GitHub Team or Free? How to choose the right plan
Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you.
Welcome to Maintainer Month 2022! 🎉
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2022
In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April.
Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
Several ways for GitHub-hosted Actions runners to connect to resources on your private network.
GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Brazil—an exciting expansion for one of our fastest growing developer communities.
Building a Form with Polaris - Shopify
A tutorial to create the basic form design that's meant to introduction to React including additional logic to emulate a fully functional React form.
Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ken Harker explains what third-party resource requests really are and which common optimization strategies can help reduce the impact on the user experience. By carefully considering how third-party requests will fit into your website during the design stage, you’ll be able to avoid the most significant negative impacts.
How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify
TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure of user forecasts catch up to business needs. As the business evolves, we need an infrastructure in place that can satisfy the varying needs of stakeholders across the company. To enable fast iterations and facilitate model training, we built a system that allows user forecasts to run both
Say Hello to the Recipients of the 2022 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Today we’re announcing the recipients of the first Spotify FOSS Fund. The objective of this fund is to give the independent open source projects we care about a meaningful financial sponsorship to help ensure those projects have the means to continue maintaining and maturing the code we rely on.
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing , Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe the musical notes in a recording. Drop a recording of almost any instrument, including your voice, then get back a MIDI version, just like that. Unlike similar ML models, Basic Pitch is not only versatile and accurate, but also fast and computationally lightweight. It was b
Platform Week wrap-up
Recently, during Platform Week, we made a number of announcements expanding what’s possible with the Developer Platform. Let’s take a look at some of these and what this enables you to build
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security.
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them.
To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models - Shopify
An in-depth look at threads vs processes in Ruby web applications, and when you should use each.
Expand Your Horizons (June 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. The wallpapers in this collection come in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some designs from our wallpapers archives at the e
Smashing Podcast Episode 47 With Sara Soueidan: Why Does Accessibility Matter? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out.
“Much more than just writing.” How I got started as a content designer
Great content on an interface “just works”; it disappears into a delightful user experience while leading happy users to success, whatever it is they’re trying to get done with a given product
What’s That (Dev) Tool? — Smashing Magazine
How many browser DevTools panels do you commonly use in your day-to-day web development? One? Three? Probably not that many more. In this article, Patrick Brosset shines the spotlight on a number of tools that people don’t use or even know about. Let’s dive in!
We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned
In this blog post, we’ll cover the history of Cloudflare’s developer docs, why we made this recent transition, and why we continue to dogfood Cloudflare’s products as we develop applications internally
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And,
Full-scale expression with Grilli Type
A conversation with Thierry Blancpain from Grilli Type
Open-Source 3dicons Library: Case Study And Free Downloads — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Vijay describes his learning experiences during the design stages of creating his 3dicons image library (a free library for product screens, social media posts and marketing campaigns), which you can download and use for free.
Cloudflare’s approach to handling BMC vulnerabilities
Cloudflare’s approach to handling firmware vulnerabilities and how we keep our internal data protected
How we treat content as a product
Learn how the Product Content Experience team treats developer documentation and in-product content like a product
Cool CSS Hover Effects That Use Background Clipping, Masks, and 3D
We’ve walked through a series of posts now about interesting approaches to CSS hover effects. We started with a bunch of examples that use CSS background
npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
Implementing Equality in Ruby - Shopify
Ruby is one of the few programming languages that get equality right. I often play around with other languages, but keep coming back to Ruby. This is because Ruby’s implementation of equality is so nice. Let's walk through all forms of equality in Ruby and how to implement them.
Manage Accessible Design System Themes With CSS Color-Contrast() — Smashing Magazine
Developing accessible products can be challenging, especially when some of the requirements are beyond the scope of development. It’s one thing to enforce `alt` text for images and labels for form fields, but another to define an accessible color palette. From working with design handoffs to supporting custom themes in a design system, the CSS `color-contrast()` function can become a cornerstone f
How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x
How we redesigned our DNS pipeline to significantly improve DNS propagation speed across all zones.
Dig through SERVFAILs with EDE
Now we’re happy to announce we will return more error code types and include additional helpful information to further improve your debugging experience.
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt.
Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
One of the most important aspects of software development, are memory and performance management and every software developer should pay attention to them. In this article, Frank Joseph explains both weak and strong references in JavaScript, as well as the concept of reachability. Let’s dig in!
Cloudflare Middle East & Turkey: a path to growth
I am excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as Managing Director for the Middle East and Turkey (MET) region
Mastering SVG's stroke-miterlimit Attribute
So, SVG has this stroke-miterlimit presentation attribute. You’ve probably seen it when exporting an SVG from a graphic editor program, or perhaps you find
How to cancel a hanging PostgreSQL query
This article describes how to cancel queries in PostgreSQL and shows a trick that you can use if canceling a query doesn't work.
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use.
Our Favorite Moments From RailsConf 2022 - Shopify
The Rails community gathered in Portland for the first in-person RailsConf in two years. Shopify developers recap a few highlights from the three-day event.
Developing An Award-Winning Onboarding Process (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
A well-constructed onboarding process boosts engagement, improves product adoption, increases conversion rates, and educates users about a product. This article is a case study of how the platformOS team has researched, developed, and iteratively adjusted their onboarding processes over more than three years to eventually create the multiple award winning developer experience they provide today.
Sessions 2022 and product highlights from the year
Read a recap of Stripe Sessions 2022, our annual user conference, and new Stripe products and features launched in the past year.
Cloudflare achieves key cloud computing certifications — and there’s more to come
Cloudflare now has a second major international privacy certification, as well as C5 attestation — and we’re not done yet.
First Look At The CSS object-view-box Property
Ahmad Shadeed — doing what he always does so well — provides an early look at the object-view-box property, something he describes as a native way to crop an
GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away!
Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021!
Lessons Learned From Running Apache Airflow at Scale - Shopify
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022 — Smashing Magazine
CSS is constantly evolving, and some cool and useful properties either go completely unnoticed or are not talked about as much as others for some reason or another. In this article, we’ll cover a fraction of those CSS properties and selectors.
Wendy Komadina: No one excited me more than Cloudflare, so I joined.
When I considered joining Cloudflare, I recall consistently reading the message around “Helping to Build a Better Internet”. At first those words didn’t connect with me, but they sounded like an important mission.
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Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect.
Tether Required Recapitalization In May 2022
Tether's March 2022 attestation, even if believed, shows that it became insolvent during the May 2022 crypto downturn.
Asynchronous Communication is the Great Leveler in Engineering - Shopify
Shopify’s now on a journey of mindfully unraveling these default office behaviors and replacing them with remote-focused ways of working.
The Ultimate Free Solo Blog Setup With Ghost And Gatsby — Smashing Magazine
When it comes to tools for publishing a blog, it can seem like there’s never a perfect solution that mixes customization with easy admin. In this article, we will see step-by-step how you can get the best of both worlds by using Ghost as a headless CMS for a Gatsby static site. We will cover all the tricky parts in-depth and show you can do everything for free.
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory. The Internet was impacted in more than one way, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.
Monitoring our monitoring: how we validate our Prometheus alert rules
Pint is a tool we developed to validate our Prometheus alerting rules and ensure they are always working
A step forward in our accessibility efforts
Announcing a prototype screen reader beta
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions.
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next.
Tasks, lists, and promises
Kubernetes For Frontend Developers — Smashing Magazine
Developers are migrating from on-premises technology and embracing the benefits cloud infrastructure offers. Moreso, there is a rapid shift from a monolithic architecture to microservices architecture; this ensures that apps have higher availability, are simple to install, and easy to upgrade with the microservices architecture approach. In this post, we introduced Kubernetes to front-end engineer
Internship Experience: Software Development Intern
Back in December 2021, I joined Cloudflare as a Software Development Intern on the Partnerships team to help improve the experience that Partners have when using the platform
