Visualize Team Usage With Sophisticated Usage Dashboard
Learn more about how Vercel's latest feature will give access to usage information so your Team can optimize your builds.
Getting Deep Into Shadows
Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects. In web design, using light and shadow can add
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this mechanism to our advantage.
FOQS: Scaling a distributed priority queue
We will be hosting a talk about our work on Scaling a Distributed Priority Queue during our virtual Systems @Scale event at 11 am PT on Wednesday, February 24, followed by a live Q&A session. Please submit any questions to [email protected] before the event. The entire Facebook ecosystem is powered by thousands of distributed systems […]
An incomplete list of complaints about real code
Read Consistency with Database Replicas - Shopify
At Shopify, we’ve long used database replication for redundancy and failure recovery, but only fairly recently started to explore the potential of replicas as an alternative read-only data source for applications.
State Of GDPR In 2021: Key Updates And What They Mean — Smashing Magazine
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018.
Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads
Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt.
Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
On a default left-to-right web page, "hanging" an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal
Three Ways to Blob with CSS and SVG
Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background
Your guide to Developer Experience Week at GitHub InFocus
This year we hosted our first all-virtual GitHub Universe—and you tuned in to join us from 174 regions around the world! We knew there was even more to cover, so…
MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, welcomes American Express and Adobe to the Summer 2021 Program
Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility…
Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Paddy Byers, Co-founder and CTO at Ably, a realtime data delivery platform. You can view the original article on Ably's blog. Users need to know that they can depend on the service that is provided to them. In practice, because from time to time individual elements will inevitably fail, this means you have to be able to continue in spite of those failures. In this article,
Unfortunate things about performance reviews
Building Your Own Personal Learning Curriculum — Smashing Magazine
As developers, we’re constantly learning new languages and frameworks. But how can you structure this learning to ensure maximum benefit while still progressing? Here’s how you can devise your own curriculum to keep moving in the right direction. The following are simply steps that worked for Kirsty Simmonds when she needed to learn over time, without burning out or placing undue pressure on mysel
Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation
Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics.
Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager
I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along
Barebones CSS for Fluid Images
Zach takes a look at some fundamental HTML+CSS usage for fluid, responsive images. Most of it, I'd say, is what you'd expect, but things get weird when srcset
Let’s Create a Custom Audio Player
HTML has a built-in native audio player interface that we get simply using the <audio> element. Point it to a sound file and that’s all there is to it.
PostgreSQL: CREATE STATISTICS - advanced query optimization
The PostgreSQL query planner doesn't know which data usually correlates. How to use CREATE STATISTICS to find correlations.
Listify a JavaScript Array
Make a human readable list from an array in JavaScript.
Shadow Jobs
We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed, reliability, modernity, and more. One thing we really pride ourselves in is using the latest build tools when possible. Not necessarily bleeding edge (alphas, betas, RC, etc.), but the latest stable versions. Aside from the new features and improvements they bring,…
Context And Variables In The Hugo Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we take a look at the topic of context and variables in Hugo, a popular static site generator. You’ll understand concepts such as the global context, flow control, and variables in Hugo templates, as well as data flow from content files through templates to partials and base templates.
Use CSS Clamp to create a more flexible wrapper utility
I like Andy's idea here: