Win a Copy of Zell Liew's Learn JavaScript Course
Zell Liew is giving away 10 free copies of his Learn JavaScript course, and entering the giveaway is pretty easy: sign up for his newsletter. I've personally
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
Day 32: A Rails model that doesn't use the database with ActiveHash
Day 32: A Rails model that doesn't use the database with ActiveHash
How To Make More Money Selling Shopify Apps In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
Developing a Shopify app and being able to sell it are two different things. While you might be a very skilled app developer, that’s not always enough for Shopify merchants to decide to install a newly released and unreviewed app on their sites. If you want to give merchants a reason to install and use your Shopify app, there are four things you need to do.
Internet traffic disruption caused by the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville
On Christmas Day 2020, an apparent suicide bomb exploded in Nashville, TN. The explosion happened outside an AT&T network building on Second Avenue in Nashville at 1230 UTC.
Styling Code In and Out of Blocks
There is a <code> tag in HTML. I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta. It is an inline-by-default element that
Whack-a-Mole: The CSS Edition
We’ve seen the checkbox hack and how it can be used to build a complete state machine in CSS. Today, we’ll take that line of thought a step further and build
GitHub Availability Report: December 2020
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report.
Building On-Call Culture at GitHub
GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.
Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good
Here's a little hodgepodge of videos I've recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn't decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I
Custom Properties as State
Here's a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for "seasonal" colors (e.g. spring is
Sample: Embedded Requesting Workflows Using the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs
Use this code sample to learn how combine the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs to send Dropbox files for eSignature using an embedded requesting workflow.
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran
Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
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Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine
This article is a response to the Platform Adjacency Theory by Alex Russell, with specific takes on WebUSB and some alternative proposals for a way forward.
Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment
Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment
2020 in Review
An overview of what I accomplished in 2020 and a bit about my goals for 2021.
Geometric effects of certain system design choices
Towards An Ad-Free Web: Diversifying The Online Economy — Smashing Magazine
The founding principles of the World Wide Web have been warped by years of over-reliance on advertising. Fixing that imbalance and moving toward a more ethical, open web means relaying the foundations, with sites showing other ways are possible. Incorporate sustainability into your designs. Communicate what you do and how you survive and what people can do to help. Progress does not happen on its
A comprehensive guide to go generate
Testing multiple implementations of a trait in Rust - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 4 - using OpenAPI and Swagger - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: October - December 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 6 - authentication - Eli Bendersky's website
Go socket servers with TLS - Eli Bendersky's website
Go HTTPS servers with TLS - Eli Bendersky's website
Generic functions on slices with Go type parameters - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 2 - using a router package - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: January - March 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: April - June 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
Life of an HTTP request in a Go server - Eli Bendersky's website
Rust data structures with circular references - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 7 - GraphQL - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 5 - middleware - Eli Bendersky's website
Plugins in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 3 - using a web framework - Eli Bendersky's website
Rewriting Go source code with AST tooling - Eli Bendersky's website
Go internals: invariance and memory layout of slices - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: July - September 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
REST Servers in Go: Part 1 - standard library - Eli Bendersky's website
Accessing PostgreSQL databases in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and track the valuable metrics hiding inside your team’s Xcode build logs. Are your build times improving or regressing? Which version of Xcode is slowest? Which hardware setup is fastest? XCMetrics makes it easy to find out all this and more. Made for iOS engineers, by iOS engineers, the too