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We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process.
Today we’re excited to announce a number of initiatives, starting with the integration of Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics into WordPress.com. This integration gives WordPress.com publishers choice in how they collect usage data and derive insights about their visitors.
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore.
A sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targets financial departments at companies across multiple industries, as well as newly-appointed CEOs and executive assistants.
This article explains the optimization problem known as the Traveling Salesman Problem which is about the optimal order of stops on a trip.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.29…
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack’s history, we’ve used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we’ll talk about problems we faced with HAProxy,…
Let’s spin up a basic Svelte site and integrate Tailwind into it for styling. One advantage of working with Tailwind is that there isn’t any context switching
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors.
It was the year 1994 that the web came out of the shadow of academia and onto the everyone’s screens. In particular, it was the second half of the second week
Are you a beginner coder trying to implement to launch your MVP? I've just finished my MVP of ReviewBolt.com, a competitor analysis tool. And it's built using
It has been a year since we’ve launched the first public release of GitHub CLI. Since, we have added functionality to manage your repositories, comment on issues, enable auto-merge for…
ConsoleMe is a central control plane for AWS that provides an easier way to manage AWS permissions and access across multiple accounts. It encourages least-privilege access and AWS permissions.
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe's approach to building websites, which he calls "Stackless":
AutomateWoo is this handy extension for WooCommerce that adds triggers actions based on your online store's activity. Someone abandoned their cart? Remind
This article is going to help you, dear front-end developer, understand all that is Firebase. We’re going to cover lots of details about what Firebase is, why
In December 2020, we launched the public beta of GitHub Discussions, a collaborative communication forum that allows community members to ask and answer questions, share updates, and have open-ended conversations.…
If this is your first time hearing of Webiny, it’s an open-source framework for building serverless applications which provide users with tools and ready-made applications. In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing handy tools that developers can build their apps upon. In this article, we will lo
Here at Cloudflare, we’re thrilled to celebrate International Women’s Day today! We have tons of events planned throughout the month of March, which is our way of honoring Women’s Empowerment Month.
Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.
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…
In this week's news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get "donut" scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it's time to ditch pixels
In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency. Even before the novel coronavirus had an official name, it set off global travel restrictions, widespread closures,…
Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way.
When we launched Cloudflare for Teams almost ten years later, the vision was very much the same — build a secure and powerful Zero Trust solution that is ridiculously easy to use.
Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive…
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. In this article, Danny Bluestone will take a look at two developments that have impacted cookies, plus a third on the horizon.
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user is receiving the right “treatment” with a population of hundreds of millions of users, poses technical challenges. Adding to the complexity, some of these experiments must be coordinated in the sense that the same user cannot be in two experiments at the same time. These ar
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain who built this product experience (??Give them a hand!).
At the moment, I’m living with my wife and step daughter in London and working from home like most people. Which means I get up around 8am, drink lots of coffee (way too much!) and log onto my computer an hour later – ready to check my messages and start getting my brain into thinking mode.
In this week's roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new <popup> element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to
The Dropbox API has released support for scopes, PKCE, and refresh tokens. You can find the announcement and summary of new features here.
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Nuxt projects – without any configuration.
At GitHub, we put developers first, and we work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration. This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption…
February is Black History Month in the US and Canada, a month when we celebrate our amazing Black/African American heritage and what it represents in our society, our work, and…
As technology transforms the global economy, Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, is striving to make sure these new economic opportunities are available…
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital sovereignty. One…
Rendering optimizations that come naturally.
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this mechanism to our advantage.
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018.
Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt.
On a default left-to-right web page, "hanging" an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal
This year we hosted our first all-virtual GitHub Universe—and you tuned in to join us from 174 regions around the world! We knew there was even more to cover, so…
Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility…
As developers, we’re constantly learning new languages and frameworks. But how can you structure this learning to ensure maximum benefit while still progressing? Here’s how you can devise your own curriculum to keep moving in the right direction. The following are simply steps that worked for Kirsty Simmonds when she needed to learn over time, without burning out or placing undue pressure on mysel
Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics.
In this article, we take a look at the topic of context and variables in Hugo, a popular static site generator. You’ll understand concepts such as the global context, flow control, and variables in Hugo templates, as well as data flow from content files through templates to partials and base templates.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of GitHub Campus TV! With new shows every week, tune in to hear from experts, participate in workshops, and join a community of passionate…
Today we’re announcing general availability of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0. Introduced during the GitHub Universe 2020 keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server. Every company using GitHub can…
We want to avoid having many hanging pennies. And when faced with such a situation, we want to identify such calculations and put a plan in place on who to notify and what to do with them.
In this week's roundup, WebKit's prefixed autofill becomes a standard, the pointer cursor is for more than just links, and browsers are jumping on board to
Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how
Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are:
What if an <iframe> had within it another <iframe> of the exact same source? Inception, as they say. Baptise Crespy does this all-important
This post is the fifth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs
The GitHub GraphQL API has been publicly available for over 4 years now. Its usage has grown immensely over time, and we’ve learned a lot from running one of the…
Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
Authors: Sarah Naqvi and Steve Lounsbury Struggling with a concept and frantically trying to find the answers online? Are you thinking: I should just ping a teammate or Is this something I should already know? That’s fine, I’ll ask anyway. And then you do ask and get an answer and are feeling pretty darn proud of yourself and move forward. But wait, now I have about 25 follow-up questions. Sound f
