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Arguing that dark patterns are unethical is not enough on its own. We will also need to make the case to clients and colleagues that they are damaging to business. That’s what Paul Boag has also written in his new Smashing book, “[Click](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/05/encouraging-clicks-book-pre-release)”. In this post, he will put together a compelling argument you can present to stakeh
At Cloudflare, we work to provide a great viewing experience while keeping our service affordable. In this post, let's have some fun to see changes between different versions of a video.
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
Shawn Wang is talking about RedwoodJS here:
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they'll tell you it's been valuable to them. Maybe it's opened doors. Maybe it's got them a job. Maybe it's
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
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
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Find out about how network latency is essential to PostgreSQL database performance. Measure the performance impact caused by latency.
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.
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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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
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
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.
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
An introduction to design pairing, how to structure it, and tips for convincing your boss that it’s a good idea.
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
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
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.
The GitHub marketing team shares best practices for working remotely and planning virtual events.
Metaphors in man pages
