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Images have also been a key part of the web. They communicate ideas instantly, but they are also a lot heavier than text to load. This means that it’s essential to get loading and displaying them right, if you want to give your users a fantastic first impression. An excerpt from Addy Osmani
GitHub Desktop 2.8 now includes several new features to make it easier to work with diffs and easier for people who have multiple copies of the same repository. Expand diffs…
👋 Hello from the GitHub Docs team! We build everything you see at docs.github.com. Over the past year, we’ve written a bunch of GitHub Actions workflows to do some fun…
Have you ever been handed a dataset and then been asked to describe it? When I was first starting out in data science, this question confused me. My first thought was “What do you mean?” followed by “Can you be more specific?” The reality is that exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a critical tool in every data scientist’s kit, and the results are invaluable for answering important business questio
The cat is out! For the last year, we’ve been working with Addy Osmani on a new Smashing Book all around image optimization. And now it’s here. Meet “Image Optimization”, our practical modern guide to delivering high-quality images on the web with the best performance. Image optimization, loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression tec
This is how I set up a Pi 400 on my home network, used Cloudflare Tunnel to connect it to the Cloudflare network, used Auditable Terminal to connect to the Pi 400 via Cloudflare and the tunnel using nothing more than a browser.
"ERROR: deadlock detected" - message - what should I do? This article explains what this really means and how deadlocks can be prevented.
Announcing branching in beta
Developer productivity platforms are increasingly recognised as a way to manage the cognitive load of engineering teams and decrease time to market for new features. However, there are baseline capabilities that organisations need to cultivate in order to successfully execute on a plaform strategy. The platform team needs to think of the platform as a software product, needing dialog with its user
At GitHub, we’re continually working to improve existing features and shipping new ones all the time. From our launch of GitHub Discussions to the release of manual approvals for GitHub…
Say you receive an email notification that a service is crashing just after your last code change deploys. The crash happens in only 0.1 percent of the servers where it runs. But you’re at a large-scale company, so 0.1 percent equals thousands of servers — and this issue is going to be hard to reproduce. Several […]
Easing functions can change the look and feel of an animation by affecting the rate, or speed, of an animation. As human beings, we are accustomed to a natural, non-linear motion. Using those custom-easing functions in the animations can lead to an improved impression on users and a more delightful user experience. In this article, we’re going to take a deep dive into easing functions and see how
On March 15th, 2021, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks. Today, we are launching our efforts to fight back.
Update! The color-contrast() function has been renamed to contrast-color(). See this article to get more recent information and use cases.
Accessibility experts Kate Kalcevich and Mike Gifford introduce readers to "layered accessibility testing”, a practice of using a variety of tools and approaches at different stages in the digital product lifecycle to catch accessibility issues early — when it’s easier and cheaper to fix them. In this article, Kate Kalcevich & Mike Gifford will share how to “layer” accessibility testing by using a
VaccinateCA, the non-profit I have been running, expanded nationally to Vaccinate The States . Here's what we've learned in the last 100 days.
Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior and performance, so we need to derive that data empirically. We use load testing to do just that: find the limits of our systems and weed out bugs at a large scale in a controlled environment. Slack is a…
The CSS Working Group Editor’s Draft for [Selectors Level 4](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/) includes several pseudo-class selectors that already have proposal candidates in most modern browsers. This guide will cover ones that currently have the best support along with examples to demonstrate how you can start using them today!
There are some Unicode characters that some browsers just decide they are going to turn into emojis for you. I couldn't tell you why exactly, but here's what
Here's Jess B. Peck writing all about Google's Core Web Vitals:
Not a typical one, at least. Each character is an HTML element, built with CSS. A true web font!
GitHub Actions is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that gives developers the ability to automate all of their software workflows. Developers have built amazing things with GitHub Actions, and the…
At GitHub, we believe in the extraordinary potential and power of a diverse, collaborative developer community to accelerate human progress. Just look at the first-ever powered flight on another planet…
Sometimes it’s the little things in web life that make us look twice. From carousels to documentation to cookie disclaimers, here are some sites taking the mundane and sprinkling in a little magic. Great ideas in web design come so thick and fast that it can be easy to miss them if you’re not careful. In this article, Frederick O’Brien brings you a small antidote to that, piecing together splashes
