:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox
Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs
HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive
Scott Jehl doesn't mince words here:
New global ID format coming to GraphQL
The GitHub GraphQL API has been publicly available for over 4 years now. Its usage has grown immensely over time, and we’ve learned a lot from running one of the…
Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
Day 57: Trying to set up GitHub Actions
Technical Mentorship Reimagined: Time-bound and No Awkward Asks Necessary - Shopify
Authors: Sarah Naqvi and Steve Lounsbury Struggling with a concept and frantically trying to find the answers online? Are you thinking: I should just ping a teammate or Is this something I should already know? That’s fine, I’ll ask anyway. And then you do ask and get an answer and are feeling pretty darn proud of yourself and move forward. But wait, now I have about 25 follow-up questions. Sound f
2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information.
A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column
We've covered that individual <table> cells, <th> and <td> can be position: sticky. It's pretty easy to make the header of a table stick to
Nested Media Queries
We don't have "regular" nesting in CSS. Maybe this becomes a thing someday, or something like it. That would be cool, although that pre-spec doesn't mention
How we sped up Dropbox Android app startup by 30%
Using CWE and CVSS scores to get more context on a security advisory
Security vulnerabilities can be unpleasant to address, and that only gets worse the more you have. When you’re dealing with a large volume of vulnerabilities, you need to be able…
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Day 56: A little WebAssembly
Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs
Root cause analysis (RCA) is an important part of fixing any bug. After all, you can’t solve a problem without getting to the heart of it. But RCA isn’t always simple, especially at a scale like Facebook’s. When billions of people are using an app on a variety of platforms and devices, a single bug […]
Getting The Most Out Of Git — Smashing Magazine
Git has so many powerful features under the hood! From Interactive Rebase to Submodules and from the Reflog to File History, these advanced features help you become more productive and make fewer mistakes. In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. You’ll learn how to recover deleted commits, clean up your commit history, use submodules to manage third
Smashing Podcast Episode 35 With Stephanie Stimac & Melanie Richards: What’s Next For HTML Controls? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the future? Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Stephanie Stimac and Melanie Richards to find out.
Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners
We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings
Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game
The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question.
(Jay Freestone's) Front-end predictions for 2021
React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I'll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay
Managing CSS Z-Index In Large Projects — Smashing Magazine
We use abstractions and conventions to hide away the tricky and error-prone parts, which in turn makes it easier for everyone who needs to do the same task. The ideas Steven Frieson shares here should be actionable in most applications depending on your styling solution and browser support. Migrating to use this system is not very risky since stacking contexts are already scoped individually; you
Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support
Hey, we're back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas.
Release Radar
Not everyone takes a break over the festive season. Some people in the community have been busy shipping releases. So we’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases…
Open-sourcing Thrift for Haskell
What it is: Thrift is a serialization and remote procedure call (RPC) framework used for cross-service communication. Most services at Facebook communicate via Thrift because it provides a simple, language-agnostic protocol for communicating with structured data. Thrift can already be used in programming languages such as C++, Python, and Java using fbthrift. We are also […]
Improving Your Team’s Communication In The Age Of Remote Work — Smashing Magazine
Remote work is taking over the world, and the biggest obstacle remote teams face is emulating the natural communication that happens at the office. In this article, Obed Parlapiano shares his advice and tips on how to improve your team’s communication and productivity by creating habits and processes focused on improving collaboration.
Lazy Load Routes in Vue with webpack Dynamic Comments
The way routing works in JavaScript is usually that you specify which relative URL pattern you want for which component to render. So for /about you want
