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Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.28

Highlights from Git 2.28

The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…

TBTaylor BlauTaylor Blau·July 27, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Create A Responsive Dashboard With Angular Material And ng2-Charts — Smashing Magazine

Create A Responsive Dashboard With Angular Material And ng2-Charts — Smashing Magazine

With Angular Material and ng2-charts, you can take advantage of schematics to cut down the effort and time you may spend building a dashboard. Schematics in Angular 9 are code generators that can create components and patterns in projects using predetermined templates and layouts. In this article, Zara Cooper explains how to take advantage of schematics in Angular Material and ng2-charts to substa

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·July 27, 2020Frontend
Engineering — GitHub Action Hero: Samson Amaugo

GitHub Action Hero: Samson Amaugo

GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love, and have more freedom to innovate and be creative. With GitHub Actions, you can…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·July 24, 2020Engineering
Engineering — ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify - Shopify

ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify - Shopify

On June 20, 2020, ShipIt!, our monthly event series, presented AR/VR at Shopify. Daniel Beauchamp, Head of AR/VR at Shopify talked about how we’re using this increasingly ubiquitous technology at Shopify.

SEShopify Engineering·July 24, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Internationalizing the Cloudflare Dashboard

Internationalizing the Cloudflare Dashboard

Cloudflare’s dashboard now supports four new language: Spanish (with country-specific locales: Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain), Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.

JCJames CulveyhouseJames Culveyhouse·July 23, 2020Engineering
Engineering — CMD+Z for Git is Here

CMD+Z for Git is Here

Version control with Git has become a "commodity" by now: virtually every software project today uses Git, and virtually every developer knows Git to some

TGTobias GüntherTobias Günther·July 23, 2020Engineering
Frontend — How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine

How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine

Styled components are “visual primitives for components”, and their goal is to give us a flexible way to style components. The result is a tight coupling between components and their styles. While the component-driven approach has ushered in a new frontier in the way we build web applications, it isn’t without its imperfections — one being its usability and scalability with CSS. This has given bir

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·July 23, 2020Frontend
Networking — Introducing IP Lists

Introducing IP Lists

IP Lists can now be stored with metadata at the Cloudflare edge, replicated within seconds to our data centers in 200+ cities, and used as part of our powerful, expressive Firewall Rules engine to take action on incoming requests.

CCloudflare·July 22, 2020Networking
Frontend — Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility — Smashing Magazine

Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility — Smashing Magazine

Which aspects should we take into consideration when designing and developing for reading? How can we create accessible, comfortable, inclusive experiences for all readers, including the most challenged and those affected by dyslexia? In this article, Edoardo Cavazza will cover how we can improve websites legibility using some modern CSS techniques, great new technologies like variable fonts and p

ECEdoardo CavazzaEdoardo Cavazza·July 22, 2020Frontend