Stroke Text CSS: The Definitive Guide
Whenever I think of stroked text on the web I think: nope.
How to Simplify SVG Code Using Basic Shapes
There are different ways to work with icons, but the best solution always includes SVG, whether it’s implemented inline or linked up as an image file. That’s
State of Jamstack 2020: Data Deep Dive
The Jamstack, a modern approach to building websites and apps, delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer
Making Design Within Reach for online shoppers
Bringing the brick-and-mortar experience online
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup
The developer community in Africa continues to thrive. Here at GitHub, we’re excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for African developers. This meetup is happening on Tuesday, September 15th,…
Introducing the GitHub Stars Program ⭐️
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of those millions of developers on GitHub, there…
Starting an Initiative
Early in my career at Slack I was looking for ways to have an impact. I asked my manager what I could work on to add value to the team. She said that we wanted to catch bugs earlier in the development process and that Cypress testing might be one way to do this. I…
4 Ways To Creatively Use Icons In Your Mobile Apps — Smashing Magazine
Icons have long held an important place in the design of mobile apps. But beyond using them to create larger and more attractive touch targets, there are other ways mobile app designers can use these tiny elements to make an app more engaging. This post will explore four ways to do this. Today, Suzanna Scacca will look at a number of ways you can creatively add icons or icon-like elements to your
PostgreSQL vs PostgreSQL vs Postgres vs Oracle vs all the rest
How can you find data even if there are typos? In PostgreSQL there are various solutions to the problem of a search with odd spelling.
Creating multi-brand design systems
Learnings about building and maintaining design systems
How we threat model
At GitHub, we spend a lot of time thinking about and building secure products—and one key facet of that is threat modeling. This practice involves bringing security and engineering teams…
Secure at every step: What is software supply chain security and why does it matter?
The most important way to protect supply chain threats? Scan code for security vulnerabilities, learn how to find vulnerabilities in code, and quickly patch them with dynamic code analysis tools.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
What is your take on checking return values?
5 Ways to Improve Your React Native Styling Workflow - Shopify
In April, we announced Shop, our digital shopping assistant that brings together the best features of Arrive and Shop Pay. The Shop app started from our React Native codebase for our previous package tracking app Arrive, with every screen receiving a complete visual overhaul to fit the new branding. While our product designers worked on introducing a whole new design system that would decide the l
Everything Developers Need To Know About Figma — Smashing Magazine
Figma is a design tool that is rapidly gaining popularity and becoming more common in companies around the world. Unlike most design software, Figma is free and browser-based so developers can easily access the full design files making the developer handoff process significantly smoother. With article, Jurn van Wissen teaches developers who have nothing but a basic understanding of design tools ev
Two clicks to add region-based Zero Trust compliance
Starting today, you can make geography-based compliance easy again in Cloudflare Access with just two clicks. You can now build rules that require employees to connect from certain countries. You can also add rules that block team members from connecting from other countries.
How to Make a Media Query-less responsive Card Component
Fun fact: it’s possible to create responsive components without any media queries at all. Certainly, if we had container queries, those would be very useful
Introducing GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections?
Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.
MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database - High Scalability -
Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you impr
Results of Oregon project environmental analysis
The Jupiter subsea cable is a transpacific cable that runs between Japan and the Philippines and the U.S., where it lands in Hermosa Beach, California, and Tierra del Mar, Oregon. During Facebook’s Oregon landing drilling operation in Tierra del Mar on April 28, an unfortunate incident occurred, in which a horizontal directional drill hit hard […]
Building React Apps With Storybook — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Abdulazeez Adeshina will show you what storybook is about and how to use it to build and test React components by building a simple application. He’ll start with a basic example that shows how to work with storybook, then will go ahead to create a storybook for a Table component which will hold students’ data. You should have basic knowledge of React and the use of NPM before proc
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for Spotify’s open source efforts: has accepted , our open source developer portal, as an early stage project in the . It’s just the first step in a longer journey with the CNCF, but it’s an important one for Spotify as it underlines our renewed commitment to open source — and developers