So, You Want to Build an @mention Autocomplete Feature?
There’s no reason a composition box has to be a dull text area. You can mention another person, a channel, a file, or some other queryable object using triggers, such as the @ or # characters.
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
Individuals matter
Game Off 2021 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… …BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1 incorporating the theme…
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @yvvdwf
We’re excited to highlight another top contributing researcher to GitHub’s Bug Bounty Program: @yvvdwf
Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is one of the most common requests for infrastructure teams and, as such, we constantly seek to improve our infrastructure toolchain.
Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
Create Your Own Automated Social Images With Resoc
There has been a lot of talk about automated social images lately. GitHub has created its own. A WordPress plugin has been acquired by Jetpack. There is
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested…
50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills — Smashing Magazine
Stop wasting time and effort writing copy that falls flat. Raise your copywriting game and boost your powers of persuasion with these rich and informative online resources. If you’re ready to acquire near-mystical powers of persuasion, check out these useful resources and tools that are bound to help strengthen your copywriting skills.
Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tru Narla
A Q&A with Tru on the widget she built and what she's working on next
How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js — Smashing Magazine
The wealth of data that Amazon holds can make a huge difference when you’re designing a product or hunting for a bargain. But, how can a developer get that data? Simple, by using a web scraper. Why would someone want to scrape Amazon pages? You’re about to find out! Here’s how to build your data extraction bot with Node.js.
Introducing Custom Headers for Cloudflare Pages
We're excited to announce that Pages now natively supports custom headers on your projects! Simply create a _headers file in the build directory of your project and within it, define the rules you want to apply.
Everything new from Universe 2021
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.
Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power
This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at…
Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.
A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code…
How To Build A Real-Time Multi-User Game From Scratch — Smashing Magazine
It’s impressive how quickly a real-time multi-user application can be built with Colyseus — once you figure out how to properly describe the schema. This article highlights the process, technical decisions and lessons learned behind building the real-time game Autowuzzler. Learn how to share game state across multiple clients in real-time with Colyseus, do physics calculations with Matter.js, stor
Open sessions: jam with anyone, anywhere
Introducing a way for collaborators to temporarily join meetings and workshops
GitHub Marketplace welcomes its 10,000th action
GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem.
How to get useful answers to your questions
How to get useful answers to your questions
Respecting Users’ Motion Preferences — Smashing Magazine
The `prefers-reduced-motion` media query has excellent support in all modern browsers going back a couple of years. In this article, Michelle Barker explains why there’s no reason not to use it today to make your sites more accessible.
Indexing the creator economy
We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage doing what they do best
Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?
Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2021
In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself.
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? September 2021 recap
Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings.
Building an awesome image loading experience
How Unsplash's blurred image loading works and why I did mine differently for a more excellent experience on my site.
Building An API With Gatsby Functions — Smashing Magazine
With server-side and client-side code coexisting in the same code base, front-end developers can extend the reach of what’s possible using the tools they already know and love. In this tutorial, Paul Scanlon explains how to build an API by using Gatsby Functions and what you need to keep in mind when deploying it to Gatsby Cloud.
Crawler Hints Update: Cloudflare Supports IndexNow and Announces General Availability
Crawler Hints now supports IndexNow, a new protocol that allows websites to notify search engines whenever content on their website content is created, updated, or deleted.
Meet the GitHub Universe hosts, and start building your schedule
We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year.
A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers — Smashing Magazine
Maintaining optimal mental health is critical for programmers because most of our work is more mentally demanding than it is physically. However, building and maintaining a reliable and rewarding strategy to maintain a healthy balance in our work demands can be a challenge. In this article, we’ll look at why taking care of our work-life balance is important, how to develop a simple and effective m
Introducing Cloudflare’s Technology Partner Program
We aim to continue expanding our ecosystem of programs and partners to make it seamless for our customers to use Cloudflare.
Kicking Off Cloudflare's Summer 2022 Internship Program
This upcoming summer, we expect to have the largest intern class ever at Cloudflare.
Multi-User IP Address Detection
We’ve devised novel methods to detect multi-user IP addresses, and today we’re excited to announce their integration into our global threat intelligence products. These will improve the quality of our detection techniques and reduce false positives for our customers, and the clients that visit them.
💾 Save the date for GitHub Game Off 2021
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a…
Cloudflare and the IETF
Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change.
Looking at the outlying data points
Dynamic Process Isolation: Research by Cloudflare and TU Graz
Cloudflare worked with TU Graz to study the impact of Spectre on Cloudflare Workers and to develop new defenses against it. Today we're publishing a paper about our research.
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees.
An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it
Announcing Cloudflare Research Hub
Announcing a new landing page where you can learn more about our research and additional resources.
Internship Experience: Research Engineer
Over the summer of 2020 I interned at Cloudflare Research. This invaluable experience contributed to Cloudflare’s support of ODoH protocol, and I was awarded the best student paper award at PETS 2021.
Cloudflare invites visiting researchers
As part of Cloudflare’s effort to build collaborations with academia, we host research focused internships all year long. Interns collaborate cross-functionally in research projects and are encouraged to ship code and write a blog post and a peer-reviewed publication at the end of their internship.
Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)
The README for Cash is straightforward:
Those "Get The App" Banners
Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?
Cloudflare Research: Two Years In
What Cloudflare Research has been up to for the last two years.
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That's an enticing title to me. I've had
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
A good essay from Jean Yang.
Jekyll doesn't do components? Liar!
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I've said in the past that I don't think server-side languages haven't quite nailed "building in components" as
Release Radar
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories…
Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions — Smashing Magazine
Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let
In a win for the Internet, federal court rejects copyright infringement claim against Cloudflare
In Mon Cheri Bridals, LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Cloudflare’s motion for summary judgment and concluded that no reasonable jury could find Cloudflare liable for the alleged copyright infringement at issue.
GitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021
Giving back to open source projects is a great way to practice skills you don’t get to use in your day job. Check out ways to get involved!
GitHub Availability Report: September 2021
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Winning AI4TSP: Solving the Travelling Salesperson Problem with Self-programming Machines - Shopify
Shopify optimization expert Meinolf Sellmann collaborated with his former colleagues to win the AI4TSP Competition that focuses on solutions to the Travelling Salesperson Problem.
Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies.
Branching Strategies in Git
In this article I'm going to talk about branching strategies and different types of Git branches. I’m also going to introduce you to two common branching workflows: Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s…
