Deep dive into a post-quantum key encapsulation algorithm
In this blog post, we will look at what Key Encapsulation Mechanisms are and why they matter in a post-quantum world
Deep dive into a post-quantum signature scheme
How can one attest to an identity and prove it belongs to one self? And how can one do it in the face of quantum computers? In this blog post, we examine these questions and explain what post-quantum signatures are
Lean Inception
An inception is an activity done at the start of a project to gather together the people involved and set a common direction and working style for the on-going work. The lean inception is a focused form of inception, which can be done in a single week. During this time we understand the key features and customers for the product, and build a canvas to formulate the characteristics of a Minimum Via
How To Develop A Text Editor For The Web — Smashing Magazine
How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. In this article, Ilya Medvedev will explain the challenges his company faced and the solutions they used to create a text widget in their application. He’ll also dive into how they implemented it and what they learned along the way — a
The post-quantum state: a taxonomy of challenges
At Cloudflare, we strive to help build a better Internet, which means a quantum-protected one. In this post, we look at the challenges for migrating to post-quantum cryptography and what lies ahead using a taxonomy
The quantum solace and spectre
What is quantum computing and what advances have been made so far on this front? In this blog post, we will answer this question and see how to protect against quantum adversaries
Results without all of the brackets
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
Returning values and errors
Detecting Magecart-Style attacks with Page Shield
How we’re using content-based analysis to identify Magecart-style attacks
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
I linked to Jay's front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well.
How to Get an Engineering Internship at Shopify: A Complete Guide - Shopify
The complete guide to getting an internship at Shopify. Interns work on real projects, solve hard problems, and gain practical feedback along the way.
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify CLI
First things first, if you didn't know Netlify had a CLI, they do. One of my favorite things about it running the command netlify dev on nearly any
My "daily drivers", and what happened to Slackware here
A twisted maze of dependencies
Falling In Love With The Web: Inspiring Websites And Tools — Smashing Magazine
Have you come across a site recently that left you feeling inspired? Or maybe a handy little tool that helped you overcome a creative trough? We all need a little inspiration boost every now and again. In this post, we collected inspiring resources from all across the web for you — beautiful eye candy, tips to challenge your skills, and useful tools that are bound to spark new ideas. Enjoy!
The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️
Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone.
Announcing the 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
The MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Meet the 2022 cohort!
Add 4740180 to the list of silly magic numbers
Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game
Why are hyperlinks blue?
The decision to make hyperlinks blue in Mosaic, and the reason why we see it happening in Cello at the same time, is that by 1993, blue was becoming the
Getting Started With the File System Access API
The File System Access API is a web API that allows read and write access to a user's local files. It unlocks new capabilities to build powerful web
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
Feedback: environments, old BBSes, Honda's 2022 bug
We Want Your Feedback for the Shopify Engineering Blog - Shopify
Hello readers, We’re conducting a survey so we can get a better sense of the stories you’re interested in reading. The survey will take five minutes to complete.
Everything You Want To Know About Creating Voice User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing visual interfaces.
Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting
A Chrome Extension for Cloudinary That Helps You Pluck Out Useful Media URLs From Your Library Quickly |
Cloudinary is a host for your digital assets like images and video. If you don't already know them, you should, because you can build it into the asset
How to start using reusable workflows with GitHub Actions
Reusable workflows offer a simple and powerful way to avoid copying and pasting workflows across your repositories.
SVGcode for Live Tracing Raster Images
A free online tool called SVGcode by Thomas Steiner is capable of an effect called "Live Trace" that converts a raster image into a vector image.
Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts’ Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products.
Email Routing is now in open beta, available to everyone
Cloudflare Email Routing transitioned from closed beta to open beta. It’s now available to everyone, including free zones
Implement restrictive access using the Dropbox API
Learn to implement restricted access with nested permissions and folders in the Dropbox API.
Improving the developer experience for Dependabot alerts
Today, we’re shipping improvements to Dependabot alerts that make them easier to understand and remediate.
Using QR Codes In Your Business: Best Practices And Pitfalls — Smashing Magazine
While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customer’s journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with a list of things to keep in mind when using QR codes for your business.
Release Radar
Here’s January’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.
Need to keep analytics data in the EU? Cloudflare Zaraz can offer a solution
Zaraz offers a way to use tools like Google Analytics, but doing so with an approach that protects the privacy of personal information and keeps it in the EU
Building a newbie-friendly codebase
Pedro Santos suggests:
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
Here's a super classy demo from Michelle Barker over on Codrops that shows how to build a scrollable and draggable timeline with GSAP. It's an interesting
GitHub Availability Report: January 2022
In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Rapid Development with Hydrogen: Building a Product Page - Shopify
Hydrogen's currently in developer preview and I'm excited to show you how you can rapidly build out a simple product page by leaning on Hydrogen's components.
The evolution of the Web: What we learned and where we’re going
The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
Jim Nielsen's mom couldn't open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
Misidentifying talent
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
Cocktail party ideas
Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped…
Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means we want everybody to be able to download our app without hiccups or constraints.
Search Journey Towards Better Experimentation Practices
At Spotify, we aim to build and improve our product in a data-informed way. To do that, teams are encouraged to generate and test hypotheses by running experiments and gathering evidence for what works and what doesn’t.
Dependency graph now supports GitHub Actions
The dependency graph helps developers and maintainers understand the code they depend on, and now includes GitHub Actions!
28 Days Of Inspiration (February 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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 2022 and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some timeless treasures from past February editions at the end of this post for you. Enjoy!
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Happy Data Privacy Day!
On this Data Privacy Day, we look back at how events in 2021 shaped the privacy world, and we look ahead to what 2022 may have in store
What Web Frameworks Solve And How To Do Without Them (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost, focusing on data-binding, reactivity, conditionals and lists. You will also take a look at the cost of using those frameworks.
Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing
With Email Routing, you can effectively start receiving Emails in any of your domains for any number of custom addresses you want and forward the messages to any existing destination mailboxes
Protecting Holocaust educational websites
Cloudflare’s Project Galileo provides free protection to at-risk groups across the world including Holocaust educational and remembrance websites
2021 Transparency Report
In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more “Making the web better. With blocks!”
