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In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re taking a look at what’s new in Drupal 9. What are the major upcoming changes to this nearly 20-year-old open-source project? Drew McLellan talks to Drupal core committer Angie Byron to find out.
Snook shows off a classic design with an oversized header up top, and a content area that is "pulled up" into that header area. My mind goes to the same place:
Rotated <table> column headers is something that’s been covered before right here on CSS-Tricks, so shout-out to that for getting me started and helping
Keeping your dependencies updated is one of the easiest ways to keep the software you build secure. However, while it’s critically important to keep your dependencies updated, in a recent…
In this article, Chidi Orji will explore the concept of error boundaries in a React application. You’ll work through an example app to see how we can use error boundaries to deliver a better app experience. Finally, you’ll integrate Sentry into our error boundary for realtime error reporting. The only prerequisite is that you have some familiarity with React class components. Let’s dig in!
In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at Spotify) gear up with a lot of momentum in the beginning but tend to get stuck in the mud over time, eventually leading to a long tail of systems still left running on older versions. This is one of the ways fragmentation creeps into your tech infrastructure, like weeds sprouting in a garden — left unattende
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new wallpapers collection is for you. Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for June 2020.
Increment is a beautiful quarterly magazine (print and web) published by Stripe "about how teams build and operate software systems at scale". While there is
Automatically export DNS query logs from Cloudflare Gateway to your SIEM.
Convert events from your Dropbox activity log into Common Event Format events by following along with this post and using the sample script.
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
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.
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
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
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 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…
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.
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.
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
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.
Deploy comprehensive zero-trust security by integrating Tanium with Cloudflare for Teams.
Manuel Matuzović details 10 bad HTML patterns for a close button. You know, stuff like this:
