Converting the Dropbox Activity Log into Common Event Format Events
Convert events from your Dropbox activity log into Common Event Format events by following along with this post and using the sample script.
ShipIt! Presents: How Shopify Uses Nix - Shopify
On May 25, 2020, ShipIt!, our monthly event series, presented How Shopify Uses Nix. Building upon on my What is Nix post, I show how we rebuilt our developer tooling using Nix, and show off some of the tooling we actually use at Shopify on a day-to-day basis. I wasn't able to answer all the questions during the event, so I've included answers to those ones below. Would runix interop well with lorr
Smashing Meets Gives A Sneak Preview Of What To Expect At Live! — Smashing Magazine
In this post, Rachel Andrew looks back at our successful Smashing Meets, A free event across two days and many timezones, with three speakers each day and plenty of chance for attendees to chat and ask questions of the speakers. Toady, she considers how we will take everything we learned to make our Smashing Live conference even better.
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Factories, Fixtures And Serializers (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Factories are a faster way to create new database records., A fixture is a state of a set or collection of objects that serve as a baseline for running tests, and a serializer is responsible for transforming the response. In this second part of the Mirage JS Deep Dive series, Kelvin Omereshone will be looking at Mirage JS’ Factories, Fixtures, and Serializers. You’ll see how they enable rapid API
How To Run The Right Kind Of Research Study With The Double-Diamond Model — Smashing Magazine
User research helps companies make higher quality software faster and more cost-effectively. However, there can sometimes be resistance to the up-front costs of running UX studies. In this article, Steve Bromley will equip you with some of the tools you will need to run the right kind of research study. This helps a research team run high quality, reliable studies that have a real impact on design
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
Modern source-control systems provide powerful tools that make it easy to create branches in source code. But eventually these branches have to be merged back together, and many teams spend an inordinate amount of time coping with their tangled thicket of branches. There are several patterns that can allow teams to use branching effectively, concentrating around integrating the work of multiple de
GitHub Action Hero: Adam Dobrawy
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…
Introducing Hack Club’s Summer of Making
We’re partnering with Hack Club to support the students behind Summer of Making, a new remote, student summer program. From building Arduino-powered robots to creating an open source game, we’re excited to see students channel their passions and build with the Hack Club community this summer.
The Octopus Scanner Malware: Attacking the open source supply chain
This post details how an open source supply chain malware spread through build artifacts. 26 open source projects were backdoored by this malware and were actively serving backdoored code.
How To Create Better Angular Templates With Pug — Smashing Magazine
Pug is a template engine that allows you to write cleaner templates with less repetition. In Angular, you can use Pug to write component templates and improve a project’s development workflow. In this article, Zara Cooper In will cover how you — as an Angular developer — can use Pug to write better templates more efficiently. You’ll learn how to install Pug in your Angular apps and transition exis
Stripe’s remote engineering hub, one year in
Since May 2019, Stripe has operated a fully remote engineering hub. Today, our remote culture is the backbone of a new working model for the whole company.
Tanium’s endpoint security meets Cloudflare for Teams
Deploy comprehensive zero-trust security by integrating Tanium with Cloudflare for Teams.
The Many Bad (and Good!) Patterns for Close Buttons
Manuel Matuzović details 10 bad HTML patterns for a close button. You know, stuff like this:
Get Programmatic Control of your Builds with Netlify Build Plugins
Today at Jamstack_Conf, Netlify announced Build Plugins. What it does is allow you to have particular hooks for events within your build, like when the build
The making of Maker Week
An inside look at one of our favorite Figma traditions
The GitHub Support Community has a new look and feel!
We’ve given the GitHub Support Community a major upgrade with a number of benefits: built using open-source, great Markdown support, more responsive design, and so much more.
Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
We’re privileged to be in the business of bringing joy to our customers at Netflix. Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service…
Equivalent Experiences: What Are They? — Smashing Magazine
Our industry tends to place a lot of focus on how, often at the expense of why. An equivalent experience is one that has been deliberately conceived of and built to be able to be used by the widest possible range of people. To create an equivalent experience, you must understand all the different ways people interact with technology, as well as common barriers they experience. Once you have a comm
Stripe launches in five more European countries
Stripe is now generally available in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta.
Test your home network performance
Cloudflare launches speed.cloudflare.com, a tool that allows you to gain in-depth insights into the quality of your network uplink, including throughput, latency and jitter.
HTML Responsive Images Guide
This guide is about the HTML syntax for responsive images (and a little bit of CSS for good measure). We'll go over srcset and , plus a whole bunch of things to consider to help you get the best performance and design control from your images.
Framer Web
The prototyping app Framer just launched the web version of their design tool and it looks pretty darn neat. I particularly love the design of the marketing
Partition management - do you really need a tool for that?
How to use partition management to speed up queries in PostgreSQL and make tables more manageable as data amounts grow.
Giving credit for Security Advisories
Saying thanks is now a core part of the Security Advisory workflow.