More Control Over CSS Borders With background-image
You can make a typical CSS border dashed or dotted. For example:
What does 100% mean in CSS?
When using percentage values in CSS like this...
Every Website is an Essay
Every website that’s made me oooo and aaahhh lately has been of a special kind; they’re written and designed like essays. There’s an argument, a playfulness
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Tomáš Janoušek:
Remote work: Sharing tips for leading in a remote world
Are you leading teams in a remote world? We are wrapping up our remote working series with some final tips on leading remote and distributed teams. We hope our teams have helped while we collectively work remotely from around the world.
GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis
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,…
Pysa: An open source static analysis tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
Today, we are sharing details about Pysa, an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. Last year, we shared how we built Zoncolan, a static analysis tool that helps us analyze more than 100 million lines of Hack code and has helped engineers prevent […]
How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
This is the third and final part of the tutorial in which we’ll create the wheels (rims and tires), and add all the final touches (including the racing decals on the car’s body).
HTML for Subheadings and Headings
Let's say you have a double heading situation going on. A little one on top of a big one. It comes up, I dunno, a billion times a day, I'd say. What HTML do
TypeScript, Minus TypeScript
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last several years (and let’s face it, hiding under a rock sometimes feels like the right thing to do), you’ve
JavaScript Fatigue
From Nicholas Zakas' newsletter, on how he avoids JavaScript fatigue:
Achieving DevSecOps maturity with a developer-first, community-driven approach
GitHub provides the security capabilities to achieve Level 1 of the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model. In this post, we explore the principles of DSOMM Level 1 and how you can implement secret scanning, SCA, SAST and DAST using native tooling on GitHub.
GMTK Game Jam 2020 – staff picks
The fourth annual GMTK Game Jam has broken it’s previous year’s record! GMTK Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making competition focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The competition has just…
A Practical Guide To Product Tours In React Apps — Smashing Magazine
Showcasing new product features to users or familiarizing them with some UI functionality in a web app can get tedious, especially when you want users to see a lot of things. In the following guide, BLessing Krofegha will show you how to proactively use product tours to onboard users into a new and complex UX, and how to familiarize them with UI functionality without boring them, using a typical R
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q2 2020
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March.
Chapter 1: Birth
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and
Warp SVG Online
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we'll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel
GitHub Actions: Enterprise runners and fine-grained access settings with runner groups
GitHub Actions hosted virtual environments are a turn-key option for running your workflows. But if you need fine-grained control and customization of your environment, then self-hosted runners give you full…
GitHub Availability Report: July 2020
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
Pcicrawler: A Python-based command-line interface tool to debug PCI issues at scale
What it is: A Python-based command-line interface tool that can be used to display, filter, and export information about Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) or PCI Express (PCIe) buses and devices, as well as PCI topology. We built pcicrawler to diagnose and debug PCIe issues at scale and help with automation. What it does: Pcicrawler provides […]
Using DNS Traffic Management to Add Resiliency to Shopify’s Services - Shopify
If you are lacking understanding of what is DNS, traffic management, or why we would even use it, read Part 1: Introduction to DNS traffic management. Distributed systems are only as resilient as we build them to be. Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management (TM) is a well-used approach to do so. In this second part of the two-part series, we’re sharing Shopify’s DNS traffic management journey f
An Introduction to DNS Traffic Management - Shopify
Distributed systems are only as resilient as we build them to be. Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management is a well-used approach to do so. In this first part of a two-part series, we aim to give a broad overview of DNS and how it’s used for traffic management, as well as the different reasons why we want to use DNS traffic management. If you already have context on what is DNS, what is traffi
Creating A Static Blog With Sapper And Strapi — Smashing Magazine
You might be wondering, “Why should I use this instead of the alternatives?” Sapper is based on Svelte, which is known for its speed and relatively small bundle size. In a world where performance plays a huge role in determining an effective user experience, we want to optimize for that. In this article, Daniel Madalitso Phiri will take you through how to build a Svelte-powered static blog with Sa
