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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.
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
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)…
In the decade since the word “DevOps” was coined, its goal has stayed the same—but the way organizations implement DevOps is constantly changing. For a closer look , we sat…
After much anticipation, the npm CLI version 7 is now generally available!
Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles
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
Robert Nyman:
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
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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
GitHub Education is on a mission to build communities and support emerging tech talent around the world. We’re looking for the next batch of student leaders to apply to the GitHub Campus Experts Program!
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
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…
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
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines.
Let’s make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity challenge waiting for you this month. It’s the perfect occasion to share your ideas with the world — and win a smashing prize along the way. The wallpapers in this post come with and without a calendar for February 2021, and, as a little bonus goodie, you’ll also discover some famili
Day 50: Building some tarballs for puzzles, and trying to make a kernel boot faster
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
A clever use of CSS grid from Jay Freestone to accomplish a particular variation of the media object design pattern (where the image is centered with the
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
Day 49: making the VMs boot faster
In this article, we look at some of the more advanced features of TypeScript, like union types, conditional types, template literal types, and generics. We want to formalize the most dynamic JavaScript behavior in a way that we can catch most bugs before they happen. We apply several learnings from all chapters of TypeScript in 50 Lessons, a book we’ve published here on Smashing Magazine late 2020
