AVIF has landed
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake's blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web
One Action, Multiple Terminal Windows Running Stuff
Many development environments require running things in a terminal window. npm run start, or whatever. I know my biggest project requires me to be running a
Fault tolerance through optimal workload placement
As our infrastructure has expanded, we have seen an exponential growth in failures that affect a subset of capacity in a data center. These may stem from software or firmware errors, or issues in the mechanical or electrical equipment in the data center. As our data center footprint grows, so does the frequency of such […]
Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities — Smashing Magazine
Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities.
Smashing Podcast Episode 24 With Cassie Evans: What Is SVG Animation? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about SVG Animation. How can vector images, JavaScript and CSS all work together to provide engaging motion graphics? Drew McLellan talks to SVG expert Cassie Evans to find out.
Working with JavaScript Media Queries
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of media queries? Maybe something in a CSS file that looks like this:
All the Ways to Make a Web Component
This is a neat page that compares a ton of different libraries with web components. One of the things I learned after posting "A Bit on Web Components
Import Non-ESM libraries in ES Modules, with Client-Side Vanilla JS
We're living through a weird era where there are tons of JavaScript libraries that were meant to be used as <script> tags that expose available globals.
Using max() for an inner-element max-width
I go into all this in The "Inside" Problem. The gist: you want an edge-to-edge container, but the content inside to have a limited width. I think there is
Figma’s new EMEA HQ
We're opening an office in London to better support users in EMEA
Smart Interface Design Patterns In Your Pocket: Checklist Cards PDF — Smashing Magazine
Meet our Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklist Cards, a deck of 100 cards with questions to ask when designing and building any interface component — carousel, hamburger, table, date picker, autocomplete, slider, onboarding, pricing plans, authentication, web forms and many others. Check the preview (PDF) and jump to description ↓
How To Automate API Testing With Postman — Smashing Magazine
Postman allows you to manually test your APIs in both its desktop and web-based applications. However, it also has the ability for you to automate these tests by writing JavaScript assertions on your API endpoints. In this article, Kelvin Omereshone will learn how to write automated tests on web APIs with Postman. In order to follow along to this tutorial, you’ll need at least a fair amount of fam
Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
Beyond Media Queries: Using Newer HTML & CSS Features for Responsive Designs
Beyond using media queries and modern CSS layouts, like flexbox and grid, to create responsive websites, there are certain overlooked things we can do well to
Supercharging Number Inputs
Speaking of number scrubbing (i.e. adding mouse UX to number inputs), you can also add better keyboard commands to number inputs. Kilian Valkhof explains how
Release Radar
It’s back! We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for September 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from…
Building A Component Library With React And Emotion — Smashing Magazine
A component library helps to keep a design consistent across multiple projects. It ensures consistency because any changes made will propagate across the projects that make use of it. In this tutorial, Ademola Adegbuyi will show you how to build a component library, using Emotion in React to resolve inconsistencies. At the end of this piece, you should be able to create a component library that fi
Rendering React on the Edge with Flareact and Cloudflare Workers
Page speed is critical. You need to get content to your audience as quickly as possible on every device. You also need to render ads in a speedy way to maintain a good user experience and make money to support your journalism.
Stroke Text CSS: The Definitive Guide
Whenever I think of stroked text on the web I think: nope.
How to Simplify SVG Code Using Basic Shapes
There are different ways to work with icons, but the best solution always includes SVG, whether it’s implemented inline or linked up as an image file. That’s
State of Jamstack 2020: Data Deep Dive
The Jamstack, a modern approach to building websites and apps, delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer
Making Design Within Reach for online shoppers
Bringing the brick-and-mortar experience online
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup
The developer community in Africa continues to thrive. Here at GitHub, we’re excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for African developers. This meetup is happening on Tuesday, September 15th,…
Introducing the GitHub Stars Program ⭐️
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of those millions of developers on GitHub, there…
Starting an Initiative
Early in my career at Slack I was looking for ways to have an impact. I asked my manager what I could work on to add value to the team. She said that we wanted to catch bugs earlier in the development process and that Cypress testing might be one way to do this. I…
4 Ways To Creatively Use Icons In Your Mobile Apps — Smashing Magazine
Icons have long held an important place in the design of mobile apps. But beyond using them to create larger and more attractive touch targets, there are other ways mobile app designers can use these tiny elements to make an app more engaging. This post will explore four ways to do this. Today, Suzanna Scacca will look at a number of ways you can creatively add icons or icon-like elements to your
PostgreSQL vs PostgreSQL vs Postgres vs Oracle vs all the rest
How can you find data even if there are typos? In PostgreSQL there are various solutions to the problem of a search with odd spelling.
Creating multi-brand design systems
Learnings about building and maintaining design systems
How we threat model
At GitHub, we spend a lot of time thinking about and building secure products—and one key facet of that is threat modeling. This practice involves bringing security and engineering teams…
Secure at every step: What is software supply chain security and why does it matter?
The most important way to protect supply chain threats? Scan code for security vulnerabilities, learn how to find vulnerabilities in code, and quickly patch them with dynamic code analysis tools.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
What is your take on checking return values?
5 Ways to Improve Your React Native Styling Workflow - Shopify
In April, we announced Shop, our digital shopping assistant that brings together the best features of Arrive and Shop Pay. The Shop app started from our React Native codebase for our previous package tracking app Arrive, with every screen receiving a complete visual overhaul to fit the new branding. While our product designers worked on introducing a whole new design system that would decide the l
Everything Developers Need To Know About Figma — Smashing Magazine
Figma is a design tool that is rapidly gaining popularity and becoming more common in companies around the world. Unlike most design software, Figma is free and browser-based so developers can easily access the full design files making the developer handoff process significantly smoother. With article, Jurn van Wissen teaches developers who have nothing but a basic understanding of design tools ev
Two clicks to add region-based Zero Trust compliance
Starting today, you can make geography-based compliance easy again in Cloudflare Access with just two clicks. You can now build rules that require employees to connect from certain countries. You can also add rules that block team members from connecting from other countries.
How to Make a Media Query-less responsive Card Component
Fun fact: it’s possible to create responsive components without any media queries at all. Certainly, if we had container queries, those would be very useful
Introducing GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections?
Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.
MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database - High Scalability -
Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you impr
Results of Oregon project environmental analysis
The Jupiter subsea cable is a transpacific cable that runs between Japan and the Philippines and the U.S., where it lands in Hermosa Beach, California, and Tierra del Mar, Oregon. During Facebook’s Oregon landing drilling operation in Tierra del Mar on April 28, an unfortunate incident occurred, in which a horizontal directional drill hit hard […]
Building React Apps With Storybook — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Abdulazeez Adeshina will show you what storybook is about and how to use it to build and test React components by building a simple application. He’ll start with a basic example that shows how to work with storybook, then will go ahead to create a storybook for a Table component which will hold students’ data. You should have basic knowledge of React and the use of NPM before proc
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for Spotify’s open source efforts: has accepted , our open source developer portal, as an early stage project in the . It’s just the first step in a longer journey with the CNCF, but it’s an important one for Spotify as it underlines our renewed commitment to open source — and developers
Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected to have about 1,500 attendees from a dozen different cities — seven separate tracks running for three days jam-packed with talks and, of course, social events, similar to the year before. The event was organized by 16 engineers from different parts of Spotify with added support f
Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch , we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to make this year’s experience even better for audio fans, like you, around the world.
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you could somehow see these musical connections as they were happening and connecting us with people we’ve never met, miles apart.
Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability to manage and scale our infrastructure to support our 299+ million listeners worldwide, 24/7, without missing a beat (or syllable) is crucial for the business and our brand.
To design and develop an interactive globe
Stripe’s approach to creating a 1:40 million-scale, interactive 3D model of the earth.
The Serverlist: The Edge on Localhost, Micro API in Firebase and Workers, and more!
Check out our nineteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
Containerizing ZooKeeper with Twine: Powering container orchestration from within
Hardware fails, networks partition, and humans break things. The job of our infrastructure engineers is to abstract these realities away and provide a reliable, stable production environment nonetheless. Two of the technologies we deploy in this pursuit are Twine, our internal container orchestrator, and Apache ZooKeeper. Twine maintains service availability by managing services in containers
How To Do More With Vue Router — Smashing Magazine
Vue Router is the official router for Vue that is mostly used for creating multiple pages living on different routes (`/home`, `/profile`) in your application but has some features that some people do not know about. In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you some amazing features the Vue Router has and how we can make use of them in our app. You can find all the code used in this article
September In All Its Facets (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, Cosima Mielke brings you wallpaper designs for September 2020, created with love by the design community for the community. All of them are available in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their artworks with us — we sincerely appreciate it!
August 30th 2020: Analysis of CenturyLink/Level(3) outage
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
GitHub Action Hero: Eddie Jaoude
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Asynchronous HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service.
Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs
“Why is it slow?” is the hardest problem to debug in a complex distributed system like Slack. To diagnose a slow-loading channel with over a hundred thousand users, we’d need to look at client-side metrics, server-side metrics, and logs. It could be a client-side issue: a slow network connection or hardware. On the other hand,…
Demystifying Django’s Magic — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links
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How Argo Tunnel engineering uses Argo Tunnel
Argo Tunnel provides remote access to development environments by creating secure outbound-only connections to Cloudflare’s edge network from a resource exposing it to the Internet. That model helps protect servers and resources from being vulnerable to attack by an exposed IP address.
“Face mask manufacturer” supplies Agent Tesla Malware: campaign employs Covid-19 lures and sophisticated evasion techniques
Covid-19 phishing attack exploits need for face masks, thermometers to launch Agent Tesla malware (advanced Remote Access Trojan); bypasses gateways, DMARC.
A Complete Walkthrough of GraphQL APIs with React and FaunaDB
As a web developer, there is an interesting bit of back and forth that always comes along with setting up a new application. Even using a full stack web