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This release includes updates that improve subject matter expert (SME) visibility and engagement in Stack Overflow for Teams. It's also now easier to capture and discover SME knowledge in Microsoft Teams and Slack with the Auto-Answer App.
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One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.
The evolution of fullstack engineers
On today’s episode we chat with Mrinalini Sugosh, Dev Rel Manager CKEditor. She discusses how modern fullstack developers have to master both front and backend skills, stitch the two together, and master adjacent skills like data analysis and security compliance.
Chris’ Corner: Open Sniped
Recently Heikki Lotvonen cooked up a very cool idea: what if the colorization of code output on the web could be handled by the font itself. Syntax highlighting, as it were. So rather than accomplish this with a heaping pile of s with classes to colorize the text, the font file knows how to apply […]
Share your feedback about developing with Go
Help shape the future of Go by sharing your thoughts via the Go Developer Survey
The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
On today’s episode we speak with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source award for his work on the Hudson/Jenkins project. Kohsuke began his career at Sun Microsystems. He shares insights on the balance between community-driven open source and the need to monetize through enterprise services.
Telemetry in Go 1.23 and beyond
Go 1.23 includes opt-in telemetry for the Go toolchain.
Chris’ Corner: Gold Star CSS Bloggers
CSS still gives me the warm fuzzies sometimes. We’ve gotten so many amazing CSS features the past few years, that each alone makes me happy. But when those features are combined, I’m often stunned and get thinking about how we’re only scratching the surface of what is to come. Take a new demo by Adam […]
Range Over Function Types
A description of range over function types, a new feature in Go 1.23.
Chris’ Corner: Filtering
We updated the Your Work section of CodePen recently. See, it used to have a dropdown menu like this that we labelled “View”: This allowed you to scope down the Pens you were looking at below (in a Grid or List view). A single element like that started to feel a little awkward. Especially […]
Exploring 21 Unique Custom Cursors for Your Site
Microinteractions play an role in creating engaging and intuitive user experiences. These subtle animations and feedback can guide users, provide valuable information, and make interactions more enjoyable and generally look cool! One often overlooked yet super powerful micro-interaction is the use ofcustom cursors. Custom cursors can add a unique touch to your site, making navigation […]
Go 1.23 is released
Go 1.23 adds iterators, continues loop enhancements, improves compatibility, and more.
Chris’ Corner: Here’s some things you should know
Fine fine fine, here’s some things you could know if you were hip and into knowing things about building websites well.
Chris’ Corner: Variables
CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. People also — somewhat interchangeably — refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a stickler about naming things. For instance, there is no such thing as a frontend developer. There are front-end developers who focus […]
Chris’ Corner: Design Shrinking
While I don’t think you should publish to Medium (at least not as the only place you publish something, you should write on your own site that you control), I get why other people do. You quickly sign up, write some words, hit publish, and the result is a pretty clean-looking presentation of your writing. […]
Chris’ Corner: Incremental Adoption
One of the reasons I can’t stop thinking about native Web Components is how you can use them anywhere. “Incremental adoption” is the fancy phrase, I suppose. We’ve even started using them on the new editor for CodePen we’re still hard at work on to solve some interesting issues I’m sure we’ll talk about someday. […]
Chris’ Corner: Esoteric Stuff in CSS
Listen I ain’t trying to scare you, but this CSS stuff can get complicated. It doesn’t have to be. CSS is just selectors with key value pairs in the end. The vast majority of CSS I write is pretty darn straightforward, especially once you have a general system (what files go where? how do we […]
Chris Corner: Git it
Julia Evans has released what she’s saying is one of her most popular zines to date: How Git Works. I don’t think you’d regret reading it. I imagine most of us get by with knowing just enough Git to do our jobs, but are probably using 5% of what it can really do. Being very […]
Chris’ Corner: Let’s Look at Type!
Dan Mall has my favorite post on picking a typeface. I’m no master typographer, but I know enough that I don’t want to be talked to like an absolute beginner where you teach me what a serif is. Dan gets into more realistic decision making steps, like intentionally not picking something ultra popular, admitting that […]
Chris’ Corner: A Variety of Ways to Fail
I’ve done a decent amount of accessibility work in the past few months, largely thanks to a nice fellow who uses JAWS and seems to enjoy our sessions together testing various bits of CodePen, old and new. I use classic tools like the axe and the WebAIM tools to find issues, and still, testing over […]
Chris’ Corner: Stand Alones
It continues to be a big year for Web Components. I’m noticing it more this week as it’s effecting some of my friends. My long-time ShopTalk co-host Dave Rupert just got a job at Microsoft working on Fluent UI Web Components. Probably didn’t hurt that he wrote the book on them. I’m stoked that big, […]
Chris Corner: Platforms and Tools
Late last year Google made this showcase microsite The Web Can Do What!?. It’s nicely done! I like how it talks about various somewhat-recently unlocked use cases, while itself being a showcase for other rather impressive things you can do on a website (cool usage of sticky sections, view transitions, etc). Google invests a lot […]
Chris Corner: Unusual Ideas with Great Results
SVG Short Circuiting SVG is normally a pretty efficient file format. If an image is vector in nature, leaving it as vector is normally a good plan as it will like scale well and look pretty darn crips. But of course, It Depends. Super complex vector graphics can get huge, and a raster (i.e. JPG, […]
Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
ChaCha8Rand is a new cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator used in Go 1.22.
The State of the Subreddit (May 2024)
Hello fellow programs! tl;dr some revisions to the rules to reduce low quality blogspam. The most notable are: banning listicles ("7 cool things I copy-pasted from somebody else!"), extreme beginner articles ("how to use a for loop"), and some limitations on career posts (they must be related to programming careers). Lastly, I want feedback on these changes and the subreddit in general and invite you to vote and use...
Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Go 1.22 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
Chris’ Corner: Design the Job
Y’all use Figma for design work? I’d be willing to bet a lot of you do at your organization. I’m still wrapping my brain around the fact that Adobe has to write a billion dollar check to not acquire it. It’s no wonder why they wanted it — there is a new household name in […]
Chris’ Corner: Server Side Reconnaissance
If you tend to follow React stuff, you might know that React has a new thing called “Server Components”. Mayank has an excellent blog post about them. It starts out with calling out the nice things about them, and then fairly calls out all sorts of not-so-good things about them. Me, I think it’s all […]
Chris’ Corner: Things I Like
I like Melanie Sumner’s coining of the phrase Continuous Accessibility. To me, it’s like a play on the term Continuous Integration (CI) that is very pervasive. We build CI pipelines to lint our code, test our code, and test our code primarily, but all sorts of things can be done. We can test new code […]
Chris’ Corner: Tricks With CSS
There are plenty of very legit reasons you’d want to have a scrolling element start out scrolled to the bottom, and stay scrolled to the bottom (as long as a user hasn’t scrolled back up). As ever, you could do this with JavaScript, as JavaScript can adjust scroll positions of elements. There is a way […]
Chris’ Corner: Hard Things
Julia Evans has an extremely relatable and extremely charming talk in Making Hard Things Easy. Julia has a way of putting her finger on technology concepts that are notoriously difficult and making them easier to understand. She does this both by sharing her own tactics, like learning a reduced set of options or commands, as […]
Chris’ Corner: Real World CSS
I enjoyed Lee Robinson’s take on How I’m Writing CSS in 2024. Rather than jump right into tools and syntax, it starts with the user: Agreed! Number 3, and to some degree 4, are almost more in the JavaScript bucket than CSS, but it’s a good starter list. I’d add “The page styles shouldn’t interfere […]
Chris’ Corner: Cool Ideas
Lossy compression can be good. For something like a JPG, that naturally uses compression that can be adjusted, that compression leads to lost image data. In a good way. The image may end up being much smaller, which is good for performance. Sometimes the lost image data just isn’t a big deal, you barely notice […]
Chris’ Corner: Performance is Good for Brains
I was darn impressed by Scott Jehl’s personal charge to bring back an idea known as “responsive video”. If you’ve seen the element, and how you can provide multiple s with different @media queries allowing for only the best match to be shown, you already get it. It turns out that browsers, at one […]