Day 48: Another Go program, and a little vim configuration
Day 48: Another Go program, and a little vim configuration
How to Make Dashboards Using a Product Thinking Approach - Shopify
A step-by-step guide to how you can create dashboards that are user-centred and impact-driven.
How To Create An Engaging And Useful Chatbot — Smashing Magazine
What makes a good chatbot experience? Most people think of witty responses and machine learning, but the basis of a chatbot UX is actually rooted in content strategy. In this article Marli Mesibov will answer those questions and identify what you as a content designer can do to make your chatbot successful. A poor chatbot simply says “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” on repeat (or worse “error”.) A
Transfer Vercel projects with zero downtime
With Vercel, you can now transfer projects from Hobby plan to a Vercel Team Plan with Zero Downtime
Automating data center expansions with Airflow
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work.
Count yourself in for a vaccine phish: new phishing campaign exploits concern over COVID-19 vaccine availability
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods.
The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid
How to build a very common layout with CSS grid. Header on the top, footer on the bottom. Two columns, sidebar and main content. This one has navigation above the main content but within that same column.
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
Managing Google Cloud Platform Project-Wide SSH Keys - Shopify
As a member of the Infrastructure Security team, Cailyn set out to create an application to silently and effectively manage SSH keys that persist inside of Shopify's Google Cloud Platform project-wide metadata.
Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS
You know, Porky Pig coming out of those red rings announcing the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon. We’ll get there, but first we need to cover some CSS concepts.
Monorepo
I'm not exactly a large-scale DevOps guy, but I can tell ya we've been moving back toward a monorepo at CodePen and it's rife with advantages over a system
Postgres scaling advice
This article covers scaling advices for PostgreSQL and explains why it may be a good idea to keep it simple on the database side.
Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
Technology is constantly becoming smarter and more powerful. I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an organization’s productivity instead of improving has reduced. This is because the technology has increased complexities and cognitive overhead to the developer, reducing their effectiveness. In this article, the first of a series, I introduce a framework for maximizing develope
The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…
Day 46: debugging an iptables problem
Day 46: debugging an iptables problem
Using fetch with TypeScript
How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript
How machine learning powers Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm
Designing a personalized ranking system for more than 2 billion people (all with different interests) and a plethora of content to select from presents significant, complex challenges. This is something we tackle every day with News Feed ranking. Without machine learning (ML), people’s News Feeds could be flooded with content they don’t find as relevant […]
From Design To Developer-Friendly React Code In Minutes With Anima — Smashing Magazine
The promise of seamless design to code translation goes back to the early WYSIWYG page builders. Despite the admirable goal, their biggest flaw was the code that they generated. Skepticism remains to this day and whenever this idea reappears, the biggest concerns are always related to the quality and maintainability of the code. In this article, Miroslav Bekyarov will show you how to turn our stat
Smashing Podcast Episode 34 With Harry Roberts: What’s The State Of Web Performance? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Web Performance. What does the performance landscape look like in 2021? Drew McLellan talks to expert Harry Roberts to find out.
How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program.
Tech Stacks and Website Longevity
Steren Giannini in "My stack will outlive yours":
Improving how we deploy GitHub
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
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The styled-components Happy Path
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
Making Remote Work Work: Useful Tools And Resources — Smashing Magazine
How to stay creative, focused, and organized when working remotely? In this article, Cosima Mielke has compiled some useful tools and resources to help you tackle some of the challenges of working remotely. The collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things that we found useful and that we hope will make your day-to-day work more productive and efficient, too.
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
Cloudflare Waiting Room
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future.
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick.
Level up your code with TwilioQuest
It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open…
Day 44: Building my VMs with Docker
Day 44: Building my VMs with Docker
Lurking bugs behind infrequently-executed code paths
Using GraphQL for High-Performing Mobile Applications - Shopify
GraphQL is the syntax that describes data that a client asks from a server. The client, in this case, is a mobile application. GraphQL is usually compared with REST API, a common syntax that most mobile application developers use. We will share how GraphQL can solve some of the pain points of REST API in mobile application development and discuss tips and best practices that we learned at Shopify
When To Say No To Freelance Projects — Smashing Magazine
Saying no is a skill. Saying yes to the wrong freelance opportunities can lead you toward misery and burnout, and we could all probably improve how mindful we are about our work, partners, and clients. For hungry freelancers, it can be hard to turn work away. But in the long run, saying no to a project that’s a bad fit will make you a better freelancer. This article will help freelancers and consu
Golden Proportions in PostgreSQL
Learn how PostgreSQL can help with basic calculations regarding golden proportions. Do mathematics in your database development work.
Why we chose Apache Superset as our data exploration platform
The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition
If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and…
Day 43: Building VM images
Day 43: Building VM images
Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC
Technical information about how Netflix uses Android APIs and xHE-AAC metadata, especially MPEG-D DRC, to optimize the listening experience.
How We Improved SmashingMag Performance — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve made, and some of the unexpected changes that helped boost all the metrics across the board. Hopefully, this little case-study will be useful to you, and perhaps there ar
New in Chrome 88: aspect-ratio
And it was released yesterday! The big news for us in CSS Land is that the new release supports the aspect-ratio property. This comes right on the heels of
Day 42: Writing a Go program to manage Firecracker VMs
Day 42: Writing a Go program to manage Firecracker VMs
Women in Security at Slack
Since its inception, Slack has fostered a culture of inclusion and diversity. The Security organization at Slack is a prime example of how women can thrive in the security space, transitioning to security from different backgrounds and expertises. With Slack’s strong commitment to diversity, it should not be a surprise that nearly a third of…
Life with ESM
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Netlify Edge Handlers
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think
Day 41: Trying to understand what a bridge is
Day 41: Trying to understand what a bridge is
Wrapping React.useState with TypeScript
How to make a custom hook that wraps useState with TypeScript properly
How To Build A Node.js API For Ethereum Blockchain — Smashing Magazine
why do we need blockchain? Blockchain is a safe way to record activities and keep data fresh while maintaining a record of its history compared to the traditional records or databases where hacks, errors, and downtimes are very possible. In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethereum Blockchain for decentralization. He als
AnimXYZ
There are quite a few CSS animation libraries. They tend to be a pile of class names that you can apply as needed like "bounce" or "slide-right" and it'll...
State of JavaScript 2020
We rounded up a bunch of published 2020 annual reports right before the year ended and compiled them into a big ol' list. The end of the list called out a
Using Grommet In React Applications — Smashing Magazine
In this tutorial, Fortune Ikechi is going to show you how to use Grommet as a UI library for React applications. He’ll use Grommet as a UI library of choice to create a pricing component, this would help you have a better understanding of how to use Grommet. This tutorial will be beneficial to readers who are interested in developing responsive components in their React application using Grommet.
Update on an employee matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Day 40: screen flickering & a talk about containers
Day 40: screen flickering & a talk about containers
Failing to make progress under excess request load
Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers.
KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures
The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers: KEMTLS.
On Auto-Generated Atomic CSS
Robin Weser's "The Shorthand-Longhand Problem in Atomic CSS" in an interesting journey through a tricky problem. The point is that when you take on the job of
3 Approaches to Integrate React with Custom Elements
In my role as a web developer who sits at the intersection of design and code, I am drawn to Web Components because of their portability. It makes sense:
