Most of computing’s carbon emissions are coming from manufacturing and infrastructure
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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
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!
