2,138 articles published in 2020.
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of wallpapers is for you. We embarked on this monthly wallpapers journey more than nine years ago and we’re very thankful for everyone who submits their artworks to it each month anew. Today, designed by artists and designers from across the globe, Cosima Mielke brings you versions with and without a calendar for March 2020.
At Cloudflare, we encrypt data both in transit (on the network) and at rest (on the disk). Both practices address some of the most common vectors used to exfiltrate information and these measures serve to protect sensitive data from attackers but, what about data currently in use?
A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account,
Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I'm literally using that technique for some super basic
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the
Recently, we’ve had multiple service interruptions on GitHub.com. We know how important reliability of our service is for your projects and teams. We take this responsibility very seriously and apologize…
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The Smithsonian has million of pieces of delicious open access content. I ate up this 3D representation of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. That's how important you are to the fate of the world. Need to understand the cloud? Know someone who does? I wrote Explain the Cloud Lik
The word “SEO” holds a lot of weight. We know how critical it is to the success of a website and, yet, it often becomes one of those things that’s left until the very end of a web design project to deal with. Or, worse, it’s pushed onto one person’s plate who likely isn’t capable of doing all that needs to be done. SEO should be a team sport — and that’s what today’s post is all about.
Conferences are about gathering information and knowledge but are also opportunities to meet and learn from other like-minded folks in the web design community. Plus, you’ll be exposed to a lot of new information, which will help you advance in your career. Let’s dive into our list for January to December. Jan Constantin will keep updating this list, so make sure to bookmark this page and check it
We have partnered with AMD to get the best performance out of this processor and today, we are highlighting our tuning efforts that led to additional performance across our entire Gen X fleet of servers powered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7642.
Here’s a great thread by Kevin Powell that's making the rounds. He believes so many folks see CSS as a frustrating and annoying language:
Tim Kadlec:
GraphQL is becoming popular and developers are constantly looking for frameworks that make it easy to set up a fast, secure and scalable GraphQL API. In this
When we first set out to organize a user conference, our goal was to create a space to have meaningful conversations. Here is a look at some key themes that emerged from those conversations.
What we've learned so far from dealing with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak
Starting March 5, we’re hosting an online GitHub Actions Hackathon challenging you to create original Actions.
Whenever a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is a middleware for Express.js and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this so-called multipart/form-data whenever your users upload files. In this article, Deve Rathore introduces how Multer streamlines the process of handling file uploads. It also introduces how
Today we’re releasing one of the most requested Workers features: support for secrets and environment variables through the Wrangler CLI and Workers Dashboard.
Our Gen X servers process more requests per second per core than our previous fleet. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 processor’s large L3 cache minimizes L3 cache misses, and the time-savings add up quickly.
Foldable devices have brought with them talk of a ‘foldable web,’ and the idea that long-standing web conventions may be on the verge of a serious shakeup. Is it all hype, or is it time to get flexible? The ‘foldable web’ will bring with it new challenges, new opportunities, and, in all likelihood, new syntax. The web could be in for its biggest shakeup since the smartphone. Users and coders alike
As we looked at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, we’re moving on from Gen 9's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162's to a 48-core single socket AMD EPYC 7642.
Visualizing OSM datasets with QGIS. Generation of some nice maps on the client | Map Styling in QGIS | Adding Spatial data
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High-quality internet access opens new opportunities to make yourself heard, connect with the people and communities you care about, and build new businesses. It’s also good for industries and businesses of all kinds, including Facebook. The latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index shows progress on bringing broadband access to more people, but the rate […]
This guide will show you how to make a native component that provides bottom sheet functionality to React Native and renders React views inside.
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Ethical Design. What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects? Drew McLellan speaks to Trine Falbe and Martin Michael Frederiksen to find out.
The novel coronavirus is actively changing how organizations work in real-time. According to Fortune, the virus has led to the “world’s largest work-from-home experiment.” As the epidemic crosses borders, employees are staying home and putting new stress on how companies manage remote work.
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
I posted about parsing an RSS feed in JavaScript the other day. I also posted about my RSS setup talking about how Feedbin is at the heart of it.
It's been over a year since the big WordPress launch of Gutenberg, the new editor. It seems to me most of the controversy around it has died down. There has
I was emailing a service about their documentation and while their doc was good, about one particularly tricky concept they told me that once you use it for a while, that’s when you’ll understand it. In other words: you’ll only understand it after you understand it. I didn’t like that response. I want documentation that takes me from an unproductive newbie to a somewhat functioning journeyperson.
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
If you're not careful you can write a test that's worse than having no tests at all
In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces Tailwind CSS, a CSS library that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without opinionated styles. With Tailwind CSS, you get to create the components that suit what you want or what you are working on. These components can be created by harnessing the power of the utility-first prowess of Tailwind CSS. You’ll also lear
I keep a very detailed budget. I have for the last 7 years. I manually input every expense into a spreadsheet app and use a combination of sumifs functions to track spending.
The problem: you click a jump link like <a href="#header-3">Jump</a> which links to something like <h3 id="header-3">Header</h3>.
Erik Kennedy wrote up a bunch of design advice for designing for the iPhone. Like Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, only illustrated and readable, says Erik.
The blockchain technology is receiving a lot of attention because of its ability to enhance [security](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/security) in trustless environments, enforce decentralization, and make processes efficient. In this tutorial, Alfrick Opidi demonstrates how to create a simple cryptocurrency, called `smashingCoin`, using the concepts of JavaScript classes and Node.js. G
We are excited to announce two new integrations that make it even easier for organizations to work securely with third parties. Starting today, customers can now add LinkedIn and GitHub Teams as login methods alongside their corporate SSO.
Every once in a while I'm motivated to attempt to draw some shapes with <path>, the all-powerful drawing syntax of SVG. I only understand a fragment of
The advantages of using SVGs in web development are well known. SVGs are small in size, can be made quite accessible, are scalable while maintaining their
Are you looking for a tech job where you clock in, or for a career where you’ll be seen?
We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2019 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.
GitHub is now a proud sponsor of Hack Your Future, a not-for-profit coding school for refugees and other people that have limited access to education and the labor market. Learn more about the latest campaign, Behind the Source.
iPhone was built to be comfortably used for one-handed operation, allowing for a smoother thumb movement across the screen. 90% of the smartphones sold today have 5-inch displays. Bigger screen real estate presents newer challenges and opportunities for app makers and designers. In this article, Maitrik Kataria will show you how designing apps for one-handed usage can solve those challenges.
We use machine learning and similarity clustering to catch fraud rings on Stripe.
In the video embedded below, Jen Simmons explains how to improve image loading by using width and height attributes. The issue is that there’s a lot of jank
There are special superset number characters that are sometimes perfect for footnotes. Here they are:
Jim Keller recently gave a fascinating and far ranging interview on the AI Podcast. You can find it at Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles. One of the many topics of discussion was the often predicted death of Moore's Law. In case you've never heard of Jim Keller before, from this intro you can immediately understand why he may have special insight on the topic: Jim Ke
In this tutorial, Chidi Orji will show you how to build a React drag-and-drop component for file and image uploads. In the process, we’ll learn about the HTML drag-and-drop API. We will also learn how to use the useReducer hook for managing state in a React functional component.
The inline-template directive allows us to build rich Vue components as a progressive enhancement over existing WordPress markup.
Mezo Istvan does a good job of covering the problem and a solution to it in a blog post on Medium. If you tap on something that has a :hover state but you don't leave the page then, on a mobile device, there is a chance that :hover state "sticks." You'll see this with stuff like jump-links used as tabs or buttons that trigger on-page functionality.
Learn to predict how your application will behave in times of failure and how to configure every parameter for your Semian circuit breaker.
Whether you’re building a new site or you’re managing a live one, you can’t afford to make any changes without a process for cross-browser testing and a tool to do the heavy lifting for you. LambdaTest’s wide array of tests are the answer. From fully automated cross-browser tests to semi-automated tasks, we’re going to explore a much more efficient way to review your websites and all their browser
Everything you ever wanted to know about data attributes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
I recently wrote an article explaining how you can create a countdown timer using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now, let’s look at how we
I'm not sure we've gotten much better at this since Tim Kadlec wrote this in 2012:
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. In this blog post, we explain some basic health checks you can do on your MySQL master and slave nodes to ensure your setup is healthy. The monitoring program or script must alert the high availabili
