smashing workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) from our home offices to yours — but h
Variable Aspect Ratio Card With Conic Gradients Meeting Along the Diagonal
I recently came across an interesting problem. I had to implement a grid of cards with a variable (user-set) aspect ratio that was stored in a --ratio custom
Migrating from Parcel to Snowpack
I find build tooling endlessly interesting, especially right now as we're in a juicy next-gen transitional period with players like Vite, wmr, Snowpack, and
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
GitHub has been at the forefront of security key adoption for many years. We were an early adopter of Universal 2nd Factor (“U2F”) and were also one of the first…
Get Started With React By Building A Whac-A-Mole Game — Smashing Magazine
Want to get started with React but struggling to find a good place to start? This article should have you covered. We’ll focus on some of the main concepts of React and then we’ll be building a game from scratch!
Poor Disk Performance
Some Typography Links IV
These are a few great links about typography that have been burning a hole in my saved bookmarks folder that I'm just now getting around to sharing. There's good stuff in there, from how to choose typefaces for app design to ideas for how to fix the concept of font sizing in CSS.
Release Radar
We’ve seen some amazing community projects this last month. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies. There…
How To Organize Product-Related Assets And Collaborate Better — Smashing Magazine
A good management of your product records, i.e. all documents associated with your product — saves time, reduces anxiety, boosts onboarding and makes you ready for vacations or sudden leaves. All product specialists should know the basics. Of course, it would be easier for you to find, say, your July report for investors if everyone on the team named and structured their assets consistently. Let’s
Branch predictor: How many "if"s are too many? Including x86 and M1 benchmarks!
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
Publishing maps with Geoserver and PostGIS
Analysing data within PostGIS is just one side of the coin. This blogpost is about publishing datasets as maps using Geoserver and PostGIS.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 available as a release candidate
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 is now available to download as a release candidate. This release follows the most popular GitHub Enterprise Server release in years. GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 brought…
How I Define My Boundaries to Prevent Burnout - Shopify
There’s a way to build a model for your life and the other demands on you. It doesn’t have to be 100 hours a week. It might not even be 40 hours a week. Whatever sustainable model you come up with, prioritize fiercely and communicate expectations accordingly. I’ve worked this way for three decades through different phases of my life. The hours have changed, but the basic model and principles remai
Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
When tackling a big refactor, what are the things you should focus on and what performance improvements can you expect? Dealing with themes for large platforms and CMS, legacy issues often become a bottleneck. In this article, Carson Shold discusses how his team improved the performance and organization of their Shopify themes, and improved maintainability along the way.
GitHub Availability Report: April 2021
In April, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for API requests and the GitHub Packages service, specifically the GitHub Packages Container registry service.…
Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
This article showcases a case study of Bookaway’s landing page performance. It’s about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and Liran Cohen (as part of a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize the pages, so that the HTML they send is smaller. Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Today you’ll see how taking care of the props y
Jetpack Backup: Roll Back Your WooCommerce Site Without Losing Orders
Here's a dilemma: what happens if your WooCommerce site has a problem and the quickest and best way to fix it is to roll back to a previous version? The
Let’s use (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity
I was just chatting with Eric Meyer the other day and I remembered an Eric Meyer story from my formative years. I wrote a blog post about CSS specificity, and
Creating Colorful, Smart Shadows
A bona fide CSS trick from Kirupa Chinnathambi here. To match a colored shadow with the colors in the background-image of an element, you inherit the