The Return of the 90s Web
One of my forever-lessons here on CSS-Tricks is that having your own website and blogging on it is a good idea. It's probably one of the best decisions I've
Line-Animated Hamburger Menu
This kind of SVG + CSS animation trickery is catnip to me. Mikael Ainalem shares how to draw a hamburger icon (the "three lines" thing you're well familiar
Crash reporting in desktop Python applications
How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever
Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript
During July's Hackweek, the three of us rewrote Dropbox's full browser-side codebase to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript, and we've been really happy with how it's been going so far. This is a controversial subject, so we thought we'd start by explaining why...
Migrating from Underscore to Lodash
Using machine learning to predict what file you need next, Part 2
Machine intelligence at Dropbox: An update from our DBXi team
How Dropbox Security builds tools for threat detection and incident response
Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox
Courier: Dropbox migration to gRPC
Meet Bandaid, the Dropbox service proxy
Enhancing Bandaid load balancing at Dropbox by leveraging real-time backend server load information
Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network
Firefly: Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox (Part 1)
Building better compression together with DivANS
Lossless compression with Brotli in Rust for a bit of Pied Piper on the backend
RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points
Remote work: Reshaping the workplace experience
The GitHub Workplace Experience team weighs in on how to get creative during COVID-19 and what the future holds.
GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake
GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. With GitHub Actions, you can deploy to any cloud, build containers, automate messages, and do so much more. Use any tool you…
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 ju
Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form — Smashing Magazine
In the tenth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how Giovanni Pintori — the Italian graphic designer best known for his work with Olivetti — can inspire design for the web with his distinctive use of color and shape. Andy will teach you how to use color to attract attention and then to lead someone’s eye around a design. He’ll discuss how a minimal color palette can act as
Some Typography Links III
I just can't stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open
The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.21 is here
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.21 is now available with updates to simplify collaboration, increase reliability and improve security.
Dependabot now updates your Actions workflows
GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, from continuous integration and delivery to issue triage and more. Whether you want to build a container, deploy a…
Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine
Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving t
How to evaluate design tools
A framework for project managing, testing, and choosing a design tool, based on what we’ve heard from our users.
Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows
Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years…
Writing Better, Type-safe Code with Sorbet - Shopify
I want to talk about one contribution that has takeaways for any Ruby developer. Here are 4 reasons for why we adopted Sorbet for static type checking.
The App Sandbox
Batten down the hatches! The app sandbox is now enabled for all web content. This is a fancy way of saying we’ve dialed up the security of the app. It wasn’t unsafe before, but it’s double safe now. What is the “app sandbox,” what is it protecting against, and why does it matter? This post…
A Practical Guide To Testing React Applications With Jest — Smashing Magazine
Building a well-functioning application requires good testing; otherwise, knowing whether your application works as expected would be a matter of guesswork and luck. Jest is one of the best tools available for testing React applications. In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun will show you everything you need to create a solid test for your React components and application.
Lessons from a 2020 intern assignment
In this blog post, I want to explain the details of the full-stack take home exercise that we sent out to our 2020 internship applicants.
WebP Image Support Coming to iOS 14
Apple announced a ton of new updates at yesterday's WWDC20 keynote address, from new hardware to updated applications. There's lots to gawk at and enough
Let's Make a Multi-Thumb Slider That Calculates The Width Between Thumbs
HTML has an <input type="range">, which is, you could argue, the simplest type of proportion slider. Wherever the thumb of that slider ends up could
How Web Designers Can Help Restaurants Move Into Digital Experiences — Smashing Magazine
We’re at a point now where restaurants can no longer be reluctant or stingy about improving their digital presence. And, as a web designer, this should get you excited. The restaurant industry has begun to undergo a major digital transformation. Those that want to survive will need a website that can handle the new way of operating, which means they can no longer afford to hold onto that cheap web
DNS Records UI
Configure custom DNS Records for your Domains and apply presets. Right in the Web UI.
An Overview of Scroll Technologies
Scroll-related animations have been used on the web for years. In recent years, they’ve started to become more common, perhaps in part due to devices being
Using Custom Property "Stacks" to Tame the Cascade
Since the inception of CSS in 1994, the cascade and inheritance have defined how we design on the web. Both are powerful features but, as authors, we've had
Rough Notation
This is a neat little library. It uses SVG to insert hand-drawn looking annotations to elements (probably text), like underlines and box highlights (there are
New guides on error handling and detecting changes
New developer guides! Come check out two new Dropbox API developer guides and learn about error handling and detecting changes.
Promote consistency across your organization with workflow templates
Now you can create custom workflow templates to promote best practices and consistency across your organization.
AHA Programming 💡
The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.
How I Record Educational Videos
My process for making high value-to-minute content.
An Introduction To SWR: React Hooks For Remote Data Fetching — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll be looking at a new way of retrieving data in React Apps named SWR. This is a set of hooks for remote data fetching that makes things easier, such as caching, pagination, and so on.
Just another +1 for subgrid
I'd say 85% of my grid usage is in one of these two categories...
Easing Animations in Canvas
The <canvas> element in HTML and Canvas API in JavaScript combine to form one of the main raster graphics and animation possibilities on the web. A
A Monthly Update On All Things Smashing — Smashing Magazine
Every month, we present an overview of things the Smashing team has been working on — all in one place. We organized Smashing Meets on three days — events that were open to everyone in the web community. With sessions on performance, CSS, GraphQL, and creative courage, we made sure to leave plenty of time for Q&A, networking, competitions and prizes. The past few weeks have been quite challenging:
What Vitruvius Can Teach Us About Web Design — Smashing Magazine
The ancients can teach us a thing or two about design — even web design. The Roman architect Vitruvius had buildings in mind when laying out his golden triad, but its principles are just as applicable to the web as they are to brick and mortar. Today’s article is about architecture, and how some of its core tenets apply to the worldwide web. Architectural terms are not unusual in web development,
Cloudflare and Rackspace Technology Expand Partnership with Managed Services
Last year, Cloudflare announced the planned expansion of our partner program to help managed and professional service partners efficiently engage with Cloudflare and join us in our mission to help build a better Internet.
Why is there a "V" in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?
My program received a SIGSEGV signal and crashed with "Segmentation Fault" message. Where does the "V" come from? Did I read it wrong? Was there a "Segmentation *V*ault?"? Or did Linux authors make a mistake? Shouldn't the signal be named SIGSEGF?
SQL trickery: Hypothetical aggregates
“If we had this data what would it mean?” - read more about this PostgreSQL technique, what it is good for & how it works.
How to get closer with your developer
Three tips on involving engineers early, from a product designer at Coda.
Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more “HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world”
Shopify's Data Science & Engineering Foundations - Shopify
Shopify’s Data team uses these foundational approaches to data warehousing and analysis empowering us to deliver the best results for our ecosystem.
Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter — Smashing Magazine
When using cross-platform frameworks, people might forget the nuances of each of the platforms they want their code to run on. This article aims to address that. Today, Carmine Zaccagnino is going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them. More specifically, he’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when w
Virtual Interning Offers Unique Challenges and Opportunities
The working world has drastically changed in the past few months. Navigating this new reality as an intern can bring some unique challenges to light.
Improving your User Lifecycle Management with the Dropbox API
Take control of your Dropbox team by improving your user lifecycle management with the Dropbox API
Using GitHub Actions for MLOps & Data Science
Background Machine Learning Operations (or MLOps) enables Data Scientists to work in a more collaborative fashion, by providing testing, lineage, versioning, and historical information in an automated way. Because the…
