Frameworks Helping Image Usage
I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol' checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing
Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease
Optimizing the user experience you offer on your website is essential for the success of any online business. Google does use different user
Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate.
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here’s what we found.
Using SWR React Hooks With Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) — Smashing Magazine
When paired with ISR and Next.js’ API routes, SWR can be used to create a responsive user experience. In this article, Sam Poder explains what SWR is, where to use it (and where not), and how to build a website by using Incremental Static Regeneration. This approach ensures that users still have a good experience, that the site is fast and that the data is kept up to date.
Introducing: Custom Hostname Analytics
Today, we’re excited to announce that SaaS providers will now be able to give their customers visibility into what happens to their traffic when the customer onboards onto the SaaS provider, and inherently, onto the Cloudflare network.
How Cloudflare helped mitigate the Atlassian Confluence OGNL vulnerability before the PoC was released
On August 25, 2021, Atlassian released a security advisory affecting their Confluence application. The Cloudflare WAF soon after started mitigating an increase in malicious traffic to vulnerable endpoints ensuring customers remained protected.
The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators,
Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
This article describes how PostgreSQL v14 reduces B-tree index bloat with "bottom-up index tuple deletion". A test case shows the difference.
Ship / Show / Ask
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that combines the features of Pull Requests with the ability to keep shipping changes. Changes are categorized as either Ship (merge into mainline without review), Show (open a pull request for review, but merge into mainline immediately), or Ask (open a pull request for discussion before merging).
GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist.
Using Rich Image and Text Data to Categorize Products at Scale - Shopify
We reevaluated our existing product categorization model to ensure we’re understanding what our merchants are selling, to build the best products that help power their sales.
Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components — Smashing Magazine
Being able to look past the apparent simplicity, break down a component into its constituent parts, ask key questions, and even consider future uses, are all skills that will serve any developer well when building websites In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mi
New Smashing Online Workshops on Front-End & UX — Smashing Magazine
What’s the state of HTML Email, Vue.js and Next.js? What are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s figure it out. With our brand new online workshops on front-end & design. Now with **free workshops** for you to test the waters.
What’s new with Cloudflare for SaaS?
Today, we’re excited to announce all the customizations that our team has been working on for our Enterprise customers — for both Cloudflare for SaaS and SSL for SaaS.
Can we have custom media queries, please?
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it's
Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible
When requirements read "when visible" your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That's exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation
Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too.
Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement
On July 21st, 2021, Slack officially became a part of Salesforce at the price tag of $27.7 billion. This was undoubtedly Slack’s most significant event in the past year. As a frontend intern on Slack’s Customer Acquisition team this summer, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be directly involved with announcing the closing of one…
What’s New With DevTools: Cross-Browser Edition — Smashing Magazine
Learn what’s new with developer tools in Firefox, Edge, Chrome and Safari. Discover new and powerful features that will help you be more comfortable and productive when testing and debugging across browsers. With this article, Patrick Brosset tries to make you want to try them out, and maybe will help you get more comfortable next time you need to debug a browser-specific issue.
ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU
Early Days for CSS Scoping
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now. Other than a weird period where <style scoped> shipped and then was subsequently removed from the
HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. In this part 3, Robin Marx will look at how to practically use and deploy QUIC and HTTP/3, by looking at most best practices and lessons learned from HTTP/2. You’ll discuss that it might take a while before off-the-shelf web server packages provide full HTTP/3 support, and how most major browsers have HTTP/3
