What's Old is New
This year, I learned a lot about how "old" tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style
25 Years of JavaScript & 25 Free Courses
Pluralsight is giving away 25 courses on JavaScript for free to celebrate JavaScript's 25th birthday. It's no cheapie, either. The courses range from getting
Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs
Shifting supply chain security left with dependency review
Dependency review allows you to easily understand your dependencies before you introduce them to your environment. As part of a pull request, you can see what dependencies you’re introducing, changing, or removing, and information about their vulnerabilities, age, usage, and license.
Commits are snapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
Evenstar: The road to an alternative infra supply chain for RAN
Together with mobile network operators Airtel and Vodafone, and technology partners ADI, Altiostar, Baicells, Flex, Mavenir, MTI, Parallel Wireless, and Xilinx, we are focused on building general-purpose radio access network (RAN) reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem. This work is being done as part of the Evenstar program. The […]
On the value of diversified recommendations
One of the biggest questions faced by the recommendation systems community is whether recommendation systems should be solely evaluated by their predictive accuracy, or also focus on other factors such as preference broadening. In order to appreciate the importance of this question, let us look at a couple of simulated scenarios in a dynamic setting. User […]
Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF) — Smashing Magazine
Implementing best SEO practice can produce immediate results, but long-term performance requires long-term maintenance. Besides, the journey is more important than the destination, isn’t it? The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). This is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully there is enough to help you
Trend data on the SolarWinds Orion compromise
Analyzing SUNBURST malware activity seen on Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver.
Write Code, Get Confetti
This year I learned about the canvas-confetti npm package. It is a simple JavaScript package that injects a (virtual, <canvas>) confetti explosion into
Three Ways to Distinguish a Site From the Norm
In an age where so much web design is already neat, clean, and simple, I can think of three ways to distinguish your site from the norm:
Learning to Simplify
When I first got this writing prompt, my mind immediately started thinking stuff like, “What tech have I learned this year?” But this post isn’t really about
Slow Movement
There was a time when I felt overwhelmed by how fast the web developed. It seemed like not a single day passed without a new plugin, framework, technique, or
How to Use the Locomotive Scroll for all Kinds of Scrolling Effects
I was recently looking for a way to perform scrolling effects on a project and I stumbled on the Locomotive Scroll library. It lets you perform a variety of
The Power of Lampshading
I enjoyed this blog post from Shawn. Lampshading is apparently the idea of a TV show calling attention to some weakness (like an implausible plot point) so
Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working
How the team moved to a virtual-first model
Reducing flaky builds by 18x
Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request…
Co-experiences: Hanging out in the digital living room
In the spring of 2019 — a full year before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the entire world to turn our living rooms into offices, schools, and gathering places — Mark Zuckerberg shared a plan to create the digital equivalent of the living room, where people could connect and hang out together. That work was already underway early […]
Creating a React Analytics Logging Library
In the first installment of the article, we examined why we built a React analytics library. We also looked at how we use the library to share data efficiently, log smarter impressions, and simplify event logging. In this second part of the article, we will focus on how we abstracted the library for use by…
Are Websites Adding To Consumer’s Health Issues? — Smashing Magazine
Today, Suzanne Scacca is going to look at “The Website Dilemma”. In other words, is it possible to build an authoritative, lead generating, high converting website without manipulating visitors into doing what you want? If you follow social media’s lead, they’re one and the same. If you’d prefer not to trade your customers’ well-being for profit, keep reading.
Vercel: Series B funding announcement
Today we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web. Next.js and Vercel help teams collaborate and move faster with greater flexibility.
What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name
WCAG 2.1 Recommendations rolled out in 2018. It’s been a couple years now and there are some new Success Criterion. In this article, I will discuss Label in
Hell Yes! CSS!
Speaking of cool CSS stuff you can buy, Julia Evans' zine Hell Yes! CSS! is hot off the presses. A "zine" being 28 pages of "short, informative, and fun