Remote work: Marketing and planning virtual events remotely
The GitHub marketing team shares best practices for working remotely and planning virtual events.
Metaphors in man pages
Metaphors in man pages
Tracing user interactions with React
How to use the (EXPERIMENTAL) interactions tracing API in React.
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features and technologies incrementally slowed the site down and made it harder to maintain. This made it harder to introduce new experiences. Features like dark mode […]
Responses to reader feedback
How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby - Shopify
How do we effectively find out why our application is slow? Even if we have a fix for the slow code, how can we prove that our new code is faster?
How To Build A Vue Survey App Using Firebase Authentication And Database — Smashing Magazine
This tutorial would take you on a step by step guide to build a functional survey app using Vue.js and Firebase. From validating the user’s data through Vuelidate, to authentication, storing the user’s data, route protection and sending data to Firebase servers. All the steps used in the tutorial are practical, and can be reproduced in any real-life project, even with a custom backend.
Feature Branch
Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs.
Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
Happiness is… a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
Reducing Design Risk — Smashing Magazine
The pressure to rush market and usability research carries risk. In this article, Eric Olive will offer four practical techniques to mitigate this risk and create designs that better serve customers and the company: context over convenience, compromise, better design decisions, design reduction.
How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020
Peter Tasker on creating blocks right now:
Static Hoisting
The other day in "Static or not?" I said:
How our product design team works
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.
Capture the Flag 4—CodeQL and chill
Join our Capture the Flag challenge to use your CodeQL skills or learn new ones.
New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Discussions, Codespaces, securing code in private repositories, and more
See what we announced at our first virtual GitHub Satellite including a full dev environment on GitHub powered by VS Code, a new way to have discussions with your communities, new ways to secure projects with code scanning and secret scanning, and more.
Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19
Following the 2019 Octoverse report, this latest article provides trends and insights into developer activity on GitHub in the early days of COVID-19.
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences
Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage
A Complete Guide To Mechanical Keyboards — Smashing Magazine
How much thought have you put into your primary input device? Ever considered how much better your interface with your computer might be? For decades, keyboards have been the primary mechanisms by which we interact with our computers. In this article, Ben Frain is going to dive into the possibilities of mechanical keyboards. The different layouts, switch types and even keycap material. Strap yours
More flexibility with Stripe Billing
New Stripe Billing features to help you support more business models, shave time off of your operations, and let you bill customers globally with advanced invoicing features.
Cinco de Mayo - What are we celebrating anyway?
Latinflare explores the Cinco de Mayo holiday and shares the perspective of various employees from around the globe.
Setting up Cloudflare for Teams as a Start-Up Business
S2 Systems, recently acquired by Cloudflare, provides a start-up’s perspective of setting up Cloudflare for Teams and how it solved some problems that we struggled with for way too long.
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
It's easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That's how it's traditionally been packaged for us. Think
List Style Recipes
Lists are a fundamental part of HTML! They are useful in things like blog posts for listing out steps, recipes for listing ingredients, or items in a
Series Forecasting with Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM)
How to build your first Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for series forecasting | Usage of Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)
Implementing a secure web-based proxy service for Discover
Our connectivity efforts focus on expanding internet access and adoption around the world. This includes our work on technologies like Terragraph, our collaboration with mobile operators on efforts to expand rural access, our work as part of the Telecom Infra Project, and programs like Free Basics. As we’ve continued working on Free Basics, we’ve listened […]
Meet SmashingConf Live: Our New Interactive Online Conference — Smashing Magazine
The cat is out of the bag! Meet SmashingConf Live (Aug 20–21), our very first online conference. For SmashingConf Live, our new online conference, we don’t want to replicate in-person experiences online. Instead, we’ve designed an entirely new conference experience, focusing around interactive live sessions and discussion zones where you actively shape what happens next, and learn along the way.
Smashing Podcast Episode 15 With Phil Smith: How Can I Build An App In 10 Days? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about building apps on a tight timeline. How can you quickly turn around a project to respond to an emerging situation like COVID-19? Drew McLellan talks to Phil Smith to find out.
A single dashboard for Cloudflare for Teams
Cloudflare Access is now available in the Cloudflare for Teams UI. You can now manage application and threat security for your organization in a single dashboard.
CSS Functions Guide
Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.
No-Comma Color Functions in CSS
There have been a couple of viral tweets about this lately, one from Adam Argyle and one from Mathias Bynes. This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit more
Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus
Heydon's <watched-box> is a damn fantastic tool. It's a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added to
How one student curbed panic buying with the Pack
Learn how Ben Sassoon used the Pack to curb panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Announcing the MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub
Now more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their growth, using real tools, and an experienced understanding of how to work remotely and globally. With this new program, we’re helping to support the next generation of developers and the open source projects that companies use every day.
Part 2: The DynamoDB Book: An Interview With Alex DeBrie On His New Book - High Scalability -
This is the second part of my interview with Alex DeBrie on his new insta-classic: The DynamoDB Book. To read the first part of the interview please mosey on over to The DynamoDB Book: An Interview With Alex DeBrie On His New Book. Go ahead. Take your time. It's worth it. Quick Fire Round. What's your quick reaction to: The cost of storing data in S3 versus storing data in DynamoDB? Use S3 for lar
Accessible Animations in React
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
Common mistakes with React Testing Library
Some mistakes I frequently see people making with React Testing Library.
An Introduction To React With Ionic — Smashing Magazine
Mobile app development using hybrid frameworks has come a long way since initial release in 2008. With the improvements being made to the JavaScript engine and improved processing power available to mobile phones, the major concern people had when they considered developing their apps using the hybrid approach — namely, performance — has all but been eliminated, and cross-platform frameworks have
When people pause the Internet goes quiet
As human behaviour has changed in response to the pandemic, it's left a mark on the charts that network operators look at day in, day out to ensure that their networks are running correctly.
React Integration Testing: Greater Coverage, Fewer Tests
Integration tests are a natural fit for interactive websites, like ones you might build with React. They validate how a user interacts with your app without
A simple way to get more value from tracing
A simple way to get more value from metrics
Remote work: How global teams collaborate across time zones
GitHub international leaders share their insights on how to work with globally distributed teams.
Bad times in corporate wireless networks
Readability Algorithms Should Be Tools, Not Targets — Smashing Magazine
In recent years a slew of ‘readability’ programs have appeared to help us tidy up the things we write. Used everywhere from newsrooms to browser plugins, these systems offer automated feedback on how writing can be clearer, neater, and less contrived. Sounds good right? Well, up to a point. Readability programs may seem like a godsend, but the worst thing writers can do is write to please them abo
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%.
Alia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Usually, I live in Brooklyn and start the day with a 45-minute commute to the office. But at the moment, things are very different – my partner and I are holed up at our little place in the woods near New Paltz, so now I just start the day with some yoga before jumping online for my first meeting. When we bought this house last September, we had no idea what a refuge it would turn out to be. So I
Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper issue and improve the listening experience of end users, whatever their device or network.
Protecting Deployments
DDoS attacks have evolved, and so should your DDoS protection
Building a modern DDoS solution that is truly effective in thwarting ever-evolving DDoS attacks, to protect all of our customers has been a core tenet for us - enabling us to be an industry leader.
Empowering our Customers and Service Partners
We wanted to highlight some amazing partners and our growing support and training for MSPs around the globe.
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVIII
Hey hey, these "chronicle" posts are little roundups of news that I haven't gotten a chance to link up yet. They are often things that I've done off-site,
Figma’s Series D round
Figma announces Series D funding led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Brian Douglas
Make better contributions, triage your issues efficiently, save time with saved replies, and more with @bdougie’s protips.
Why My Blog is Closed-Source
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering whether a project should be open-source or not, I hope you'll find it valuable.
If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience
Categorizing Products at Scale - Shopify
By: Jeet Mehta and Kathy Ge With over 1M business owners now on Shopify, there are billions of products being created and sold across the platform. Just like those business owners, the products that they sell are extremely diverse! Even when selling similar products, they tend to describe products very differently. One may describe their sock product as a “woolen long sock,” whereas another may ha
Join Our New Online Workshops On CSS, Accessibility, Performance, And UX — Smashing Magazine
As we have now formalized our workshop process, we thought we’d share a little more about how these events run. Unlike in-person workshops where we keep you in a room for an eight hour day, we realized than many of you have a lot of other commitments right now. Our initial online workshops went so well, we have scheduled many more. Find out how what we learned from those first workshops and what w
