Manage secrets and more with the GitHub Actions API
Manage secrets, make use of self-hosted runners, and more with the GitHub Actions API—now available in beta.
ZooKeeper Meetup@Facebook: Advancing the state of distributed coordination
We recently hosted the third annual ZooKeeper Meetup@Facebook in Menlo Park, featuring technical talks focused on new performance, scalability, and security features implemented at large-scale companies with complex distributed systems. Events such as these are important for building community among peers across the industry. Speakers from Cloudera, Facebook, Salesforce, San José State University,
Bug Bounty Year in Review 2019 - Shopify
We’re reflecting on our Bug Bounty program for 2019 and introducing new program changes for 2020.
Django Highlights: User Models And Authentication (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Django is a framework for developing dynamic websites. While a static website is one that solely presents information, there is no interaction that gets registered to a server. In a static website, the server sends HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to a client and that’s it. More capabilities require a dynamic website, where the server stores information and responds to user interaction beyond just servin
Advanced Project Settings on Vercel
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Browser Version Release Spectrum
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and
HTTPS is Easy!
I've been guilty of publicly bemoaning the complexity of HTTPS. In the past, I've purchased SSL certificates from third-party vendors and had trouble
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
CSS4 is a Bad Idea
Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at Slack
6:45am The sound of coffee grinding wakes me up 15 minutes before my alarm. I’m not a morning person, but I always stumble bleary-eyed into the kitchen for some toast and coffee with my partner, which is my favorite daily ritual. I sit down, listen to my morning news podcasts — The Daily and AM…
Magic Flip Cards: Solving A Common Sizing Problem — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Dan Halliday reviews the standard approach to creating animated flip cards, and introduces an improved method which solves its sizing problem. You’re going to build a flip card grid with some CSS basics — transforms, flex, and grid. Dan will cover: how flip cards are usually implemented using absolute positioning, the sizing problem that absolute positioning introduces, and a gene
CSS4
What is CSS4? Is it a real thing? I hate to break it to you, but not really. But maybe we could make it a thing? CSS3 was successful, so why not keep that train rolling like they do in JavaScript?
PHP is A-OK for Templating
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic
Overcomplicatin’
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Highlight your project on Local Hack Day: Share
GitHub and Major League Hacking (MLH) came together to organize Local Hack Day: Share.
Hacking the 'scope from a distant land
Meet “The Ethical Design Handbook”: How To Leave Dark Patterns Behind — Smashing Magazine
We need to craft better digital products that respect customer’s choices without hurting business KPIs. And we need to do so by taming data collection and abandoning dark patterns, from hidden checkboxes to ambiguous copywriting. Today, Vitaly Friedman brings you our new practical guide on how to influence a positive change in your company and help your business grow sustainably. Without dark patt
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack — Smashing Magazine
In this post, we’ll set up a demo site and tutorial for headless WordPress, including a starter template! We’ll use the WordPress dashboard for rich content editing, while migrating the front-end architecture to the JAMstack to benefit from better security, performance, and reliability. We’ll do this by setting up a Vue application with Nuxt, pulling in the posts from our application via the WordP
The Three Types of Code
Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to
Freezing User-Agent Strings
There's been news about Chrome freezing their User-Agent string (and all other major browsers are on board). That means they'll still have a User-Agent (UA)
How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more
Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path
We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path. Don't miss Michelle Barker's experimentation either, with drawing
The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived
On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.
