Next.js 11, Next.js Live and more: A recap of Next.js Conf Special Edition
Learn more about the latest releases announced at Next.js Conf, including Next.js 11 and Next.js Live.
Are we in a new era of web design? What do we call it?
Una is calling it the new responsive. A nod to the era we were most certainly in, the era of responsive design. Where responsive design was fluid grids,
How to Create CSS Charts With Interesting Shapes, Glyphs and Emoji
Let’s forego the usual circles and bars we typically see used in charts for more eccentric shapes. With online presentations more and more common today, a
GitHub Packages Container registry is generally available
Throughout the beta, we added features to improve the experience of using the Container registry. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Container registry is generally available as part of GitHub Packages!
Consolidating Facebook storage infrastructure with Tectonic file system
What the research is: Tectonic, our data center scale distributed file system, enables better resource utilization, promotes simpler services, and requires less operational complexity than our previous approach. Our previous storage infrastructure consisted of a set of use-case specific storage systems. Clusters, or instances of these storage systems, used to scale to tens of petabytes. […] Read M
Meet Kats — a one-stop shop for time series analysis
What it is: A new library to analyze time series data. Kats is a lightweight, easy-to-use, and generalizable framework for generic time series analysis, including forecasting, anomaly detection, multivariate analysis, and feature extraction/embedding. To the best of our knowledge, Kats is the first comprehensive Python library for generic time series analysis, which provides both classical […] Rea
Image To Text Conversion With React And Tesseract.js (OCR) — Smashing Magazine
Do you have to process data manually because it is served through images or scanned documents? An image-to-text conversion makes it possible to extract text from images to automate the processing of texts on images, videos, and scanned documents. In this article, we look at how to convert an image to text with React and Tesseract.js(OCR), preprocess images, and deal with the limitations of Tessera
Introducing the Stripe Extension for VS Code
Stripe launches an extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more about what features are offered and how to get started.
Cloudflare TV: Doing it Live, 1,000 Times and Counting
Since launching in June 2020, Cloudflare TV has featured over 1,000 original live episodes covering an incredible array of topics and we're just getting started.
Using the `outline` Property as a Collapsable Border
The outline property in CSS draws a line around the outside of an element. This is quite similar to the border property, the main exception being that outline
An Alternative Voice UI To Voice Assistants — Smashing Magazine
Voice assistants are currently the most popular use case for voice user interfaces. However, because voice assistants give feedback by talking to the user, assistants can only solve simple user tasks such as setting an alarm or playing music. In order for voice user interfaces to really break through, feedback to the user must be visual instead of auditive.
Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. Each page is a default exported React component from the pages directory that can be used to define the most common route patterns. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concep
Announcing WARP for Linux and Proxy Mode
Starting today Cloudflare WARP is available for Linux and comes with the ability to run as a local proxy.
Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking
Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a
Start Serving Optimized Images in Vue
Images have become extremely important to the effectiveness of websites. They speak a 1000 words, attract attention, and stimulate emotions.
Creating and refreshing materialized views in PostgreSQL
A “materialized view” is an integral feature of every advanced database system. How can you make use of materialized views in PostgreSQL?
PKCE: What and Why?
Come learn about the PKCE OAuth flow! How it works, why it’s valuable, and how to use it to authorize your Dropbox app.
10 Lessons Learned From Online Experiments - Shopify
10 hard-earned lessons from controlled experiment, considered the gold standard approach for determining the true effect of a change.
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative — Smashing Magazine
Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description. Nulling an image indicates that it is for decorative purposes only. In this context, decorative means that the image does not visually communicate information that is important to understanding
Stripe Sessions 2021
Maximize conversion, scale globally, and introduce new revenue streams with new products from Stripe.
Building Waiting Room on Workers and Durable Objects
Our product is specifically built for customers who experience high volumes of traffic, so we needed to run code at the edge in a highly scalable manner. Cloudflare has a great culture of building upon its own products, so we naturally thought of Workers.
How I Used the WAAPI to Build an Animation Library
The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API opens the browser’s animation engine to developers and
The Chooser, now for iOS and Android
The five stages of an effective brainstorm
Tips from the research and marketing teams at Figma