Cloudflare recognized as a 'Leader' in The Forrester New Wave for Edge Development Platforms
Forrester’s New Wave for Edge Development Platforms has just been announced. We’re thrilled that they have named Cloudflare a leader.
Introducing Custom Headers for Cloudflare Pages
We're excited to announce that Pages now natively supports custom headers on your projects! Simply create a _headers file in the build directory of your project and within it, define the rules you want to apply.
Sticky Definition Lists
I ran across this 30 seconds of code website the other day, and they have a CSS section which is really good! The first example snippet I looked at was this
What’s new in Figma: October 2021
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
Everything new from Universe 2021
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.
Disabling ssh password auth on Monterey is different
Shopify's Path to a Faster Trino Query Execution: Custom Verification, Benchmarking, and Profiling Tooling - Shopify
Shopify’s Data Reliability team built custom verification, benchmarking, and profiling tooling for testing and analyzing Trino. Our tooling is designed to minimize the risk of various changes at scale.
Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research — Smashing Magazine
Eye-tracking, a method that measures where people are looking and for how long they are looking, became more accessible to UX research thanks to technology. It allows researchers to see through the users’ eyes and get insights about visual attention. This article explores the latest trends in the eye-tracking market and how the methodology can be included in the UX researcher’s toolbox.
Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects
What the research is: Kangaroo is a new flash cache that enables more efficient caching of tiny objects (objects that are ~100 bytes or less) and overcomes the challenges presented by existing flash cache designs. Since Kangaroo is implemented within CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine, developers can use Kangaroo through CacheLib’s API to build […]
Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power
This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at…
Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx — Smashing Magazine
Nx is a build framework that facilitates optimization, efficient scaling of applications, and other features such as shared libraries and components. In this article, Melvin Kosisochukwu will be looking at how you can effectively scale Next.js applications by using Nx. If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications, this article is for yo
Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.
Cloudflare Tunnel for Content Teams
See how we’re using Cloudflare Tunnel to share our technical writing with internal stakeholders for a faster, seamless feedback process.
The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB)
When I wrote the "book" The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I, I put "book" in quotes because there wasn't anything terribly book-like about it. The only way you
A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code…
A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine
If we use a width and height that isn’t proportional to the image’s aspect ratio, the image might either be compressed or stretched. That isn’t good, and it can be solved either with object-fit for an img element or by using background-size. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will go through how `object-fit` and `background-size` work, when you can use them, and why, along with some practical use case
An Introduction To Quasar Framework: Building Cross-Platform Applications — Smashing Magazine
Quasar is an open-source Vue.js-based cross-platform framework that allows you, as a developer, to easily build apps for both desktop and mobile using technologies such as Cordova and Electron and writing your code once. The app we’ll build will store and get its data from Firebase, meaning that we will also be seeing how to use Firebase in Quasar.
Cloudflare for SaaS for All, now Generally Available!
We are very excited to announce that Cloudflare for SaaS is generally available, so that every customer, big and small, can use Cloudflare for SaaS to continue scaling and building their SaaS business.
Can Include (a Certain HTML element within another Certain HTML Element)
A single-serving website from Alexander Vishnyakov for testing if it's valid to put any particular HTML element within another type of HTML element. Kinda
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Rounding Shapes
Adding borders to complex shapes is a pain, but rounding the corner of complex shapes is a nightmare! Luckily, the CSS Paint API is here to the rescue! That’s
GitHub Actions for security and compliance
GitHub Actions can automate several common security and compliance tasks, even if your CI/CD pipeline is managed by another tool.
How To Build A Real-Time Multi-User Game From Scratch — Smashing Magazine
It’s impressive how quickly a real-time multi-user application can be built with Colyseus — once you figure out how to properly describe the schema. This article highlights the process, technical decisions and lessons learned behind building the real-time game Autowuzzler. Learn how to share game state across multiple clients in real-time with Colyseus, do physics calculations with Matter.js, stor
What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?
It's not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:
Open sessions: jam with anyone, anywhere
Introducing a way for collaborators to temporarily join meetings and workshops