Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries.
Little Big Outtakes
The quick pivots and aha moments we made on the way to launching 30+ Little Big Updates
Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories.
Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE.
Introducing our first Authorized Service Delivery Partners for Cloudflare One
Since launch, Authorized Services Delivery Partner track is having a notable impact and now we are thrilled to announce the first partners who have achieved the designation
Use the language of your choice with Pages Functions via WebAssembly
Today Pages is excited to offer support for WebAssembly when writing a Pages Function
We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
Overcoming The Challenges Of Content Creation For Informational Websites — Smashing Magazine
Content matters! Unfortunately, when it comes to informational websites, content quality is often poor. There is no magic answer to fix that. However, there are practical techniques you can use to improve the copy on your websites and ensure your users find the content they are looking for.
Free Fonts For Interface Designers — Smashing Magazine
Just a few beautiful, well-crafted fonts for headings and body text that you probably haven’t spotted before. Free for personal and commercial use. Enjoy!
Wildcard and multi-domain support in Cloudflare Access
We are thrilled to announce the full support of wildcard and multi-hostname application definitions in Cloudflare Access
How we built DMARC Management using Cloudflare Workers
At Cloudflare, we use the Workers platform and our product stack to build new services. Read how we made the new DMARC Management solution entirely on top of our APIs.
Stop brand impersonation with Cloudflare DMARC Management
Brand impersonation continues to be a big problem globally. Setting SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies is a great way to reduce that risk, and protect your domains from being used in spoofing emails. But maintaining a correct SPF configuration can be very costly and time consuming
Introducing custom pages for Cloudflare Access
As more users start their day with Cloudflare Access, we’re excited to announce new options to customize how those users experience our industry-leading Zero Trust solution. We’re excited to announce customizable Cloudflare Access pages including login, blocks and the application launcher
Partnering with EU policymakers to ensure the Cyber Resilience Act works for developers
We’re looking forward to working with policymakers to improve cybersecurity and support developers.
Post-quantum crypto should be free, so we’re including it for free, forever
Cloudflare makes the most advanced cryptography free for everyone, and it’s in beta today
Super Bot Fight Mode is now configurable!
Super Bot Fight Mode can be used with Skip rules now to allow for configurable deployments
Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited!
Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers - Shopify
Here are a few internationalization (i18n) best practices to help front-end developers avoid errors and serve more robust text content on multilingual websites and apps.
Detecting API abuse automatically using sequence analysis
Today, we're announcing Cloudflare Sequence Analytics for APIs. Using Sequence Analytics, Customers subscribed to API Gateway can view the most important sequences of API requests to their endpoints
Cloudflare’s Channel Partner Award winners of 2022
Cloudflare announces our Partner Award winners, in recognition of their outstanding achievements during the course of 2022, delivering the technical expertise, solutions, and services needed to solve customers’ challenges and to help build a better Internet
Analyze any URL safely using the Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner
Try our URL Scanner. Cloudflare Radar’s newest free tool for an under-the-hood look at any webpage
Cloudflare One DLP integrates with Microsoft Information Protection labels
Today, we are excited to announce that Cloudflare One now offers Data Loss Prevention (DLP) detections for Microsoft Purview Information Protection labels. Simply integrate with your Microsoft account, retrieve your labels, and build rules to guide the movement of your labeled data
Raising the (table) stakes on tables in FigJam
Using tables in FigJam to help you roadmap, plan, and run meetings more effectively.
RSC with Dan Abramov and Joe Savona Live Stream
I had a live streamed conversation with Joe Savona and Dan Abramov. Here's a summary of our discussion.
Using Cloudflare Access with CNI
We are thrilled to introduce an innovative new approach to secure hosted applications via Cloudflare Access without the need for any installed software or custom code on your application server.
Highlights from Git 2.40
The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.40.
Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate
Developers are at the heart of our online world and at the forefront of creating solutions for global challenges, working to make the software that underpins our digital infrastructure more secure, reliable, and safe.
A Pragmatist’s Guide To Lean User Research — Smashing Magazine
Instead of telling you once again what the best practice is and adding to your imposter syndrome, let’s concentrate on some practical approaches to user research that we might be able to fit into our existing projects without being left disillusioned.
Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
Embrace equity on International Women’s Day (and every day)
Happy International Women’s Day! The global theme for 2023 is #EmbraceEquity, which is part of an ongoing effort to raise awareness around “Why equal opportunities are no longer enough.” Today is a time to highlight achievements made by women, but also an opportunity to become better informed.
Accelerate building resiliency into systems with Cloudflare Workers
In this blog post we’ll discuss how Cloudflare Workers enabled us to quickly improve the resiliency of a legacy system
New Zero Trust navigation coming soon (and we need your feedback)
The Zero Trust dashboard navigation will be getting a visual refresh on March 20, 2023.
The White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy asks the private sector to step up to fight cyber attacks. Cloudflare is ready
The White House released the National Cybersecurity Strategy aimed at securing the Internet. Cloudflare welcomes the Strategy, and congratulates the White House on this much-needed policy initiative.
File editing on GitHub Mobile keeps leveling up
Commit an update to a pull request, or start a new branch to squash a bug at any time, wherever you are using the GitHub Mobile apps.
Why You Should Consider Graphs For Your Next GraphQL Project — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adam Cowley examines the Graph behind GraphQL and demonstrates why Neo4j could be the best fit for your next project.
Framework-defined infrastructure
Framework defined infrastructure means programmatic framework understanding for automatic infrastructure provisioning—an evolution from Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
Release Radar
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us…
GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request
GitHub Desktop helps you feel confident in your Git and GitHub workflows.
How do Nix builds work?
How do Nix builds work?
How we built an open-source SEO tool using Workers, D1, and Queues
In this blog post, I’m excited to show off some of the new tools in Cloudflare’s developer arsenal, D1 and Queues, to prototype and ship an internal tool for our SEO experts at Cloudflare.
Secret scanning alerts are now available (and free) for all public repositories
Secret scanning alerts are now generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.
Some notes on using nix
Some notes on using nix
Daydreaming In March (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s get ready for March with some fresh wallpapers! Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpaper designs in this collection are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Your guide to headless commerce
Curious about headless commerce? Learn all about going headless with a composable stack so you can boost developer velocity, conversions, and more.
Meta’s head of AR hardware on the future of AR
While VR headsets have been with us for at least a decade, AR hardware barely exists today; indeed, the very components that will comprise the hardware scarcely exist, making it a truly zero-to-one innovation challenge. Meta’s Head of AR Glasses Hardware, Caitlin Kalinowski is helping to lead that charge. Kalinowski hails from Portsmouth, NH and studied mechanical […]
Improving the Developer Experience with the Ruby LSP - Shopify
The Ruby LSP is a new language server built at Shopify that makes coding in Ruby even better by providing extra Ruby features for any editor that has a client layer for the LSP. In this article, we’ll cover how we built the Ruby LSP, the features included within it, and how you can install it.
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict.
Measuring government policy on open source with a new dataset
Policymakers around the world are developing policies that impact how software gets built and who gets to build it, see the latest now.
Moving from monolithic WordPress to composable gives Plenti total freedom
A beginner’s guide to learning to code with GitHub Codespaces
When you’re new to coding, it’s easy to get stuck completing endless tutorials. You can apply what you’ve learned (and learn even more) through GitHub Codespaces. The best part is you don’t need a powerful computer to get started.
Introducing Vercel Cron Jobs
Automate repetitive tasks using Vercel Cron Jobs and Vercel Functions. Available today in beta.
How a global agency built a web innovation engine in two months
Update on the future stability of source code archives and hashes
A look at what happened on January 30, what measures we’re putting in place to prevent surprises, and how we’ll handle future changes.
How Meta brought AV1 to Reels
We’re sharing how we’re enabling production and delivery of AV1 for Facebook Reels and Instagram Reels. We believe AV1 is the most viable codec for Meta for the coming years. It offers higher quality at a much lower bit rate compared with previous generations of video codecs. Meta has worked closely with the open source […]
Getting Internationalization (i18n) Right With Remix And Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
This article will show you the impact of internationalization, its fundamental logic, how to approach it with Remix, and optionally, how to manage it more conveniently using a headless CMS.
Smashing Podcast Episode 57 With Marcin Wichary: What’s The Key To A Great Keyboard? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask what’s the key to a great keyboard? Is this essential part of our daily toolkit easily overlooked? Vitaly Friedman talks to expert Marcin Wichary to find out.
USENIX SREcon APAC 2023: CFP
So long, and thanks for all the deployments: deprecating Wrangler v1
Version 1 of Wrangler has served us well for years. But with a new major version to focus on, it’s time to say goodbye
Inside Meta’s first smart glasses
What’s new: Meta is sharing the inside story of how it developed the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Why it matters: Creating Ray-Ban Stories meant Meta’s engineers had to take on new challenges to build smart glasses that married complex engineering dynamics. How do you make something that features cameras, microphones, audio, and touch controls, all […]