How to Create a Favicon That Changes Automatically
I found this Free Favicon Maker the other day. It’s a nice tool to make a favicon (true to its name), but unlike other favicon generators, this one lets you
Building together: GitHub partner ecosystem continues to grow
We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive.
Helping build the next generation of privacy-preserving protocols
Today, we’re making several announcements around improving Internet protocols with respect to something important to our customers and Internet users worldwide: privacy.
Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data
Spoiler alert: There is no support for it yet. But it is defined in the Media Queries Level 5 spec that includes other recent, but more familiar user
New from Universe 2020: Dark mode, GitHub Sponsors for companies, and more
Check out the latest announcements from GitHub Universe 2020, including dark mode, Sponsors for companies, improvements to Actions, dependency review, and more.
Day 22: getting OAuth to work in Rails
Day 22: getting OAuth to work in Rails
Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
Building A Conversational N.L.P Enabled Chatbot Using Google’s Dialogflow — Smashing Magazine
The 2019 [Capgemini research institute](https://www.capgemini.com/research-institute/)’s report published after a research on the use of chat assistants showed a drastic 76% increase in customer satisfaction from organizations where chat assistants where built and incorporated into their services. But how does [Dialogflow](https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs), a product from Google’s ecosyste
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for December 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this…
Organizing 2000 Developers for BFCM in a Remote World - Shopify
With BFCM on the horizon, there is a lot of preparation that Shopify needs to do on our platform. This effort needs a key driver to set expectations for many teams and hold them accountable to complete the work.
Welcome to Privacy & Compliance Week: Reflecting Values at Cloudflare’s Core
Over the course of the week, we'll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service in order to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.
retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
How I write useful programming comics
How I write useful programming comics
Day 20: trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
Day 20: trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
An introduction to three-phase power and PDUs
This blog is a quick Electrical Engineering 101 session going over specifically how 3-phase PDUs work, along with some good practices on how we use them
Diversity and The Digital Divide: Thoughts From Tech Leaders
Leaders from across the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for Cloudflare’s Birthday Week, helping us celebrate Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Many of them touched on the importance of diversity and making the Internet accessible to everyone.
Join Us For Smashing Meets Happy Holidays — Smashing Magazine
Meet our new friendly online meet-up, Smashing Meets, with three wonderful speakers, the entire Smashing family and plenty of truly smashing cats. As always, free for Smashing Members.
Improving the GHES release process: release candidates
In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability,…
Join our panel with WHO at GitHub Universe 2020!
The year 2020 has upended nearly every aspect of society. In a panel for GitHub Satellite back in May, we briefly covered some of the ways in which our social…
Day 18: an answer to an autoencoder question
Day 18: an answer to an autoencoder question
GitHub Availability Report: November 2020
Introduction In November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services. November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32…
The State of the Octoverse 2020
Change is inevitable, and this year, it has been inescapable. We’ve had to find new ways to relate, learn, and balance both work and life at home. One thing has…
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Designing An Attractive And Usable Data Importer For Your App — Smashing Magazine
Even though the development of a data importer is a complex matter, you don’t want your users’ experience with it to be just as complex or complicated. The second they experience any friction or fault in data onboarding, the chances of them bailing from the software will skyrocket. So, in this post, we’re going to focus on how best to present your data importer to users.
Painting With the Web
Matthias Ott, comparing how painter Gerhard Richter paints (do stuff, step back, take a look) to what can be the website building process and what can wreck it:
Against essential and accidental complexity
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders
useEffect vs useLayoutEffect
The simple rules for when to use each.
How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an experiment that had to be proven, both from a technical and a product-market fit perspective. In 2017, we found that a significant portion of registrations in some of our fastest-growing markets were happening on Android devices much older than what we were used to seeing in North American and Europ
An attempt at implementing char-rnn with PyTorch
An attempt at implementing char-rnn with PyTorch
Dreaming Of A Magical December (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome December with some new wallpapers! Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for the month. All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper. We respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their
A Thanksgiving 2020 Reading List
If you want to relax in an active and learning way this Thanksgiving weekend, here are some of the topics we’ve covered on the Cloudflare blog this past week that you may find interesting.
Reactive Variables In GraphQL Apollo Client — Smashing Magazine
Reactive variables work with GraphQL Apollo and offer you the same functionality with Redux or Context API without the complexity or extra layers that come with these other tools. A reactive variable in GraphQL Apollo is easy to use and doesn’t have as much setup process compared to Redux. In this article, Daniel Don will look at how to set up reactive variables, how the GraphQL cache polices come
My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment
Copy Docs: Make Your Microcopy Full And Consistent, And Maintain It — Smashing Magazine
Copy docs is a framework that allows product designers and writers to manage their in-product copy in a smart way. In this article, Valeriia Panina shares her experience in how the copy docs technique turned out to be a game changer for her workflow. The copy docs technique was a game changer for Valeriia’s workflow and she’d be happy if it boosts yours, too!
Moving Quicksilver into production
We previously explained how and why we built Quicksilver. This second blog post is about the long journey to production which culminates with Kyoto Tycoon removal from Cloudflare infrastructure and points to the first signs of obsolescence.
Playfulness In Code: Supercharge Your Learning By Having Fun — Smashing Magazine
In the product-focused world of development, it can be easy to forget the joy of making for the sake of making. By dropping the ‘Why’ and ‘How’, and focusing instead on the ‘What’ of weird, wonderful ideas, you can nurture a totally different side to your skill sets. You can read the docs, you can follow the tutorials, but wouldn’t you be more motivated by trying to make something unique, somethin
Day 11: learning about learning rates
Day 11: learning about learning rates
Getting to the Core: Benchmarking Cloudflare’s Latest Server Hardware
A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements.
How You Might Build a Modern Day Webring
I'm sure different people picture different things when they think about webrings, so let me clarify what I picture. I see an element on a website that:
Whatcha watchin’? Custom notification controls
Earlier this year, we upgraded the notifications experience on GitHub, focusing on filters that get you straight to the updates that matter most to you. Just last week, we shipped…
Day 10: Training an RNN to count to three
Day 10: Training an RNN to count to three
Behind the feature: the making of the new Auto Layout
The evolution of Auto Layout and more on the latest version
Take action: DMCA anti-circumvention and developer innovation
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…
Day 9: Generating a lot of nonsense with an RNN
Day 9: Generating a lot of nonsense with an RNN
Creating WebGL Effects with CurtainsJS
This article focuses adding WebGL effects to <image> and <video> elements of an already “completed” web page. While there are a few helpful
Upptime
GitHub Actions are like free computers.
Computational Notebook
Day 8: Start with something that works
Day 8: Start with something that works
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Introducing split diffs in GitHub Desktop
The latest version of GitHub Desktop includes split diffs, PRs with Actions status, more control over stashing, and discarding changes from files.
Feedback: UIs, Mac pains, hardware, teaching and octal
New Sample: Image Flipping Extension
Learn to build your first Dropbox Extension using sample code in node.js
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged
As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material…
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
Day 5: drawing lots of faces with sketch-rnn
Day 5: drawing lots of faces with sketch-rnn
Creating A Continuous Integration Test Workflow Using GitHub Actions — Smashing Magazine
The convention when contributing to projects on version control platforms is that there is the main branch containing the functional codebase. Then, there are other branches in which several developers can work on copies of the main to either add a new feature, fix a bug, and so on. If there is any error, it can easily be traced and fixed before integrating the changes into the main branch. It can
