A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *, resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques, avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.
Curated list of best tools for launching your website. Find how to get the best hosting, cheapest domain, files storage, monitoring and more.
This article explains what secure headers are and how to implement these headers in Rails, Django, Express.js, Go, Nginx, and Apache.
Write CSS without worrying that overzealous, pre-existing styles will cause problems. MaintainableCSS is an approach to writing modular, scalable and of course, maintainable CSS.
For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.
I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does it say 1.0?
I decided to look everything up and document it here.
Learn by example: cssreference.io is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
Free PCRE-based regular expression debugger with real time explanation, error detection and highlighting.
The Service Worker Cookbook is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web apps.
This is a basic checklist that all SaaS CTOs (and anyone else) can use to harden their security. Security shouldn’t feel like a chore. Select your startup stage and use these rules to improve your security. This list is far from exhaustive, incomplete by nature since the security you need depends on your assets.
The Noun Project is a website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles, the project functions both as a resource for people in search of typographic symbols and a design history of the genre
Performance is a feature. This book provides a hands-on overview of what every web developer needs to know about the various types of networks (WiFi, 3G/4G), transport protocols (UDP, TCP, and TLS), application protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2), and APIs available in the browser (XHR, WebSocket, WebRTC, and more) to deliver the best—fast, reliable, and resilient—user experience.
This guide is for the software developer, architect or system administrator who doesn't want to spend a lifetime wading through cryptographic algorithms and complicated explanations of arcane system administration topics to tackle software security. We are a software development company and we have taken everything we know (and have learned through the years) about server and application security and distilled it into this simple yet detailed guide. This is not the sum of all things that could be or have been said about software security, but if you implement each of the concepts below your user data will be highly secure.
The Vanilla Javascript Repository. A searchable repository of dependency-free JavaScript libraries. Over 100 projects and growing.
Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
The HTTP Archive tracks how the Web is built.
This is a collection of JavaScript wizardry that can shave bytes off of your code.
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
A specification for building APIs in JSON. Clients built around JSON API are able to take advantage of its features around efficiently caching responses, sometimes eliminating network requests entirely.
This guide describes a set of HTTP+JSON API design practices, originally extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API.