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The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
The Cloudflare Workers team is excited to announce the opening of our Discord Channel!
Day 35: Launching my VMs more reliably
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape you put on a wall when you’re painting to avoid getting paint on the wall. The tape doesn’t have a strong adhesive, so it can be pulled back off the wall without damaging it.
Jen was just tweetin' about how the latest Safari Technical Preview has aspect-ratio. Looks like Chrome and Firefox both have it behind a flag, so with Safari
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time,
Daily blog posts about my time at RC
Day 34: Learning about qemu
To create relevant search, processing clickstream data is key: you frequently want to promote search results that are being clicked on and purchased, and demote those things users don’t love. Typically search systems think of processing clickstream data as a batch job run over historical data, perhaps using a system like Spark. But on Shopify’s Discovery team, we ask the question: What if we could
GetX is an extra lightweight solution for state, navigation, and dependencies management for Flutter applications. Flutter is one of the fastest ways to build truly cross-platform native applications. It provides features allowing the developer to build a truly beautiful UI experience for their users, and in this article, Kelvin Omereshone will be looking at GetX’s benefits, features, and how to s
In late 2020, a major Fortune Global 500 company was targeted by a Ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack by a group claiming to be the Lazarus Group. Cloudflare quickly onboarded them to the Magic Transit service and protected them against the lingering threat.
Simon Willison has a project called Datasette, an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. I'm not sure I'm qualified to explain it, but it's
Zell Liew is giving away 10 free copies of his Learn JavaScript course, and entering the giveaway is pretty easy: sign up for his newsletter. I've personally
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs
Day 32: A Rails model that doesn't use the database with ActiveHash
Developing a Shopify app and being able to sell it are two different things. While you might be a very skilled app developer, that’s not always enough for Shopify merchants to decide to install a newly released and unreviewed app on their sites. If you want to give merchants a reason to install and use your Shopify app, there are four things you need to do.
On Christmas Day 2020, an apparent suicide bomb exploded in Nashville, TN. The explosion happened outside an AT&T network building on Second Avenue in Nashville at 1230 UTC.
There is a <code> tag in HTML. I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta. It is an inline-by-default element that
We’ve seen the checkbox hack and how it can be used to build a complete state machine in CSS. Today, we’ll take that line of thought a step further and build
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report.
GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.
Here's a little hodgepodge of videos I've recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn't decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I
Here's a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for "seasonal" colors (e.g. spring is
Use this code sample to learn how combine the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs to send Dropbox files for eSignature using an embedded requesting workflow.
