Building an App Clip with React Native - Shopify
Being the first to build an App Clip in React Native that was going to be surfaced to millions of Shopify's Shop app users each day proved to be a challenging task.
How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application — Smashing Magazine
There are a few ways in which you can make a large code-base easy to maintain. In this article, Nirmalya discusses some of the complex problems that he faced while building and maintaining large Next.js applications. He always explains how these problems can be solved by using various tools. Most of these points will apply to any front-end application. For any front-end application, the main prior
Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask, part 1
Historically Cloudflare's core competency was operating an HTTP reverse proxy. We've spent significant effort optimizing traditional HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 servers running on top of TCP.
Five Tips for Growing Your Engineering Career - Shopify
Five practical tips to help you grow and navigate your engineering career.
Creating Generative Patterns with The CSS Paint API
The browser has long been a medium for art and design. From Lynn Fisher's joyful A Single Div creations to Diana Smith's staggeringly detailed CSS paintings,
A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites — Smashing Magazine
Instead of spending your coffee break scrolling through your social feeds, how about a lovely little website instead? We came across some fantastic ones that are just too good not to be shared. They are perfect for a short coffee break or whenever you’re up for a little bit of diversion. But be warned, your break might take a bit longer than intended.
Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application.
Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website
Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is
Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge
Entity-attribute-value (EAV) design in PostgreSQL - don't do it!
This article explains what the entity-attribute-value (EAV) model is and why you shouldn't use it in a relational database.
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available
GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: how to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project.
The Copyright Office expands your security research rights
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
A Modern CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website — Smashing Magazine
The separation of content and presentation that CSS gives us always comes in handy when we need to adapt designs to better serve different communities. With a little CSS, we can adapt our web designs to be more accommodating for people with dyslexia. In this article, John C Barstow will explore those techniques by adding a dyslexia-friendly mode to an existing design.
Vercel: Series D funding announcement
Vercel raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation to accelerate its mission to make the Web faster for developers and teams.
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 2021.
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country.
Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a
Accelerate security adoption in your organization
The GitHub Services Engineers have released the Advanced Security Enforcer GitHub Action to enable organizations to utilize code scanning in a consistent and automated way.
Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021 — Smashing Magazine
What’s the state of CSS, Vue.js and Next.js? What are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s figure it out. With our [online workshops on UX, front-end and design](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops).
Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Implementing a performance culture at Wix can enable you to apply performance enhancements to almost every part of your technological stack — from infrastructure to software architecture and media formats. In this article, Dan Shappir shares which actions and processes the Wix team put in place in order to achieve dramatic improvements in the performance of websites built and hosted on their platf
Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week
Several months ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1. Here are our results today.
Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers
One of the most exciting things about serverless is not that you can now build everything in serverless, but that it becomes really easy to connect multiple managed services. Tejas Mehta built cClip by connecting services like RevenueCat, Stripe and Firebase into a fully fledged product.
