Now Available: Scoped apps and enhanced permissions
The Dropbox API has released support for scopes, PKCE, and refresh tokens. You can find the announcement and summary of new features here.
Building User Trust In UX Design — Smashing Magazine
Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose it. In this article, Adam Fard will go through how you, as a product designer, can make sure your product nurtures and retains trust throughout every touchpoint. To do that, we’ll be borrowing some of the tricks marketers and product people have up their sleeves.
Nuxt Analytics on Vercel
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Nuxt projects – without any configuration.
Creating serendipity with Python
We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4) and setting up video hangouts between them. We're doing this to replace the serendipitous meetings that sometimes occur around coffee machines, in lunch lines or while waiting for the printer.
The little bug that couldn’t: Securing OpenSSL
Software security doesn’t end at the boundaries of your own code. The moment a library dependency is introduced, you’re adopting other people’s code and any bugs that come with it.…
2020 Transparency Report
At GitHub, we put developers first, and we work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration. This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption…
TypeScript Function Syntaxes
The syntax for various functions and function types in TypeScript with simple examples.
Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js — Smashing Magazine
An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. In this article, Subha Chanda will showu you how to build a bot from scratch using JavaScript and with help from Discord.js. He’ll cover the process from building the bot up to deploying it to the cloud.
Through the eyes of a Cloudflare Technical Support Engineer
Justina Wong, Technical Support Team Lead in Lisbon, talks about what it’s like working at Cloudflare, and everything you need to know if you want to join us.
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Security Officer
The world runs on software, and a large portion of it, especially the open source software that’s part of everything we experience, is built by millions of developers on GitHub…
Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders
February is Black History Month in the US and Canada, a month when we celebrate our amazing Black/African American heritage and what it represents in our society, our work, and…
Let’s talk about tech internships
Are you a student developer looking to land an internship? We’ve got answers! We recently sat down with Co.Lab Co-founder Helen Huang on GitHub Campus TV to find out how…
A little tool to make DNS queries
A little tool to make DNS queries
Keeping Developers Happy with a Fast CI - Shopify
How Shopify’s Test Infrastructure team was able to reduce the p95 of Shopify’s core monolith CI from 45 minutes to 18.
Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed — Smashing Magazine
Where to put the label in a web form? In the early days, we talked about left-aligned labels versus top-aligned labels. These days we talk about floating labels. Let’s explore why they aren’t a very good idea, and what to use instead. Some people assume float labels are best because Google’s Material Design uses them. But in this case, Adam Silver recommends using conventional text fields which ha
Hiding Content Responsibly
We've covered the idea of hiding things in CSS many times here, the most recent post being Marko Ilic's "Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS" which
React Component Tests for Humans
React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain.
What's the Backup Plan for Your WordPress Site?
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks—a poster child WordPress site—is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups
PostgreSQL: How to write a trigger
UPDATED 2023: A trigger is a way to automatically respond to events. This is a tutorial on how to manage and program triggers in PostgreSQL.
Dr. Bernice King on how technology can transform the Black economy
As technology transforms the global economy, Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, is striving to make sure these new economic opportunities are available…
Open source in the 5G stack
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital sovereignty. One…
Mitigating the effects of silent data corruption at scale
What the research is: Silent data corruption, or data errors that go undetected by the larger system, is a widespread problem for large-scale infrastructure systems. This type of corruption can propagate across the stack and manifest as application-level problems. It can also result in data loss and require months to debug and resolve. This work […]
Before You memo()
Rendering optimizations that come naturally.
Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And aspect-ratio — Smashing Magazine
A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported `aspect-ratio` property in combination with `object-fit` provides a remedy to this headache of the past! In this article, Stephanie Eckles will show you how to use these properties, in addition to creating a responsive gradient image effect for extra flair.
