2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.
30 free and open source Linux games – part 1
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary today, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories! If…
5 Steps for Building Machine Learning Models for Business - Shopify
We share five steps on approaching machine learning from a business perspective that helped to build and scale our suite of machine learning products.
Building Android Conversation Bubbles
We recently rolled out support for Conversation Bubbles for DMs and Group DMs on Android 11. In case you’re not familiar with Conversation Bubbles, take a look at the video below. Basically, they are a way to pop out a conversation from a notification into a Bubble that will draw over other apps, making multitasking…
Creating A Public/Private Multi-Monorepo For PHP Projects — Smashing Magazine
There is no “best” solution, only solutions that might work better depending on the context. The multi-monorepo approach is not suitable to every kind of project or team. In this article, Leonardo explains how to use a "multi-monorepo" approach for making the development experience faster, yet keeping your PHP packages private. This solution can be especially beneficial for PRO plugin creators.
Introducing logs from the dashboard for Cloudflare Workers
Many developers know the feeling: “It worked in the local testing suite, it worked in our staging environment, but… it’s broken in production?” Testing can reduce mistakes and debugging can help find them, but logs give us the tools to understand and improve what we are creating.
Architecting With Next.js
Free event hosted by Netlify coming up next week (Wednesday, August 25th): Architecting with Next.js. It's just a little half-day thing. No brainer.
Bringing the power of our open platform to FigJam
Inviting all builders to create the first plugins and widgets for FigJam
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful.
How To Automate Documentation Workflow For Developers — Smashing Magazine
In a world that is increasingly going remote, prioritizing good documentation and good documentation workflow is important. In this article, you’ll learn how to save hours of tedious work of writing, updating, and correcting technical documentation. In this article, you will learn how to automate your documentation workflow with Vale and GitHub Actions.
Making Magic Transit health checks faster and more responsive
Magic Transit advertises our customer’s IP prefixes directly from our edge network, applying DDoS mitigation and firewall policies to all traffic destined for the customer’s network.
Detecting Media Query Support in CSS and JavaScript
You can't just do @media (prefers-reduced-data: no-preference) alone because, as Kilian Valkhof says:
Native JavaScript Routing?
We can update the URL in JavaScript. We've got the APIs pushState and replaceState:
The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher.
Human shielding and how things impact a person
HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this second part, Robin Marx will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.
Data protection controls with Cloudflare Browser Isolation
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare’s Browser Isolation service to protect sensitive data inside the web browser. Administrators can define Zero Trust policies to control who can copy, paste, and print data in any web based application.
Announcing Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway
Today, we’re excited to announce Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway, a new feature that helps keep our work at work.
Your devices and your employer
Diggin’ and Fetchin’ with TruffleRuby - Shopify
It begins with a clever Ruby trick to extract a value from a deeply nested hash we want to refactor and ends with a prototype changing the language itself.
Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future — Smashing Magazine
The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. Over the years, there have been many different approaches and evolutions of static and Jamstack CMSs. In this article, Mike Neumegen will take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.
Building a Pet Cam using a Raspberry Pi, Cloudflare Tunnels and Teams
This was a perfect weekend project: I would set up my own pet cam, connect it to the Internet, and make it available for me to check from anywhere in the world.
Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the largest ever reported
Earlier this summer, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one that we're aware of.
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.
