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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.
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.
In this blog post we’ll discuss how Cloudflare Workers enabled us to quickly improve the resiliency of a legacy system
The Zero Trust dashboard navigation will be getting a visual refresh on March 20, 2023.
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.
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.
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 means programmatic framework understanding for automatic infrastructure provisioning—an evolution from Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
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 helps you feel confident in your Git and GitHub workflows.
How do Nix builds work?
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 generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.
Some notes on using nix
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!
Curious about headless commerce? Learn all about going headless with a composable stack so you can boost developer velocity, conversions, and more.
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 […]
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.
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.
Policymakers around the world are developing policies that impact how software gets built and who gets to build it, see the latest now.
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.
Automate repetitive tasks using Vercel Cron Jobs and Vercel Functions. Available today in beta.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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
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 […]
If you use retrospectives, or any kind of meeting where people are supposed to discuss and learn from their discussions, you will have experienced less efficient sessions from time to time. There is no wonder in that, and it happens to most people. This article describes and offers solutions for three of these unfortunate situations: skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't c
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead of the game
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc.
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has…
Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
The intensive data work behind Shopify's Tax Insights feature required building functionality to handle dynamically changing information
Today’s post is a little different. It’s about a single customer’s website not working correctly because of incorrect action taken by Cloudflare.
A lot has changed since the initial launch of our basemap in late 2020. We’re Meta now, but our mission remains the same: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Across Meta, our family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among others) are using our basemap to connect people through […]
Administrators can now use Gateway traffic egress policies to determine which egress IPs are used when.
We’ve got ten top games from the latest Ludum Dare game jam plus source code for you to check out. Pun intended.
Recently, a vulnerability was reported to our bug bounty about a bug in the way some of our code interprets IPv4 addresses mapped into IPv6 addresses.
The hardest part of writing tests is setting things up. Test suites have complicated helper tools, stubs, and fixtures. Learn 4 things you can do to get started.
Lightsail provides all the power we need to host our websites, as we are used to from AWS, but making it way easier than ever before. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explores how to launch a WordPress site in Lightsail in a quick and easy way.
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities.
After Duplo modularization, we noticed that the task producing a transitive R class was taking a significant amount of time to execute. To eliminate this task altogether, and since the non-transitive R class is advertised to have up to 40% incremental build time improvement, we decided to migrate our codebase to use it. If you’re not…
Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get you to the content you want in the app. Attribution helps us understand which activity (such as marketing or sharing) drives you to that content. At Spotify in 2017, these critical functionalities were in disrepair. But over the course of five years, we’ve endured ups and downs and learned
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2023.
Update to the latest version of Desktop and previous version of Atom before February 2.
In our third and final blog post leading up to Data Privacy Day, we drill down into the challenges for cross-border data flows, in particular personal data transfers from the EU to the US.
Today, 78 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, we mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. With Cloudflare’s Project Galileo, we protect Holocaust educational websites and at risk public interest groups. Read more to see how attacks on these groups increased in 2022.
In this article, Rachel walks you through various ways that product teams can utilize to build relationships with customers. She will share some tips and tricks from her experience that have helped her nurture customer relationships and build better products.
We continue to expand and improve our data localization suite to help support our customers who have to comply with data localization requirements
Laying the groundwork for developer-enabled compliance.
