How we use Web Components at GitHub
At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast,…
A Guide To Undoing Mistakes With Git (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
No matter how experienced you are, mistakes are an inevitable part of software development. But we can learn to repair them! During the course of this article, you’ll witness many disasters — but you’ll see that virtually nothing is beyond repair in Git! Once you know the right commands, you can always find a way to save your neck. And this is what Tobias will be looking at in this two-part series
Smashing Podcast Episode 36 With Miriam Suzanne: What Is The Future Of CSS? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re starting our new season of the Smashing Podcast with a look at the future of CSS. What new specs will be landing in browsers soon? Drew McLellan talks to expert Miriam Suzanne to find out.
Swipey Image Grids
I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here's one more: SVG is good for composition.
Super Simple Start to Remix
The simplest distraction-free version of a remix app
The Evolution Of Jamstack — Smashing Magazine
Web-oriented databases, frameworks like Nuxt and Next.js, and even frameworkless approaches are evolving the Jamstack, but the core principles are more powerful than ever. As the developer community has grown, there’s also been more noise, and we’re even starting to test the boundaries of Jamstack’s best practices. It feels like the right time to both revisit the original vision some of us had fiv
I put all of my comics online!
I put all of my comics online!
Python and me, or when in Rome...
The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct
A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “”, we share stories and lessons from building and open sourcing , our homegrown developer portal. Hear why a developer-friendly, market-based platform like Backstage could only have been developed at Spotify (where autonomy is prized, not top-down mandates) and why that ends up making Backstage such a flexible fit for other companies, too. and get all our
Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not playing it cool. We . We bragged . Our internal Slack is alive with emoji and exclamation points. We’re really very proud of this one.
Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there from where we started.
Safari 14.1 Adds Support for Flexbox Gaps
Yay, it's here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We've had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name,
Web Languages as Compile Targets
Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021 - High Scalability -
Hey, HighScalability is back! This channel is the perfect blend of programming, hardware, engineering, and crazy. After watching you’ll feel inadequate, but in an entertained sort of way. Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Do employees at your company need to know about the cloud? My book will teach them all they need to know. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. O
The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things
May Is In The Air (2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new collection of wallpapers is for you. Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for May 2021.
How to Monitor Core Web Vitals and Take Action with Raygun
Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your
List Markers and String Styles
Lists—we’ve all worked with them in one form or another. I’m talking about HTML’s <ol> and <ul>. Much of the time, because we desire styling
TLS: Demystifying communication encryption in PostgreSQL
TLS is a technology widely used in combination with PostgreSQL to encrypt client / server connections. This blogpost explains how TLS works.
Goodbye Dependabot Preview, hello Dependabot!
Dependabot Preview has helped more than 30,000 organizations keep their packages updated with more than seven million pull requests merged since it launched. As a result of that success, the…
A call for feedback on our policies around exploits and malware
April 30, 2021 update: Thank you to everyone who’s weighed in on the discussion so far. I’ve commented in the pull request to clarify a few points based on initial…
Scaling monorepo maintenance
At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing repositories. Each day, the largest repositories we host become even…
A brief history of Rust at Facebook
Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is officially joining the nonprofit Rust Foundation. Alongside fellow members including Mozilla (the creators of Rust), AWS, Microsoft, and Google, Facebook will be working to […]