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You don’t need to know your trees from your dangling blobs. If you use Git every day and feel like it’s a juggling act, then here are some tricks and tips to help make your life a bit easier. There’s been a lot written about getting started with git, understanding how git works under the hood or techniques for better branching strategies. In this article, Shane Hudson will specifically target the
As our developer documentation grows so does the need for tooling. Let’s walk through how we migrated our documentation site to Gatsby to take full advantage of static generation and React.
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important
In-depth analysis of February service disruptions that impacted GitHub services.
Author’s note: This is a copy of the white paper of the Working Group, a group of four pseudonymous professionals in Tokyo. I, Patrick McKenzie, was the primary author. It was distributed quietly during the week of March 25th, 2020. I have written an essay describing how this document came to be and demonstrating its provenance .
Recent research has found that e-commerce category pages have higher click-through rates in search than individual category pages. So, if your e-commerce site is struggling to attract shoppers and convert them, your category pages (specifically, those on mobile) might be in need of a redesign. Based on the following data, Suzanne Scacca will show you how category pages have a role to play — as the
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!
The other day I was helping my pal Jez work on Dept. of Enthusiasm, the site for his newsletter, and I had a thought. What if we made the word “enthusiasm” in
Deep dive from Ahmad. I like the coverage of vmin and vmax, which I think I don't reach for as often as I should.
Markdown has traditionally been a favorite format for programmers to write documentation. It’s simple enough for almost everyone to learn and adapt to while
By default, <input> and <textarea> elements don't change size based on the content they contain. In fact, there isn't any simple HTML or CSS way
The team events API (/team_log/get_events) is now available with over 300 events.
Learn more about the Bug Bounty program, including a recap of 2019’s bugs, our expanded scope, new features, and more.
GitHub Desktop 2.4 gets you set up to work behind a proxy without having to configure anything manually, allows you to easily create an issue, and brings dark theme out of beta.
In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/designers-code-terminal-text-editors-part-1/), Paul explained the basics of the terminal, shared a few productivity hacks to get you started, and how to choose a code editor. In this part, he’ll continue with the topics of version control (Git), HTML and CSS, semantic code, and a brief introduction to some key engineering principles.
A showcase of projects from the Vercel developer community, built during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We started the Bandwidth Alliance in 2018 with a group of like-minded cloud and networking partners. Our common goal was to help our mutual customers reduce or eliminate data transfer charges, sometimes known as "bandwidth” or “egress” fees, between the cloud and the consumer.
Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.
With just a simple one-liner of code you can use any emoji as a favicon of your website. 😃
With easier organization and increased scalability, repository admins can more efficiently control access management to get users the permissions they need.
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
