Static or Not?
A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress:
DBX Platform launches with three new APIs
New zine: How Containers Work!
New zine: How Containers Work!
Getting Started With Nuxt — Smashing Magazine
Developers often worry about the SEO of their SPAs (Single Page Applications) and how well they would do on Google searches (blogs, portfolio websites, product websites, and so on). Sometimes, they also worry about how complex building a server-side rendered application might be. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create server-side rendered applications by using Nuxt.js, how to configu
@property
The @property is totally new to me, but I see it's headed to Chrome, so I suppose it's good to know about!
Moving fleet software releases to a massively sharded scheme
Chrome + System Fonts Snafu
There was just a bug late last year where system fonts (at least on Mac, I don't know what the story was on other platforms) in Chrome appeared too thin and
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We've also written a series of articles explaining how traditional databases built
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!
Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff
Exploring Node.js Internals — Smashing Magazine
Node.js is an interesting tool for web developers. With its high level of concurrency, it has become a leading candidate for people choosing tools to use in web development. In this article, we will learn about what makes up Node.js, give it a meaningful definition, understand how the internals of Node.js interact with one another, and explore the project repository for Node.js on GitHub.
Stripe Issuing is now open to all US businesses
Today, we’re opening Stripe Issuing access to everyone in the US, so you can sign up and start creating cards instantly.
My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes
Matthias Ott's posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y'all, I
Improving notifications for everyone
We’re dedicated to making notifications as simple and valuable as they can be, so you can be as productive on GitHub and you can be.
Responsive Web And Desktop Development With Flutter — Smashing Magazine
Flutter has already made quite a splash on the mobile development scene. Now it’s taking on bigger devices as well. In this article, Carmine Zaccagnino will show you what you need to know to be ready to take on the task of developing web and desktop apps using this wonderful cross-platform framework. Flutter is a lovely framework, very easy to use, and its extreme cross-platform support only makes
Meet some of this year’s GitHub Satellite speakers
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
A history of an anomaly in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, an independent research project about it, and what we need to learn about our next steps.
A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
6:45 am My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during Vancouver’s long summer days, when the sun is up from 5:10am to 9:10pm and already peeking through my blinds, but it sometimes happens in the winter when it’s still dark out.…
Smashing Podcast Episode 14 With Rachel Andrew: How Can I Run Online Workshops? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about running online workshops. How can a traditional event adapt when participants can’t attend in person? Drew McLellan talks to Rachel Andrew to find out.
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to get my system fully upgraded! 🥱 I’ve been slogging away at this for quite some time now. My PC build blog entry series spans 13 glorious years: *
Helping with COVID-19 Projects: Cloudflare Workers now free through Project Galileo
The Internet has been vital to our response to the COVID-19 crisis: enabling researchers to communicate with the rest of the world, connecting resources with people who need them, and sharing data about the spread.
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
Interesting research from Dan Luu¹:
Time-Based One-Time Passwords for Phone Support
Cloudflare Enterprise customers can now authenticate themselves for phone support using TOTP tokens, either by using an authenticator app or generating single-use tokens from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
Front-End Challenges
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the
Staying Connected And Learning From Each Other — Smashing Magazine
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. Here you’ll find an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Of course, you can always find us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and also stay updated with our RSS feed as well as our Smashing Newsletter (sent out every second week with all sorts of goodies!).
Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
Jetpack Instant Search!
Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) with
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Mexico, plus some exciting updates
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Jason Etcovitch
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
Offer of Assistance to Governments During COVID-19
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public.
Intersecting GPS-Tracks to identify infected individuals
PostGIS' functions can be used to trace down infected people and their contact with healthy individuals | GPS-Tracks | spatial data
Refactoring: This class is too large
In this article I walk through a set of refactorings from a real code base. This is not intended to demonstrate perfection, but it does represent reality.
File locking using the Dropbox API
Prevent unwanted edits to your files by using the new file locking feature in the Dropbox API.
Create Diagonal Layouts Like it's 2020
Nils Binder covers the ways:
Featured actions from the GitHub Actions Hackathon
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
Learn about open source in the social sector from our latest report
Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.
Simpler Pricing
Smashing Podcast Episode 13 With Laura Kalbag: What Is Online Privacy? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast we’re talking about online privacy. What should web developers be doing to make sure the privacy of our users is maintained? Drew McLellan talks to an expert on the subject, Laura Kalbag, to find out.
A Grid of Logos in Squares
Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo
A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack
7am I’m definitely not a morning person, so when my alarm goes off, I can’t help but stay in bed a little while longer. I have two cats, Stella and Orion, who are especially cuddly in the mornings, so it’s hard to leave them and get out of bed. My cats are well known by…
Function forms
When I prefer to use function declarations instead of arrow functions
Trailblazing a Development Environment for Workers
When I arrived at Cloudflare for an internship in the summer of 2018, I was taken on a tour, introduced to my mentor who took me out for coffee (shoutout to Preston), and given a quick whiteboard overview of how Cloudflare works.
Some Typography Links II
I just can't stop bookmarking great links related to typography. I'm afraid I'm going to have to subject you, yet again, to a bunch of them all grouped up. So
Google's Technical Writing Guide
It's good!
The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've done to fix it.
Cloudflare Doubling Size of 2020 Summer Intern Class
Today we are announcing that we will double the size of Cloudflare’s summer 2020 internship class.
typespecimens.io
If you’re looking for a new typeface for that side project of yours then here’s a great website by John D. Jameson that collects a bunch of the latest type
Rethinking Code Comments
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by
Announcing the Beta for WARP for macOS and Windows
While WARP started as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app, it's really a technology that can benefit any device connected to the Internet. In fact, one of the most common requests we've gotten over the last year is support for WARP for macOS and Windows. Today we're announcing exactly that.
How We Use Backstage at Spotify
is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. You can read more about what Backstage does, and our plans for its future, in our previous post, “”
Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more. With the additions of acquisitions including Gimlet and Parcast, we have a whole host of expertly created content, and with the addition of DIY podcasting platform Anchor, now everyone has access to tools to create their own podcast and publish it to Spotify, so the
Ann Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
I like to start the day slowly – I’m not a morning person, so my husband kindly walks the dogs while I enjoy the peace and quiet, and wake myself up with a matcha or kombucha. After that, I’m more ready to get going and start to think about the day ahead of me.
Stay Creative, Stay Inspired (April 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for April 2020.
RSS Stuff
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it's for, and how you can start
gqless
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It's very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data
Pair Programming
Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper
Axios can do a ton of stuff, but here's a simpler solution that can handle most use cases
Dogfooding from Home: How Cloudflare Built our Cloud VPN Replacement
Rewind to 2015. Back then, as with many other companies, all of Cloudflare’s internally-hosted applications were reached via a hardware-based VPN.
