How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
UK Black History Month at Cloudflare
Cloudflare celebrated UK Black History Month remotely!
Super simple start to Firebase functions
The simplest getting started guide for Firebase Cloud functions
My WordPress Comments Wishlist
A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is
The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas
Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in
Day 3: an infinitely tall fridge
Day 3: an infinitely tall fridge
Super simple start to Netlify functions
Easily create server code without worrying about managing servers yourself
Bienvenue Cloudflare France! Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in France
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as its Head of France to help build a better Internet and expand the company’s growing customer base in France. This is an important milestone for Cloudflare as we continue to grow our presence in Europe.
Netlify Background Functions
As quickly as I can:
Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
Day 1: a confusing Rails error message
Day 1: a confusing Rails error message
A new way I'm getting feedback on my zines: beta readers!
A new way I'm getting feedback on my zines: beta readers!
The Internet is Getting Safer: Fall 2020 RPKI Update
The cap of two hundred thousand routing cryptographic records was recently passed. We thought it was time for an update on a major year for RPKI.
Building Serverless Front-End Applications Using Google Cloud Platform — Smashing Magazine
The use of serverless applications by developers to handle the business logic of their applications in on the high increase, but how does the Google Cloud — a major service provider within the public cloud — allow developers to manage serverless applications? In this article, you will learn what serverless applications are, how they are used on the Google Cloud, and also scenarios in which they ca
ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework
We use ClickHouse widely at Cloudflare. It helps us with our internal analytics workload, bot management, customer dashboards, and many other systems.
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!
Data Visualization With ApexCharts — Smashing Magazine
In this article, you will be exposed to ApexCharts and to the different types and variants of charts it provides. Along the way, we’ll build several types of charts and learn how we can customize the appearance of our charts. By the end of the article, you will be able to integrate different types and variants of chats in your applications with ApexCharts.
HelloSign API Webinar for the UK, Germany, and France
We’re hosting webinars on the HelloSign API in the UK, Germany, and France. Register today and come learn about the HelloSign API.
Vercel Analytics for Gatsby
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Gatsby projects – without any configuration.
Looking Ahead: Five Opportunities on The Horizon According to Tech Leaders
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.
What Can Web Designers Do With Their Unused Designs? — Smashing Magazine
Do you have a hard time throwing away mockups, logos and other content you’ve created for clients? The good news is that you don’t have to see rejected or unused designs as a sign of failure or waste. You can actually repurpose them and give them new life on other projects, for other customers, and even within your own business. I’ll explain four ways to do this in this post.
Smashing Podcast Episode 28 With David Darnes: What Is Eleventy? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? I spoke to David Darnes to find out.
Commit your vote on election day!
Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact…
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Everyone slows to a crawl, sometimes for a minor issue or sometimes for no reason at all. As…
GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or…
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)
So you’ve read of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now know why we decided to invest in a new platform. In Part II, you’ll get a more detailed look at how we assigned users to experiments, how we analyze results and ensure test integrity.
Be Kind, Be Curious (November 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Give your desktop a makeover with this new collection of wallpapers. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2020. Since so many beautiful and inspiring designs have seen the light of day as a part of this ongoing series, we browsed through our archives on the look for November goodies from the past. You’ll find a select
Little Things on My Personal Site
I updated my personal website the other day. Always a fun project since it's one of the few where it's 100% just me. It's my own personal playground with no
13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻
WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were…
The Principles Of Visual Communication — Smashing Magazine
We’re taught to communicate with words. We write essays, prepare speeches, and take written notes. But words aren’t always the best option for conveying information and ideas. Sometimes the best way to tell stories is through thoughtfully crafted visuals, not long paragraphs of text. Visual storytelling is the process of conveying ideas using things you can see. In this article, Elizabeth Lin will
Introducing Bot Analytics
Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics.
Building GitHub: introduction
An introduction to our blog series on GitHub’s investments in technical excellence.
Comparing Static Site Generator Build Times
There are so many static site generators (SSGs). It’s overwhelming trying to decide where to start. While an abundance of helpful articles may help wade
Building with Dropbox Webinar
Join our webinar to learn about Dropbox developer tools, meet our Developer Evangelists, and get started building with the Dropbox API.
A few things I've learned about email marketing
A few things I've learned about email marketing
How We Run Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine
Many companies had to struggle in one way or another in the last couple of months. We had to get creative, and we had to rethink our conferences and workshops altogether. In this article, CEO and co-founder Vitaly Friedman shares how Smashing runs online workshops and online conferences these days, and the lessons learned along the way.
Our counterintuitive fix for Android path normalization
Behind the feature: The hidden challenges of autosave
The technical challenges of updating our autosave system
Should social media dampen uncertain stories?
When a news story of dubious provenance appears, should social media use a temporary block to slow its spread?
Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…
Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores
Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics…
Sharp tools for emergencies and the --clowntown flag
European payment methods available worldwide in minutes, not months
Stripe businesses around the world can accept payments from more European buyers in minutes.
Road to gRPC
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support.
WordPress and Jamstack
I recently moderated a panel at Netlify's virtual Jamstack Conf that included Netlify CEO Matt Biilman and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. The whole thing
ninja: a simple way to do builds
ninja: a simple way to do builds
Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source
November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…
Building Mental Models of Ideas That Don’t Change - Shopify
Developers constantly face information overload. There's always a new programming language, methodology, framework, or platform. How do you make sense of it all? You use mental models to guide you.
The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard
We thought it was important to provide a view into how overall traffic to campaign and elections sites is trending as well as a view into the cyberattacks we're observing.
Hacktoberfest e GitHub ¡Presente!: celebrando comunidades open source em outubro
Outubro é um mês especial no mundo do desenvolvimento de software. Há 7 anos a Hacktoberfest — um festival que celebra a comunidade open source — incentiva pessoas desenvolvedoras a…
Hands-Free Coding
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
WooCommerce Payments, Now with Support for Subscriptions and Saved Cards
A little while back we shared the news that WooCommerce shipped a beta payments feature as part of its 4.0 release. It's a free plugin with no monthly costs
"Durable"
Looks like the word "durable" is an emerging term in the world of serverless. As I understand it, it's like allowing for state in places you wouldn't normally
How Kimberly-Clark brings your favorite paper products into your home
A look inside their digital presence
A Journey of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at GitHub
@demetris11 embarks on a journey of curiosity and discovery in her new role overseeing DI&B strategy at GitHub
Violating monotonic time expectations on Mojave
The failed promise of Web Components
Lea has some words:
Our Best Posts on Web Components
A grouping of hand-selected posts from our site about Web Components. We've published a very useful article series from Caleb Williams, so that's here, but also sprinkled in some other informational and link posts on the subject.
Highlights from Git 2.29
The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been…
