Scaling accessibility within GitHub and beyond
GitHub celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day by launching another installment of the Coding Accessibility series and sharing how we scale accessibility within GitHub and beyond.
Beyond CSS Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
Juan Diego Rodriguez explains why media queries still occupy a vital role in responsive layouts; only they are now one tool in a larger toolbox with modern techniques that are best when used together.
Securing data in your Next.js app with Okta and OpenFGA
Learn how to integrate a Data Access Layer in your Next.js app and use it to implement a fine-grained authorization model with OpenFGA.
New Consent and Bot Management features for Cloudflare Zaraz
Zaraz Consent Management now supports Google Consent Mode v2 and is compliant with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework. Zaraz also added Bot Management support for keeping your analytics data clean
SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?
Transforming The Relationship Between Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
Is there such a thing as harmony between designers and developers in the workplace, and if so, how can it be achieved? In this article, Chris Day explores the challenges of effective collaboration, outlines the key factors at play, and (hopefully!) empowers you to find the right solutions to help you and your team deliver to their full potential.
Platforms can now white label payment workflows in record time
This post highlights four ways embedded components can simplify the most complex payment workflows for platforms expanding to a new market or looking to reduce operational overhead.
Cloudflare’s public IPFS gateways and supporting Interplanetary Shipyard
Cloudflare is transitioning traffic that comes to our public IPFS gateway to Interplanetary Shipyard’s IPFS gateway. The transition is expected to be complete by August 14th, 2024
Reclaiming CPU for free with Go's Profile Guided Optimization
Golang 1.20 introduced support for Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) to the go compiler. This post covers the process we created for experimenting with PGO at Cloudflare, and measuring the CPU savings
Securing Git: Addressing 5 new vulnerabilities
Git is releasing several new versions to address five CVEs. Upgrading to the latest Git version is essential to protect against these vulnerabilities.
Behind the scenes of Threads for web
When Threads first launched one of the top feature requests was for a web client. In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Ally C. and Kevin C., two engineers on the Threads Web Team that delivered the basic version of Threads for web in just under three months. […]
Why Designers Aren’t Understood — Smashing Magazine
How do we conduct UX research when there is no or only limited access to users? Here are some workarounds to run UX research or make a strong case for it. An upcoming part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com).
Stripe Organizations: A new way to power the world’s most complex businesses
Streamline team and role management from a centralized dashboard, search for customer and payment information across accounts, and run unified reports across your entire business with Stripe Organizations.
Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact in the enterprise with Accenture
We conducted research with developers at Accenture to understand GitHub Copilot’s real-world impact in enterprise organizations.
Say hello to the SPORTech collection
Whether you’re a rookie coder or a seasoned pro, our new SPORTech shop collection is tailored for you. And here’s the kicker: we’re offering free delivery worldwide over $20 until May 20!
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
The Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable — Smashing Magazine
Preethi Sam walks through an example that demonstrates where custom properties are more suitable than variables while showcasing the greater freedom and flexibility that custom properties provide for designing complex, refined animations.
Treasury and PNNL threat data now available for Financial sector customers to secure applications
Cloudflare proudly partners with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and PNNL to empower financial institutions to deploy DNS filtering policies through Cloudflare’s Gateway, using threat data from these agencies to protect against malicious links and phishing
GitHub Availability Report: April 2024
In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The Modern Guide For Making CSS Shapes — Smashing Magazine
In this comprehensive guide, Temani Afif explores different techniques for creating common shapes with the smallest and most flexible code possible.
Craft and beauty: The ROI of marrying form and function
Leaders from Stripe, Linear, and Figma explore how craft and beauty are core to product and business growth.
How AI enhances static application security testing (SAST)
Here’s how SAST tools combine generative AI with code scanning to help you deliver features faster and keep vulnerabilities out of code.
Kafka 101
This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. Originally developed in LinkedIn during 2011, Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source Apache projects out there. So far it has had a total of 24 notable releases and most intriguingly, its code base has grown at an average rate o
The Forensics Of React Server Components (RSCs) — Smashing Magazine
React Server Components (RSCs) combine the best of client-side rendering, and author Lazar Nikolov thoroughly examines how we got here with a deep look at the impact that RSCs have on the page load timeline.
