2,167 articles published in 2020.
I usually get up way earlier than this, because it’s a 20-minute subway ride to the office and I have three children to drop off at school en route. But right now, we’re all staying home for the foreseeable future and that means I can take things a little slower, get up a little later and have an extra cup of coffee with my wife in the mornings. It’s a silver lining in this crazy situation.
The , which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners experience their favorite music and podcasts. Engineering Manager, Damien Tardieu, tells the story behind the launch of this exciting new feature and why the methodology chosen to support its development was the foundation for success.
An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a document that captures a decision, including the context of how the decision was made and the consequences of adopting the decision. At Spotify, a handful of teams use ADRs to document their decisions. One of these teams, The Creator Team, focuses on providing tools for creators to express themselves on Spotify, as well as access data about their content.
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more. With the additions of acquisitions including Gimlet and Parcast, we have a whole host of expertly created content, and with the addition of DIY podcasting platform Anchor, now everyone has access to tools to create their own podcast and publish it to Spotify, so the
I like to start the day slowly – I’m not a morning person, so my husband kindly walks the dogs while I enjoy the peace and quiet, and wake myself up with a matcha or kombucha. After that, I’m more ready to get going and start to think about the day ahead of me.
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be the new normal.
The Figma team shares tips for running a remote brainstorm, based on what’s working well for us.
Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI) developed by Oracle Labs. TruffleRuby has high potential in speed, as it is nine times faster than CRuby on optcarrot, a NES emulator benchmark
By now, you’re probably used to seeing design trends come and go. But have you ever given any thought to what passing trends do to a website when left there for too long? As a web designer, you have a few choices. You can ignore popular design trends altogether; you can adopt them, but pull them out of rotation the second they go stale, or you can put your own unique spin on them. This guide will
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for April 2020.
At peak, Cloudflare’s network processes more than 14 million HTTP requests per second. We spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use to make those requests faster and more secure.
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it's for, and how you can start
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It's very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data
CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout
You can now automatically transcribe your media files in Dropbox by using the Otter.ai integration. Welcome to the future of work.
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
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make the case that you should consider using it!
Axios can do a ton of stuff, but here's a simpler solution that can handle most use cases
We use language as a tool for communication with other people. Writers use words to communicate with their readers, while designers use visual language to communicate with their users. Fonts, colors, shapes, visual elements such as icons — those are elements of design language. Effective design language streamlines communication. A robust visual design language is the cornerstone of good design. I
A set of checklists to help you create smart interface design patterns. Totally free if you sign up for our friendly newsletter. These checklists are based on the work Vitaly has been doing for many years, exploring and examining examples of desktop and mobile interfaces. Learning what works and what doesn’t in usability tests and user interviews.
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback loops, and responsiveness to customer feedback. We also have hundreds of engineers who are trying to be as productive as possible. Keeping to these values while growing as a company means continual refinement of our deployment system. We…
With so many people at Cloudflare now working remotely, it's worth stepping back and looking at the systems we use to get work done and how we protect them. Over the years we've migrated from a traditional "put it behind the VPN!" company to a modern zero-trust architecture.
Rewind to 2015. Back then, as with many other companies, all of Cloudflare’s internally-hosted applications were reached via a hardware-based VPN.
Scott Turner, who has an entire blog "Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps", gets into why vector graphics seems on these surface why
As part of our ongoing compliance efforts Cloudflare’s PCI scope is reviewed quarterly and after any significant changes to ensure all in-scope systems are operating in accordance with the PCI DSS.
Remember Tabletop.js? We just covered it a little bit ago in this same exact context: building editable websites. It’s a tool that turns a Google Sheet into
Nada Rifki demonstrates the scroll-snap-type and scroll-snap-alignCSS properties. I like that the demo shows that the items in the scrolling
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Awesome explanation of how to build a PID controller to fly a rocket! (BPS.space via Orbital Index) 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 intelligent world. Know someone who wants to understand the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon
You don’t need to know your trees from your dangling blobs. If you use Git every day and feel like it’s a juggling act, then here are some tricks and tips to help make your life a bit easier. There’s been a lot written about getting started with git, understanding how git works under the hood or techniques for better branching strategies. In this article, Shane Hudson will specifically target the
As our developer documentation grows so does the need for tooling. Let’s walk through how we migrated our documentation site to Gatsby to take full advantage of static generation and React.
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important
In-depth analysis of February service disruptions that impacted GitHub services.
Author’s note: This is a copy of the white paper of the Working Group, a group of four pseudonymous professionals in Tokyo. I, Patrick McKenzie, was the primary author. It was distributed quietly during the week of March 25th, 2020. I have written an essay describing how this document came to be and demonstrating its provenance .
Recent research has found that e-commerce category pages have higher click-through rates in search than individual category pages. So, if your e-commerce site is struggling to attract shoppers and convert them, your category pages (specifically, those on mobile) might be in need of a redesign. Based on the following data, Suzanne Scacca will show you how category pages have a role to play — as the
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!
The other day I was helping my pal Jez work on Dept. of Enthusiasm, the site for his newsletter, and I had a thought. What if we made the word “enthusiasm” in
Deep dive from Ahmad. I like the coverage of vmin and vmax, which I think I don't reach for as often as I should.
Markdown has traditionally been a favorite format for programmers to write documentation. It’s simple enough for almost everyone to learn and adapt to while
By default, <input> and <textarea> elements don't change size based on the content they contain. In fact, there isn't any simple HTML or CSS way
The team events API (/team_log/get_events) is now available with over 300 events.
Learn more about the Bug Bounty program, including a recap of 2019’s bugs, our expanded scope, new features, and more.
GitHub Desktop 2.4 gets you set up to work behind a proxy without having to configure anything manually, allows you to easily create an issue, and brings dark theme out of beta.
In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/designers-code-terminal-text-editors-part-1/), Paul explained the basics of the terminal, shared a few productivity hacks to get you started, and how to choose a code editor. In this part, he’ll continue with the topics of version control (Git), HTML and CSS, semantic code, and a brief introduction to some key engineering principles.
A showcase of projects from the Vercel developer community, built during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We started the Bandwidth Alliance in 2018 with a group of like-minded cloud and networking partners. Our common goal was to help our mutual customers reduce or eliminate data transfer charges, sometimes known as "bandwidth” or “egress” fees, between the cloud and the consumer.
Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.
With just a simple one-liner of code you can use any emoji as a favicon of your website. 😃
With easier organization and increased scalability, repository admins can more efficiently control access management to get users the permissions they need.
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
Who's Hiring? * 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 based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. - this is going to be a challenging journey for
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about the user experience around converting site visitors into customers. Can our selling techniques leave customers feeling cheated? And how can that be avoided? Drew McLellan talks to conversion optimization specialist Paul Boag to find out.
Preventing ongoing deployments from building is now simply a matter of clicking a button.
Today, we’re launching support for the security.txt initiative through Workers to help give security researchers a common location to learn about how to communicate with our team.
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers
I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to
That's not a thing.
