Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the
The `ping` attribute on anchor links
I didn't know this was a thing until Stefan Judis's post:
Getting started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 2
The modern internet was built on a legal framework of safe harbors for user-generated content. These safe harbors are widely credited with having enabled global internet innovation by protecting online…
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js
All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Here's how to get started using them.
Better Documentation And Team Communication With Product Design Docs — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever struggled to get the green light on your design proposals? Do you feel like your design process needs to be formalized? Is the COVID19 era becoming a challenge for you when working remotely as a designer? In this article, Ismael González will show you how to get to know a methodology to document your design process, so keep reading!
Hackers Spill the Wine: Lockdown Led to Rise in Wine Domains and Wine Scammers
Area 1 Security and Recorded Future researchers report a significant increase in the number of new wine-themed phishing domains registered starting in April 2020, and continuing through at least March 2021.
axe DevTools Pro
I'm going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome
You've seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of
Coordinating Svelte Animations With XState
This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced
SvelteKit is in public beta
Rich Harris:
How Repsol rethinks the way the world interacts with energy
Repsol, Spain's largest multi-energy company, set out to unify their designs in Figma while making energy more approachable to consumers.
Bitemporal History
It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2021
In March, we experienced three incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, webhooks, API requests, GitHub Pages, and GitHub Actions services. Follow up…
Sponsored Post: Failover Conf!, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte - High Scalability -
Fun and Interesting Events * Since we’re all feeling the fatigue of staring at screens all year, we’re switching things up at this year’s Failover Conf! This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. You’ll also hear from a variety of industry experts in our two panel discussions. And when you need a brea
Flaky Tests: Getting Rid Of A Living Nightmare In Testing — Smashing Magazine
Unreliable tests are a living nightmare for anyone who writes automated tests or pays attention to the results. Flaky tests have even given folks nightmares and sleepless nights. In this article, Ramona Schwering shares her experiences to help you get out of this hell or avoid getting into it. It’s important to continually hunt for flaky tests, whether by preventing them in the first place or by d
Some Articles About Accessibility I've Saved Recently
"Good news about display: contents and Chrome" — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem
Space Jam
It's certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web's strength in
Gaps? Gasp!
At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification
Jetpack Turns 10!
Ten years! That's a huge milestone for a project, especially one that had a pretty simple goal in mind from the start: give self-hosted WordPress sites many
PostgreSQL: Get member roles and permissions
PostgreSQL allows you to define users (=roles), groups, etc. This post explains how to retrieve information on roles & role membership.
Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle reaffirms that developers’ ability to port their code and skills between platforms is a significant interest to be protected. The headline is…
Announcing the Global Maintainer Summit
If you’re an open source maintainer, you know that keeping the wheels of the open source ecosystem turning is quite a task. Project maintenance is uniquely challenging and rewarding work.…
Don’t Lose Your Head: Evaluating Headless — Smashing Magazine
With the explosion in popularity of the Jamstack has come the proliferation of new options for managing your content. Headless has become quite the hot topic in development circles of late, but where do you start if you are embarking on a new project and haven’t yet decided where to store and organize your content? In this article, David Eglin will give you a little bit of a primer on the CMS land
Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
How we scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis
About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter in order to serve more traffic and accommodate a more resilient platform architecture. We adopted a replicated Redis backend with…
How Facebook encodes your videos
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used […]
Vanilla JavaScript Code Snippets — Smashing Magazine
In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time around, let’s look at vanilla JavaScript code snippets — resources and lightweight libraries to help you solve a problem without a large overhead or third-party dependencies.
What problems do people solve with strace?
What problems do people solve with strace?
Area 1 Security Announces the Most Spoofed Brand of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on phishing and cyberattack lures is clear. Area 1 Security identified over 2 million phishing spoofs that exploited the World Health Organization between May 2020 and February 2021.
How to execute an object file: Part 2
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations.
The Teams Dashboard: A New Place to Call Home
Today, we’re announcing a new feature within the Teams Dash. We called it “Home”. We created Home with a simple goal in mind: design an adaptive and informative landing page where users can see a round-up of their environment.
Guarding Against Disposable Design — Smashing Magazine
Quick, constant change is a given on the web. It is often one of its greatest strengths. As ever, though, there is a balance to find. Although longevity takes a different form online, its value is immeasurable.
Designing calculator apps
It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those little cheap-o
Building Smarter Search Products: 3 Steps for Evaluating Search Algorithms - Shopify
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.
Meet Utopia: Designing And Building With Fluid Type And Space Scales — Smashing Magazine
By systemizing the fundamentals of typography and space, and leaning into the inherent fluidity of the web, a free new **CSS tool** called [Utopia](https://utopia.fyi/) offers an alternative to breakpoint-driven design. This shared language between design and development streamlines communication and encourages the creation of bespoke constraints for your projects to ensure consistent and harmonio
Customization vs. Configuration in Evolving Design Systems
When a design system first starts out, the promise of visual consistency glows bright — the ideal product would have only one set of buttons, a unified typography scale, and elements that look the same no matter which designer made the design or which developer programmed them to be real and deployed.
Nour Daoud Bösing: Security Engineer
These days, I don’t need an alarm clock – I get woken up bright and early by my daughter! I live in Jersey City, just across the river from the Spotify NY office, and often used to take the ferry into work. But now, there’s no need to commute – instead, I squeeze in an hour of yoga whilst Leya is entertained by her dad.
Rethinking Spotify Search
Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind of search, they already have something in mind, whether they come looking for one thing in particular or are open to becoming inspired. Spotify Search is no exception, helping a vast majority of users find joy through search, regardless of the language or method used to se
Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player.
Durable Objects, now in Open Beta
As of today, Durable Objects beta access is available to anyone with a Cloudflare Workers® subscription.
Annual March Hackness 2021: The Not-So-Sweet 16 —The Pandemic’s Phishing Influence
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced which brands attackers exploited for phishing campaigns in 2021. For example, the World Health Organization and DocuSign made Area 1 Security’s 2021 March Hackness “Not-so-Sweet 16.”
Where the World Wide Web Shines
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to
Overlay Fact Sheet
I would hope all our web designer/developer spidey senses trigger when the solution to an accessibility problem isn't "fix the issue" but rather "add extra
This Web Site is a Tech Talk
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I'm just taking notes
Behind the feature: building multi-account
What it took to build and ship a (seemingly) simple user request
A tool to spy on your DNS queries: dnspeep
A tool to spy on your DNS queries: dnspeep
The Small Joys Of April (2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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 2021.
End User Security: Account Takeover Protections with Cloudflare
End-user account security is always a top priority, but a hard problem to solve. In this post, we provide a summary of all the Cloudflare features that can help.
Build Zero Trust rules with managed devices
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare Access to build rules that only allow users to connect to applications from a device that your enterprise manages.
Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers
Throughout the day, Cloudflare has published blog posts on products created to secure our customers from credential stuffing bots, detect users with compromised credentials, and block users from proxy services. But what do we do inside Cloudflare to prevent account takeovers on our own applications?
ShopTalk Patreon
Dave and I launched a Patreon for ShopTalk Show. You get two completely priceless things for backing us:
You want margin-inline-start
David Bushell in ”Changing CSS for Good“:
When to use tablespaces in PostgreSQL
This article explains what PostgreSQL tablespaces are, when to use them and how they are different from Oracle tablespaces.
New Paper Endpoints Released in Preview
New endpoints are available to interact with Paper in the File System using the Dropbox API.
Behind the scenes of creating the official Figma kit for Tailwind UI
How the team at Tailwind Labs created a set of fully responsive components
Fuzzing sockets: Apache HTTP, Part 2: Custom Interceptors
In this second installment, I will focus on how to build our own custom ASAN interceptors in order to catch memory bugs when custom memory pools are implemented and also on how to intercept file system syscalls to detect logic errors in the target application.
Introducing new push notifications, scheduling, releases and more on GitHub Mobile
GitHub Mobile helps you get work done when you’re on the go, wherever you go. You’ve told us that you’d like more options for push notifications and viewing releases on…
GitHub Desktop now supports cherry-picking
GitHub Desktop aims to provide an intuitive way for users to complete everyday Git and GitHub workflows. One of our most requested features from the past year is cherry-picking, and…
GitHub Advanced Security: Introducing security overview beta and general availability of secret scanning for private repositories
GitHub Advanced Security helps you create secure applications with a community-driven, developer-first approach. Today, we are excited to announce two updates: Beta of the new security overview for organizations and…
