ShopTalk Goes Video
Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly
A new public beta of GitHub Releases: How we’re improving the release experience
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
Introducing the new kentcdodds.com
This site just experienced a huge rewrite and I want to show you around a bit.
In the news today: *munch munch munch*
The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation
How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare.
All my zines are now available in print!
All my zines are now available in print!
Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web
In this blog we start to explain Web3 in the context of the web's evolution, and how Cloudflare might help to support it.
Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare
Learn how to build Web3 applications with Cloudflare’s new open-source template.
Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives
Directives are one of GraphQL’s best — and most unspoken — features.
Willingness to look stupid
What to learn
Journey Through a Dev Degree Intern’s First Placement - Shopify
Carmela, Dev Degree student, shares how she learned to appreciate the stages of learning, dispel the myth of the “real developer”, combat imposter syndrome by asking for help, and the power of valuing representation.
A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every time you added a few songs? One of Spotify’s core products, our mobile app, was designed specifically to leave all of that busywork in the past, changing how we travel with our music forever.
Serverless Live Streaming with Cloudflare Stream
You can now use Cloudflare to do serverless end-to-end live-streaming. Stream Live offers video ingestion, encoding, recording and a player in a single product.
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma.
A Time Of Transition (October 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season with a fresh batch of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by designers and artists from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for October 2021.
How I built a modern website in 2021
I rewrote kentcdodds.com using the latest technologies and I want to talk about what I did.
Fun with glibc and the ctype.h functions
Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll highlight how modern image formats (AVIF or WebP) can improve compression by up to 50% and deliver better quality per-byte while still looking visually appealing. We’ll compare what’s possible at high-quality, low-quality and file-size targets.
Registrar for Everyone
We’re excited to announce that all customers now have the ability to register new domains with Cloudflare.
A Better Internet with UN Global Compact
In 2020, we decided to formalize our commitment to being an active partner in the global community by joining the UN Global Compact (UNGC) as a signatory.
Easily creating and routing email addresses with Cloudflare Email Routing
You can now easily and quickly create email addresses for domain, and forward to them all to your preferred inbox, like Gmail or Outlook. Cloudflare Email Forwarding is completely free, and always res
Revised enterprise DPA with new standard contractual clauses
As part of GitHub’s strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices.
Cloudflare's 2021 Annual Founders' Letter
This week we celebrate Cloudflare's birthday. We launched the company 11 years ago tomorrow: September 27, 2010. It has been our tradition, since our first birthday, to use this week to launch innovative new products that we think of as our gift back to the Internet.
The Self Provisioning Runtime
Big thoughts on where the industry is headed from Shawn Wang:
New tool: an nginx playground
New tool: an nginx playground
What is Your Page Title on a Google Search Engine Results Page?
Whatever Google wants it to be. I always thought it was exactly what your <title> element was. Perhaps in lieu of that, what the first <h1> on the
Working With GraphQL Caching
If you’ve recently started working with GraphQL, or reviewed its pros and cons, you’ve no doubt heard things like “GraphQL doesn’t support caching” or
A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story
An Event Apart Fall Summit 2021! (Use Coupon AEACSST21)
The web's premier conference is online this fall, October 11–13, 2021: An Event Apart Fall Summit. If you already know how good of a conference this is (i.e.
How Web Development Tools Are Helping Users Keep Pace With Rapid Change — Smashing Magazine
The last 18 months have been a time of unprecedented turbulence. As the people of the world have flooded online, businesses have joined them, using web development tools to adapt in real-time. Several years ago there seemed to be a gulf between drag-and-drop tools and full-blown web development. Today, it’s heartening to see the likes of Wix adding more code-heavy options to their repertoire.
Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
Apple's private relay service does not sit still
Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? — Smashing Magazine
In the right circumstances, your web analytics or real user measurement data can offer visibility into the world of imposter domains, used by web scrapers to re-publish your site content on their servers. Content scraping is a fact of life on the Internet. When you think of web scraping, you probably do not think about the scrapers turning around and immediately serving your entire, whole page con
Project Myriagon: Cloudflare Passes 10,000 Connected Networks
This is the culmination of a special project we’ve been working on for the last few months dubbed Project Myriagon, a reference to the 10,000-sided polygon of the same name.
Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe — Smashing Magazine
Gatsby Functions provide front-end developers a way to write and use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. If making money from open-source is of interest to you and your site isn’t built using Gatsby, Paul Scanlon brings you an approach that may well be the answer you were looking for.
Unboxing the Last Mile: Introducing Last Mile Insights
“The last 20% of the work requires 80% of the effort.” The Pareto Principle applies in many domains — nowhere more so on the Internet, however, than on the Last Mile.
Shadow Roots and Inheritance
There is a helluva gotcha with styling a <details> element, as documented here by Kitty Giraudel. It's obscure enough that you might never run into it,
Audit log streaming is now in public beta
If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub.
Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management — Smashing Magazine
Twenty years ago, Elie Sloïm chose to dedicate his professional life to web quality assurance. He started asking, ”What does quality mean for a web user?” Well, this article explains everything he has learned along the way.
Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone
Today, we are launching Cloudflare Images for all customers. Images provides a single product to store, resize and serve images. We built Cloudflare Images, so customers of all sizes can build a scalable and affordable image pipeline with a fraction of the effort.
Discovering what’s slowing down your website with Web Analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics makes essential web analytics, such as the top-performing pages on your website and top referrers, available to everyone for free, and it’s becoming more powerful than ever.
How Cloudflare Images can make your life easier
Are you tired of buckets and non ending egress fees? Cloudflare Images can help you to create and maintain your entire image pipeline.
From AMP to Signed Exchanges, Or How Innovation Happens at Cloudflare
This is the story of how we decided to work with Google to build Signed Exchanges support at Cloudflare. But, more generally, it's also a story of how Cloudflare thinks about building disruptive new products.
Improve site load times and SEO with one-click support for Signed Exchanges on Google Search
Starting today, Cloudflare customers will be able to generate Signed Exchanges (SXG) for Google Search with just one click.
How we built Instant Logs
In this blog post, we’ll show you how we built a new system that can give you access to your Cloudflare logs in real time, with just a single click.
Jamstack Conf 2021
What? Jamstack Conf! It's the best! Learn what's happening and what's next for this hot ecosystem.
The Power Of Pen And Paper Sketching — Smashing Magazine
When designing for digital spaces, it’s natural to default to digital mockup tools, but doing so cuts out a world of possibilities. Analog drawing can unleash your imagination and allow you to focus on what’s most important at the start: the ideas.
Social Image Generator + Jetpack
I feel like my quest to make sure this site had pretty sweet (and automatically-generated) social media images (e.g. Open Graph) came to a close once I found
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? August 2021 Recap
What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis.
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and GitHub Sponsors now open in India
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and opening of GitHub Sponsors in India.
How to execute an object file: Part 3
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. In this part we will handle external library dependencies.
Fun Times Styling Checkbox States
We might leave a text input unstyled. We might leave a link unstyled. Even a button. But checkboxes… we don’t leave them alone. That’s why styling checkboxes
EyeDropper API Dropped
I had no idea this was coming but it's pretty neat! Chrome has shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary, as I write).
Frameworks Helping Image Usage
I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol' checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing
Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
Ship / Show / Ask
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that combines the features of Pull Requests with the ability to keep shipping changes. Changes are categorized as either Ship (merge into mainline without review), Show (open a pull request for review, but merge into mainline immediately), or Ask (open a pull request for discussion before merging).
Can we have custom media queries, please?
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it's
Code runs on people
Release Radar
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of…
