How Repsol rethinks the way the world interacts with energy
Repsol, Spain's largest multi-energy company, set out to unify their designs in Figma while making energy more approachable to consumers.
Bitemporal History
It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2021
In March, we experienced three incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, webhooks, API requests, GitHub Pages, and GitHub Actions services. Follow up…
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Fun and Interesting Events * Since we’re all feeling the fatigue of staring at screens all year, we’re switching things up at this year’s Failover Conf! This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. You’ll also hear from a variety of industry experts in our two panel discussions. And when you need a brea
Flaky Tests: Getting Rid Of A Living Nightmare In Testing — Smashing Magazine
Unreliable tests are a living nightmare for anyone who writes automated tests or pays attention to the results. Flaky tests have even given folks nightmares and sleepless nights. In this article, Ramona Schwering shares her experiences to help you get out of this hell or avoid getting into it. It’s important to continually hunt for flaky tests, whether by preventing them in the first place or by d
Some Articles About Accessibility I've Saved Recently
"Good news about display: contents and Chrome" — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem
Space Jam
It's certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web's strength in
Gaps? Gasp!
At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification
Jetpack Turns 10!
Ten years! That's a huge milestone for a project, especially one that had a pretty simple goal in mind from the start: give self-hosted WordPress sites many
PostgreSQL: Get member roles and permissions
PostgreSQL allows you to define users (=roles), groups, etc. This post explains how to retrieve information on roles & role membership.
Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle reaffirms that developers’ ability to port their code and skills between platforms is a significant interest to be protected. The headline is…
Announcing the Global Maintainer Summit
If you’re an open source maintainer, you know that keeping the wheels of the open source ecosystem turning is quite a task. Project maintenance is uniquely challenging and rewarding work.…
Don’t Lose Your Head: Evaluating Headless — Smashing Magazine
With the explosion in popularity of the Jamstack has come the proliferation of new options for managing your content. Headless has become quite the hot topic in development circles of late, but where do you start if you are embarking on a new project and haven’t yet decided where to store and organize your content? In this article, David Eglin will give you a little bit of a primer on the CMS land
Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
How we scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis
About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter in order to serve more traffic and accommodate a more resilient platform architecture. We adopted a replicated Redis backend with…
How Facebook encodes your videos
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used […]
Vanilla JavaScript Code Snippets — Smashing Magazine
In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time around, let’s look at vanilla JavaScript code snippets — resources and lightweight libraries to help you solve a problem without a large overhead or third-party dependencies.
What problems do people solve with strace?
What problems do people solve with strace?
Area 1 Security Announces the Most Spoofed Brand of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on phishing and cyberattack lures is clear. Area 1 Security identified over 2 million phishing spoofs that exploited the World Health Organization between May 2020 and February 2021.
How to execute an object file: Part 2
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations.
The Teams Dashboard: A New Place to Call Home
Today, we’re announcing a new feature within the Teams Dash. We called it “Home”. We created Home with a simple goal in mind: design an adaptive and informative landing page where users can see a round-up of their environment.
Guarding Against Disposable Design — Smashing Magazine
Quick, constant change is a given on the web. It is often one of its greatest strengths. As ever, though, there is a balance to find. Although longevity takes a different form online, its value is immeasurable.
Designing calculator apps
It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those little cheap-o
Building Smarter Search Products: 3 Steps for Evaluating Search Algorithms - Shopify
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.