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 […]
Responses to reader feedback
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.
Feature Branch
Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs.
Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
Happiness is… a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
Reducing Design Risk — Smashing Magazine
The pressure to rush market and usability research carries risk. In this article, Eric Olive will offer four practical techniques to mitigate this risk and create designs that better serve customers and the company: context over convenience, compromise, better design decisions, design reduction.
How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020
Peter Tasker on creating blocks right now:
Static Hoisting
The other day in "Static or not?" I said:
How our product design team works
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.
Capture the Flag 4—CodeQL and chill
Join our Capture the Flag challenge to use your CodeQL skills or learn new ones.
New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Discussions, Codespaces, securing code in private repositories, and more
See what we announced at our first virtual GitHub Satellite including a full dev environment on GitHub powered by VS Code, a new way to have discussions with your communities, new ways to secure projects with code scanning and secret scanning, and more.
Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19
Following the 2019 Octoverse report, this latest article provides trends and insights into developer activity on GitHub in the early days of COVID-19.
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences
Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage
A Complete Guide To Mechanical Keyboards — Smashing Magazine
How much thought have you put into your primary input device? Ever considered how much better your interface with your computer might be? For decades, keyboards have been the primary mechanisms by which we interact with our computers. In this article, Ben Frain is going to dive into the possibilities of mechanical keyboards. The different layouts, switch types and even keycap material. Strap yours
More flexibility with Stripe Billing
New Stripe Billing features to help you support more business models, shave time off of your operations, and let you bill customers globally with advanced invoicing features.
Cinco de Mayo - What are we celebrating anyway?
Latinflare explores the Cinco de Mayo holiday and shares the perspective of various employees from around the globe.
Setting up Cloudflare for Teams as a Start-Up Business
S2 Systems, recently acquired by Cloudflare, provides a start-up’s perspective of setting up Cloudflare for Teams and how it solved some problems that we struggled with for way too long.
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
It's easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That's how it's traditionally been packaged for us. Think
`lh` and `rlh` units
There's some new units I was totally unaware of from the Level 4 spec for CSS values! The lh unit is "equal to the computed value of line-height" and rlh is