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Check out our seventeenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
Calculating differences between rows | How can one calculate the difference between the current and the previous row? | timeseries data
Learn to automate the collection and organization of files using Dropbox File Requests within a Tray.io workflow.
One year ago, the security research team at Semmle launched its first Capture the Flag (CTF), as part of the Hack In The Box (HITB) Amsterdam conference. We wanted to…
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
What could be a better way to welcome July than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe.
We’re talking about CUBE CSS. What is it, and how does it differ from approaches such as BEM, SMACSS, and OOCSS? Drew McLellan talks to its creator, Andy Bell, to find out.
Today, we’d like to share with you some of the stuff that has recently shipped in Workers KV: a new feature and an internal change that should significantly improve latency in some cases. Let’s dig in!
Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can
Two things that strike me often about the web are how many ways there are to go about the same thing and how many considerations go into even the most
Test-Driven Development doesn't always make sense, here's when it does for me.
This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for millions of people, so it’s natural when…
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a summary…
In this tutorial, Chidi Orji will show you how to work with Firebase push notifications in the backend and frontend. We’ll set up the notifications system with an Express back-end server. Afterwards, you’ll listen for the notifications in a React front-end app. You will implement the backend first, then move on to the frontend. In that way, you can use whichever section appeals more to you. So let
The new customer portal makes it even easier to create a great experience for your customers while minimizing engineering investment.
entr: rerun your build when files change
Cloudflare launches Regional Services, giving customers control over where their data is processed.
The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and
Sarah Higley has some CSS tricks up her sleeve for dealing with High Contrast Mode on Windows, which I learned is referred to as WHCM.
One of my forever-lessons here on CSS-Tricks is that having your own website and blogging on it is a good idea. It's probably one of the best decisions I've
This kind of SVG + CSS animation trickery is catnip to me. Mikael Ainalem shares how to draw a hamburger icon (the "three lines" thing you're well familiar
During July's Hackweek, the three of us rewrote Dropbox's full browser-side codebase to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript, and we've been really happy with how it's been going so far. This is a controversial subject, so we thought we'd start by explaining why...
