fit-content and fit-content()
Here's some hardcore deep-dive CSS nerdery from PPK. If you can wrap your mind around min-content (the smallest an element can be based on the content it
How we managed our global supply chain through a year of lockdown
Peering automation at Facebook
Traffic on the internet travels across many different kinds of links. A fast and reliable way to exchange traffic between different networks and service providers is through peering. Initially, we managed peering via a time-intensive manual process. Reliable peering is essential for Facebook and for everyone’s internet use. But there is no industry standard for […]
Boost Your Skills Online: Smashing Workshops On Front-End And Design — Smashing Magazine
Our workshops bring in knowledgeable, kind folks from the community to explore real-life solutions to real-life problems, live, with you. Front-end and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run 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.
How To Implement Authentication In Next.js With Auth0 — Smashing Magazine
At the moment of adding authentication and authorization to our web applications, there are some things that we should evaluate, e.g. whether we need to create our own security platform or whether we can rely on an existing third-party service. Let’s see how we can implement authentication and authorization in Next.js apps, with Auth0.
Notion API
The Public Beta of the Notion API dropped! Woot! Here's their guide. I've been a Notion user and fan for a long time, for both personal and professional team
Ludum Dare 48 staff picks
The theme for Ludum Dare 48 was “deeper and deeper,” which inspired over ten thousand people to create almost four thousand games together over a weekend. As you can imagine,…
gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other
User-Friendly Mega-Dropdowns: When Hover Menus Fail — Smashing Magazine
With such a complex multi-level navigation, showing the breadth of options requires quite a bit of space. Think of large eCommerce retailers and large corporate sites, catering to many audiences and having plenty of entry points. Do we need mega-dropdown hover menus in 2021? Probably not. Let’s explore things to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown, alternatives to hover menus
Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers
So, if a developer wants to run their next hit, say a real-time multiplayer game, using nothing but their app and Workers, without any servers or traditional infrastructure, can they? Let’s prove they can. Here's Doom Multiplayer running on top of Cloudflare Workers.
How to Create Neon Text With CSS
Neon text can add a nice, futuristic touch to any website. I’ve always loved the magic of neon signs, and wanted to recreate them using CSS. I thought I’d
GitHub Artifact Exporter open source release
GitHub Artifact Exporter provides a CLI and a simple GUI for exporting GitHub Issues and related comments based on a date range, and it supports GitHub’s full search syntax.
How we talk about CPU (or processors, or cores, or...)
How To Create, Edit And Animate SVGs All In One Place With SVGator 3.0 — Smashing Magazine
Three years ago, we published a comprehensive introduction to the basic use of SVGator. At that time it was an app meant solely for animating SVG files created in other apps. Two years ago, we introduced you to a new version of SVGator and its improved animation capabilities. Today, we are taking a closer look at SVGator 3.0, a new major release of the popular SVG application that lets you create,
Smashing Podcast Episode 37 With Adam Argyle: What Is VisBug? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about VisBug. What is it, and how is it different from the array of options already found in Chrome DevTools? Drew McLellan talks to its creator Adam Argyle to find out.
Inside Maker Week: more than a hackathon
A behind-the-scenes look at a Figma tradition, and some of our favorite moments
Headphones on, volume up: Introducing The ReadME Podcast
Today we’re introducing The ReadME Podcast, a GitHub podcast that takes a peek behind the curtain of some of the most impactful open source projects, and the developers who make…
How to look at the stack with gdb
How to look at the stack with gdb
How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Google’s “Page Experience Update” will start rolling out in June. At first, sites that meet Core Web Vitals thresholds will have a minor ranking advantage in mobile search for all browsers. Search is important to any business, and this is the story of how Beau Hartshorne and his team at Instant Domain Search improved their Core Web Vitals scores. Plus, an open-source tool they’ve built along the w
Automating Cloudflare Tunnel with Terraform
An overview on how to use Terraform to automatically deploy Named Tunnels into your infrastructure with Cloudflare.
Auto-Generated Social Media Images
I've been thinking about social media images again. You know, the images that (can) show up when you share a link in places like Twitter, Facebook, or
Tree-Shaking: A Reference Guide — Smashing Magazine
Since its early days, JavaScript programs have grown in complexity and the number of tasks they perform. The need to compartmentalize such tasks into closed scopes of execution became apparent. “Tree-shaking” is a must-have performance optimization when bundling JavaScript. In this article, we dive deeper on how exactly it works and how specs and practice intertwine to make bundles leaner and more
Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
We want to remove CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. Let's explore!
Shifting team culture at Config 2021
Some of our favorite moments from the conference