Release Radar
The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…
How Shopify Dynamically Routes Storefront Traffic - Shopify
In 2019 we set out to rewrite the Shopify storefront implementation. Our goal was to make it faster. We talked about the strategies we used to achieve that goal in a previous post about optimizing server-side rendering and implementing efficient caching. To build on that post, I’ll go into detail on how the Storefront Renderer team tweaked our load balancers to shift traffic between the legacy sto
Growing UX Maturity In Organizations: Education And Training (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and product teams they work with. This final article in a three-part series presents two additional tactics that are critical for achieving and maintaining higher levels of UX maturity: education of UX staff and education of non-UX staff on UX principles and processes.
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.
Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare
Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Transform Rules for all Cloudflare plans. Transform Rules provide Cloudflare administrators with the ability to create URL rewrite rules.
Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the
The `ping` attribute on anchor links
I didn't know this was a thing until Stefan Judis's post:
Getting started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 2
The modern internet was built on a legal framework of safe harbors for user-generated content. These safe harbors are widely credited with having enabled global internet innovation by protecting online…
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js
All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Here's how to get started using them.
Better Documentation And Team Communication With Product Design Docs — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever struggled to get the green light on your design proposals? Do you feel like your design process needs to be formalized? Is the COVID19 era becoming a challenge for you when working remotely as a designer? In this article, Ismael González will show you how to get to know a methodology to document your design process, so keep reading!
Hackers Spill the Wine: Lockdown Led to Rise in Wine Domains and Wine Scammers
Area 1 Security and Recorded Future researchers report a significant increase in the number of new wine-themed phishing domains registered starting in April 2020, and continuing through at least March 2021.
axe DevTools Pro
I'm going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome
You've seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of
Coordinating Svelte Animations With XState
This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced
SvelteKit is in public beta
Rich Harris:
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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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
