1,782 articles published in 2021.
HSL colors are very powerful when we use them the right way. They can save us time and effort and even help us to explore options for how to apply color to design. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed explains what HSL is, how to use it, and shares some of the useful use-cases and examples that you can use right away in your current projects.
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it's not without uses. In text, maybe you'd use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are
In the second part of Understanding GraphQL for Beginners, we’ll learn how to create a GraphQL object and root fields.
As technology evolves, one thing that contrasts REST and is gaining popularity is GraphQL. But what is it exactly? Within this post, we will learn what GraphQL is all about!
Email sending functionality is an integral part of every digital product that involves communication with its users (read: any online service). With so many tools and approaches, email still has quite a few pain points, both for developers and email marketers. Email is difficult because it has too many aspects to set and a few instances with no common rules to follow.
Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.
When writing front-end tests, you’ll find a lot of pitfalls along the way. In sum, they can lead to lousy maintainability, slow execution time, and — in the worst case — tests you cannot trust. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this article, I will talk about common mistakes developers make, at least in my experience, and, of course, how to avoid them. Testing doesn’t need to be painful, afte
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
Connect your Vercel project to databases, monitoring tools, commerce providers, developer tools, and more.
Cloudflare's global network is always expanding. We've recently added ten new cities and four new countries to our network.
The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element
I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on
GitHub Copilot: Parrot or Crow? A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions.
The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer
Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we
I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it's not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post
Today, we’re launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.
Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that. Additionally, we pair it up with Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration for the best user and developer experience. And, of course, benchmark those results!
In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavaliere to find out.
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Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn't resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome
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Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Accelerators are special-purpose hardware devices optimized for specific applications, like AI prediction and video encoding. And Application-specific hardware platforms play an important role in meeting the growing latency and compute demands of workloads like deep learning, content understanding, and video encoding. At Facebook, the inevitable rise in use of accelerators in our data centers has
Connectivity is an integral part of Facebook’s mission to bring people closer together, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the demand for critical internet access. According to the latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index, nearly 70 percent of people around the world believe that increased internet usage in all aspects of their lives […]
In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how you can create custom Emmet snippets in Visual Studio Code to help you improve your front-end workflows even more. It takes some time to create these snippets, but it’s worth the effort because you can customize Emmet to your personal preferences, automate repetitive tasks and sav
GitHub’s bug bounty program is now a mature component of how we improve product security. We’re excited to highlight some achievements (and interesting vulnerabilities)!
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Only listen if you want a quantum earworm for the rest of the day. Not your style? This is completely different. No, it’s even more different than that. Today in things that nobody stopped me from doing: The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag. pic.twitter.com/ocyVLf8WlUMay 28, 2021 Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to help keep this stuff going. Do em
This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we can add any kind of one-to-one, one-to-many, or even many-to-many relationship to our projects. Today, Dom Habersack is going to build a blog with Next.js that supports two or more authors. You will attribute each post to an author and show their name and picture with their posts.
A UX audit is a simple and efficient way to check whether design elements are performing their function. It’s also a good way to look at an existing design from a fresh perspective. This article is a case study of how a UX audit affects a UI. It explains how a famous educational platform can be analyzed edX against Jakob Nielsen’s usability guidelines. To get started, Mark Lankmiller shares all of
Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now shift another traditional client-driven use case to a browser. Teams can now provide their users with a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client fully rendered in the browser with built-in Zero Trust controls.
In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its
Constraints over multiple rows: How to cope with complex PostgreSQL constraints. Advanced techniques - enforce integrity; manage concurrency.
We have closed a new round of funding led by Durable Capital Partners
We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the Student Developer Pack, the GitHub Virtual Event Kit! Access the best virtual event tools in one place at no cost.
Let's Encrypt is a game changer for the industry. For a big software-as-a-service company like Shopify, it saves time because their implementation is built around an open specification.
In the dynamic and unpredictable environments in which we work, even the most carefully crafted solutions can have a short shelf life. When we accept that our work is impermanent and our problem-solving abilities are limited, our goal can shift from delivering full solutions to developing tools that empower our users to adaptively design for themselves.
Today we announce two new features: rollbacks and the Pages API.
Announcing new beta features for GitHub Issues for better planning and tracking of your projects in GitHub, including project tables, task lists, and issue forms.
What’s the state of HTML Email? How do we build and establish a successful design system? Frontend and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run [online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) for all of us to learn together. And we have new ones coming up, and we’d like to kindly welcome you to join in.
Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader.
Vercel has added an additional $102 million of investment at a valuation greater than $1BN. This is a major milestone for our company, customers, and community in our mission to build a faster web, together.
Customers can now use our dashboard to push HTTP, Spectrum, Firewall, and NEL Events directly to Datadog, Sumo Logic, Splunk, or an S3-compatible storage provider.
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.
There are four keywords that are valid values for any CSS property (see the title). Of those, day to day, I'd say I see the inherit used the most. Perhaps
Svelte fully supports custom elements (e.g. <my-component>) without any custom configuration or wrapper components and has a perfect score on Custom
I'm not here to raise a shield protecting CSS utility frameworks. I don't even particularly like the approach, myself, and nothing is above fair criticism.
We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.
Dubbing and subtitling are inherently creative processes. At Netflix, we strive to make shows as joyful to watch in every language as in the original language, whether a member watches with original…
GraphQL opens new possibilities for rate limiting. I’ll show you Shopify’s rate limiting system for the GraphQL Admin API and how it addresses some limitations of common methods commonly used in REST APIs.
After years of innovation in both tools and processes, the struggle between design and development is still real. This article focuses on the best practices for improving the design to development processes and how cutting-edge solutions, such as UXPin powered by Merge technology, can help in facilitating the change.
Learn more about the latest releases announced at Next.js Conf, including Next.js 11 and Next.js Live.
Una is calling it the new responsive. A nod to the era we were most certainly in, the era of responsive design. Where responsive design was fluid grids,
Let’s forego the usual circles and bars we typically see used in charts for more eccentric shapes. With online presentations more and more common today, a
Throughout the beta, we added features to improve the experience of using the Container registry. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Container registry is generally available as part of GitHub Packages!
What the research is: Tectonic, our data center scale distributed file system, enables better resource utilization, promotes simpler services, and requires less operational complexity than our previous approach. Our previous storage infrastructure consisted of a set of use-case specific storage systems. Clusters, or instances of these storage systems, used to scale to tens of petabytes. […] Read M
What it is: A new library to analyze time series data. Kats is a lightweight, easy-to-use, and generalizable framework for generic time series analysis, including forecasting, anomaly detection, multivariate analysis, and feature extraction/embedding. To the best of our knowledge, Kats is the first comprehensive Python library for generic time series analysis, which provides both classical […] Rea
