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On January 24, 2022, as a result of an internal product migration, 24 hostnames (including www.cloudflare.com) that were actively proxied through the Cloudflare global network were mistakenly redirected to the wrong origin
More than 50% of all traffic processed by Cloudflare is API-based, and it’s growing twice as fast as traditional web traffic. This growth calls for the development of dedicated security solutions.
In this article, we look at modern CSS mask techniques to create three fancy CSS borders without having to use a background image.
32 updates across everything from shortcuts to design features
Learn new skills, build projects and meet like-minded students with the latest shows from the GitHub Education Stream Team.
Administration experience is often assumed or glossed over in software because 99% users never engage with it directly. Yet this is one critical area that, when used effectively, can tie closely to a company’s business strategy and affects the bottom line. In this article reveals how something as trivial as administration in both software and As-a-service can be either a booster or bottleneck to a
Scroll-triggered events are very useful. There are libraries to create them but let's look at how to do it ourselves with a small handful of JavaScript.
How do you handle component spacing in a design system? Do you add margin directly to the components, or outsource it to another component?
Data normalization - Learn how to apply the theory from part 1 of Michał Małecki's blog to real life with practical examples.
GitHub continues to improve account security and developer experience with a new 2FA mechanism in GitHub Mobile on iOS and Android.
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, Colin McFarland, Mihir Tendulkar, and Travis Brooks Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of…
What’s new in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox? Patrick Brosset breaks it down with the latest features in DevTools across browsers. We hope you enjoy these updates, and that they’ll turn out useful when doing web development.
Today, we’re adding new no-code Payment Links features to help businesses increase revenue and introducing an API to automate workflows.
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Hosting my static sites with nginx
We all have run into CSS collisions and sudden regressions in our codebases when new styles are written or 3rd-party styles are added. This is because of the interdependence of styles due to source order, specificity, and inheritance. Some ways to control the cascade have included methodologies like ITCSS and BEM and other newer native features. Cascade layers will be the ultimate native solution
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage
Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here’s our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases.
Joining a team where there are no established design practices may feel disheartening. Does this situation resonate with you? If yes, then read on — as this article is sharing the author’s advice based on his personal experience and it will show you a way (although not easy) of facing the problem in a manner that will bring other benefits, beside order and consistency.
Let's look at Node and how it plays alongside npm to install features and tooling as packages in modern front-end web development.
The command line is a place we can type commands to be executed directly by our computer. It’s extremely fast, and ideal for a tool like npm.
