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
Token authentication requirements for Git operations
In July 2020, we announced our intent to require the use of token-based authentication (for example, a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub App installation token) for all authenticated Git operations.…
Powerful updates to temporary interaction limits
Temporary interaction limits have new, powerful, and flexible updates. You can now enable interaction limits for up to six months. In addition, you can limit interactions across all your personal…
Encapsulating Ruby on Rails views
Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith.
Smashing Podcast Episode 31 With Eve Porcello: What Is GraphQL? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about GraphQL. What is it, and how does solve some common API problems? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eve Porcello to find out.
Improving Cloudflare’s products and services, one feature request at a time
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about Cloudflare’s feature request process, and how we turn customer feedback into product improvements.
Give Users Control: The Media Session API
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you
HTTP Archive’s Annual State of the Web Report
The HTTP Archive looked at more than 7 million websites and compiled their annual report detailing how the sites were built. And there’s an enormous wealth of
Inspired by Open Source: Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement 2.0
GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We do that by empowering our own employees to use their creativity to learn, play, and build great…
Refreshing Server-Side Props
Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload.
Infer powering Microsoft’s Infer#, a new static analyzer for C#
What it is: Infer# brings the Infer static analysis platform to developers who use Microsoft’s C# programming language. It can already detect null-pointer dereference and resource leak bugs, thanks to bi-abduction analysis. Detection of race conditions based on RacerD analysis is also in the works. Infer# has been used to analyze Microsoft software, including Roslyn, […]
How Redux Reducers Work — Smashing Magazine
If you have used Redux at any point while developing an application to manage `state`, you will most definitely have come across reducers. In this tutorial, Fortune Ikechi will show you the concept of reducers and how they work, specifically in React applications. In order to understand and better use Redux, a solid understanding of reducers is essential. Reducers provide a way to update an applic
Supporting Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects
We’re launching Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects, making it easy for developers to build serverless, stateful applications that comply with data localization obligations.