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:
Introducing GitHub Campus TV!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of GitHub Campus TV! With new shows every week, tune in to hear from experts, participate in workshops, and join a community of passionate…
Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB - High Scalability -
This is guest post by Sachin Sinha who is passionate about data, analytics and machine learning at scale. Author & founder of BangDB. This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have used latest versions for each NoSQL DB and have followed the recommendat
Faster, more efficient systems for finding and fixing regressions
Every workday, Facebook engineers commit thousands of diffs (which is a change consisting of one or more files) into production. This code velocity allows us to rapidly ship new features, deliver bug fixes and optimizations, and run experiments. However, a natural downside to moving quickly in any industry is the risk of inadvertently causing regressions […]
How to Create a Shrinking Header on Scroll Without JavaScript
Imagine a header of a website that is nice and thick, with plenty of padding on top and bottom of the content. As you scroll down, it shrinks up on itself,
PostgreSQL: ANALYZE and optimizer statistics
To find the best execution plan PostgreSQL is relying on statistics to give the optimizer an indication of what to expect.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 is now generally available
Today we’re announcing general availability of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0. Introduced during the GitHub Universe 2020 keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server. Every company using GitHub can…
Bound to Round: 8 Tips for Dealing with Hanging Pennies - Shopify
We want to avoid having many hanging pennies. And when faced with such a situation, we want to identify such calculations and put a plan in place on who to notify and what to do with them.
DevTools Debugging Tips And Shortcuts (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) — Smashing Magazine
DevTools is very advanced and helpful, but can also be very intimidating and overwhelming. Let’s fix that. In this article, Vitaly reviews useful features and shortcuts for debugging in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.
