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Engineering — How We Run Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine

How We Run Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine

Many companies had to struggle in one way or another in the last couple of months. We had to get creative, and we had to rethink our conferences and workshops altogether. In this article, CEO and co-founder Vitaly Friedman shares how Smashing runs online workshops and online conferences these days, and the lessons learned along the way.

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·October 28, 2020Engineering
Systems — Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem

Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem

A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor.

LMLennart, Marek MajkowskiLennart, Marek Majkowski·October 27, 2020Systems
Security — Exploiting a textbook use-after-free security vulnerability in Chrome

Exploiting a textbook use-after-free security vulnerability in Chrome

In this post I’ll give details about how to exploit CVE-2020-6449, a use-after-free (UAF) in the WebAudio module of Chrome that I discovered in March 2020. I’ll give an outline of the general strategy to exploit this type of UAF to achieve a sandboxed RCE in Chrome by a single click (and perhaps a 2 minute wait) on a malicious website.

MYMan Yue MoMan Yue Mo·October 27, 2020Security
Security — Authentication In Vue.js — Smashing Magazine

Authentication In Vue.js — Smashing Magazine

Every web application that handles user-specific data needs to implement authentication. Knowing how to do this is important for Vue developers, and that’s what this article aims to shed the spotlight on. Today, Precious Ndubueze brings you a tutorial that will prove to be useful for beginner developers who want to learn about authentication in Vue. In order to be able to follow along, you’ll need

PNPrecious NdubuezePrecious Ndubueze·October 27, 2020Security
Engineering — Road to gRPC

Road to gRPC

Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support.

JYJunho, YuchenJunho, Yuchen·October 26, 2020Engineering
Engineering — WordPress and Jamstack

WordPress and Jamstack

I recently moderated a panel at Netlify's virtual Jamstack Conf that included Netlify CEO Matt Biilman and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. The whole thing

CCChris Coyier·October 26, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Introducing Framer Motion — Smashing Magazine

Introducing Framer Motion — Smashing Magazine

Animations, when done right, are powerful. However, creating eye-catching animations with CSS can be tricky. In comes Framer Motion. With Framer Motion, you don’t need to be a CSS expert to make beautiful animations. Framer Motion provides us with production-ready animations and a low-level API we can interact with to integrate these animations into our applications.

NENefe Emadamerho AtoriNefe Emadamerho Atori·October 26, 2020Frontend
Security — How To Overcome Data Onboarding Challenges For Software Products — Smashing Magazine

How To Overcome Data Onboarding Challenges For Software Products — Smashing Magazine

Data onboarding with a custom-built solution can be a difficult and error-prone process. Now imagine what happens when you increase the complexity, allowing for different file types, more users, varying sources and a greater need for security and compliance. It shouldn’t be up to your software end users to work out the kinks of your data onboarding, nor should your team have to do it. In this post

SSSuzanne ScaccaSuzanne Scacca·October 23, 2020Security