Highlights from Git 2.34
To celebrate this most recent release, here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Some notes on using esbuild
Some notes on using esbuild
How I help you build better websites
I'm making a career move to more effectively help you make the web (and the world) better.
Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development — Smashing Magazine
What’s your favorite command-line tool? In this post, Louis Lazaris shares a collection of relevant command-line apps and utilities that he has personally come across in the past few years. If there’s a useful one that hasn’t been mentioned and one you use regularly, please do share it in the comments.
Welcome to Full Stack Week
This week, as we do in our Innovation Weeks, we’ll make a series of announcements to help paint a vision for how we see the future of compute, and giving our developers the tools they need to build their next application on our network.
Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.
Why I Love Remix
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
Five Great (free!) Ways to Get Started With Cloudflare
New to Cloudflare and don’t know where to begin? Here are five things you can do to get started with Cloudflare right now...
Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History
Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your local commit history—before you share your work with the rest of the team. Let's see what you can do with an interactive rebase and then look at some practical examples.
Other Looks at the Conditional Border Radius Trick
Remember when Ahmad Shadeed wrote about that border-radius "toggle" he found in Facebook's CSS? It was interesting! I covered it. A few weeks after that surge
Release Radar
What an incredible month it’s been for GitHub and our communities. Whilst we’ve been busy with GitHub Universe, our communities have been busy coding. It’s been a successful year for…
Highlights from GitHub’s security roadmap at Universe 2021
During Universe, we received a number of security questions ranging from our strategy to our advisories. Here’s what we’ve got planned!
Useful React Hooks That You Can Use In Your Projects — Smashing Magazine
React class-based components are messy, confusing, hard for humans and machines. But before React 16.8, class-based components were mandatory for any projects that require states, life-cycle methods, and many other important functionalities. All these changed with the introduction of hooks in React 16.8. Hooks are game-changers. They have simplified React, made it neater, easier to write and debug
Semantic menu context
Scott digs into the history of the <menu> element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a
Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Gavin McFarland
A Q&A with Gavin on the FigJam widget he built and what he's working on next
Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world
2,500 km cable will expand access to high-speed internet […]
Using Propensity Score Matching to Uncover Shopify Capital’s Effect on Business Growth - Shopify
In this study, we prove how Shopify Capital (one of our first machine learning products) has real-world impact by making merchant funding accessible.
From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz — Smashing Magazine
Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization. In this article, Adam Fard will talk about research, decluttering, and data visualization, as well as how these things can make
Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime
Bootstrap 5.2 shipped with solutions for the methods covered in this post. So, if you're using Bootstrap 5.2 or newer, you should be able to tinker with CSS
Don't Snore on CORS
Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone's favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I
Default Trial Retire
The strong and weak forces of architecture
Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly. These teams exhibit a strong force of alignment, and can make technology and design decisions that harness that strong force. As we zoom out in a larger organisation an increasingly weak force exists between teams and div
7 unique software collaboration features in GitHub Discussions
Here are a few ways our teams use GitHub Discussions internally to build community, simplify workflows, and get key insights into our work.
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
Developing in the Open
We use plenty of open source tools at Slack and we’ve benefited immensely from the wider Android, Kotlin, and Gradle communities. We also try to be good citizens by giving back. This includes things like sponsoring the Kotlin Lang Slack, contributions to projects we use like Anvil and Insetter, sharing projects of our own like…
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet.
Satyen Desai: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I am helping Cloudflare grow in Southeast Asia and Korea
I am excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as the Head of Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAK) region to help build a better Internet and to expand Cloudflare’s growing customer, partner and local teams across all the countries in SEAK.
Detecting Specific Text Input with HTML and CSS
Louis Lazaris breaks down some bonafide CSS trickery from Jane. The Pen shows off interactivity where:
React Suspense: Lessons Learned While Loading Data
Suspense is React’s forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actions—like data loading—allowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your
From candidate interviews to developer crits: How Figma Engineering uses FigJam to scale
A Q&A with the Figma engineering team
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 enhances CI/CD and adds a new security manager role
This latest release sees the introduction of a new role, a new webhook for GitHub Actions, and a bright edge to dark mode.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: three rules of bug fixing for better OSS security
When you’re fixing a bug, especially a security vulnerability, you should add a regression test, fix the bug, and find & fix variants.
OCP Summit 2021: Open networking hardware lays the groundwork for the metaverse
Open infrastructure technologies and networking hardware will play an important role as we build new technologies for the metaverse, where billions of people will someday come together in virtual spaces. As we head toward the next major computing platform with a continued spirit of embracing openness and disaggregation, we’re announcing two new milestones for our […]
Localizing Your Next.js App — Smashing Magazine
Internationalized routing is not exactly a new feature on Next.js. (It has been out since [v.10](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10).) In this article, we are not only checking what we get from this feature, but also how to leverage such functionalities to achieve the best user experience and a smooth developer experience as well. Keep reading if you enjoy self-documented code, lean bundle-sizes and
Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website — Smashing Magazine
If we want to make our websites successful, we need to pay special attention to two concerns: design and speed. In both accounts, Cloudinary can help us out. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how Cloudinary’s integration can be used with WordPress to produce and deliver optimal digital experiences.
Sizing Up Post-Quantum Signatures
How much room does TLS have for the big post-quantum signatures? We had a look: it’s tight.
The hardware behind my old mail filtering server
Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts - Shopify
The future of commerce is dynamic, contextual, and personalized. Hydrogen is a React-based framework for building custom and creative storefronts powered by Shopify’s platform and APIs.
Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce — Smashing Magazine
A great commerce experience cannot be distilled to a single number. It’s not a Lighthouse score, or a set of Core Web Vitals figures, although both are important inputs. A great commerce experience is a trilemma that carefully balances competing needs of delivering a great customer experience, dynamic storefront capabilities, and long-term business — conversion, retention, re-engagement — objectiv
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A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August.
The State Initializer Pattern
A simple pattern used in libraries like downshift and ReachUI to enable component/hook users to initialize your state and even reset it to that initial value.
Years since 1900 + seven bits = breakage in 2028
The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design — Smashing Magazine
Concept testing is a blend of market and UX research, two disciplines that share many methods in common. You shouldn’t consider it anti-UX to also explore topics related to market acceptance. After all, what good is a usable product if it serves no purpose or doesn’t have any meaningful sized market willing to adopt it? Concept testing ideas before moving into a detailed design is good UX practice
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
In Q3, 2021 we saw and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom attacks on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service providers.
Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue
Josh Collingsworth is clearly a big fan of Svelte, so while this is a fun and useful comparison article, it's here to crown Svelte the winner all the way
Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations
Steve Ruiz calls this post an "extra-obscure edition of design tool micro-UX," but I find it fascinating! If you select a bunch of elements in a design tool,
Scroll-Linked Animations With the Web Animations API (WAAPI) and ScrollTimeline
The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you
Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu
A Q&A with Tekeste on the FigJam widgets he built and what he's working on next
GitHub Availability Report: October 2021
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.
10 GitHub Actions resources to bookmark from the basics to CI/CD
Tips on how to get started using GitHub Actions and resources to learn more about making it work for you.
How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
The Vitality of Core Web Vitals - Shopify
A deep dive into each metric of Google Core Web Vitals.
How Two Interns Are Helping Secure Millions of Lines of Code
At Slack, proactively securing our systems is a top priority. One way we achieve this is by automating the detection of security issues with static code analysis, which are tools that inspect programs without executing them. They’re often used with security-based rules to automate identification of vulnerabilities and insecure programming practices, which frees up more…
Smashing Podcast Episode 43 With Matthew Phillips: What Is Astro? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about Astro. Will this modern static site builder launch you into the stratosphere? Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out.
GraphQL On The Front-End (React And Apollo) — Smashing Magazine
Within the last decade, technologies like GraphQL have changed how we build web apps and how they communicate with each other. GraphQL provides certain benefits over REST APIs — let’s find out what they are. In this article, David Atanda will cover advanced topics to achieve real-time update of data using the update() function, subscription, and Optimistic UI. All in a bit to improve user experien
The tale of a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
Building the next phase of GitHub, together
This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers.
Thank you, GitHub
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.
