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.
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,…
