Thank You (2021 Edition)
The year has come to a close and it's time again for our end-of-year wrapup. The most important message is this: thank you. (thankyouthankyou)
Summary of reading: October - December 2022 - Eli Bendersky's website
Why coding interviews aren't all that bad - Eli Bendersky's website
Replacing my home desktop computer - Eli Bendersky's website
Asimov, programming and the meta ladder - Eli Bendersky's website
Book review: "The Future of Fusion Energy" by J. Parisi and J. Ball - Eli Bendersky's website
Derivative of the Exponential Function - Eli Bendersky's website
Some clues to understanding Benford's law - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: April - June 2022 - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: July - September 2022 - Eli Bendersky's website
Book review: "Crafting Interpreters" by Robert Nystrom - Eli Bendersky's website
Why is it easy to implement a Lisp? - Eli Bendersky's website
Building binary trees from inorder-depth lists - Eli Bendersky's website
In defense of books - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: January - March 2022 - Eli Bendersky's website
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Looking Forward: Some Predictions for 2022
As we approach the end of the year, let's look ahead at some trends and predictions for 2022
2021: Year in review
2021: Year in review
New Year, Fresh Desktop (January 2022 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What better way could there be to start the new year than with some fresh inspiration? Our collection of wallpapers for January 2022 is bound to put a smile on your face — and maybe spark new ideas, too.
Nerd Out on 10 of Our Favorite Posts From 2021 - Shopify
A curated selection of our favorite 2021 posts, spanning technologies & engineering disciplines, with a few classics you still love, read, and share.
How To Price Projects And Manage Scope Creep — Smashing Magazine
Scoping, estimating, and running digital projects can often feel like an exercise in futility. In this article, Paul Boag explains why you need to start breaking your projects down into manageable phases and why that’s the best way to achieve significant benefits.
Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites — Smashing Magazine
Have you already built and published a Gatsby theme? In this article, Paulina Hetman explains how Gatsby themes work and what problems they can solve by comparing Gatsby themes with their WordPress counterparts.
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it.
2021 Roundup of Web Research
Last year, we kicked out a roundup of published surveys, research, and other findings from around the web. There were some nice nuggets in there, like a
Remember You Are Not the User
One thing people can do to make their websites better is to remember that you are not representative of all your users. Our life experiences and how we
Show, Don't Tell
How much time do you spend designing the content presentation for your websites? When you write a new blog post or create a new page, are you thinking about
Increase Your Reach
NGL, I was a little overwhelmed when I sat down to write this article. There are so many things that immediately flooded my mind—take out any extra divs; use
How GitHub contributed to the Santa Clara Principles update
GitHub was honored to contribute to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation 2.0.
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites
Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things
Supporting Remix with full stack Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Pages now natively supports full stack Remix applications
Getting started with GitHub Actions just got easier!
When you want to create a workflow in the Actions tab of your repository, the recommendations are now based on an analysis of repo content.
Billing Management For Your Next SaaS Idea Using Stripe And Azure Functions — Smashing Magazine
In every software-as-a-service solution, user billing and payments are key aspects in the sale of services rendered. Let’s learn about Stripe and how the REST API can be programmatically used in serverless functions to manage the billing for an application.
From 0 to 20 billion - How We Built Crawler Hints
Cloudflare Is reducing the environmental impact of web searches with 20+ billions crawler hints delivered so far. This blog describes the technical solution of how we built the Crawler Hints system that makes all this possible.
Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS
Between Google Chrome experimenting with “following” sites, along with a growing frustration of how social media platforms limit a creator’s reach to their
Faulty logic
Ain't this the truth:
You Can't Buy Integration
Commercial integration tools are a couple decades old now, but there has been little in the way of overarching architectural principles describing when and how to use them. In this article, I argue that “buy” decision mechanics have caused us to exaggerate the value proposition of such tools, often leading to mandates to use a certain integration tool over a general purpose language. I claim that
Maximum redirects, minimum effort: Announcing Bulk Redirects
Bulk Redirects is a new product that allows an administrator to upload and enable hundreds of thousands of URL redirects within minutes, without having to write a single line of code.
Ship a Full-Stack App in Days with AWS Amplify Studio
Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise:
Shadow Palette Generator
Josh's Shadow Palette Generator is a fantastic tool. The premise is that box-shadow pretty much always looks better when there are multiple layered shadows
Embrace the Platform
So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let's take a step back in time …
GitHub at the UN Internet Governance Forum
Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum to spread awareness of developers’ initiatives and public policy interests.
Building a Real-time Buyer Signal Data Pipeline for Shopify Inbox - Shopify
Shopify Data built a real-time buyer signal data pipeline to show relevant customer information to merchants while they’re chatting with their customers.
What’s new with Notifications?
We know that notifications are incredibly important to our customers. Cloudflare sits in between your Internet property and the rest of the world. When something goes wrong, you want to know right away because it could have a huge impact on your end users.
Introducing Cloudflare Domain Protection — Making Domain Compromise a Thing of the Past
Today we are announcing secure domain registrations bundled into enterprise contracts.
Cloudflare One helps optimize user connectivity to Microsoft 365
Cloudflare One partners with Microsoft to optimize user connectivity to Microsoft 365
Introducing stack graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
Introducing Clientless Web Isolation
Safely browse risky and sensitive websites on any device without installing any software
Page Shield is generally available
To help identify and mitigate supply chain attacks in the context of web applications, today we are launching Page Shield in General Availability (GA).
Learn From Remix
I’ve built websites that are used by millions of people all over the world. I’ve made more mistakes than I care to count and I’ve had to deal with the
Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop
There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret
Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One
Today, we’re excited to announce new capabilities to help customers make the switch from hardware firewall appliances to a true cloud-native firewall built for next-generation networks.
Cloudflare One: One Year Later
Cloudflare One helps enterprises build modern enterprise networks, operate efficiently and securely, and throw out on-premise hardware.
Announcing Anycast IPsec: a new on-ramp to Cloudflare One
Today, we're excited to announce support for IPsec as an on-ramp to Cloudflare One.
Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget
As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down)
Write more secure code with the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
This lesser-known OWASP project aims to help developers prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.
How to use dig
How to use dig
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend.
Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
John James Jacoby:
Release Radar
The end of the year is getting closer, and our communities are busy working away on their projects. While you’ve all been busy maintaining open source projects and shipping releases,…
