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Engineering — Identifying content gaps in our documentation

Identifying content gaps in our documentation

As a technical writer, it’s pretty common to do the thing you’re documenting. After all, it’s really hard to write step-by-step instructions if you haven’t been through those steps. It’s also a great opportunity to provide feedback to our product teams

KKodyKody·June 27, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.37

Highlights from Git 2.37

The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.

TBTaylor BlauTaylor Blau·June 27, 2022Engineering
Frontend — My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow

My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow

If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.

JWJosh W. Comeau·June 27, 2022Frontend
Frontend — Demystifying The New Gatsby Framework — Smashing Magazine

Demystifying The New Gatsby Framework — Smashing Magazine

Until a few months ago, Gatsby.js was best suited to make not-so-big Jamstack websites, but with the release of Gatsby 4, how well does Gatsby work with big and rapidly-changing pages? And how will it compare to other frameworks like Next.js? Gatsby 4 came out in October 2021 with a lot of new features. It may seem as if Gatsby 4 didn’t cause a big stir among developers, but it brought several gam

JDJuan Diego RodriguezJuan Diego Rodriguez·June 27, 2022Frontend
Frontend — Decommissioning your VDI

Decommissioning your VDI

This blog offers Cloudflare’s perspective on how remote browser isolation can help organizations offload internal web application use cases currently secured by virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

CCloudflare·June 24, 2022Frontend
Frontend — Connect to private network services with Browser Isolation

Connect to private network services with Browser Isolation

Browser Isolation with private network connectivity enables your users to securely access private web services without installing any software or agents on an endpoint device or absorbing the management and cost overhead of serving virtual desktops

TOTim ObezukTim Obezuk·June 24, 2022Frontend
Career & Teams — Thank you to our maintainers

Thank you to our maintainers

To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.

MWMartin Woodward, Ashley WolfMartin Woodward, Ashley Wolf·June 24, 2022Career & Teams
Design & UX — Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names — Smashing Magazine

Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names — Smashing Magazine

Overcorrecting for one form of disability may unintentionally negatively impact the experience for other forms of disability. For example, partially visually hidden link names may work great for people who use screen readers, but this approach can be problematic for people who rely on voice control software. Because of this, your designs need to be flexible and adaptable, as well as accommodate th

EBEric BaileyEric Bailey·June 24, 2022Design & UX
Networking — A stronger bridge to Zero Trust

A stronger bridge to Zero Trust

Today, we’re announcing more enhancements to the Cloudflare One platform that make a transition from legacy architecture to the Zero Trust network of the future easier than ever

AAnnikaAnnika·June 23, 2022Networking