A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column
We've covered that individual <table> cells, <th> and <td> can be position: sticky. It's pretty easy to make the header of a table stick to
How we sped up Dropbox Android app startup by 30%
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Getting The Most Out Of Git — Smashing Magazine
Git has so many powerful features under the hood! From Interactive Rebase to Submodules and from the Reflog to File History, these advanced features help you become more productive and make fewer mistakes. In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. You’ll learn how to recover deleted commits, clean up your commit history, use submodules to manage third
Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners
We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings
Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game
The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question.
Release Radar
Not everyone takes a break over the festive season. Some people in the community have been busy shipping releases. So we’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases…
Day 53: a little nginx, IPv6, and wireguard
Day 53: a little nginx, IPv6, and wireguard
Fighting for developers: GitHub policy 2020 in review
GitHub is committed to shaping public policies that support developers around the globe. Last year, we advised policymakers, supported legal action, and spoke directly to developers on policy in jurisdictions…
Push some big numbers through your system and look for bugs
npm 7 is now generally available!
After much anticipation, the npm CLI version 7 is now generally available!
How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams — Smashing Magazine
On your list of places where people might access your web app, Teams is probably number “not-on-the-list”. But it turns out that making your app accessible where your users are already working has some profound benefits. In this article, Tomomi Imura and Daisy Chaussee will take a look at how Teams makes web apps a first-class citizen, and how it enables you to interact with those apps in complete
Open Web Docs
Robert Nyman:
"Cancelable" Smooth Scrolling
Here's the situation: Your site offers a "scroll back to top" button, and you've implemented smooth scrolling. As the page scrolls back to the top, users see
February 2021 GitHub Campus Experts applications are open
GitHub Education is on a mission to build communities and support emerging tech talent around the world. We’re looking for the next batch of student leaders to apply to the GitHub Campus Experts Program!
Inspiring Wallpapers For February 2021 And A Little Creativity Challenge — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity challenge waiting for you this month. It’s the perfect occasion to share your ideas with the world — and win a smashing prize along the way. The wallpapers in this post come with and without a calendar for February 2021, and, as a little bonus goodie, you’ll also discover some famili
Cloudflare Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
Refinement Code Review
Pull Request
How to Make Dashboards Using a Product Thinking Approach - Shopify
A step-by-step guide to how you can create dashboards that are user-centred and impact-driven.
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…
How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program.
Tech Stacks and Website Longevity
Steren Giannini in "My stack will outlive yours":
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
Cloudflare Waiting Room
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future.
Level up your code with TwilioQuest
It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open…
Lurking bugs behind infrequently-executed code paths
Using GraphQL for High-Performing Mobile Applications - Shopify
GraphQL is the syntax that describes data that a client asks from a server. The client, in this case, is a mobile application. GraphQL is usually compared with REST API, a common syntax that most mobile application developers use. We will share how GraphQL can solve some of the pain points of REST API in mobile application development and discuss tips and best practices that we learned at Shopify
Why we chose Apache Superset as our data exploration platform
The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition
If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and…
Day 43: Building VM images
Day 43: Building VM images
Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC
Technical information about how Netflix uses Android APIs and xHE-AAC metadata, especially MPEG-D DRC, to optimize the listening experience.
Day 41: Trying to understand what a bridge is
Day 41: Trying to understand what a bridge is
How To Build A Node.js API For Ethereum Blockchain — Smashing Magazine
why do we need blockchain? Blockchain is a safe way to record activities and keep data fresh while maintaining a record of its history compared to the traditional records or databases where hacks, errors, and downtimes are very possible. In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethereum Blockchain for decentralization. He als
Update on an employee matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Day 40: screen flickering & a talk about containers
Day 40: screen flickering & a talk about containers
Failing to make progress under excess request load
Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 available as a release candidate!
Today, we’re making GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 available as a release candidate. Announced in the GitHub Universe Keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server, bringing customers: Actions –…
Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020
Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report.
Proper Tabbing to Interactive Elements in Firefox on macOS
I just had to debug an issue with focusable elements in Firefox. Someone reported to me that when tabbing to a certain element within a CodePen embed, it shot
Building an Ethereum app using Redwood.js and Fauna
With the recent climb of Bitcoin’s price over 20k $USD, and to it recently breaking 30k, I thought it’s worth taking a deep dive back into creating Ethereum
How to Make GraphQL and DynamoDB Play Nicely Together
Serverless, GraphQL, and DynamoDB are a powerful combination for building websites. The first two are well-loved, but DynamoDB is often misunderstood or
A Day in the Life of a Backend Platform Engineer at Slack Pune
5:25 am First alarm rings. *Snooze.* 6:30 am The final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I get up and immediately start making my bed. I open the curtains to take a look at the weather and the early morning light. I walk to my balcony and stand there to…
The Lies that can Undermine Democracy
Recent events highlight our need to take serious measures to counter lies that are undermining democracies.
Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server
Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server
Day 35: Launching my VMs more reliably
Day 35: Launching my VMs more reliably
Painters Tape and Fault Tolerance
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape you put on a wall when you’re painting to avoid getting paint on the wall. The tape doesn’t have a strong adhesive, so it can be pulled back off the wall without damaging it.
`aspect-ratio` is going to deprecate FitVids
Jen was just tweetin' about how the latest Safari Technical Preview has aspect-ratio. Looks like Chrome and Firefox both have it behind a flag, so with Safari
Daily blog posts about my time at RC
Daily blog posts about my time at RC
Day 34: Learning about qemu
Day 34: Learning about qemu
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
How To Make More Money Selling Shopify Apps In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
Developing a Shopify app and being able to sell it are two different things. While you might be a very skilled app developer, that’s not always enough for Shopify merchants to decide to install a newly released and unreviewed app on their sites. If you want to give merchants a reason to install and use your Shopify app, there are four things you need to do.
Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good
Here's a little hodgepodge of videos I've recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn't decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I
Sample: Embedded Requesting Workflows Using the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs
Use this code sample to learn how combine the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs to send Dropbox files for eSignature using an embedded requesting workflow.
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran
Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine
This article is a response to the Platform Adjacency Theory by Alex Russell, with specific takes on WebUSB and some alternative proposals for a way forward.
