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Frontend — Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021 — Smashing Magazine

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).

ILIris LjesnjaninIris Ljesnjanin·November 22, 2021Frontend
Performance — Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine

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

DSDan ShappirDan Shappir·November 22, 2021Performance
Performance — Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week

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.

TTubesTubes·November 20, 2021Performance
Engineering — Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers

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.

ETErwin, Tejas MehtaErwin, Tejas Mehta·November 19, 2021Engineering
Security — Build your next video application on Cloudflare

Build your next video application on Cloudflare

Today, we’re going to build a video application inspired by Cloudflare TV. We’ll have user authentication and the ability for administrators to upload recorded videos or livestream new content. Think about being able to build your own YouTube or Twitch using Cloudflare services!

JAJkup, Adam JanisJkup, Adam Janis·November 19, 2021Security
Design & UX — Coding Font Game

Coding Font Game

A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way

CCChris Coyier·November 19, 2021Design & UX
Frontend — Next.js Wildcard Subdomains — Smashing Magazine

Next.js Wildcard Subdomains — Smashing Magazine

Wildcard domains often go under the radar. Hosting with a wildcard subdomain enables your users to visit your site on any subdomain of your domain (*.example.com), and as you can imagine, we can use this to create unique user experiences which we’ll be exploring in this article through a Next.js lens.

SPSam PoderSam Poder·November 19, 2021Frontend
Engineering — PHP Date and Time Recipes

PHP Date and Time Recipes

Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used

ASArjuna Sky Kok·November 18, 2021Engineering
AI & ML — Developer Spotlight: Chris Coyier, CodePen

Developer Spotlight: Chris Coyier, CodePen

Due to the nature of CodePen — namely, hosting code and an incredibly popular embedding feature, allowing developers to share their CodePen “pens” around the world — any sort of optimization can have a massive impact on CodePen’s business.

KKristianKristian·November 17, 2021AI & ML