CSS Logical Properties and Values
Now that cross-browser support is at a tipping point, it's a good time to take a look at logical properties and values. If you're creating a website in
Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks
I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke
ES2021 Features
Hemanth HM very succinctly shows off ES2021 features. Gosh it doesn't feel like that long ago that all we could talk about is ES2015, and now that's over a
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem.
Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Next.js has strong opinions about how to organize JavaScript but not CSS. How can we develop patterns that encourage best CSS practices while also following the framework’s logic? The answer is surprisingly simple — to write well-structured CSS that balances global and local styling concerns. In this article, Alexander Dubovoy will build a website (a tea shop!) to demonstrate these patterns.
Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free
Cloudflare is excited to announce Project Pangea. We’re launching a program that provides secure, performant, reliable access to the Internet for community networks that support underserved communities, and we’re doing it for free because we want to help build an Internet for everyone.
Why I joined Cloudflare — and why I’m excited about Project Pangea
If you are well-prepared to take up the challenge, you will get to experience a moment where you are stepping forward to help build a better world. I felt exactly that when I joined Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer in Austin, Texas.
Understanding Where the Internet Isn’t Good Enough Yet
This week, Cloudflare is announcing Project Pangea, with the goal of helping reduce Internet access inequality.
Introducing Flarability, Cloudflare’s Accessibility Employee Resource Group
I’m pleased to introduce myself and Cloudflare’s newest Employee Resource Group (ERG), Flarability. The 31st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act is an ideal time to raise the subject of accessibility at Cloudflare and around the world.
Demystifying styled-components
Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey.
How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust
At Cloudflare, we have a great product called Workers KV which is a key-value storage layer that replicates globally. It can handle millions of keys, each of
Slinkity
Perhaps the #1 reason I love Astro is that it brings the JavaScript component authoring experience to the Static Site Generator world with zero JavaScript
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station — Smashing Magazine
Gatsby recently announced the launch of “functions”. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains how to get the current location of the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits the Earth in real-time using [Gatsby Functions](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/functions/) and then display it on a 3D interactive globe using [React Three Fibre](https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber).
Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week
We originally conceived the idea of Impact Week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.
Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs
Recently, a RCE vulnerability in the way cdnjs’ backend is automatically keeping web resources up to date has been disclosed. Read about how Cloudflare handled the security incident and what will prevent similar exploits in the future.
AWS’s Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance
High egress costs from a Cloud limit customers choice in Cloud services. Cloudflare’s Bandwidth Alliance with our cloud partners provides an alternative to this lock-in. Our customers have benefitted from this both via discounted egress costs and choice of storage providers.
A Guide To Attracting Clients To Your Agency — Smashing Magazine
Word-of-mouth recommendation is an incredibly desirable way to win work. It requires zero marketing efforts and typically converts at a higher rate as your agency has been recommended. However, you should never rely on word of mouth alone. Many web design agencies consider it a badge of honor that they win work exclusively through word-of-mouth recommendations. In this article, Paul Boag explains
Upgrading the Cloudflare China Network: better performance and security through product innovation and partnership
Cloudflare and our strategic partner in China have created a global network that offers a fast experience for visitors inside and outside of China — with DDoS mitigation, web application firewall (WAF), and other security services built in.
Introducing Workers Usage Notifications
Today we’re excited to launch Workers usage notifications that proactively send relevant usage information directly to your inbox.
How the Figma PM team builds products and processes
A look at their daily habits and weekly syncs
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community
GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These features change many different areas of MySQL, including client connectors, storage engine, optimizer, and replication. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to […]