Stripe Connect at 10: embedded finance and the next decade of software growth
Over 10,000 platforms use Stripe Connect to power six million businesses. We look back at a decade of growth and ahead to the future of embedded finance.
My Raspberry Pi-based temperature tracking project
Data Is An Art, Not Just A Science—And Storytelling Is The Key - Shopify
Data science is a balancing act between math, science, art, and communication. In this article, learn how to tell an effective data story illustrated with examples from Shopify.
Building many private virtual networks through Cloudflare Zero Trust
Starting today, we are thrilled to announce that you can start building many segregated virtual private networks over Cloudflare Zero Trust, beginning with virtualized connectivity for the connectors Cloudflare WARP and Cloudflare Tunnel
Two voting days, a debate and a polling rule in France impacts the Internet
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France
Analyzing historical flight data with MobilityDB
Use MobilityDB to analyze historical air traffic data. A quick-start guide to dealing with spatio-temporal data together with PostGIS
How I use Twitter
The things I do to make Twitter useful and avoid the time-traps
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration for your pull requests
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
Email Routing Insights
Insights and Logs are now available to everyone using Cloudflare Email Routing
Being friendly: Friendly forks 101
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active – creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Happy Earth Day: Announcing Green Compute open beta
Today, we are happy to announce that we are bringing Green Compute to all our developers
5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account.
Building a Business System Integration and Automation Platform at Shopify - Shopify
Companies organize and automate their internal processes with a multitude of business systems, Shopify, Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Netsuite, Google Sheets and many more. Since companies function as a whole, these systems need to be able to talk to one another.
Expanding global payouts with crypto
Stripe is expanding global payouts with crypto. Businesses can now use Stripe to send cryptocurrency payouts around the world, and Twitter has chosen Stripe to enable their creators to be paid out in crypto, starting with USDC.
Good ideas stick
A brief history of washi tape, and how our digital version follows form
Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work.
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April
Organization profiles leading the way
Organization profiles can now display custom content visible only to members of the organization. A new Member view can be tailored to show an alternative README and pinned private repositories.
Codespaces for multi-repository and monorepo scenarios
We’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos.
Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week
Jamstack Rendering Patterns: The Evolution — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ekene Eze shares his thoughts about the direction of the web in 2022, and what solutions we can expect to see come up in the ecosystem to significantly improve the Jamstack experience.
Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown
While Mermaid diagrams are not Markdown-exclusive, they is Markdown-inspired. using the same markup abstractions.
Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36.
The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers — Smashing Magazine
What are the benefits of using push notifications and what can you use them for? In this article, Lee Munroe explains how to implement them and which practices are best to follow.
Netflix End of Series 1
Breaking down broadband nutrition labels
We commend Congress for including broadband nutrition labels in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the FCC for moving quickly to implement the labels
Code Ranges: A Deeper Look at Ruby Strings - Shopify
An informal look at what makes encoding-aware strings in Ruby functional and performant, providing insight into all the wonderful things the Ruby VM does.
More locally relevant ways to pay in Japan
Since we launched in Japan five years ago, our domestic and international users have told us that they want to pursue deeper, more natural relationships with their Japanese customers.
What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions.
A list of new(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers.
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…
Leveraging Shopify’s API to Build the Latest Marketplace Kit - Shopify
In February, we released the second version of Marketplace Kit: a collection of boilerplate app code and documentation allowing third-party developers to integrate with Shopify, build selected commerce features and launch a world-class marketplace in any channel.
Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun
GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
You can do a lot with an empty file
Devs For Ukraine, A Free Online Charity Conference 🇺🇦 — Smashing Magazine
[Devs For Ukraine](https://www.devsforukraine.io/) is a free online charity conference organized by the lovely people at Remote. Two days filled with talks from engineering leaders around the globe, in support of Ukraine. The conference will take place April 25–26, 2022, with the goal to raise funds and provide support to Ukraine. The funds raised during the two days of the event will be evenly di
That simple script is still someone's bad day
How To Get Work Done: Wrangling Stakeholders And Overcoming Obstacles — Smashing Magazine
Whether you work in-house or for an external agency, we all share one challenge — dealing with stakeholders, be they your boss, colleagues, or clients. In this post, veteran web designer Paul Boag shares his approach to getting things done in even the most challenging organizations. He will also change some of our prejudices along the way. Because let’s be clear; we need other people for our websi
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause
What Cloudflare is doing to keep the Open Internet flowing into Russia and keep attacks from getting out
Following Russia’s unjustified and tragic invasion of Ukraine in late February, the world has watched closely as Russian troops attempted to advance across Ukraine, only to be resisted and repelled by the Ukrainian people
The end of the road for Cloudflare CAPTCHAs
We decided we’re going to stop using CAPTCHAs. Before we talk about how we did it, and how you can help, let's first start with a simple question. Why in the world is CAPTCHA still used anyway?
In defense of simple architectures
Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This new initiative is about giving back to open source developers and is one of the ways we are investing in a more sustainable open source ecosystem for all of us. The fund will start at 100K EUR, with Spotify’s engineers nominating what projects should receive funds and our fun
Spotify Live: From Live to Recording
(formerly ) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and stream live directly to fans who join the room. They can also interact directly with their fans either by text chatting in the app or bringing them up as speakers to interact by voice. But what about when the room ends? A creator could have had an incredible conversation they might want to preserv
Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
In 2017, we launched the , a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and manage Spotify audio playback from the web. This post presents an overview of what you can do with the API, now called the Player API, and some background information about how it came to exist.
WAF mitigations for Spring4Shell
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset updates for the recent vulnerabilities affecting the Java Spring framework and related software components
Future-proofing SaltStack
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future
A Time For Reflection (April 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some new wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available in versions with and without a calendar for April 2022. Maybe you’ll rediscover one of your almost-forgotten favorites in there, too? Enjoy!
10 Books Shopify’s Tech Talent Think You Should Read - Shopify
Shopify software engineers, developers and development managers name the books they think everyone in tech and engineering should read.
SmashingConf Is Back In 2022 — Smashing Magazine
We love seeing what we all can do to make the web more accessible and usable. We also love organizing and attending online events, with our SmashingConf Live last year, and of course, our online workshops are here to stay! After two years when almost everything moved online, 2022 marks the return of in-person conferences. In fact, [SmashingConf is back](https://smashingconf.com/conferences): comin
6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development
I’d like to show you some hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.
A Guide To Hover And Pointer Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll talk about how to adapt our sites to the different scenarios of a device pointer: whether it has a pointer or not, or how accurate it is. To adapt our site to those devices’ needs we’ll talk about how to properly use media queries `hover`, `pointer`, `any-hover` and `any-pointer`.
Unlock all the GitHub secrets within .Tech Domains newest experience: Break The Code 2!
GitHub Education is fired up for the return of .Tech Domains developer community competition: Break The Code 2. We’ve hacked in some new enigmas, cheat codes, and easter eggs for digital sleuths to uncover!
Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages
Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet
The art and influence of motion
A conversation about the power of movement to guide, communicate, and delight
GitHub Actions: secure self-hosted runners by limiting them to specific workflows
You can now enforce consistent usage of self-hosted runner groups across your organization and enterprise.
