Getting started with DevOps automation
This is the second post in our series on DevOps fundamentals. For a guide to what DevOps is and answers to common DevOps myths check out part one. What role…
Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster
Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.
Building GitHub: introduction
An introduction to our blog series on GitHub’s investments in technical excellence.
How to Introduce Composite Primary Keys in Rails - Shopify
One line of code can 5x your Rails application performance. What if you could make a small change to your database design that would unlock massively more efficient data access? At Shopify, we dusted off some old database principles and did exactly that with the primary Rails application.
How To Build A GraphQL Server Using Next.js API Routes — Smashing Magazine
With this guide, Ibrahima Ndaw will teach you the basics of Next.js API Routes. He will start by explaining what they are and why API Routes are useful compared to REST or GraphQL APIs. Then, he will guide you through a step by step tutorial on how to build your very first GraphQL server with Next.js and the Github API. If you want to extend your React or Next.js skills to the server-side and be a
Comparing Static Site Generator Build Times
There are so many static site generators (SSGs). It’s overwhelming trying to decide where to start. While an abundance of helpful articles may help wade
Building with Dropbox Webinar
Join our webinar to learn about Dropbox developer tools, meet our Developer Evangelists, and get started building with the Dropbox API.
Bridging design and code with Variants
Today we're launching Variants and updates to the Inspect panel to power up your design system
A few things I've learned about email marketing
A few things I've learned about email marketing
Super Simple Start to css variables
How to get started using css variables
How We Run Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine
Many companies had to struggle in one way or another in the last couple of months. We had to get creative, and we had to rethink our conferences and workshops altogether. In this article, CEO and co-founder Vitaly Friedman shares how Smashing runs online workshops and online conferences these days, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem
A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor.
Anima 4.0: Go Straight From Design to React in the Design Handoff
Imagine this scenario: You get an email from the design team. It contains a link to a high-fidelity prototype of a React app they want you to build. You click
PostgreSQL: Foreign keys and insertion order in SQL
Foreign keys will introduce some issues which have to be considered when writing applications. If a foreign key is in place the inseration order starts to matter.
Our counterintuitive fix for Android path normalization
Behind the feature: The hidden challenges of autosave
The technical challenges of updating our autosave system
Should social media dampen uncertain stories?
When a news story of dubious provenance appears, should social media use a temporary block to slow its spread?
Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…
2020 GitHub Universe Micro-Mentoring Application
We’re thrilled to announce an opportunity to connect with employees at GitHub during GitHub Universe. This year, Universe will take place virtually December 8-10 and we’d love to “see” you…
Code Scanning a GitHub Repository using GitHub Advanced Security within an Azure DevOps Pipeline
In this blog post we demonstrate how to integrate the GitHub Advanced Security code scanning capability into our Azure DevOps Pipelines. We provide code snippets and examples that can guide you or your developers working to integrate Code Scanning into any 3rd Party CI tool.
Exploiting a textbook use-after-free security vulnerability in Chrome
In this post I’ll give details about how to exploit CVE-2020-6449, a use-after-free (UAF) in the WebAudio module of Chrome that I discovered in March 2020. I’ll give an outline of the general strategy to exploit this type of UAF to achieve a sandboxed RCE in Chrome by a single click (and perhaps a 2 minute wait) on a malicious website.
Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores
Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics…
Sharp tools for emergencies and the --clowntown flag
Authentication In Vue.js — Smashing Magazine
Every web application that handles user-specific data needs to implement authentication. Knowing how to do this is important for Vue developers, and that’s what this article aims to shed the spotlight on. Today, Precious Ndubueze brings you a tutorial that will prove to be useful for beginner developers who want to learn about authentication in Vue. In order to be able to follow along, you’ll need
