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.
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
Fix the "not wrapped in act(...)" warning
There are a few reasons you're getting this warning. Here's how you fix it.
An Interview With Zach Leatherman: A SmashingConf Austin Speaker — Smashing Magazine
SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, Rachel Andrew brings you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance. Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018.
Get support from the dashboard
Get in touch with Vercel Support easier than ever before, without having to leave your dashboard.
Full Stack Panic
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
Suspicious discontinuities
95%-ile isn't that good
How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50 million tracks (plus an array of images and other assets) to more than 230 million monthly active users around the world — making us one of the world’s leading streaming services. With content that feels instant and immersive, we help our customers have the best experience possible with their fav
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few streaming platforms that has existed since before 2010, Spotify had a unique opportunity to be able to provide users with a
Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering and how data and acceleration technologies can speed up and improve essential software development processes.
Ajay Kalia: Group Product Manager
Time to wake up, grab a shower and get my train. I live in Newton, Massachusetts, which means a half-hour ride into work. And I spend that time bouncing around between various streaming and podcast platforms on my phone—half to entertain myself, half as market research. It’s a great opportunity to put myself in the shoes of someone who doesn’t work at Spotify, listen with fresh ears, and figure ou
Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – as he explains how Resilience Engineering techniques can help us understand incidents in online software worlds in a broader and deeper way.
Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
I never set an alarm clock these days—my children wake me up sometime before 7am and we get them breakfast, help them get dressed and all get ready for the day. One of the coolest things about where we live in Stockholm is that everything is within walking distance—I just cross the street to drop our younger kid at preschool, go two blocks down to drop the older one at their school, and then walk
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or we’re making a relatively quick decision about which track to add to one of our editorially-programmed playlists, data provides a foundation for sound decision making. An insight is a conclusion drawn from data that can help influence decisions and drive change. To ena
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.
29 Days Of February (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Artists and designers from across the globe once again got out their favorite tools and created unique and inspiring wallpapers to welcome the new month. The wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for February 2020 and can be downloaded for free.
Log Drains on Vercel
Easily forward and collect your logs using Log Drains.
Test designs early and often with the new Maze integration
Now user testing is easier and faster with Figma and Maze’s new product integration.
How To Create A Card Matching Game Using Angular And RxJS — Smashing Magazine
Today, Anna Prenzel would like to focus on data streams resulting from click events on the user interface. The processing of such clickstreams is particularly useful for applications with an intensive user interaction where many events have to be processed. This article is dedicated to Angular developers who want to harness the concept of reactive programming. This is a programming style that — si
JAMstack at the Edge: How we built Built with Workers… on Workers
We're showcasing developers building incredible projects with tools like Workers KV or our streaming HTML rewriter.
