Advanced browser parlor tricks

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

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Version control plays a crucial role in modern software development. Here are some detailed concepts you might want to know about Version…

How to refresh the Next.js App Router when content in a folder changes. Yes, websockets.

In this article, we explore the key concepts related to useCallback, including its purpose, usage, benefits, and best practices.

60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed

You know the saying “If you keep looking at the past, you’ll miss the future”? Well in the context of coding and working with Git, that’s not the case. Your commit history plays a huge role in the future of the open source projects that you contribute to, and

Code is run by computers, but it is read by humans. In this post, I explore an example of code that is written with empathy for other programmers.

By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies. Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with

In this post, we will learn how to create a singleton class using Typescript. Singleton...

Web components let developers write interoperable components, but at the cost of lots of boilerplate. Learn how you can write components that work in Svelte, Vue, React, and other frameworks, with minimal boilerplate.

On a recent project, my team created a lightweight code generator, with reusable techniques I want to share. Read on for the why and the how.

Learn how to generate social preview images for your website with Remix and Tailwind. Use Vercel's Satori package with Remix for dynamic open graph images. Fetch fonts from Google automatically.

By building our own framework for composing frontend stores we significantly improved the developer experience of our React app.

Let's take a look at why you'd want a library like React Query, even if you don't need all the extra features it provides...

Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explainations

CSS has a great new feature where you can specify the color space to use by adding in to the gradient (not yet supported in Firefox). This is especially useful

Part 1: expressions, arithmetic Part 2: statements, control flow Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to create my own systems pr...

Adopting existing tools that work, applying them to the business problems at hand, and quickly iterating in the business domain rather than endlessly swirling in the vortex of technobabble is woefully underrated. I’ve worked at two kinds of companies before: One that only cares about measurable business outcomes, accruing technical debt and blaming engineers when no one wants to work with their codebase, ultimately hurting the product. Another that has staff engineers spending all day on linter configurations and writing seldom-read RFCs while juniors want to ditch Celery for Kafka because the latter is hip.

New math constants and functions are coming to CSS... now with more remainders and modulo

This article explores what makes a great project README, how Appsmith made ours as accessible as possible and provides examples of other effective READMEs.

Why aren't developers write tests? Because they are bad for them

From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.

In this blog post, we will highlight Snyk’s view on the new vulnerability scoring framework, CVSS 4.0, which was released on November 1, 2023.

Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?

Discover everything you need to know about using WebSockets with React, including how to build a smooth realtime cursor experience from scratch.

This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT e...