“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn't go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’
7 things that could be improved in PostgreSQL
UPDATE July 2023: What could be better in PostgreSQL? Find out about its weak points, and see what has improved since 2020.
Remote work: Engineering’s perspective on humanizing the remote work experience
The GitHub engineering team shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
Super Simple Start to React
The most simple React setup imaginable
Why Collaborative Coding Is The Ultimate Career Hack — Smashing Magazine
Whatever stage you’re at in your career, coding collaboratively is one of the best uses of your time. With remote working on the rise, there’s never been a better time to practice pair programming and embrace Agile development.
Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency
The Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update.
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We've also written a series of articles explaining how traditional databases built
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!
Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff
Exploring Node.js Internals — Smashing Magazine
Node.js is an interesting tool for web developers. With its high level of concurrency, it has become a leading candidate for people choosing tools to use in web development. In this article, we will learn about what makes up Node.js, give it a meaningful definition, understand how the internals of Node.js interact with one another, and explore the project repository for Node.js on GitHub.
Stripe Issuing is now open to all US businesses
Today, we’re opening Stripe Issuing access to everyone in the US, so you can sign up and start creating cards instantly.
My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes
Matthias Ott's posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y'all, I
The case for lightweight prototyping
Some tried and true ways to use prototypes, and an unexpected use case from the Figma team.
Domain Driven Design
Improving notifications for everyone
We’re dedicated to making notifications as simple and valuable as they can be, so you can be as productive on GitHub and you can be.
GitHub Actions: Community momentum, enterprise capabilities, and developer improvements
GitHub Actions continues its community momentum and ships new features for enterprises and developers.
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for React/Next.js apps.
Responsive Web And Desktop Development With Flutter — Smashing Magazine
Flutter has already made quite a splash on the mobile development scene. Now it’s taking on bigger devices as well. In this article, Carmine Zaccagnino will show you what you need to know to be ready to take on the task of developing web and desktop apps using this wonderful cross-platform framework. Flutter is a lovely framework, very easy to use, and its extreme cross-platform support only makes
Deploying Gateway using a Raspberry Pi, DNS over HTTPS and Pi-hole
Like many, I work remotely and want to show how to deploy Cloudflare Gateway from home. Its DNS filtering protects networks from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other security threats effectively.
Building a Scalable CSS Architecture With BEM and Utility Classes
Maintaining a large-scale CSS project is hard. Over the years, we've witnessed different approaches aimed at easing the process of writing scalable CSS. In
PostgreSQL v13 new feature: tuning autovacuum on insert-only tables
PostgreSQL v13 introduces autovacuum for insert-only tables. This article tells you why and how to make use of this new feature.
How Inneract Project empowers the next generation of brown and black designers
Students' stories and what they built in Figma.
Meet some of this year’s GitHub Satellite speakers
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
Stay on top of your code reviews with scheduled reminders
Scheduled reminders is out of beta to help your team be more efficient by reducing time spent waiting on code reviews, and more.
