Engineering

Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...

light-dark() Saw Bramus post about this. :root { color-scheme: light dark; –text-color: light-dark(#333, #ccc); } Apparently, this is just a first step on the way toward a more robust schemed…

We make Tailwind CSS play nice with CSS variables, OKLCH colors, and dynamic themes. Get reliable, predictable theming.

Announcing the Netlify Composable Web Platform — the foundation for companies looking to modernize their web architecture to ship faster, reduce risk, and drive higher revenue.

In 2015, ECMAScript 6 was introduced – a significant release of the JavaScript language. This release...

CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time. If you haven't used CSS in a long time, for whatever reason, now is the time to take a look again.

Separates state management logic from the visual representation

Passkeys are beginning to make their way into popular apps, from password managers to multi-factor authenticators, but what exactly are they? As this new technology promises to make passwords a thing of the past, Neal Fennimore explains the concepts behind passkeys, demonstrates how they work, and speculates what we might expect from them in the future.

A deep dive into how modern developer tools bring typing, CI/CD integration, and version control to engineering teams where they work.

This blog post has been on my to-do list ever since I saw Daniel Stenberg’s blog post “This is how I git” (November 2020). I thought, “I should do one of those posts, too!” This post focuses on my basic muscle-memory git commands. There are at least two other major Git subtopics this post doesn’t mention at all: “branching discipline” (what is a release branch? what’s the difference between rebase and merge?) and “hygiene” (how big should a commit be? what does a good commit message look like?). That is — as usual for this blog — we’re talking tactics, not strategy.

I spent some time at work looking into speeding up TypeScript type checking via tsc. One of the biggest wins I found was also one of the simplest to implement.

Written by David Omotayo✏️ Errors can be a significant challenge for developers, often leading to...

A story of trying (and failing) to self-host the internet.

This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...

I finally decided to learn shaders. If you're curious about what shaders are and how they work, this article is for you. We'll start with the basics and build a simple blob from scratch.

The latest React docs include recommendations on how to write React code. Here are nine points that come up most about React code style to help you avoid difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

A compendium of absurd open-source licenses. Contribute to ErikMcClure/bad-licenses development by creating an account on GitHub.

If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.

It's time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

How a 14+ month project was scoped and completed with only a single developer and two designers.

Use codemods to upgrade your Next.js codebase when new features are released.

Node is all there is, right? It is the beginning and the end of all of web development. We use it to install our tools, even the ones not made in node.

Software isn’t hardware. While it takes time to build, assemble and ship a hardware product, software can literally be built, assembled and…