Smashing Podcast Episode 32: Review Of The Year 2020 — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020. Who did we speak to in our episodes this year, and what did we learn? Let’s listen back to some clips to find out.
Create a Tag Cloud with some Simple CSS and even Simpler JavaScript
I’ve always liked tag clouds. I like the UX of seeing what tags are most popular on a website by seeing the relative font size of the tags, popular tags being
It turns out that Thunderbolt works now
Creativity In A World Of Technology: Does It Exist? — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Maggie Mackenzie investigates the intricate dynamics associated with the relationship between creativity and technology and discussing whether or not creativity still exists. She will explore what creativity looks like and who (or what) is it now coming from. Ultimately, if creativity is truly being impacted by technology, is there a way to find the balance between the human and t
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
Big ol' same to Michelle Barker here:
Using One Cron Parser Everywhere With Rust and Saffron
Cron parsers are everywhere, each supporting their own extensions on the cron string format, which made consistency between parts of Cron Triggers difficult to achieve. Today we’re showing how we easily solved this problem with Rust without needing to write the same code twice.
Holiday Season Update from Lisbon
Cloudflare Lisbon has come a long way. We now have 74 incredibly talented people working or joining in areas such as Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Customer Support, People, Places, Product Management, Emerging Technologies or Accounting, and growing fast.
Integrating TypeScript with Svelte
Svelte is one of the newer JavaScript frameworks and it’s rapidly rising in popularity. It’s a template-based framework, but one which allows for arbitrary
WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app
What’s Coming To VueX? — Smashing Magazine
Vuex is the go-to state management library for Vue applications, and the Vue core team has some big plans to make it better than ever. Vuex 5 will work more like a composition API alternative but keeps all the benefits of using an official state management library. In this article, Joseph Zimmerman will take a look at what will be changing.
Integrating Cloudflare Gateway and Access
We’re excited to announce that you can now set up your Access policies to require that all user traffic to your application is filtered by Cloudflare Gateway. This ensures that all of the traffic to your self-hosted and SaaS applications is secured and centrally logged.
Continuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse CI and GitHub Actions
Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. The easiest way
Highlights from Game Off 2020
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as…
The Read Aloud Cloud: An Interview With Forrest Brazeal On His New Book - High Scalability -
It's Christmas time and you've been wracking your brain trying to find the perfect gift that will teach your loved ones about the cloud in a simple and entertaining way. What to do? Fortunately for you, Santa has a new elf this year—Forrest Brazeal—who is part AWS Serverless Hero, part skilled cartoonist, and part cloud guru. Yes, it's a cartoon book about the cloud! The Read Aloud Cloud No, I did
How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics — Smashing Magazine
Progressive web applications are proven to raise user engagement and keep the costs down effectively. Building a modern PWA requires more than just the core setup to keep up with the user’s expectations. Today, Gert Svaiko will take a first-hand look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests.
Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer.
Cloudflare Acquires Linc
Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build powerful applications.
"Yes or No?"
Sara Soueidan digs into this HTML/UX situation. "Yes" or "no" is a boolean situation. A checkbox represents this: it's either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a
Recognizing Constraints
There’s a “C” word in web development that we don’t give enough attention to. No, I’m not talking about “continuous integration”, or even “CSS”. The “C” word
How to launch a tech career in 2021
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.
Let’s talk about securing open source projects
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…
Git clone: a data-driven study on cloning behaviors
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…
Catalina: instead of fix, package contained chime
Feature Prioritizing: Ways To Reduce Subjectivity And Bias — Smashing Magazine
When you’re working on a new project, what is more crucial than choosing the right features to develop? However, the exercise often turns into a spectacle of team voting. As a result, decisions change many times down the road. In thi article, Slava Shestopalov will talk about the pitfalls of popular prioritization techniques and approaches to reducing bias and disagreement.
