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Nowadays whether you’re consuming or sharing content on the web, it is likely to be via a big website. Twitter, Youtube, or a Facebook-owned service are popular examples. Whilst this gives us the advantage of being able to participate in a larger conversation at almost no monetary cost, there is also the downside of potentially losing all our content if a company closes, as has happened in the pas
We are excited to announce that we have joined the Global Network Initiative (GNI), one of the world's leading human rights organizations in the information and communications Technology (ICT) sector,
A few weeks ago we announced a release candidate for wrangler dev — today, we're excited to take wrangler dev, the world’s first edge-based development environment, to GA with the release of wrangler 1.11.
I'd say "website" fits better than "mobile app" but I like this framing from Max Lynch:
Last year, the Adacats (GitHub’s employee resource group for marginalized genders) started a mentorship program. We’re sharing insights and fun stories from this experience for anyone interested in starting a…
MobX is a battle-tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming. It treats your application like a spreadsheet, and it’s one of the many state management tools available to React developers. In this tutorial, Fortune Ikechi is going to show you how to use MobX to manage state in React Native applications by building a React
You can now write any behaviour on requests heading to your site or even run fully fledged applications directly on the edge. Wrangler is the open-source CLI tool used to manage your Workers and has a big focus on enabling a smooth developer experience.
The video game Doom famously would flash the screen red when you were hit. Chris Johnson not only took that idea, but incorporated a bunch of the UI from Doom
Jim Nielsen:
WordPress has plugins. jQuery has plugins. Gatsby, Eleventy, and Vue do, too.
GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.
Shuting Chang, Robert Saunders, Karen Xie, and Vrishti Dutta join us to talk about Shopify’s API Health Report, the tool built to surface breaking changes affecting Shopify Partner apps.
Customer needs should be one of the primary considerations when designing a website or landing page. The era of customer-centric landing pages has dawned. And if your job involves being concerned with metrics like conversion, engagement, and bounce-rates, this is a post that you may want to sit straight up for. In this article, Travis Jamison explains why customer-centricity is so important and ho
We’re talking about Next.js. What is it, and where might it fit into our web development workflow? Drew McLellan talks to co-creator Guillermo Rauch to find out.
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you
This is a guest post by Rahul Chhabria, Director of Product Marketing at Sentry. At Sentry, we believe that code is the center of every experience and when code works,…
How I deprecated my most popular open source project in favor of a better library
Over the years, as we’ve expanded in scale and functionalities, Facebook has evolved from a basic web server architecture into a complex one with thousands of services working behind the scenes. It’s no trivial task to scale the wide range of back-end services needed for Facebook’s products. And we found that many of our teams […]
Ever wanted to have a comments section for your blog, but were overwhelmed by the high cost and maintenance solutions? Firebase can be your savior. In this guide, Aman Thakur will show you how to add a comments section to your blog with Firebase, while learning the basics of Firebase on the way. Let’s build a super-simple comments section.
Wizard Zines' first print run: Help! I have a Manager!
As part of my onboarding as an intern on the Spectrum (a layer 4 reverse proxy) team, I learned that many internal services dogfood Spectrum, as they are exposed to the Internet and benefit from layer 4 DDoS protection.
Update: The leading-trim property was renamed to text-box-trim and is starting to gain browser support. You can read more about text-box-trim (as well as the
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
