Unconventional Stock Image Sources
This year, I learned that there is a wide world of free stock imagery available beyond Unsplash and Pexels. You see, I’ve been working on designing WordPress
Using CSS Custom Properties to Adjust Variable Font Weights in Dark Mode
Black isn’t always slimming.
Introducing the new Campus Advisors program
GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing…
Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program
What we look for from applicants, plus an overview of how the application process works.
Day 24: a short talk about blogging myths, and a debugging tip
Day 24: a short talk about blogging myths, and a debugging tip
Day 23: a little Rails testing
Day 23: a little Rails testing
Business and Engineering alignment
How to convince "the business folks" to let you do what you want.
How Instagram suggests new content
Designing a constrained exploration system […]
How do you test your tests?
Facebook’s codebase changes each day as engineers develop new features and optimizations for our apps. If not validated, each of these changes could potentially regress the functionality or reliability of our products for billions of people around the world. To mitigate this risk, we maintain an enormous suite of automated regression tests to cover various […]
On the whole CentOS thing
Simplify, Batch, and Cache: How We Optimized Server-side Storefront Rendering - Shopify
On December 16, 2020 we held Shipit! presents: Performance Tips from the Storefront Renderer Team. A video for the event is now available for you to learn more about how the team optimized this Ruby application for the particular use case of serving storefront traffic. Click here to watch the video. By Celso Dantas and Maxime Vaillancourt In the previous post about our new storefront rendering eng
Resiliency Planning for High-Traffic Events - Shopify
On January 27, 2021 Shipit!, our monthly event series, presented Building a Culture of Resiliency at Shopify. Learn about creating and maintaining resiliency plans for large development teams, testing and tooling, developing incident strategies, and incorporating and improving feedback loops. The video is now available. Each year, Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend represents the peak of activity f
Making Websites Easier To Talk To — Smashing Magazine
Modern websites aren’t inseparable from screens any more. Between phone assistants, home speakers, and screen readers, more and more people are using the web without even looking at it. Websites need to evolve in kind. In the article, Frederickk O’Brien will try to break down what that means for websites going forward, what designers can do about it, and why this might finally be a leap forward to
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie
Cloudflare is deprecating the __cfduid cookie. While we have never tracked end-users across sites or sell their personal data, we don’t want any customer to think they need a cookie banner because of what we do.
Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
2020 was not a good year for learning
There, I said it.
npm ruin dev
In 2020, I rediscovered the enjoyment of building a website with plain ol’ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no transpilin’, no compilin’, no build tools other than
How to Create a Favicon That Changes Automatically
I found this Free Favicon Maker the other day. It’s a nice tool to make a favicon (true to its name), but unlike other favicon generators, this one lets you
Upgrading and updating PostgreSQL
Update/ upgrade: what's the difference? This blog post covers the best ways of upgrading or updating PostgreSQL to the latest release.
GitHub in the enterprise
During the last year alone, over 56 million developers created more than 60 million new repos and made more than 1.9 billion contributions on GitHub. These developers are building the…
Building together: GitHub partner ecosystem continues to grow
We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive.
How Facebook keeps its large-scale infrastructure hardware up and running
Facebook’s services rely on fleets of servers in data centers all over the globe — all running applications and delivering the performance our services need. This is why we need to make sure our server hardware is reliable and that we can manage server hardware failures at our scale with as little disruption to our […]
Ethical Considerations In UX Research: The Need For Training And Review — Smashing Magazine
Research is an essential part of creating good UX. We are often in roles where we interact with our users in order to collect data to inform our UX. We need to ensure our UX research is compliant with ethical standards of research conducted with humans. To do this, we need to have an awareness of potential ethical issues in research, training on how to conduct ethical research, and a systematic re
Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.
