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Design & UX — How we illustrate at GitHub

How we illustrate at GitHub

In the fourth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage, we’ll explore the artistic pipeline at GitHub to explain story, character and color, and to show how…

TJTony JaramilloTony Jaramillo·February 4, 2021Design & UX
Performance — Deployment reliability at GitHub

Deployment reliability at GitHub

Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub’s scale, but there is more to it: the actual deployment mechanics need to be fast and reliable.

RDRaffaele Di FazioRaffaele Di Fazio·February 3, 2021Performance
Design & UX — Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. The key to designing tooltips that fit seamlessly into the overall design is to plan for them early in the design process. Specifically, designing useful tooltips requires proper timing and proper implementation. In this article, Eric Olive will show

EOEric OliveEric Olive·February 3, 2021Design & UX
SRE & Ops — GitHub Availability Report: January 2021

GitHub Availability Report: January 2021

Introduction In January, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Actions service. January 28 04:21 UTC (lasting 3 hours 53 minutes)…

KBKeith BallingerKeith Ballinger·February 2, 2021SRE & Ops
Engineering — How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams — Smashing Magazine

How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams — Smashing Magazine

On your list of places where people might access your web app, Teams is probably number “not-on-the-list”. But it turns out that making your app accessible where your users are already working has some profound benefits. In this article, Tomomi Imura and Daisy Chaussee will take a look at how Teams makes web apps a first-class citizen, and how it enables you to interact with those apps in complete

TITomomi Imura Daisy ChausseeTomomi Imura Daisy Chaussee·February 2, 2021Engineering
Engineering — "Cancelable" Smooth Scrolling

"Cancelable" Smooth Scrolling

Here's the situation: Your site offers a "scroll back to top" button, and you've implemented smooth scrolling. As the page scrolls back to the top, users see

CCChris Coyier·February 1, 2021Engineering
Frontend — No-Jank CSS Stripes

No-Jank CSS Stripes

My mind goes immediately to repeating-linear-gradient and hard-stop gradients when thinking of creating stripes in CSS. You make one stripe by using the same

CCChris Coyier·February 1, 2021Frontend
AI & ML — Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 1st, 2021 - High Scalability -

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 1st, 2021 - High Scalability -

Hey, it's HighScalability time once again! Amazon converts expenses into revenue by transforming needs into products. Take a look at a fulfillment center and you can see the need for Outpost, machine learning, IoT, etc, all dogfooded. Willy Wonka would be proud. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one

HSHigh Scalability·February 1, 2021AI & ML
SRE & Ops — Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021

Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too (except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never…

LNLaura Nolan·February 1, 2021SRE & Ops
Frontend — Things You Can Do With CSS Today — Smashing Magazine

Things You Can Do With CSS Today — Smashing Magazine

The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then things will continue to get better and better on your projects, too. Some of the really handy powers CSS gives you might have slipped you by, so in this article, Andy Bell will take a look into masonry layout, :is selector, clamp(), ch and ex units, updated text decoration, and

ABAndy BellAndy Bell·February 1, 2021Frontend