GitHub Planeta Virtual Meetup
GitHub представляет нашу первую виртуальную встречу! Первая встреча пройдет во вторник, 17-го ноября, с 19:00 до 21:00 по Московскому времени. Наша ведущая и докладчик, Саша Розенбаум, менеджер по продукту из…
The :focus-visible Trick
Always worth repeating: all interactive elements should have a focus style. That way, a keyboard user can tell when they have moved focus to that element.
Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
A Monthly Update With New Guides And Community Resources — Smashing Magazine
It’s time for another monthly update! The best way to get better together is by learning from each other, and what better way is there than to promote new ideas and the way forward for the web industry. A quick peek at our ever-growing guides will show you that we’re dedicated in bringing together a variety of topics that will help us all explore and learn new things. Join us as we share the lates
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement
We regularly update our policies to reflect the evolution of our products, changing legal requirements, and user feedback. In this update, we’ve made some changes to our Terms of Service,…
Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn
It’s time for Major League Hacking’s (MLH) annual Local Hack Day: Learn, a worldwide celebration of learning. Do you have a framework that you have wanted to try? Or perhaps…
Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle
This article originally appeared in TechCrunch, and is republished here with permission. The Supreme Court heard arguments October 7 in Google v. Oracle. This case raises a fundamental question for…
How to Build an Experiment Pipeline from Scratch - Shopify
A guide to building an email experimentation pipeline from the ground up. You'll learn how to implement a similar pipeline with a relatively simple setup from scratch.
How we open sourced docs.github.com
A lot of work went into figuring out how to sync a public and private docs repo.
Zero Trust For Everyone
Announcing our new Teams plans, and more specifically, our Cloudflare for Teams Free plan, which protects up to 50 users at no cost.
Cloudflare Access: now for SaaS apps, too
Teams can now secure SaaS applications with Zero Trust rules using Cloudflare Access.
Thoughts writing a Google App script
A google sheets script is a handy way to share a short script for non-programmers.
Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI
We’re releasing v7.0.0 of the npm CLI, which includes exciting new features such as Workspaces, automatically installed peer deps, and more!
Binpacking little things onto big things with PAE
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for October 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech,…
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
I joined Stripe to work on building financial infrastructure for the Internet. Time flies. Here is what I've learned in the first four years.
Creating moments of connection
Watch the closing keynote from our virtual user conference, Config Europe
Remembering a classic "time travel" bug
Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine
The dream of a machine-readable Internet is as old as the Internet itself, but only in recent years has it really seemed possible. The benefits of developing for the Semantic Web are not always immediate, or visible, but every site that does strengthens the foundations of an open, transparent, decentralized internet. As major websites take strides towards data-fying their content, now’s the perfec
Let's build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell
Let's combine the power of Haskell and WebAssembly in a Cloudflare Worker!
Looking at AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify is a collection of tools from AWS to help you build applications.
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1
As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…
Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine
In some instances, privacy policy, terms of use, and cookie consent pages do have to be ugly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve upon how easy they are to read or navigate (which visitors will definitely appreciate). Today, we’re going to look at four ways that web designers can contribute to getting more policy disclosure pages read and terms actually agreed to.
On the Web Share API
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here's our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you're on, if that
Fine-tune access to external actions
Limit use of external actions within Actions workflow for enterprises, organizations, and repositories.
AVIF image format supported by Cloudflare Image Resizing
We're adding support for the new AVIF image format. It compresses images significantly better than older-generation formats such as WebP and JPEG.
Apple really sucks at Thunderbolt 3, apparently
Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress
Today, we are announcing a new service to serve more than just the static content of your website with the Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service. With this launch, we're supporting WordPress.
There's a good reason why experienced devs say "it depends" so often
I feel like Jerod Santo really understood what I was trying to say in Weaved Webs, when I was trying to cover the emerging WordPress ("versus") Jamstack
The Paper Prototype Rule
I’ve been lucky to have worked with some of the best designers in the industry, including Zhenya Rynzhuk, Louis Paquet, Maria de la Paz Vargas, and of course,
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 1)
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses that we test by running experiments — normally in the form of an A/B test — to learn what works and what doesn’t. The learnings give us insights and fuel new product ideas.
Introducing Cloudflare Radar
Today we are launching a new service, Cloudflare Radar, that shines a light on the Internet’s patterns. Our goal is to help build a better Internet and we want to do this by exposing insights, threats and trends based on the aggregated data that we have.
Free, privacy-first analytics for a better web
We’re announcing a brand new, privacy-first analytics service that’s open to everyone — even if they're not already a Cloudflare customer. And if you're a Cloudflare customer, we've enhanced our analytics to make them even more powerful than before.
When fonts fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
Birthday Week on Cloudflare TV: 24 Hours of Live Discussions on the Future of the Internet
This week marks Cloudflare’s 10th birthday, and we’re excited to continue our annual tradition of launching an array of products designed to help give back to the Internet. (Check back here each morning for the latest!)
Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside
Today, we are excited to launch Cron Triggers to the Cloudflare Workers serverless compute platform. We’ve heard the developer feedback, and we want to give our users the ability to run a given Worker on a scheduled basis.
How to Use Quasi-experiments and Counterfactuals to Build Great Products - Shopify
A/B tests are not the only tool to understand causality: quasi-experiments and counterfactuals are powerful tools for causal inference if used right.
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old.
ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now
This is a written version of my talk from Jamstack Conf London 2019.
Don't Compare Averages
In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely avail
Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help…
GitHub India Virtual Meetup – Open Source & Hacktoberfest
The developer community in India is thriving and growing. There’s lots of developers, open source maintainers, and contributors. Here at GitHub India, we’re excited to announce our next Virtual Meetup…
Answers to a reader's questions about bits of tech
Unexpected Learnings From Coding Artwork Every Day For Five Years — Smashing Magazine
Coding thousands of pieces of artwork teaches you a thing or two about the creative process. Whether you want to overcome perfectionism, learn new skills, or simply explore the playful side of coding, regular projects may be just what you need. In this article, Saskia Freeke will share her thoughts and experience. We hope to yield the inspiration you need to start similar projects of your own.
Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor
If we need to show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor, what is the best way to do it?
A better logs experience with GitHub Actions
It’s now even easier to review logs from your GitHub Actions workflow runs. We’ve introduced several improvements to make the experience more performant, precise, and pleasing to use. Why these…
Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk - Shopify
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
Simplify Your Stack With A Custom-Made Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. Because these tools are built for diverse use cases, they have to have a lot of features. Those features make them powerful. They also make them quite complex and opaque for new developers. In this article, Bryan Robinson will explore how to take a humble
Jamstack Conf
Here's an important detail here: It's free!
ztext.js
Super cool project from Bennett Feely! It makes any web type into 3D lettering with a mouseover effect that moves the 3D objects in space. It's reminiscent of
Smashing Podcast Episode 25 With Anthony Campolo: What Is RedwoodJS? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about RedwoodJS. What exactly does it mean to be a full-stack Jamstack framework? Drew McLellan talks to community champion Anthony Campolo to find out.
Just how many people do we need doing that job, anyway?
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to provisioning thousands of EC2s instances across multiple AWS regions, using the latest AWS services to build reliable and scalable infrastructure. One of the pain points inherited from the early…
Snackwatch: when credit card readers land at the office
How a hypothetical learning project might evolve
SmashingConfs, Inspiring Talks And Birthday Cake — Smashing Magazine
There’s a lot of information out there — that’s a fact. In these monthly editions, Smashing’s senior editor Iris brings it all in one place because we know how hard it can be to stay on top of things. So with no further ado, here’s what was, what is, and what will be!
Changing Emoji Skin Tones Programmatically
So, you know how many emoji have different skin tones? Emoji skin tones are extremely popular, especially over text and on social media. The raised black fist
We are excited to announce our next event for Latin America, GitHub ¡Presente! In Spanish
Lee este artículo en español Estamos muy entusiasmados en anunciar nuestro siguiente evento virtual en América Latina: GitHub ¡Presente! en Español El primer evento será el Martes 22 de Septiembre…
Weaved Webs
There is a bit of an irony with Jamstack.
On pitching and presenting
How to create and deliver a great presentation