ShopTalk Goes Video
Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly
A new public beta of GitHub Releases: How we’re improving the release experience
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 4th, 2021 - High Scalability -
Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Sorry for the long gap in posting, but I’ve been building a new app. I’m looking for testers for my new iOS fitness app: Max reHIT Workout. It guides you through proven reduced-exertion high-intensity interval workouts. If that inter
Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running. The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many […]
In the news today: *munch munch munch*
How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery — Smashing Magazine
One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. In this article, Silvestar Bistrović will be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible with a few tips and tricks along the way. Let’s get started!
The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation
How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare.
Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies
A little over two weeks 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.
All my zines are now available in print!
All my zines are now available in print!
May I ask who’s calling, please? A recent rise in VoIP DDoS attacks
Over the past month, multiple Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers have been targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from entities claiming to be REvil.
Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web
In this blog we start to explain Web3 in the context of the web's evolution, and how Cloudflare might help to support it.
Announcing The Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways Private Beta: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse and Decentralized Finance for Everyone
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer.
Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare
Learn how to build Web3 applications with Cloudflare’s new open-source template.
Links on React and JavaScript II
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React — Vite is hot, in part, because it's based on esbuild and wickedly fast. It's from Evan You of Vue fame, but it's
Using the platform
I'm certainly not dogmatic about it, but I think if you can pull of a project with literally zero build process, it feels good while working on it and feels very good when you come back to it months/years later and can just pick up and go.
Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives
Directives are one of GraphQL’s best — and most unspoken — features.
Willingness to look stupid
What to learn
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researchers @chen-robert and @ginkoid
GitHub’s bug bounty team is excited to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a spotlight on two security researchers who participate in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
Journey Through a Dev Degree Intern’s First Placement - Shopify
Carmela, Dev Degree student, shares how she learned to appreciate the stages of learning, dispel the myth of the “real developer”, combat imposter syndrome by asking for help, and the power of valuing representation.
How To Implement Search Functionality In Your Nuxt App Using Algolia InstantSearch — Smashing Magazine
Many websites have some sort of search feature because it helps users navigate through their content easily. Implementing it the right way can be tricky and might not give a good user experience. In this tutorial, Miracle Onyenma will be integrating Algolia, a popular and powerful search service for the best experience on our Nuxt site.
Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to page load times so we can analyze and improve the Spotify service. We instrument and log data across every surface that is running Spotify code through a system called the Event Delivery Infrastructure (EDI). Throughout this blog post we make a distinction between the internal users of the E
A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every time you added a few songs? One of Spotify’s core products, our mobile app, was designed specifically to leave all of that busywork in the past, changing how we travel with our music forever.