Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
I'm a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes
Dealing With Stale Props and States in React’s Functional Components
There’s one aspect of JavaScript that always has me pulling my hair: closures. I work with React a lot, and the overlap there is that they can sometimes be
How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Create and push tags in the latest GitHub Desktop 2.5 release
The latest GitHub Desktop release includes the most requested feature of the past six months: tags! Create, push, and view tags directly from GitHub Desktop.
Hot lava: A case study in hunting for network integer arithmetic flaws
We examine the dangers of network integer arithmetic based on a case study of security vulnerabilities reported to the ntop project.
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Sponsored Post: InterviewCamp.io, Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -
Who's Hiring? * InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. * Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning
Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure - High Scalability -
If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on the
Meet “Click!”: Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks — Smashing Magazine
How, then, do we encourage users to act? By establishing trust with small commitments, at the right time, and in the right order. Click! explains how to do just that. Meet our new practical guide on how to build trust, increase conversion and boost business KPIs effectively — without alienating people along the way. Written by Paul Boag. Coming up in June. Jump to table of contents and get the boo
Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols — Smashing Magazine
For hundreds of years, we have been using white space in typography. Today, in 2020, how do we add spacing to punctuation marks and other symbols, and how do we adjust the space on the left and right side in an easy and consistent way? It is actually not as easy and quick as it should be.
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with
How to pair design (and convince your boss to invest in it)
An introduction to design pairing, how to structure it, and tips for convincing your boss that it’s a good idea.
Accelerometer and SoftSKU: Improving hardware platform performance for diverse microservices
What the research is: New strategies to improve the performance of hardware platforms running Facebook’s microservices. SoftSKU is a novel mechanism that tailors an existing server processor to optimize it for a specific microservice without requiring any additional hardware. Accelerometer is an analytical model that predicts gains from these optimizations even before the custom hardware […] Read
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Setting TypeScript For Modern React Projects Using Webpack — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces Typescript, a superscript of JavaScript that presents the static type feature for spotting common errors as developers codes, which enhances performance, hence results in robust enterprise applications. You’ll also learn how to efficiently set up TypeScript in a React Project as we build a Money Heist Episode Picker App, exploring TypeScript, React hoo
CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network conditions.
Remote work: Marketing and planning virtual events remotely
The GitHub marketing team shares best practices for working remotely and planning virtual events.
Metaphors in man pages
Metaphors in man pages
Tracing user interactions with React
How to use the (EXPERIMENTAL) interactions tracing API in React.
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features and technologies incrementally slowed the site down and made it harder to maintain. This made it harder to introduce new experiences. Features like dark mode […]
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How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby - Shopify
How do we effectively find out why our application is slow? Even if we have a fix for the slow code, how can we prove that our new code is faster?
How To Build A Vue Survey App Using Firebase Authentication And Database — Smashing Magazine
This tutorial would take you on a step by step guide to build a functional survey app using Vue.js and Firebase. From validating the user’s data through Vuelidate, to authentication, storing the user’s data, route protection and sending data to Firebase servers. All the steps used in the tutorial are practical, and can be reproduced in any real-life project, even with a custom backend.
