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,…
Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare
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.
Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet
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.
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
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.
Sophisticated Microsoft Spoof Targets Financial Departments
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.
Traveling Salesman problem with PostGIS and pgRouting
This article explains the optimization problem known as the Traveling Salesman Problem which is about the optimal order of stops on a trip.
Highlights from Git 2.31
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…
Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy
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,…
How to Use Tailwind on a Svelte Site
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
ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors.
Chapter 7: Standards
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
How I Built my SaaS MVP With Fauna ($150 in revenue so far)
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
Scripting with GitHub CLI
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: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access | Netflix Tech Blog
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.
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe's approach to building websites, which he calls "Stackless":
AutomateWoo Brings Automated Communications to Bookings
AutomateWoo is this handy extension for WooCommerce that adds triggers actions based on your online store's activity. Someone abandoned their cart? Remind
Firebase Crash Course
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
GitHub Discussions now available for private repositories
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.…
Modeling A GraphQL API For Your Blog Using Webiny Serverless CMS — Smashing Magazine
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
Happy International Women’s Day!
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.
The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
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.
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…
Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, More em Units, and Global Privacy Control
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
Octoverse spotlight: Exploring the people and stories behind GitHub data
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,…
How to execute an object file: Part 1
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.
The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes
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.
The Netflix Cosmos Platform - Netflix TechBlog
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…
State Of GDPR In 2021: Cookie Consent For Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
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.
Spotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy
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 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
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!).