Keeping creativity flowing when times are tough
Tips for staying creative and collaborative, while having fun
Designing Filters That Work: Best Practices and Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
Too often the filtering experience on the web is broken and frustrating, making it just unnecessarily difficult for customers to get to that shiny comfortable range of relevant results. When designing the next filter, take a look at some of the common issues that you might want to avoid, and hopefully avoid all the frustration that comes from broken and inaccessible implementations.
Jamstack Community Survey 2021
The folks over at Netlify have opened up the Jamstack Community Survey for 2021. More than 3,000 front-enders like yourself took last year's survey, which
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? June 2021 Recap
This month, we have some exciting updates to share. A lot of you have welcomed the improvements to your ability to sync a forked repo with upstream from the web…
Shopify-Made Patterns in Our Rails Apps - Shopify
At Shopify, we’ve developed our own patterns in order to support our global platform. Before coming here, I've developed multiple Ruby (and Rails) applications at multiple growth stages. Because of that, I quickly came to appreciate some workarounds and automation that were created to support the large codebase of Shopify. If there’s something I appreciate about Ruby on Rails, it’s the principle o
The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020.
Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna
Command line tools are one of the most popular applications we have today. We use command line tools every day, and they range from git, npm or yarn. Command
Write good examples by starting with real code
Write good examples by starting with real code
Transform Rules:"Requests, Transform and Roll Out!"
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
Cloudflare customers can now use Microsoft Azure Data Transfer Routing Preference to enjoy lower data transfer costs
Cloudflare customers can now choose to reduce data transfer cost via the Microsoft Azure Routing Preference Program with just a few clicks.
Body Toggle
I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit:
I've got one question about Jetpack for you.
And maybe an optional follow-up if you're up for it.
How To Choose A Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your content editors, marketers and yourself as a developer. For the experience headless practitioner, this could be a checklist to see what’s new out there. For those starting out on their headless journey, this could be a guide on what to look for.
Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month
In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we wanted to celebrate this occasion in a more inclusive and comprehensive way, which is why we called our celebration APAC Heritage Month.
Zero-Width Space
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it's not without uses. In text, maybe you'd use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part Two - Shopify
In the second part of Understanding GraphQL for Beginners, we’ll learn how to create a GraphQL object and root fields.
Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part One - Shopify
As technology evolves, one thing that contrasts REST and is gaining popularity is GraphQL. But what is it exactly? Within this post, we will learn what GraphQL is all about!
Account Takeover Protection and WAF mitigations to help stop Global Brute Force Campaigns
Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20,000 startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The State Of Web Workers In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer
The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post
System *Things
I think we're all largely aware of colors like this:
Chapter 9: Community
In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its
Run online campus events with your favorite tools at no cost with the new GitHub Virtual Event Kit
We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the Student Developer Pack, the GitHub Virtual Event Kit! Access the best virtual event tools in one place at no cost.
Let’s Encrypt x Shopify: Securing the Web 4.5 Million Domains at a Time - Shopify
Let's Encrypt is a game changer for the industry. For a big software-as-a-service company like Shopify, it saves time because their implementation is built around an open specification.
Announcing Rollbacks and API Access for Pages
Today we announce two new features: rollbacks and the Pages API.
Introducing the new GitHub Issues
Announcing new beta features for GitHub Issues for better planning and tracking of your projects in GitHub, including project tables, task lists, and issue forms.
Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.
A framework for building Open Graph images
We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.
Introducing Netflix Timed Text Authoring Lineage - Netflix TechBlog
Dubbing and subtitling are inherently creative processes. At Netflix, we strive to make shows as joyful to watch in every language as in the original language, whether a member watches with original…
Rate Limiting GraphQL APIs by Calculating Query Complexity - Shopify
GraphQL opens new possibilities for rate limiting. I’ll show you Shopify’s rate limiting system for the GraphQL Admin API and how it addresses some limitations of common methods commonly used in REST APIs.
Introducing the Stripe Extension for VS Code
Stripe launches an extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more about what features are offered and how to get started.
Cloudflare TV: Doing it Live, 1,000 Times and Counting
Since launching in June 2020, Cloudflare TV has featured over 1,000 original live episodes covering an incredible array of topics and we're just getting started.
PKCE: What and Why?
Come learn about the PKCE OAuth flow! How it works, why it’s valuable, and how to use it to authorize your Dropbox app.
10 Lessons Learned From Online Experiments - Shopify
10 hard-earned lessons from controlled experiment, considered the gold standard approach for determining the true effect of a change.
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative — Smashing Magazine
Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description. Nulling an image indicates that it is for decorative purposes only. In this context, decorative means that the image does not visually communicate information that is important to understanding
The Chooser, now for iOS and Android
GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more!
The latest version of GitHub Desktop allows you to squash commits, squash and merge, reorder, amend your last commit, check out a branch from a previous commit, and more.
Enable secure access to applications with Cloudflare WAF and Azure Active Directory
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Active Directory have partnered to provide an integration specifically for web applications using Azure Active Directory B2C
Smashing Podcast Episode 39 With Addy Osmani: Image Optimization — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about image optimization. What steps should we follow for performant images in 2021? We talk to expert Addy Osmani to find out.
Securing Your Website With Subresource Integrity
When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server
The Possibilities of Syndication
That's the one word that isn't an adjective in the acronym RSS.
Equal Columns With Flexbox: It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
As awesome as flexbox is, what it’s doing under the hood is actually a little strange because, by default, it is doing two things at once. It first looks at the content size which is what we would get if by declaring width: max-content on an element. But on top of that, flex-shrink is also doing some work allowing the items to be smaller, but only if needed. Let’s break those two down and see how
Blacktocats turn five
What began as a small group effort in 2015 has now turned into a global initiative here at GitHub to amplify Black voices and talent in the tech community.
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? May 2021 Recap
In May, GitHub shipped a total of 20 new features. We love what we do, but we know it’s a lot to keep up with. So we’re trying something new on the GitHub Blog—a monthly recap of everything that shipped to Changelog in the past month. Check out some of the updates you might have missed.
Deleting the Undeletable: Managing PII at Shopify - Shopify
Building Shopify’s schematization platform for managing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within our data warehouse.
Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo
Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.
Managing SCA enforcement changes in Europe
Stripe’s SCA engine helps European businesses meet requirements and maximize conversion.
Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
An Unbelievable Demo
Principles for user-centered front-end development
Colin Oakley:
Pride 2021: Getting back out there
Reflections on Pride month, and how you can participate
Release Radar
We’ve seen some amazing community projects this last month. This was a huge month for your community with hundreds of new releases. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies.…
Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. For most of June Syria is having planned Internet shutdowns during critical exam periods.
A Crash Course in WordPress Block Filters
Blocks in WordPress are great. Drop some into the page, arrange them how you like, and you’ve got a pretty sweet landing page with little effort. But what if
GitHub Availability Report: May 2021
In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Kinda a big announcement
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more “Kinda a big announcement”
You can now buy print version of my zines!
You can now buy print version of my zines!