Measuring enterprise developer productivity
In a recent paper written by Nicole Forsgren and her colleagues, “The SPACE of developer productivity: There’s more to it than you think,” there is an irony that is hard…
ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access | Netflix Tech Blog
ConsoleMe is a central control plane for AWS that provides an easier way to manage AWS permissions and access across multiple accounts. It encourages least-privilege access and AWS permissions.
Mac upgrade opened sshd to brute force password attacks
New Live Workshops On Front-End & UX — Smashing Magazine
Meet our new workshops on front-end and UX — on web performance, interface design, psychology and modern CSS. With Lea Verou, Harry Roberts, Stephanie Eckles, Dan Mall and so many others. [Jump to all online workshops ↬](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/)
Control web applications with two-clicks in Cloudflare Gateway
Announcing Application policies in Cloudflare Gateway. With Gateway, users instead connect to one of Cloudflare’s data centers in 200 cities around the world where our network can apply consistent security policies for all of their Internet traffic.
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe's approach to building websites, which he calls "Stackless":
AutomateWoo Brings Automated Communications to Bookings
AutomateWoo is this handy extension for WooCommerce that adds triggers actions based on your online store's activity. Someone abandoned their cart? Remind
Firebase Crash Course
This article is going to help you, dear front-end developer, understand all that is Firebase. We’re going to cover lots of details about what Firebase is, why
PostgreSQL GitHub Actions - Continuous Integration
GitHub Actions are a piece of excellent machinery for PostgreSQL related tasks on your repo with support for Windows, Ubuntu and macOS environments.
Behind the feature: comments, contextually
How the team handled difficult interactions and edge cases to bring comments into the Figma Community
GitHub Discussions now available for private repositories
In December 2020, we launched the public beta of GitHub Discussions, a collaborative communication forum that allows community members to ask and answer questions, share updates, and have open-ended conversations.…
Git clone vulnerability announced
Today, the Git project released new versions to address CVE-2021-21300: a security vulnerability in the delayed checkout mechanism used by Git LFS during git clone operations affecting versions 2.15 and…
How to write a Constrained Identity Function (CIF) in TypeScript
A handy advanced TypeScript pattern to increase your productivity.
Modeling A GraphQL API For Your Blog Using Webiny Serverless CMS — Smashing Magazine
If this is your first time hearing of Webiny, it’s an open-source framework for building serverless applications which provide users with tools and ready-made applications. In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing handy tools that developers can build their apps upon. In this article, we will lo
The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul
We use Consul for service discovery, and we’ve deployed a cluster that spans several of our data centers. We were aware from the start that the DNS query latencies were not great from certain parts of the world that were furthest away from these data centers.
Happy International Women’s Day!
Here at Cloudflare, we’re thrilled to celebrate International Women’s Day today! We have tons of events planned throughout the month of March, which is our way of honoring Women’s Empowerment Month.
GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
Why did I get logged out of GitHub.com? On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out…
This week at GitHub InFocus: Code security and DevSecOps
Two weeks ago, we kicked off GitHub InFocus, a global virtual series just for software teams. Last week, we learned what powers a successful DevOps program. Next up: Security. We…
How to optimize your context value
Why and how you can optimize your context provider's value to avoid performance issues
Obscure Mobile Design Techniques That Boost UX — Smashing Magazine
To inspire mobile designers, let’s look at how some clever design solutions tackle mobile navigation, confirmation dialogs, animations, and gamifying the waiting experience. While these solutions are mostly unconventional, the point isn’t to highlight them for their own sake. Design solutions have to be built with the pillars of accessibility and usability, but they can be refined according to you
Protecting against recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065
Cloudflare has deployed managed rules protecting customers against a series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that were recently found in Microsoft Exchange Server.
The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.
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…
UI Design Testing Tools I Use All The Time — Smashing Magazine
With so many great tools available, there really shouldn’t be any excuse for not testing with users these days. It is fast, easy and cheap. But we don’t even need to limit ourselves to testing. These tools also make user research and visualization easier than ever before, making them ideal all the way from discovery through prototype to post-launch optimization. Our lives as UI designers have neve
