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.
How Vercel helped Tonies expand into new markets and improve conversion rates
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.
The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024
Ten years of our global developer event! Celebrate with us by picking up in-person tickets today. It’s bound to be our best one yet.
Releasing safe and cost-efficient blue-green deployments
Learn how Vercel's platform primitives enable safe and scalable blue-green deployments that mitigate the risks of rolling out new software versions.
All In Africa: New cohort now open!
As we’re opening up the doors to our final class of this programmatic year, we’re also looking back at our recent graduates and the partners that helped make them a success.
Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation
Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we should use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implem
Notes on git's error messages
Notes on git's error messages
Going in circles without a real-time clock
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q4 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Developer Week 2024 wrap-up
Developer Week 2024 has officially come to a close. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out last week
Community Update: empowering startups building on Cloudflare and creating an inclusive community
We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers
The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps — Smashing Magazine
What can we do to make a mobile app better? What subsidiary features are worth providing for our users? I have some ideas. You might, too. So, let’s compare our notes. Without any prescriptions attached, here are seven features I believe can palpably improve a user’s experience with a mobile app.
What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images
With Cloudflare Calls in open beta, you can build real-time, serverless video and audio applications. Cloudflare Stream lets your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams
Improved infrastructure pricing
We're reducing pricing on Vercel fundamentals like bandwidth and functions.
R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
Data Anywhere with Pipelines, Event Notifications, and Workflows
We make it easy to build scalable, reliable, data-driven applications, so we’re announcing a new Event Notifications framework; our take on durable execution; and a streaming ingestion service.
Continuing our work with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to keep vulnerable communities secure online
Along with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, we are spotlighting threats to civil society, best practices for online protection, and new resources specifically for these vulnerable
autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
Making crochet cacti
Making crochet cacti
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplating embarking on a similar venture within their organizations. Despite the number of articles, blog posts, and talks one can find online, it can be challenging to digest the information about the building blocks of a data platform, how to start building one, a
Welcome to Developer Week 2024
We’re kicking off 2024’s Developer Week, and we’re excited to welcome you to the week and give you a small preview of what to expect, and how we’re thinking about the future of our platform
Colorful Blossoms And Rainy Days (April 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a little inspiration boost? We might have one for you: desktop wallpapers created by the community for the community. Enjoy!
Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.
Some Git poll results
Some Git poll results
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends — Smashing Magazine
Based on responses from over 1,200 product professionals, Maze’s Future of User Research Report uncovers how product teams conduct research to inform decision-making and build successful products. Learn about the top three trends defining the user research industry in 2024 and beyond.
Migrate to CYPEX
It is very easy to migrate your data with CYPEX. Try it out.