Release Radar
Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here’s our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases.
From Chaos To System In Design Teams — Smashing Magazine
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.
Node and How it Works With npm
Let's look at Node and how it plays alongside npm to install features and tooling as packages in modern front-end web development.
A Deep Look at the Command Line
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.
Install npm in a Few Easy Steps
In this article, we'll install npm and Node, then make a little sample project to give you real hands-on experience working with the npm basics
How to Install npm Packages
Next up in this beginner’s guide to npm is likely why you’re here in the first place: installing npm packages, which uses the `npm install` command.
From experiment to launch: how data shaped a new comments experience
How we tested, iterated, and rolled out updates to comments in Figma
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify - Shopify
Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand outlines some of the company's biggest engineering priorities for 2022.
Building The Real App With React Query — Smashing Magazine
You probably know how annoying it could be to handle different states, if you have ever built React applications that use asynchronous data. In this article, Georgii Perepecho explains the most common React Query features that you need to be familiar with when creating a real-life application that is stable when testing.
Tomonari Sato: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Japan
I’m excited to announce that I recently joined Cloudflare in Japan as Vice-President and Managing Director, to help build and expand our customer, partner base, and presence in Japan
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022
Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google.
Upcoming Online Workshops: January – May 2022 — Smashing Magazine
What goes into creating a successful design system? How can you take your testing workflow to the next level? And what smart interface design patterns could help you enhance your UIs? Let’s figure it out. With our [online workshops on front-end and UX](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops).
How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space
With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science.
FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready
Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS) is a fully managed, distributed priority queueing service used for reliable message delivery among many services. FOQS has evolved from a regional deployment into a geo-distributed, global deployment to help ensure that data stored within logical queues is highly available, even through large-scale disaster scenarios. Migrating to a global architecture
Freebie: Wayfinding Icon Sets (164 Icons, PNG, SVG, AI, EPS) — Smashing Magazine
Every once in a while, we publish [freebies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies) related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, everyone will be able to find their own use case for these icons in particular. Today, we present to you three icon sets designed by the creative folks at GraphicSurf — all free for personal and commercial use.
Cloudflare customers on Free plans can now also get real-time DDoS alerts
We’re excited to announce that customers using our Free plan can now get real-time alerts about HTTP DDoS attacks that were automatically detected and mitigated by Cloudflare
The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021
A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list.
Designing Tinder - High Scalability -
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
Modern Fluid Typography Using CSS Clamp — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian Bece will explore fluid typography principles, use-cases, best practices, implementation with CSS clamp function and how to calculate the right parameters. He’ll also show you how to address some accessibility concerns and watch out for one important issue that you cannot fix as of yet, but have to be aware of regardless.
Some ways DNS can break
Some ways DNS can break
A Workers optimization that reduces your bill
Recently, we made an optimization to the Cloudflare Workers runtime which reduces the amount of time Workers need to spend in memory. We're passing the savings on to you for all your Unbound Workers
Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet
The CSS Me Not bookmarklet lets you see all of the CSS files on a site, notably unused files you might want to prevent from loading.