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Ideally, a CSS auditing tool would provide some insights about how heavily CSS implact rendering performance, and which operations lead to expensive layout recalculations. It could also highlight what properties don’t affect the rendering at all (like Firefox DevTools does it), and perhaps even suggest how to write slightly more efficient CSS selectors. In a new short series of posts, we highlight
All of us use web scraping in our everyday lives. It merely describes the process of extracting information from a website. For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, Andreas Altheimer will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites ba
The block editor was a game-changer for WordPress. The idea that we can create blocks of content and arrange them in a component-like fashion means we have a
Recently, I had to make a web page displaying a bunch of SVG graphs for an analytics dashboard. I used a bunch of <rect>, <line> and <text>
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 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.
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/)
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.
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe's approach to building websites, which he calls "Stackless":
AutomateWoo is this handy extension for WooCommerce that adds triggers actions based on your online store's activity. Someone abandoned their cart? Remind
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
GitHub Actions are a piece of excellent machinery for PostgreSQL related tasks on your repo with support for Windows, Ubuntu and macOS environments.
How the team handled difficult interactions and edge cases to bring comments into the Figma Community
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.…
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…
A handy advanced TypeScript pattern to increase your productivity.
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
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.
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.
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…
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…
Why and how you can optimize your context provider's value to avoid performance issues
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
