Beginner’s guide to GitHub repositories: How to create your first repo
Git started on your first repository in the third installment of GitHub for Beginners. Discover the essential features and settings to manage your projects effectively.
Feed reader score project participants: I made a mistake
Catching Compromised Cookies
Slack uses cookies to track session states for users on slack.com and the Slack Desktop app. The ever-present cookie banners have made cookies mainstream, but as a quick refresher, cookies are a little piece of client-side state associated with a website that is sent up to the web server on every request. Websites use this…
Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing — Smashing Magazine
Balancing the age-old simplicity of words on paper with the myriad creative possibilities of the web is a tension as old as the web itself. Leaning into that overlap can bring new dimensions not just to the things we write but also to how we write them.
Patrick Finn: why I joined Cloudflare as VP Sales for the Americas
Patrick S. Finn is joining Cloudflare as Vice President of Sales in the US, Canada, and Latin America
T-Shaped vs. V-Shaped Designers — Smashing Magazine
Job openings typically cast a very restrictive frame for candidates, with long lists of expectations and requirements. But what if this narrow focus can overlook the value of “V”-shaped designers who excel by crossing boundaries, connecting dots, and innovating beyond rigid boxes?
Dropbox API server root certificate changes coming in 2026
Learn about planned changes to the root certificates used on the Dropbox API servers, and how that will affect SDKs used to access the Dropbox API.
Leveraging technology on the frontlines of emergency: How communities of developers are taking action
From sending emergency alerts about nearby fires to mapping services in refugee camps, developers are taking action to solve global problems.
Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved?
Demystifying INP: New tools and actionable insights
Deep dive into Interaction to Next Paint (INP) optimization: A technical guide exploring real-world strategies used to improve INP on nextjs.org. Learn how to tackle common challenges and enhance responsiveness in your web applications.
Heeding the call to support Australia’s most at-risk entities
Heeding the call for industry to step up support of Australia's most at-risk entities, Cloudflare and CI-ISAC are teaming up to help protect Australia’s General Practitioner clinics
Never drop the illusion: How Frame.io builds fluid user experiences
Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights
The 2024 EU Parliament election caused declines in Internet traffic during voting and spikes during results announcements, with persistent cyber threats targeting government sites
Top 12 Git commands every developer must know
The latest installment of GitHub for Beginners, where we cover the essential Git commands to get you Git-literate.
Internet insights on 2024 elections in the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico
2024 brings a global increase in election activity. Here, we highlight traffic and cyberattack trends witnessed in countries like the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico. Additionally, we provide an up-to-date 2024 Election Insights report on Cloudflare Radar
European Union elections 2024: securing democratic processes in light of new threats
Between 6 and 9 June 2024, hundreds of millions of EU citizens will be voting to elect their members of the European Parliament (MEPs). All EU member states have different election processes
Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons
Ice Cream Ahead (June 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to celebrate the beginning of the new month with a collection of beautiful and unique wallpaper calendars.
The feed reader score service is now online
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
When a single-page application needs to fetch data from a remote source, it needs to do so while remaining responsive and providing feedback to the user during an often slow query. Five patterns help with this. Asynchronous State Handler wraps these queries with meta-queries for the state of the query. Parallel Data Fetching minimizes wait time. Fallback Markup specifies fallback displays in marku
GitHub and JFrog partner to unify code and binaries for DevSecOps
This partnership between GitHub and JFrog enables developers to manage code and binaries more efficiently on two of the most widely used developer platforms in the world.
I'm going to give this "reader score" thing a spin
What is Git? Our beginner’s guide to version control
Let’s get you started on your Git journey with basic concepts to know, plus a step-by-step on how to install and configure the most widely used version control system in the world.
So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
Vercel Ship 2024 recap
Vercel Ship 2024 highlighted the integrations, ecosystem, and teams building the web's best products. Read the recap to catch up on all our announcements.
Introducing the Vercel Web Application Firewall
Introducing the Vercel Web Application Firewall: application-aware, Vercel-native protection that brings the web one step closer to being secure by default.
My trip to Zagreb: DORS/CLUC 2024
Jan Karremans was part of the DORS/CLUC 2024 in Zagreb. Find out what his trip to Zagreb was like and what he learned on site in this post.
Speeding up file load times, one page at a time
How dynamic page loading improved the slowest load times by 33%
Using Footnotes
How I use, and render, footnotes
Customer centricity is driving a new era in streaming media
If the first wave of digitization was about the move into streaming, the second is about optimizing the streaming experience. Top media companies are partnering with Stripe to add new content bundles, change pricing models, and personalize payments.
Building A User Segmentation Matrix To Foster Cross-Org Alignment — Smashing Magazine
Many organizations prioritize internal structures and services over customer-centricity, hindering effective decision-making. Through a case study, Talke Hoppmann-Walton advocates for a shift towards an outside-in perspective and proposes the use of a user segmentation matrix to foster alignment across departments and prioritize customer needs.
New Consent and Bot Management features for Cloudflare Zaraz
Zaraz Consent Management now supports Google Consent Mode v2 and is compliant with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework. Zaraz also added Bot Management support for keeping your analytics data clean
SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?
Platforms can now white label payment workflows in record time
This post highlights four ways embedded components can simplify the most complex payment workflows for platforms expanding to a new market or looking to reduce operational overhead.
Cloudflare’s public IPFS gateways and supporting Interplanetary Shipyard
Cloudflare is transitioning traffic that comes to our public IPFS gateway to Interplanetary Shipyard’s IPFS gateway. The transition is expected to be complete by August 14th, 2024
Securing Git: Addressing 5 new vulnerabilities
Git is releasing several new versions to address five CVEs. Upgrading to the latest Git version is essential to protect against these vulnerabilities.
Say hello to the SPORTech collection
Whether you’re a rookie coder or a seasoned pro, our new SPORTech shop collection is tailored for you. And here’s the kicker: we’re offering free delivery worldwide over $20 until May 20!
How Vercel helped Desenio future-proof their business
Using Fortran on Cloudflare Workers
Work on LLVM has enabled Fortran to compile to WebAssembly. So, today, we’re writing about running Fortran code on Cloudflare Workers
How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
We’ve made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
How Dub grew to 3,000 active domains with Vercel’s multi-tenant SaaS toolkit
Dependabot on GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners is now generally available
A quick guide on the advantages of Dependabot as a GitHub Actions workflow and the benefits this unlocks, including self-hosted runner support.
Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
Generate and verify signed attestations for anything you make with GitHub Actions.
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
Reader feedback on autoconf and bugginess in general
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the motivation for investing into building a platformized solution at Spotify.
Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at
TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it. To alleviate this problem, we could run a sequential test or an A/A test. However, sequential tests are typically less sensitive and introduce bias to the treatment effect estimator. Moreover, A/A tests prolong the duration of the experiment and still don’t guarantee that the resulting sam
Longing For May (2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
May is almost here, so what better occasion could there be for some fresh and inspiring desktop wallpapers? Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Highlights from Git 2.45
Git 2.45 is here with experimental support for reftables, and SHA-256 interoperability. Get our take on the latest here.
Hitting every branch on the way down
Lessons Learned After Selling My Startup — Smashing Magazine
Business acquisitions are common but often shrouded in mystery because they happen behind closed doors. In this article, Yaakov details the story of his company and the journey it took him on, shedding light on the process of selling a business and what he learned from the experience.
The End Of The Free Tier — Smashing Magazine
Free-tier pricing is a common marketing strategy. “Free” gets people in the door and allows them to settle in and see how things work. But, as Juan Diego Rodriguez explains, the practice of free *tiers* is often conflated with free *trials*. And while the distinction may be nuanced, the consequences of sunsetting free-tier pricing may be huge.
New zine: How Git Works!
New zine: How Git Works!
Lessons from building an automated SDK pipeline
During Developer Week 2024, Cloudflare announced revamped SDKs, automatically generated from OpenAPI schemas. This post details the pipeline's workings and lessons learned.
Using open source to help the earth
This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate.
How To Work With GraphQL In WordPress In 2024 — Smashing Magazine
What options do we have for integrating GraphQL with WordPress in 2024? Leonardo Losoviz describes the developments that have taken place in this space over the last three years.
2024 Analysis of Traffic to martinfowler.com
How Global Retail Brands cut development time from months to 1 week with Vercel
PGconf.de 2024 in Munich
I had the pleasure of attending PGConf.de in Munich on April 12, 2024. Here I report on my experiences and insights.