Endings And New Beginnings (December 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
December is almost here, so why not spread some holiday love across your devices? We’ve got some beautiful wallpapers to sweeten up the last days of the year.
How Vercel helped justInCase Technologies cut their build time in half
Cloudflare partners to simplify China connectivity for corporate networks
Today we’re excited to announce expansion of our Cloudflare One product suite to tackle these problems, with the goal of creating the best SASE experience for users and organizations in China
An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?
Why Cloudflare’s one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022
We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been named one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022 by Newsweek and Best Practice Institute (BPI)
How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
In this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API.
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do remarkable things with it. ✨
Welcome to the WIP
Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita on how to embrace (and enjoy) endless iteration
How Cloudflare instruments services using Workers Analytics Engine
Learn how Cloudflare uses our own Workers Analytics Engine product to capture analytics about our own products!
ICYMI: Developer Week 2022 announcements
This week we made over 30 announcements, in case you missed any here’s a quick round-up.
Send Cloudflare Workers logs to a destination of your choice with Workers Trace Events Logpush
Workers Trace Events Logpush gives new levels of visibility into Workers invocations, console.log messages and errors. It is now available to everyone on the Workers Paid and Enterprise plans!
Doubling down on local development with Workers: Miniflare meets workerd
Today, we’re taking local development to the next level by releasing Miniflare 3, powered by the open-source workerd runtime, along with support for migrating existing dashboard projects and using real data locally.
Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
Reliability stuff worth reading
Smashing Podcast Episode 54 With Stéphanie Walter: What Is User Journey Mapping? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode we’re talking about User Journey Mapping. What is it, and how does it help us build better digital products? Vitaly talks to expert Stéphanie Walter to find out.
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 was launched last month during Cloudflare's Birthday Week as a complete product revamp. This blog explains how we built it technically. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers to build complex web apps using Cloudflare products.
Keep track of Workers’ code and configuration changes with Deployments
Today we’re happy to announce Deployments for Workers. Deployments allow developers to audit changes made to their applications.
Announcing the first Workers Launchpad cohort and growth of the program to $2 billion
Announcing the Fall 2022 cohort of 25 Workers Launchpad startups and growth of the program from $1.25BN to $2BN
Octoverse 2022: 10 years of tracking open source
How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch.
Missing the point completely
The Cloudflare API now uses OpenAPI schemas
Cloudflare now has OpenAPI Schemas available for the API. Users can use these schemas in any open source OpenAPI Tooling.
UPDATE Supercloud SET status = 'open alpha' WHERE product = 'D1';
As we continue down the road to making D1 production ready, it wouldn’t be “the Cloudflare way” unless we stopped for feedback first. D1 is now in Open Alpha!
Iteration isn't just for code: here are our latest API docs
We’re excited to share that the next iteration of Cloudflare’s API reference documentation is now available. The new docs standardize our API content and improve the overall developer experience for interacting with Cloudflare’s API.
Reduce origin load, save on cloud egress fees, and maximize cache hits with Cache Reserve
Today we’re extremely excited to announce that Cache Reserve is graduating to open beta – users will now be able to test it and integrate it into their content delivery strategy without any additional waiting
Migrate from S3 easily with the R2 Super Slurper
Today we're announcing the R2 Super Slurper, the tool that will enable you to migrate all your data to R2 in a simple and efficient way
Store and process your Cloudflare Logs... with Cloudflare
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare Logs Engine — a new system that will enable you to do anything you need with Cloudflare Logs, all within Cloudflare
Get started with Cloudflare Workers with ready-made templates
Today, we’re excited to share a collection of ready-made templates to help you build your next application on Cloudflare Workers
The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office.
The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!
Caching Without Marshal Part 2: The Path to MessagePack - Shopify
Shopify wanted a cache format that would not blow up when we shipped code changes. Part two of Caching Without Marshal describes the MessagePack format, and how we migrated to MessagePack.
A Guide To Test-Driven Development Using Node.js — Smashing Magazine
This article is aimed at both beginners and intermediates who use or just started using Node.js for server side development. At the end of this article, you’ll be able to understand the Test-Driven Development process and use it for your own projects.
Tether's Troubles in November 2022
Tether's November 2022 attestation, even if believed, strongly suggests it blew up (again) during the recent crypto route.
Caching Without Marshal Part 1: Marshal from the Inside Out - Shopify
Shopify wanted a cache format that would not blow up when we shipped code changes. Part one of Caching Without Marshal describes Marshal, Ruby’s ultimate sharp knife, able to transform almost any object into a binary blob and back.
How To Search For A Developer Job Abroad — Smashing Magazine
Working abroad is a popular prospect, yet many people — including professionals in the tech sphere — don’t know where to start. In this article, Andrew Stetsenko gives you an ultimate step-by-step guide to finding and making international opportunities happen.
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
Getting it or not getting it, and then what?
Todas as novidades do GitHub Universe 2022
Read this post in English Veja o que estamos construindo para aprimorar a plataforma de desenvolvimento mais integrada e que permite que pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas impulsionem a inovação com…
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
Understanding the social impact of open source technologies
Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good.
The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters.
Apollo Cache is Your Friend, If You Get To Know It - Shopify
Shopify's Raman Lally delves into the Apollo GraphQL client cache and the life cycle of objects that are cached within it.
Your organization should run its own Mastodon server
Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence
Practical Steps To Build Transparency In Your Remote Business — Smashing Magazine
Transparency is part of the fabric of many remote businesses. It doesn’t, however, come naturally to everyone, especially if you’ve only recently become remote. In this article, Siobhan takes you through some of the practical ways that you can build transparency within your organization.
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop
Advocating for developers to the US Copyright Office
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations
Reducing BigQuery Costs: How We Fixed A $1 Million Query - Shopify
We discovered a query that nearly cost us $1 million USD a month in BigQuery. Below, we’ll share our tips for lowering costs in BigQuery.
Game Off 2022 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?
Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img>
Release Radar
Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to…
The Management Poles of Developer Infrastructure Teams - Shopify
There are 3 management poles for developer infrastructure teams that are thus tricky to balance: management support, system and domain expertise, and road maps.
Choose your own GitHub Universe 2022 adventure
You can now build your agenda on GitHubUniverse.com! Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned industry professional, there’s a session for you.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2022
As GitHub continues to grow, our vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding our progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.
A Software Engineer's Guide to Working Across Time Zones - Shopify
Words I've often heard associated with cross-time zone software engineering teams include “challenging”, “tricky”, and “difficulties”. Here are a few tips to make asynchronous communication a positive experience.
Holographic Trading Card Effect
Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)'s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.
Typographic Hierarchies — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alma Hoffmann discusses six basic variables to establish a typographic hierarchy, explains how to look at each differently, and in turn, designs pieces by intentionally modifying each variable to create a typographic hierarchy effectively.
Email Routing leaves Beta
Today Email Routing leaves Beta and an update on all the new things we've been adding to the service, including behind-the-scenes and not-so-visible improvements
PostGIS: Upgrade GEOS with Ubuntu in 3 Steps
How to upgrade current library versions such as GEOS or GDAL in PostGIS - use the latest stunning spatial features. Upgrade GEOS with Ubuntu.
Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics
Introducing the next generation of Vercel Analytics
Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time