Solving The Vaccine Data Problem
VaccinateCA, the non-profit I have been running, expanded nationally to Vaccinate The States . Here's what we've learned in the last 100 days.
Text That Sometimes Turns to Emojis
There are some Unicode characters that some browsers just decide they are going to turn into emojis for you. I couldn't tell you why exactly, but here's what
Environmental sustainability at GitHub
At GitHub, we believe in the extraordinary potential and power of a diverse, collaborative developer community to accelerate human progress. Just look at the first-ever powered flight on another planet…
Sticky Headers: 5 Ways to Make Them Better
Page Laubheimer says that if you're going to do a sticky header...
Coming together at Config 2021
Everything we announced at Config 2021
Introducing FigJam
FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to brainstorm and ideate together
Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web
The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in terms
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Why I'm helping Cloudflare grow in Canada
I am incredibly excited to join Cloudflare as Head of Sales for Canada to expand the company’s growth in the region as part of its mission to help build a better Internet.
Open source goes to Mars 🚀
This morning, we watched in awe as the first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and…
Node.js support in Cloudflare Workers
Check out the current state of Node.js compatibility with Workers. We want to hear from you on which Node.js-dependent libraries and APIs we should support.
Cloudflare Stream now supports NFTs
Today, we’re introducing a new API that takes an ERC-721 token ID and contact address and sets it on a video so every video on Stream can be represented with an NFT.
A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone
Argo Tunnel has been priced based on bandwidth consumption as part of Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare’s traffic acceleration feature. Starting today, we’re excited to announce that any organization can use the secure, outbound-only connection feature of the product at no cost.
Introducing WebSockets Support in Cloudflare Workers
WebSockets are a powerful new addition to the Workers platform that unlocks real-time use cases in your application.
Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers.
Building A Video Streaming App With Nuxt.js, Node And Express — Smashing Magazine
Instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to load more. In this article, Deven Rathore will build a video streaming app using Nuxt.js and Node.js. Specifically, you’ll build a server-side Node.j
Developer Challenges
Developer week is here! Throughout the week we are running a series of Developer Challenges that give you the perfect excuse to play with our new features. See how many of the challenges you can get through.
Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
Muted spaghetti line charts with R's ggplot2
How I plot a muted-spaghetti chart with R, including facets.
Release Radar
The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.
Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the
The `ping` attribute on anchor links
I didn't know this was a thing until Stefan Judis's post:
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 2
The modern internet was built on a legal framework of safe harbors for user-generated content. These safe harbors are widely credited with having enabled global internet innovation by protecting online…
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js
All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Here's how to get started using them.
axe DevTools Pro
I'm going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
SvelteKit is in public beta
Rich Harris:
Bitemporal History
It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2021
In March, we experienced three incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, webhooks, API requests, GitHub Pages, and GitHub Actions services. Follow up…
Space Jam
It's certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web's strength in
Jetpack Turns 10!
Ten years! That's a huge milestone for a project, especially one that had a pretty simple goal in mind from the start: give self-hosted WordPress sites many
Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle reaffirms that developers’ ability to port their code and skills between platforms is a significant interest to be protected. The headline is…
Announcing the Global Maintainer Summit
If you’re an open source maintainer, you know that keeping the wheels of the open source ecosystem turning is quite a task. Project maintenance is uniquely challenging and rewarding work.…
Don’t Lose Your Head: Evaluating Headless — Smashing Magazine
With the explosion in popularity of the Jamstack has come the proliferation of new options for managing your content. Headless has become quite the hot topic in development circles of late, but where do you start if you are embarking on a new project and haven’t yet decided where to store and organize your content? In this article, David Eglin will give you a little bit of a primer on the CMS land
How to execute an object file: Part 2
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations.
Rethinking Spotify Search
Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind of search, they already have something in mind, whether they come looking for one thing in particular or are open to becoming inspired. Spotify Search is no exception, helping a vast majority of users find joy through search, regardless of the language or method used to se
Durable Objects, now in Open Beta
As of today, Durable Objects beta access is available to anyone with a Cloudflare Workers® subscription.
Where the World Wide Web Shines
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to
This Web Site is a Tech Talk
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I'm just taking notes
Behind the feature: building multi-account
What it took to build and ship a (seemingly) simple user request
The Small Joys Of April (2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for April 2021.
ShopTalk Patreon
Dave and I launched a Patreon for ShopTalk Show. You get two completely priceless things for backing us:
New Paper Endpoints Released in Preview
New endpoints are available to interact with Paper in the File System using the Dropbox API.
GitHub Desktop now supports cherry-picking
GitHub Desktop aims to provide an intuitive way for users to complete everyday Git and GitHub workflows. One of our most requested features from the past year is cherry-picking, and…
A new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
Today we are announcing a new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall for all Cloudflare paid zone customers.
:where() has a cool specificity trick, too.
There is a lot of hype on the :is() pseudo-selector lately, probably because now that Safari 14 has it, it's supported across all the major browsers. You've
Women’s History Month spotlight: Honoring women developers
March is Women’s History Month: a unique time to celebrate the myriad impact of women leaders, both throughout history and today. It’s also a time to reflect on the challenges…
Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode
Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics.
Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare
The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia.
Announcing API Abuse Detection
Today, we are announcing early access to API Abuse Detection. This technology will identify, secure, and protect API endpoints with unsupervised learning.
Automating contract management with Dropbox and Integromat
Learn how to automate workflows like contract management with Integromat’s new Dropbox integration
GitHub India: Celebrating a community connected by code
A year ago, we were celebrating the launch of GitHub India to serve the third largest developer community on GitHub. Today, I am thrilled to welcome GitHub Satellite to India…
Protecting your APIs from abuse and data exfiltration
API Shield is growing with new functionalities: Schema Validation generally available, Managed IP List, more controls to manage certificates, and Data Loss Prevention.
Detecting memory leaks in Android applications
Compile times, and why "the obvious" might not be so
Maps Scroll Wheel Fix
This blog post by Steve Fenton came across my feeds the other day. I'd never heard of HERE maps before, but apparently they are embeddable somehow, like
Imagining native skip links
I love it when standards evolve from something that a bunch of developers are already doing, and making it easier and foolproof. Kitty Giraudel is onto that
An Event Apart Spring Summit 2021
Hey, look at that, An Event Apart is back with a new event taking place online from April 19-21. That's three jam-packed days of absolute gems from a stellar
Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn't used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try
Open innovation will be the winning strategy for digital sovereignty and human progress in the new decade
This article originally appeared in The New Stack, and is republished here with permission. Digital sovereignty has become a rallying cry across the globe. In 2021, open innovation will, counterintuitively,…