Using BugHerd to Track Visual Feedback on Websites
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.
How to Build a Chrome Extension
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd living through a
WordPress Block Transforms
This has been the year of Gutenberg for us here at CSS-Tricks. In fact, that's a goal we set at the end of last year. We're much further along that I thought
User agents
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
Bringing live Figma embeds to your team’s favorite tools
Now, you can embed private Figma files into Notion, Dropbox Paper, Jira, and more.
Animated Sparkles in React
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
Infra teams: good, bad, or none at all
What Is Nix - Shopify
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
Prototyping at Slack
Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is proposed and researched, then designed or spec’d, then built, in that order. It’s not the most efficient way to work and as a company grows — with more people involved…
Can Data Visualization Improve The Mobile Web Experience? — Smashing Magazine
Since more and more web traffic comes from mobile users, our websites need to be in the best position to serve them. The easiest thing to do would be to remove unnecessary content from the site. However, it may not always be the best solution. In this article, Suzanne Scacca proposes some ways to turn essential content into graphics to conserve space, create a more engaging UI and preserve the ove
Smashing Podcast Episode 16 With Ben Frain: How Can I Optimize My Home Workspace? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about shaping our physical spaces when working from home. What can you do to take a step up from working at your kitchen table? Drew McLellan talks to workspace geek Ben Frain to find out.
DeepLinks and ScrollAnchor
One of the interesting challenges with deep linking in the Cloudflare Dashboard is that most interesting resources are “locked” behind the context of an account and a zone/domain/website. To illustrate this, look at a tree of possible URL paths into Cloudflare’s Dashboard.
Unprefixed `appearance `
It's interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to
First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout
It's not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make "masonry" layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long
Tackling Authentication With Vue Using RESTful APIs
Authentication (logging in!) is a crucial part of many websites. Let’s look at how to go about it on a site using Vue, in the same way it can be done with any
Improve test error messages of your abstractions
How to manipulate stack traces to get beautiful error messages with Jest and your test helper functions.
How To Create A Mobile App In Expo And Firebase (For iOS And Android) — Smashing Magazine
The social media company released React Native, and it quickly became the most popular framework for building mobile apps with JavaScript. In this article, based on his experience with creating a GPS and navigation application, Chafik Gharbi will show you how to create a mobile app using Expo and Firebase services such as Firestore, Firebase functions and Expo push notifications.
Stripe’s first carbon removal purchases
Announcing our first four recipients and expanding our commitment to support the negative emissions ecosystem.
How to Tame Line Height in CSS
In CSS, line-height is probably one of the most misunderstood, yet commonly-used attributes. As designers and developers, when we think about line-height, we
CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
A surprisingly common response when asking people about things they'd fix about anything in CSS, is to improve the handling of viewport units.
Ludum Dare 46 staff picks
10 games from Ludum Dare 46 for your entertainment and source code-viewing pleasure.
Remote work: How Finance, Legal, and IT made the shift to working from home
Traditional in-office teams share how they are adjusting to remote life
Learning Resources In Challenging Times: Online Workshops, Meetups And Events — Smashing Magazine
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. In today’s monthly post, Iris Lješnjanin brings you an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Here at Smashing, we believe that is is now more important than ever to stay in touch and support each other. Behind the scenes, the team is working tirelessly on ways to keep the community connected,
Accessible Images For When They Matter Most — Smashing Magazine
Creating accessible images seems like a simple topic at first glance — you just need to add alt text to an image, right? But the topic is much more nuanced than some people think. In this article, Carie Fisher will review the different types of images, dive into some real-world examples of inaccessible public service announcements (PSAs), and discuss which elements matter most when critical messag
Binary data performance in PostgreSQL
This article discusses the question if binary data should be stored inside PostgreSQL or not. The performance of the various options is benchmarked.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Luke Hefson
With Luke Hefson’s many different roles at GitHub, he’s learned about tons of hacks and protips that he can’t wait to share with you.
Reflecting on joining GitHub and what’s next for GitHub Insights
With GitHub’s focus on developers, community, and customers, we can’t imagine a better place for our team to be.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 14th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Hey, it's HighScalability time! LOL. Who knew a birthday service could lead to an existential crisis? 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 wants to understand the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 111 mostly 5
A Short on How Zoom Works - High Scalability -
Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected
A Brief History of TLS Certificates at Shopify - Shopify
In this post, we’ll cover Shopify’s journey from manually provisioning TLS certificates to the fully automated system that supports over 1M businesses.
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack
6:28 am First alarm rings. Snooze. 6:30 am Second alarm rings. Snooze. 6:34 am Final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I hop out of bed and immediately play some music. Music really has a way of waking me up, and I typically play Sofi Tukker or Rufus Du Sol…
Smashing Meets! Free Online Meetups On May 18th And 19th 2020 — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Meets is a friendly, inclusive, online meetup for people who work on the web. We focus on front-end and UX, but cover all sorts of topics from performance to accessibility. We organize Smashing Meets together with some amazing communities from around the world. Join us for Smashing Meets — two free online meetups with speakers, activities, and plenty of chances to make new friends. Just l
Styling Components In React — Smashing Magazine
React is a fantastic JavaScript library for building rich user interfaces. It provides a great component abstraction for organizing your interfaces into well-functioning code, but what about the look and feel of the app? There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries. In this article, Shedrack Akintayo will explain the cons and pros of
Backblaze B2 and the S3 Compatible API on Cloudflare
In May 2020, Backblaze, a founding Bandwidth Alliance partner announced S3 compatible APIs for their B2 Cloud Storage service. We are excited to see Backblaze introduce a new level of compatibility in their Cloud Storage service.
Equal Width Columns in CSS Grid are Kinda Weird
Everything is flexible these days. If you write grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px;, sure, you'd have equal-width columns, but that's a rare day. What
New File and Folder Embedder Launched in Preview
Dropbox has released the File and Folder Embedder in Preview. Start here to learn how to embed Dropbox content in your app using shared links.
Finding design inspiration at home
Tips from the Figma design team on how to spark creativity at home.
Building a transformative subsea cable to better connect Africa
Connectivity is at the heart of our mission to give people the power to build community. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet — and with 3.5 billion people globally unconnected, there is still a lot to do. Africa is currently the least connected continent, with just over a quarter […]
Dev Degree: Behind the Scenes - Shopify
On April 24th, 2020, we proudly celebrated the graduation of our first Dev Degree program cohort. This milestone holds a special place in Shopify history because it’s a day born out of trial and error, experimentation, iteration, and hustle. The 2016 cohort had the honor and challenge of being our first class, lived through the churn and pivots of a newly designed program, and completed their educ
How To Convince Others Not To Use Dark Patterns — Smashing Magazine
Arguing that dark patterns are unethical is not enough on its own. We will also need to make the case to clients and colleagues that they are damaging to business. That’s what Paul Boag has also written in his new Smashing book, “[Click](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/05/encouraging-clicks-book-pre-release)”. In this post, he will put together a compelling argument you can present to stakeh
Making Video Intuitive: An Explainer
At Cloudflare, we work to provide a great viewing experience while keeping our service affordable. In this post, let's have some fun to see changes between different versions of a video.
Using CSS Masks to Create Jagged Edges
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
React Single File Components Are Here
Shawn Wang is talking about RedwoodJS here:
Why does writing matter in remote work?
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they'll tell you it's been valuable to them. Maybe it's opened doors. Maybe it's got them a job. Maybe it's
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
I'm a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes
Dealing With Stale Props and States in React’s Functional Components
There’s one aspect of JavaScript that always has me pulling my hair: closures. I work with React a lot, and the overlap there is that they can sometimes be
How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Create and push tags in the latest GitHub Desktop 2.5 release
The latest GitHub Desktop release includes the most requested feature of the past six months: tags! Create, push, and view tags directly from GitHub Desktop.
Hot lava: A case study in hunting for network integer arithmetic flaws
We examine the dangers of network integer arithmetic based on a case study of security vulnerabilities reported to the ntop project.
GitHub Sponsors is out of beta for sponsored organizations
Have your team join Homebrew and JuliaLang, along with over 500 other organizations, in sponsoring open source projects, and the people behind them.
Sponsored Post: InterviewCamp.io, Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -
Who's Hiring? * InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. * Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning
Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure - High Scalability -
If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on the
Meet “Click!”: Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks — Smashing Magazine
How, then, do we encourage users to act? By establishing trust with small commitments, at the right time, and in the right order. Click! explains how to do just that. Meet our new practical guide on how to build trust, increase conversion and boost business KPIs effectively — without alienating people along the way. Written by Paul Boag. Coming up in June. Jump to table of contents and get the boo
Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols — Smashing Magazine
For hundreds of years, we have been using white space in typography. Today, in 2020, how do we add spacing to punctuation marks and other symbols, and how do we adjust the space on the left and right side in an easy and consistent way? It is actually not as easy and quick as it should be.
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with
How to pair design (and convince your boss to invest in it)
An introduction to design pairing, how to structure it, and tips for convincing your boss that it’s a good idea.
Accelerometer and SoftSKU: Improving hardware platform performance for diverse microservices
What the research is: New strategies to improve the performance of hardware platforms running Facebook’s microservices. SoftSKU is a novel mechanism that tailors an existing server processor to optimize it for a specific microservice without requiring any additional hardware. Accelerometer is an analytical model that predicts gains from these optimizations even before the custom hardware […] Read
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Setting TypeScript For Modern React Projects Using Webpack — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces Typescript, a superscript of JavaScript that presents the static type feature for spotting common errors as developers codes, which enhances performance, hence results in robust enterprise applications. You’ll also learn how to efficiently set up TypeScript in a React Project as we build a Money Heist Episode Picker App, exploring TypeScript, React hoo
CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network conditions.
