Year 2020 — page 26

On working with designers

JHJustin Hileman·March 18, 2020Engineering

Set up your digital classroom with GitHub Classroom

Many teachers are moving to virtual solutions for managing student assignments, projects, and grading. Join webinars hosted by GitHub Education Experts to share how teachers can manage and organize their class with GitHub Classroom.

Arelia Jones·March 18, 2020Engineering

CERT partners with GitHub Security Lab for automated remediation

Learn more about how we found ways to scale our vulnerability hunting efforts and empower others to do the same. In this post, we’ll take a deep-dive in the remediation of a security vulnerability with CERT.

Nico Waisman·March 18, 2020Security

Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale

UPDATE: To continue our support of this public NTP service, we have open-sourced our collection of NTP libraries on GitHub. Almost all of the billions of devices connected to the internet have onboard clocks, which need to be accurate to properly perform their functions. Many clocks contain inaccurate internal oscillators, which can cause seconds of […]

MEMeta Engineering·March 18, 2020SRE & Ops

How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will high

Paul Hanaoka·March 18, 2020Systems

On the shoulders of giants: recent changes in Internet traffic

As the COVID-19 emergency continues and an increasing number of cities and countries are establishing quarantines or cordons sanitaire, the Internet has become, for many, the primary method to keep in touch with their friends and families.

Louis Poinsignon·March 17, 2020Engineering

Tools for Optimizing SVG

This is our straight-to-the-point list of SVG optimizing tools across a number of categories. They are all largely based around SVGO, but how you use it depends. There are web apps, desktop apps, apis, and even design tool add-ons.

CCChris Coyier·March 17, 2020Frontend

WooCommerce 4.0 & WooCommerce Payments Beta

Y'all know WooCommerce: it's a plugin for WordPress that adds robust eCommerce functionality to your site. Notably, like WordPress itself, it's open-source

CCChris Coyier·March 17, 2020Engineering

Improve student success and increase teacher time with autograding

Learn more about autograding and how it provides students with immediate feedback they can apply before an assignment is due.

Courtney Hsing·March 17, 2020Engineering

GitHub for mobile is now available

Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.

Ryan Nystrom·March 17, 2020Engineering

Post: Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -

Who's Hiring? * Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. * Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple

HSHigh Scalability·March 17, 2020AI & ML

How Indigo.Design Usability Testing Takes The Guesswork Out Of Web Design — Smashing Magazine

There isn’t a ton of mystery when it comes to what makes for an attractive and modern-looking design these days. What’s not always clear, however, is the usability aspect of it. In other words, have the pathways you’ve designed for users intuitive enough? The truth is, it’s all really just a guessing game unless you start getting user feedback early on. Thankfully, Indigo.Design has a usability te

Suzanne Scacca·March 17, 2020Design & UX

Announcing Network Analytics

Back in March 2019, we released Firewall Analytics which provides insights into HTTP security events across all of Cloudflare's protection suite; Firewall rule matches, HTTP DDoS Attacks, Site Security Level which harnesses Cloudflare's threat intelligence, and more.

Omer·March 16, 2020Security

npm is joining GitHub

We’re excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.

Nat Friedman·March 16, 2020Engineering

Enhancing our COVID-19 response to care for our community and team

We’ve taken further steps to ensure that our people can be safe and productive wherever they are, and that our community’s home on GitHub remains reliable and resilient.

Erica Brescia·March 16, 2020Career & Teams

React Production Performance Monitoring

How to set up performance monitoring for production React applications.

Kent C. Dodds·March 16, 2020Performance

Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React — Smashing Magazine

HTML is getting better at providing nice APIs for implementing cool features. In this tutorial, Chidi Orji is going to show you how to use the `HTML` `Intersection Observer` API to implement infinite scrolling and image lazy loading in a React functional component. In the process, we’ll learn how to use some of React’s hooks and how to create Custom Hooks. Let’s get started!

Chidi Orji·March 16, 2020Frontend

Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!

JEJulia Evans·March 15, 2020Engineering

COVID-19 impacts on Internet traffic: Seattle, Northern Italy and South Korea

The last few weeks have seen unprecedented changes in how people live and work around the world. Over time more and more companies have given their employees the right to work from home, restricted business travel and, in some cases, outright sent their entire workforce home.

John Graham Cumming·March 13, 2020Engineering

Cloudflare's COVID-19 FAQs

As the status of COVID-19 continues to impact people and businesses around the world, Cloudflare is committed to providing awareness and transparency to our customers, employees, and partners.

Janet Van Huysse, Joe Sullivan·March 13, 2020Engineering

"weeds of specificity"

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CCChris Coyier·March 13, 2020Engineering

Get Started Building GraphQL APIs With Node

We all have a number of interests and passions. For example, I’m interested in JavaScript, 90’s indie rock and hip hop, obscure jazz, the city of Pittsburgh,

Adam Scott·March 13, 2020Frontend

Coping with Covid-19, part 2

A second post on how Thoughtworks is coping with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak

MFMartin Fowler·March 13, 2020Engineering

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 13th, 2020 - High Scalability -

Hey, it's HighScalability time! The top 10,000 most spoken words in English represented by a point in hundreds of dimensions where the distance and direction between points encodes the relationship between words. (roadmaps) 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 w

HSHigh Scalability·March 13, 2020Distributed

Stay Calm And Read Smashing Magazine — Smashing Magazine

It’s that time of the month! Join us as we share the latest news and highlight the things we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. It’s nice to have an overview of the most important things in one place, but do feel free to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and subscribe to our RSS feed as well as our bi-weekly newsletter. We like helping you stay on top of t

Iris Ljesnjanin·March 13, 2020Engineering

Protect your team with Cloudflare Gateway

Announcing Cloudflare for Teams, a new way to protect organizations and their employees, without sacrificing performance. Cloudflare for Teams centers around Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway.

Irtefa·March 12, 2020Performance

Cloudflare During the Coronavirus Emergency

We know that organizations and individuals around the world depend on Cloudflare and our network. I wanted to send you a personal note to let you know how Cloudflare is dealing with the Coronavirus emergency.

Matthew Prince·March 12, 2020Networking

Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations

We are always looking to make the web more accessible. Color contrast is just math, so Sass can help cover edge cases that designers might have missed.