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.
The Serverlist: Workers Durable Objects, Cron Triggers, and more!
Check out our twentieth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
POW
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
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
Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office
This post is the second in a series on access and the U.S. elections. Hear from Software Engineer and GitHub Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Kyle Daigle, on his experience volunteering at his local election office.
Advanced GraphQL Usage In Gatsby Websites — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will take a closer look at GraphQL and how we can integrate it into a Gatsby website by building and implementing advanced data sourcing and transformation in Gatsby.
Thunderbolt 3 dock plus 2020 MacBook equals crash
Add Watermarks to your Cloudflare Stream Video Uploads
The Watermark API lets you add a watermark to a video at the time of uploading. It consists of two new features to the Stream API.
Defining "View Source"
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of "View Source," I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams
Announcing the public beta of our new integration between GitHub and Microsoft Teams.
Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities
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 every week to help…
Get Up And Running With Craft CMS — Smashing Magazine
Choosing what CMS to use in your next development project is a critical decision for any business, large or small. In this guide, Jonathan Kelley is going to run through the potential of Craft CMS, setting up a local environment and creating a basic cat blog with an API endpoint to accompany it. It’s a perfect jumping off point for anyone looking to expand from their current CMS system, or make th
How prebuilt checkout pages maximize efficiency
Prebuilt payment pages save engineering hours and increase revenue. Learn more about the benefits of utilizing a prebuilt checkout page.
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new
AVIF has landed
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake's blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web
Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
Release Radar
It’s back! We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for September 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from…
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup
The developer community in Africa continues to thrive. Here at GitHub, we’re excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for African developers. This meetup is happening on Tuesday, September 15th,…
Introducing the GitHub Stars Program ⭐️
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of those millions of developers on GitHub, there…
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
