Application-Specific Links
You know like https:? That's a URL Scheme. You're probably familiar with the concept, thanks to others that come up in front-end development, like mailto:.
Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals.
Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines.
Stories Of September (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find inspiring wallpaper designs for September 2021. They were created with love by artists and designers from across the globe and are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Analyzing a High Rate of Paging
Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
Slack's Secret STDERR Messages
App Store Payments Will Have Increased Competition
Apple's App Store is reforming their guidelines about taking out-of-band payments. This will be very interesting for developers, especially in the games industry.
Designing for the Unexpected
When I think about what front-end development really is and feels like, this is at the heart of it: designing around a huge set of unknowns, and really
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web — Smashing Magazine
As a community, we can each work to improve our own little corners of the Web. But, collectively, we can do better. We can improve the Web and make it a better platform for privacy. The Web is still wrestling with issues we take for granted offline, privacy chief among them. These are steps The New York Times took to protect users’ data, and how you can too.
2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.
Building Android Conversation Bubbles
We recently rolled out support for Conversation Bubbles for DMs and Group DMs on Android 11. In case you’re not familiar with Conversation Bubbles, take a look at the video below. Basically, they are a way to pop out a conversation from a notification into a Bubble that will draw over other apps, making multitasking…
Bringing the power of our open platform to FigJam
Inviting all builders to create the first plugins and widgets for FigJam
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful.
How To Automate Documentation Workflow For Developers — Smashing Magazine
In a world that is increasingly going remote, prioritizing good documentation and good documentation workflow is important. In this article, you’ll learn how to save hours of tedious work of writing, updating, and correcting technical documentation. In this article, you will learn how to automate your documentation workflow with Vale and GitHub Actions.
Human shielding and how things impact a person
Announcing Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway
Today, we’re excited to announce Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway, a new feature that helps keep our work at work.
Your devices and your employer
Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future — Smashing Magazine
The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. Over the years, there have been many different approaches and evolutions of static and Jamstack CMSs. In this article, Mike Neumegen will take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.
Building a Pet Cam using a Raspberry Pi, Cloudflare Tunnels and Teams
This was a perfect weekend project: I would set up my own pet cam, connect it to the Internet, and make it available for me to check from anywhere in the world.
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.
Sometimes it really is just a bad battery
How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization — Smashing Magazine
Ethical user research isn’t only the right thing to do but it makes good business sense. Principles of ethical conduct guide our decision-making, keeping us out of trouble and holding us accountable to our users and society. Through a simple step-by-step approach, you can build an ethical practice within your organization that will ensure you’re respecting the dignity and welfare of your research
The First Three Winners from Cloudflare’s Project Jengo 2 Share $20,000
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here are the first round winners and an update on the case.
Capturing Purpose Justification in Cloudflare Access
Starting today, Cloudflare for Teams administrators can prompt users to enter a justification for accessing an application prior to login.
A big hole in a big road ate one of my tires
6 New Ways to Validate Device Posture
Cloudflare for Teams adds additional posture capabilities to better protect Access backed applications
From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo
I've been working on the same project for several years. Its initial version was a huge monolithic app containing thousands of files. It was poorly
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)
Introducing Shadow IT Discovery
With Cloudflare for Teams, Administrators can allow their users to securely access applications with Cloudflare Access and explicitly block users from visiting various applications with Cloudflare Gateway.
Cutouts
Ahmad Shadeed dug into shape "cutouts" the other day. Imagine a shape with another smaller shape carved out of it. In his typical comprehensive way, Ahmad
Highlights from Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap — Smashing Magazine
Software development without a roadmap is akin to driving off a cliff — an undertaking that seriously jeopardizes your product’s life. What is a business technology roadmap, and how can one be developed to support software development? That’s what we’re here to talk about. Here’s how to develop a business technology roadmap that ensures your project safely reaches its final destination.
Cloudflare Developer Summer Challenge
We’re giving away 300+ boxes of our most popular swag, while enabling collaboration with other participants through our Workers Discord channel.
Building the Cloudflare Summer Challenge Application
If you haven’t already heard, we’re hosting the Cloudflare Summer Developer Challenge, a contest for the Cloudflare community at large. Anybody – yes, including you – can sign up for free and compete for a chance to win one of 300 available prizes.
Building a Cool Front End Thing Generator
Whether you are just starting out on the front end, or you’ve been doing it for a long time, building a tool that can generate some cool front-end magic can
More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users
Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devices.
Stay alert
A few days ago, Chris wrote up his thoughts about how alert(), confirm(), and prompt() were being deprecated by Chrome and collected a bunch of thoughts from
Securing internal web apps
A deep-dive into how we provide access to internal applications
Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code.
Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where's The Line?
You'll often hear developers talking about “static” vs. “dynamic” sites, or you may have heard someone use the term Jamstack. What do these terms mean, and
Napkin
We took a surface level look at Pipedream the other day, which really does look cool. It's like a much more modern and fancy version of what Yahoo Pipes was.
Bridging the Gap Between Developers and End Users - Shopify
In every business, regardless of industry, it is important to keep an open communication line between the consumer and the producer. In the tech world, this line of communication comes in the form of customer support, chatbots, or contact forms.
WooCommerce With Apple Pay and Google Pay
Got a WooCommerce store? It behooves you to offer a variety of payment methods. Just anecdotally, I'm sure both you and me have been annoyed and even
How we’re making Dropbox data centers 100% carbon neutral
Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eva PenzeyMoog to find out.
The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports
We've got viewport units (e.g. vw, vh, vmin, vmax), and they are mostly pretty great. It's cool to always have a unit available that is relative to the entire
August 2021 Campus Experts applications are open!
The GitHub Campus Expert applications are officially open for the August 2021 generation!
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Three - Shopify
In Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Three, we learn what are mutations and create mutation queries to modify data.
Four Useful VSCode Extensions For Web Developers — Smashing Magazine
VS Code can be supercharged wuth hundreds of [VS Code extensions](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/). In this article, Leonardo shares four useful extensions that help him in his daily work.
Release Radar
It’s been a busy time of the year for our Hubbers (GitHub employees). We’ve been shipping products, getting ready for launches, and taking some much needed time off for the…
Helping Keep Governments Safe and Secure
Cloudflare and Accenture Federal Services (AFS) have been selected to deliver a joint solution to help the United States Government defend against cybersecurity attacks.
Reliability meeting experiences
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to to . But sitting at the core is our flagship product, the one that started it all: the desktop app. In of our podcast series, “”, host and Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström walks through how the app (and Spotify in general) came to be — and the product lessons you should take away from that
Good Vibes In August (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2021. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar for the month.
The Future of Work at Cloudflare
During Impact Week, we've shared how Cloudflare is providing tools for our customers to minimize their environmental impact as well as what we, as a company, are doing to help society at large. But some critical stakeholders we haven’t talked much about yet are Cloudflare's more than 2,000 employees
The Cloudflare Startup Enterprise Plan: helping new startups bootstrap
To help early stage startups get going, Cloudflare is giving away one year of the Startup Enterprise plan to all early stage startups in participating accelerator programs.
