An Ode To Side Project Time — Smashing Magazine
A once-revered perk of some tech workplaces, the status of ‘side project time’ seems to have slipped in recent years. Frederick O’Brien believes it deserves a comeback.
The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling — Smashing Magazine
How do we determine the most suitable illustration style? How should illustrations complement and reflect your corporate identity? What will resonate most with your target audience? And regarding the content, what type of illustration would best enhance it, and how would it work for the age range it is primarily for? Thomas Bohm shares insightful examples and discusses the key qualities of effecti
Game Off 2024 winners
Secrets spilled, discovered, and hidden again—Game Off 2024 brought over 500 jaw-dropping submissions that redefined creativity in gaming. From cult quests for free furniture to spellbinding mysteries, these games will have you hooked. Ready to uncover the winners?!?
Highlights from Git 2.48
The open source Git project just released Git 2.48. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Transforming how you work with v0
v0 lets all creators—not just developers—bring their ideas to life. Explore v0 use cases and prompt inspiration for designers, marketers, project managers, customer support, data analysis, and more.
Six memos for the future of digital creation
We asked devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists to double click on some of their ideas. Here’s what they said.
Making space for a handmade web
There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.
The new competitive moat is emotion
With more apps than ever, features will only get you so far. It’s time to put resonance on the roadmap.
Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
Open source all the way down: Upgrading our developer documentation
At Cloudflare, we treat developer content like an open source product. This collaborative approach enables global contributions to enhance quality and relevance for a wide range of users. This year, we scaled our documentation site to better meet the needs of users by migrating to the Astro ecosystem.
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
The best advice to bring to work in 2025
Industry leaders from companies like Ableton, Snapchat, and Coda set resolutions for managing teams, shipping products, and sparking great ideas in the year ahead.
Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
This article is the last in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need to…
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need…
Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors
Consistent hashing
Summary of reading: January - March 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Bloom filters - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on even and odd functions - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: July - September 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Reproducing word2vec with JAX - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on implementing Attention - Eli Bendersky's website
LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology - Eli Bendersky's website
Cross-entropy and KL divergence - Eli Bendersky's website
Making any integer with four 2s - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: April - June 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Understanding Numpy's einsum - Eli Bendersky's website
Reverse mode Automatic Differentiation - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI - Eli Bendersky's website
Convolutions, Polynomials and Flipped Kernels - Eli Bendersky's website
Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors - Eli Bendersky's website
Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts (MoE) - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on Cramer's rule - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: October - December 2025 - Eli Bendersky's website
Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae - Eli Bendersky's website
The forecast is clear: clouds on e-paper, powered by the cloud
Follow along as I build a custom weather display using Cloudflare Workers and a popular e-paper display. While the embedded electronics I used have their limitations, Workers provided an elegant solution to overcome these challenges and bring the project to life.
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025 — Smashing Magazine
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.
New Year, New Hopes, New Dreams (January 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Maybe 2025 has already started as you’re reading this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin — either way, it’s never too late or too early for some New Year’s inspiration! Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has got you covered.
Sometimes I cache: implementing lock-free probabilistic caching
If you want to know what cache revalidation is, how it works, and why it can involve rolling a die, read on. This blog post presents a lock-free probabilistic approach to cache revalidation, along with its implementation.
When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year’s, and the Internet’s holiday rhythm
From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms, drawing insights from the previous holiday season.
Global elections in 2024: Internet traffic and cyber threat trends
In 2024, as elections took place across over 60 countries, the Internet became both a battleground for cyberattacks and a vital platform for democratic engagement.
Hi Claude, build an MCP server on Cloudflare Workers
Want Claude to interact with your app directly? Build an MCP server on Workers. That will enable you to connect your service directly, allowing Claude to understand and run tasks on your behalf.
What does the future hold for real-time payments?
In the third and final installment in our three-part series, we examine the most important questions for the future of real-time payments: will they ever take off in the US and the UK, and will they emerge as a truly global payment method?
Optimizing secure build infrastructure with Secure Compute
We built Hive, our general compute platform, after outgrowing off-the-shelf solutions. See how it's now powering secure connections to private networks, cutting initialization from 90s to 5s and improving build speeds by 30%.
PGDay/MED 2024 Napoli Edition
In this blog posting Pavlo Golub will tell you more about his trip to the PGDay Napoli on the 5th of December.
27 FigJam activities to spark creativity in the classroom
Looking for ways to shake up your teaching? These collaborative templates help students connect, create, and learn together.
Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer
How to build a mixed reality headset
How do you take a mixed reality (MR) headset from idea to finished product? Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Labs, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast for a discussion on the realities (no pun intended) of building MR hardware. Jones shares his strategy for […]
Please upgrade past Pleroma 2.7.0 (or at least patch it)
In a competitive landscape, RTPs move to stand out
To compete with other payment methods for consumer preference, real-time payments are expanding their “bundle” of services to include subscriptions, credit, and in-person transactions.
Circular dependencies for socket activation and WireGuard
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry
The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We've got coverage of both presentations for ya.
Designing data products
Working backwards from the end goal is a core principle of software development, and we’ve found it to be highly effective in modelling data products. In this article we'll explore a step-by-step, methodical approach to identifying data products that avoids overdesign while providing just enough clarity for teams to begin implementation. Starting with a use case, we work backward to define data pr
Inside Facebook’s video delivery system
We’re explaining the end-to-end systems the Facebook app leverages to deliver relevant content to people. Learn about our video-unification efforts that have simplified our product experience and infrastructure, in-depth details around mobile delivery, and new features we are working on in our video-content delivery stack. The end-to-end delivery of highly relevant, personalized, timely, and respo
Words fail me sometimes when it comes to feed readers
Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level. For 2024, we added several new metrics, as well as the ability to do year-over-year and geographic comparisons for selected metrics.
The top 10 gifts for the developer in your life
Whether you’re hunting for the perfect gift for your significant other, the colleague you drew in the office gift exchange, or maybe (just maybe) even for yourself, we’ve got you covered with our top 10 gifts that any developer would love.
The forces behind the rise of real-time payments
In most countries, the dominant means of exchange has rarely pivoted—and yet in many places around the world, it’s changing right now with RTPs.
Life of a request: Securing your app's traffic with Vercel
The Vercel Firewall automatically prevents over 1B malicious requests every week, with 5x that amount coming in over Black Friday-Cyber Monday. Learn how Vercel protects every request so you can focus on building, not fighting attacks.