GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away!
Wendy Komadina: No one excited me more than Cloudflare, so I joined.
When I considered joining Cloudflare, I recall consistently reading the message around “Helping to Build a Better Internet”. At first those words didn’t connect with me, but they sounded like an important mission.
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Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Tether Required Recapitalization In May 2022
Tether's March 2022 attestation, even if believed, shows that it became insolvent during the May 2022 crypto downturn.
Asynchronous Communication is the Great Leveler in Engineering - Shopify
Shopify’s now on a journey of mindfully unraveling these default office behaviors and replacing them with remote-focused ways of working.
The Ultimate Free Solo Blog Setup With Ghost And Gatsby — Smashing Magazine
When it comes to tools for publishing a blog, it can seem like there’s never a perfect solution that mixes customization with easy admin. In this article, we will see step-by-step how you can get the best of both worlds by using Ghost as a headless CMS for a Gatsby static site. We will cover all the tricky parts in-depth and show you can do everything for free.
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory. The Internet was impacted in more than one way, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions.
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next.
Tasks, lists, and promises
An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content
I was fortunate last year to get approached by Shawn Wang (swyx) about doing some work for Temporal. The idea was to cast my creative eye over what was on the
Double Entry Transition Tables: How We Track State Changes At Shopify - Shopify
Explore how Shopify built a data pipeline using double entry transition tables to answer the question: how many Shopify merchants are using Shopify Balance?
Announcing our Spring Developer Challenge
After many announcements from Platform Week, we’re thrilled to make one more: our Spring Developer Challenge!
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset.
Public access for our Ethereum and IPFS gateways now available
Today we are excited to announce that our Ethereum and IPFS gateways are publicly available to all Cloudflare customers for the first time
Send email using Workers with MailChannels
MailChannels has created an email sending service specifically for Cloudflare Workers that removes all the friction associated with sending emails
Route to Workers, automate your email processing
With Cloudflare Workers and Email Routing you now have a developer platform to implement any logic you ever wanted for programmatically handling incoming Emails.
Closed Caption support coming to Stream Live
Soon, Stream will auto-detect embedded captions and include it in the live stream delivered to your viewers
Bring your own ingest domain to Stream Live
Starting today, every Stream account can configure its own domain in the Stream dashboard.
Cloudflare Stream simplifies creator management for creator platforms
Many Stream customers track video usage on a per-creator basis. Today, we are announcing creator management to make usage tracking much easier
Top Tasks: To Focus On What Matters You Must De-Focus On What Doesn’t — Smashing Magazine
We waste so much today. One way of focusing on what truly matters is by identifying Top Tasks for yourself. In this article, Gerry McGovern will show you how to make tough decisions by focusing on the real, quantifiable evidence that will help create a better experience for your users.
Announcing Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT-based Messaging
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
Our growing Developer Platform partner ecosystem
Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Ecosystem continues to expand ensuring you can integrate with the tools you use, or want to use
Magic NAT: everywhere, unbounded, and lower cost
Today, we’re delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions
Introducing Workers Analytics Engine
Workers Analytics Engine is a new way to get telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers. Workers Analytics Engine provides time series analytics built for the serverless era
Introducing Pages Plugins
Introducing Pages Plugins – reusable and customizable chunks of runtime code that can be incorporated anywhere within your Pages application. Try one of the officially supported Plugins from our partners or build your own
Introducing Cache Reserve: massively extending Cloudflare’s cache
I’m delighted to announce an extension of the benefits of caching with Cache Reserve: a new way to persistently serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache
Durable Objects Alarms — a wake-up call for your applications
Durable Object alarms let you call a function at a defined point in the future, unlocking deeper use-cases for Durable Objects like reliable queuing
Graduation is here! Celebrate the Class of 2022, and join GitHub on June 11 🎓
This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to…
Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition
Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors…
Announcing Workers for Platforms: making every application on the Internet more programmable
Announcing Workers for Platforms, our tool suite to help make any product programmable, and help our customers deliver value to their customers and developers instantaneously
Service Bindings are generally available, with efficient pricing
Service bindings are an API that facilitate Worker-to-Worker communication. You can invoke other Workers directly from your code; making it possible to communicate with shared services. We’ll also make it cost-efficient to run multiple Workers
Workers visibility: announcing Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events
Customers are using Cloudlfare Workers to create the next big thing, we’re building tools to make that happen successfully. We’re excited to announce Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events, making it easier than ever to gain visibility into applications built on Workers
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy.
Introducing Direct Uploads for Cloudflare Pages
Pages now supports direct uploads to give you more power to build and iterate how you want and with the tools you want
Enhanced 2FA experience for your npm account
Late last year, in response to an unprecedented series of account takeovers resulting from the compromise of developer accounts without 2FA enabled, we committed to a variety of enhancements to…
Come join us at Cloudflare Connect New York this Thursday!
We’re packing our bags, getting on planes and heading to New York to do our first live customer event since 2019 and we could not be more excited.
10 things I love about Wrangler v2.0
We are proud to announce that Wrangler goes public today for general usage, and can’t wait to see what people build with it
The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source
As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license
Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page.
Prepare for next semester with GitHub Global Campus and Codespaces
Teachers, it is now your turn to join GitHub Global Campus with our student community! Get access to exclusive benefits, programs, and the Power of Codespaces at no cost in GitHub Classroom!
Welcome to Platform Week
This Platform Week, we don’t want to deliver on just new and shiny things (though there will be a few of those, too!). We want to deliver on principles. On letting the best solution win. On breaking developers out of lock in: whether because of code, or because of economics
Announcing our Spring Developer Speaker Series
We're excited to announce a new edition of our Developer Speaker Series for 2022! Check out the eleven expert web dev speakers, developers, and educators that we’ve invited to speak live on Cloudflare TV
Why I joined Cloudflare in Latin America
Over the past couple of years, our reliance on the Internet has increased, and Latin America is the fourth largest region in terms of online users globally. You can see how this makes Cloudflare’s mission even more important and presents a significant opportunity in Latin America
Talk Nerdy to Me: 10 Tech Podcast Recommendations from Shopify Engineering - Shopify
We asked our tech talent which podcasts they’re tuning into and curated a list of their favorites. We think you’ll find something on this list you’ll enjoy.
Arkansas engineer wins round 3 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare continues to win at the Patent Office
The latest winner of Cloudflare’s Project Jengo, along with some important case updates
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition.
The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills
Teaching is a great way to not only help others but to better learn a topic yourself.
Resilience, Flexibility And Immediacy: Working With Headless Systems — Smashing Magazine
When deploying websites, there’s rarely a one-size-fits-all solution. Some websites benefit from server-rendered pages, some prefer statically generating content upfront. In this article, Stefan explains how a CMS such as [Storyblok](https://www.storyblok.com/) can help you make your site more resilient without losing the flexibility to deliver time-relevant content.
GitHub Availability Report: April 2022
In April, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Codespaces and GitHub Packages.
The deluge of digital attacks against journalists
In Uruguay today, UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Global Conference is underway, with a 2022 theme of “Journalism under Digital Siege.” It is a fitting and timely theme
Sessions is back on May 24
Registration is open for Stripe Sessions—our annual user conference. Like last year, Sessions 2022 will be completely virtual, free to attend, and open to all.
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Cloudflare Relay Worker
We are excited to open source a Cloudflare Worker that will make notifications available to any communication service that has webhook integration by transforming a generic webhook response to any required format
Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management
This is the second and final post in a series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them.
The Open Future
TL;DR What is the future of open source going to look like? At Spotify, we think it’s important to play an active role in helping to preserve what’s best about the community today while fostering the changes necessary for it to continue to succeed tomorrow. From increasing the impact of the projects we open source, to starting a fund for independent maintainers, to partnering with other companies
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of (S4A) spent some time taking a look at the collection of incidents directly affecting S4A in 2021. We made some hypotheses, and then went to work analyzing each one to build a set of quantitative and qualitative metrics. We learned a few things, and we hope those insights will help you as well.
Make A Wish (May 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome May with a new collection of wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for May 2022. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some favorites from past May editions at the end of this post. Thank you to everyone who took on the challenge and shared their wallpapers with us — you’re smashing!
Bringing code navigation to communities
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too!
