2020 in Review
An overview of what I accomplished in 2020 and a bit about my goals for 2021.
Towards An Ad-Free Web: Diversifying The Online Economy — Smashing Magazine
The founding principles of the World Wide Web have been warped by years of over-reliance on advertising. Fixing that imbalance and moving toward a more ethical, open web means relaying the foundations, with sites showing other ways are possible. Incorporate sustainability into your designs. Communicate what you do and how you survive and what people can do to help. Progress does not happen on its
Summary of reading: October - December 2021 - Eli Bendersky's website
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2020: Year in review
2020: Year in review
Sparks Of Inspiration To Welcome The New Year (January 2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What better way could there be to start the new year than with some fresh inspiration? Our collection of wallpapers for January 2021 is bound to put a smile on your face — and maybe spark new ideas, too.
Cloudinary Tricks for Video
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that's before we start talking about
The Rules of Margin Collapse
Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing:
A Practical Introduction To Dependency Injection — Smashing Magazine
This article is the first part of an upcoming series that provides a practical introduction to Dependency Injection in a manner that immediately permits you to realize its many benefits without being hampered down by theory. Today, Jamie Corkhill will depict only a very practical example of dependency injection in use and mostly neglect the theoretical attributes. He does it this way in order to m
Smashing Podcast Episode 32: Review Of The Year 2020 — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020. Who did we speak to in our episodes this year, and what did we learn? Let’s listen back to some clips to find out.
It turns out that Thunderbolt works now
Creativity In A World Of Technology: Does It Exist? — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Maggie Mackenzie investigates the intricate dynamics associated with the relationship between creativity and technology and discussing whether or not creativity still exists. She will explore what creativity looks like and who (or what) is it now coming from. Ultimately, if creativity is truly being impacted by technology, is there a way to find the balance between the human and t
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
Big ol' same to Michelle Barker here:
WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app
Integrating Cloudflare Gateway and Access
We’re excited to announce that you can now set up your Access policies to require that all user traffic to your application is filtered by Cloudflare Gateway. This ensures that all of the traffic to your self-hosted and SaaS applications is secured and centrally logged.
Highlights from Game Off 2020
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as…
How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics — Smashing Magazine
Progressive web applications are proven to raise user engagement and keep the costs down effectively. Building a modern PWA requires more than just the core setup to keep up with the user’s expectations. Today, Gert Svaiko will take a first-hand look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests.
Cloudflare Acquires Linc
Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build powerful applications.
Catalina: instead of fix, package contained chime
Configure identity-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway
You can now build secure web gateway rules based on user and group identity.
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined…
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
Feedback: music, bash, BSD, cattle/pets, and "the cloud"
Optimizing Image Depth
Something I learned (or, I guess, re-learned) this year is how important it is to pay close attention to the bit depth of images. Way back in the day, we used
Change vs. Inertia
Recently, I've become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These
Counting Down To Bundles Of Smashing Joy And Workshops In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
We know how difficult it can sometimes be to stay on top of things. In this monthly edition, you can read more about what’s cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular resources featured in our newsletter in the past few weeks.
Three Improvements to Project Creation & Git Integration
We've improved the developer experience by introducing three updates that apply to all users on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise plans.
Introducing Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
Across multiple cultures around the world, this time of year is a time of celebration and sharing of gifts with the people we care the most about.
I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy
I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to
What's Old is New
This year, I learned a lot about how "old" tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style
Commits are snapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
No cookie for you
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
Learning to Simplify
When I first got this writing prompt, my mind immediately started thinking stuff like, “What tech have I learned this year?” But this post isn’t really about
How to Use the Locomotive Scroll for all Kinds of Scrolling Effects
I was recently looking for a way to perform scrolling effects on a project and I stumbled on the Locomotive Scroll library. It lets you perform a variety of
The Power of Lampshading
I enjoyed this blog post from Shawn. Lampshading is apparently the idea of a TV show calling attention to some weakness (like an implausible plot point) so
Reducing flaky builds by 18x
Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request…
Are Websites Adding To Consumer’s Health Issues? — Smashing Magazine
Today, Suzanne Scacca is going to look at “The Website Dilemma”. In other words, is it possible to build an authoritative, lead generating, high converting website without manipulating visitors into doing what you want? If you follow social media’s lead, they’re one and the same. If you’d prefer not to trade your customers’ well-being for profit, keep reading.
What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name
WCAG 2.1 Recommendations rolled out in 2018. It’s been a couple years now and there are some new Success Criterion. In this article, I will discuss Label in
Powerful updates to temporary interaction limits
Temporary interaction limits have new, powerful, and flexible updates. You can now enable interaction limits for up to six months. In addition, you can limit interactions across all your personal…
Smashing Podcast Episode 31 With Eve Porcello: What Is GraphQL? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about GraphQL. What is it, and how does solve some common API problems? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eve Porcello to find out.
Inspired by Open Source: Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement 2.0
GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We do that by empowering our own employees to use their creativity to learn, play, and build great…
Refreshing Server-Side Props
Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload.
Infer powering Microsoft’s Infer#, a new static analyzer for C#
What it is: Infer# brings the Infer static analysis platform to developers who use Microsoft’s C# programming language. It can already detect null-pointer dereference and resource leak bugs, thanks to bi-abduction analysis. Detection of race conditions based on RacerD analysis is also in the works. Infer# has been used to analyze Microsoft software, including Roslyn, […]
Supporting Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects
We’re launching Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects, making it easy for developers to build serverless, stateful applications that comply with data localization obligations.
Listening to phone calls with stock consumer devices
Phishpoint back in full swing: an infamous Microsoft SharePoint spoof resumes with new tactics
Our researchers detected an updated wave of Microsoft SharePoint phish that are leveraging new COVID-19 restrictions to steal victims’ login information.
Securing the post-quantum world
As quantum computing matures, R&D efforts in cryptography are keeping pace. We’re working with academia and industry peers to create new cryptography standards resilient to quantum computer attacks.
Why I love Tailwind
Max Stoiber wrote some interesting notes about why he loves Tailwind. (Max created styled-components, so he has some skin in the styling methodology game.)
How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2)
Learn what’s needed to migrate to and run a federated GraphQL API platform successfully.
Feedback: errors, filesystems, magic numbers, and more
Announcing Workplace Records for Cloudflare for Teams
Workplace Records uses Access and Gateway logs to provide the state and country from which employees are working. Workplace Records can be used to help finance, legal, and HR departments determine where payroll taxes are due and provide a record to defend those decisions.
Unconventional Stock Image Sources
This year, I learned that there is a wide world of free stock imagery available beyond Unsplash and Pexels. You see, I’ve been working on designing WordPress
Business and Engineering alignment
How to convince "the business folks" to let you do what you want.
On the whole CentOS thing
Making Websites Easier To Talk To — Smashing Magazine
Modern websites aren’t inseparable from screens any more. Between phone assistants, home speakers, and screen readers, more and more people are using the web without even looking at it. Websites need to evolve in kind. In the article, Frederickk O’Brien will try to break down what that means for websites going forward, what designers can do about it, and why this might finally be a leap forward to
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie
Cloudflare is deprecating the __cfduid cookie. While we have never tracked end-users across sites or sell their personal data, we don’t want any customer to think they need a cookie banner because of what we do.
2020 was not a good year for learning
There, I said it.