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Engineering — Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer

Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer

I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as though I’m going into the office. Although I’ve been in Stockholm a while now, I’m still not a fan of the Swedish breakfast of bread and cheese or salami – give me Nutella on toast any day!

SESpotify Engineering·June 1, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Local: Always Getting Better

Local: Always Getting Better

I've been using Local for ages. Four years ago, I wrote about how I got all my WordPress sites running locally on it. I just wanted to give it another high

CCChris Coyier·May 31, 2021Engineering
Performance — QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare

QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare

QUIC is a new fast and secure transport protocol. Version 1 has just been published as RFC 9000 and today Cloudflare has enabled support for all customers, come try it out.

LALucas, Alessandro GhediniLucas, Alessandro Ghedini·May 28, 2021Performance
Frontend — Useful VS Code Extensions For Front-End Developers — Smashing Magazine

Useful VS Code Extensions For Front-End Developers — Smashing Magazine

Meet useful Visual Studio Code extensions for web developers: little helpers to minimize slow-downs and frustrations, and boost developer’s workflow along the way. Recently, we’ve also covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators and accessible front-end components — you might find them useful, too. In this post, we look into useful VS Code extensions for front-end development, from fine productivit

CMCosima MielkeCosima Mielke·May 27, 2021Frontend
Frontend — A Thorough Analysis of CSS-in-JS

A Thorough Analysis of CSS-in-JS

Wondering what’s even more challenging than choosing a JavaScript framework? You guessed it: choosing a CSS-in-JS solution. Why? Because there are more than

APAndrei Pfeiffer·May 26, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Why (and how) GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry

Why (and how) GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry

Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs…

WHWolfgang Hennerbichler, Andrew HayworthWolfgang Hennerbichler, Andrew Hayworth·May 26, 2021Engineering
Security — Cloudflare’s SOC as a Service

Cloudflare’s SOC as a Service

Cloudflare SOC as a Service combines our best-in-class security products and a team of cybersecurity experts within Cloudflare that augment your security and network teams

OSOtto, ShashiOtto, Shashi·May 25, 2021Security