Go internals: invariance and memory layout of slices - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: July - September 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 1 - standard library - Eli Bendersky's website
Accessing PostgreSQL databases in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and track the valuable metrics hiding inside your team’s Xcode build logs. Are your build times improving or regressing? Which version of Xcode is slowest? Which hardware setup is fastest? XCMetrics makes it easy to find out all this and more. Made for iOS engineers, by iOS engineers, the too
2020: Year in review
2020: Year in review
Sparks Of Inspiration To Welcome The New Year (January 2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What better way could there be to start the new year than with some fresh inspiration? Our collection of wallpapers for January 2021 is bound to put a smile on your face — and maybe spark new ideas, too.
Cloudinary Tricks for Video
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that's before we start talking about
The Rules of Margin Collapse
Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing:
The shibboleth of PostgreSQL
A shibboleth is a phase whose pronounciation determines if you belong or not. This article tells you how not to pronounce "PostgreSQL".
Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020
For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other…
2020 year in review: Connectivity innovations, faster apps, and progress toward net zero
It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year, to put it lightly. But if anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on our need to connect as people. For Facebook, that meant our work has become more important than ever. Whether it was finding new and innovative ways to expand internet […]
A Practical Introduction To Dependency Injection — Smashing Magazine
This article is the first part of an upcoming series that provides a practical introduction to Dependency Injection in a manner that immediately permits you to realize its many benefits without being hampered down by theory. Today, Jamie Corkhill will depict only a very practical example of dependency injection in use and mostly neglect the theoretical attributes. He does it this way in order to m
Simulating Drop Shadows with the CSS Paint API
Ask a hundred front-end developers, and most, if not all, of them will have used the box-shadow property in their careers. Shadows are enduringly popular, and
Smashing Podcast Episode 32: Review Of The Year 2020 — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020. Who did we speak to in our episodes this year, and what did we learn? Let’s listen back to some clips to find out.
Create a Tag Cloud with some Simple CSS and even Simpler JavaScript
I’ve always liked tag clouds. I like the UX of seeing what tags are most popular on a website by seeing the relative font size of the tags, popular tags being
It turns out that Thunderbolt works now
Creativity In A World Of Technology: Does It Exist? — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Maggie Mackenzie investigates the intricate dynamics associated with the relationship between creativity and technology and discussing whether or not creativity still exists. She will explore what creativity looks like and who (or what) is it now coming from. Ultimately, if creativity is truly being impacted by technology, is there a way to find the balance between the human and t
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
Big ol' same to Michelle Barker here:
Using One Cron Parser Everywhere With Rust and Saffron
Cron parsers are everywhere, each supporting their own extensions on the cron string format, which made consistency between parts of Cron Triggers difficult to achieve. Today we’re showing how we easily solved this problem with Rust without needing to write the same code twice.
Holiday Season Update from Lisbon
Cloudflare Lisbon has come a long way. We now have 74 incredibly talented people working or joining in areas such as Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Customer Support, People, Places, Product Management, Emerging Technologies or Accounting, and growing fast.
Integrating TypeScript with Svelte
Svelte is one of the newer JavaScript frameworks and it’s rapidly rising in popularity. It’s a template-based framework, but one which allows for arbitrary
