Make Your Own Dev Tool
Amber Wilson on making bookmarklets to help yo-self. She shows off one that injects an accessibility script — I like this approach, as it means you don't have
Some New Icon Sets
I've bookmarked some icon sets lately, partly because I can never find a nice set when I need to. I figured I'd even go the extra mile here and blog them so I
When fonts fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
Unit Testing In React Native Applications — Smashing Magazine
Unit testing has become an integral part of the software development process. It is the level of testing at which the components of the software are tested. In this article, Fortune Ikechi will show you the core principles of testing, explore various libraries for testing an application, and see how to test units (or components) of a React Native application. By working with a React Native applica
Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
Birthday Week on Cloudflare TV: 24 Hours of Live Discussions on the Future of the Internet
This week marks Cloudflare’s 10th birthday, and we’re excited to continue our annual tradition of launching an array of products designed to help give back to the Internet. (Check back here each morning for the latest!)
Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside
Today, we are excited to launch Cron Triggers to the Cloudflare Workers serverless compute platform. We’ve heard the developer feedback, and we want to give our users the ability to run a given Worker on a scheduled basis.
The Flavors of Object-Oriented Programming (in JavaScript)
In my research, I've found there are four approaches to Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript. Which methods should I use? Which one is "the best" way? Here I'll present my findings along with information that may help you decide which is right for you.
How to Use Quasi-experiments and Counterfactuals to Build Great Products - Shopify
A/B tests are not the only tool to understand causality: quasi-experiments and counterfactuals are powerful tools for causal inference if used right.
Different Ways To Design Digital Product Pages — Smashing Magazine
Digital content (eBooks, stock media and courses) can easily be advertised and sold through online marketplaces. But your clients won’t make as much money that way and really can’t control how their products are marketed. By designing digital product pages for smartphone users who are in that early discovery and research phase, your clients can make more money off of their products. Today, Suzanne
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old.
Cloudflare's 2020 Annual Founders' Letter
We continue to believe what we started Cloudflare believing 10 years ago: the Internet itself is a force for good worth fighting to defend. We need to keep striving to make the Internet itself better — always on, always fast, always secure, always private, and available to everyone.
ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now
This is a written version of my talk from Jamstack Conf London 2019.
Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport
Responsive typography has been tried in the past with a slew of methods such as media queries and CSS calc().
Phishing Resistant SMS Autofill
We recently shipped support for the origin-bound draft standard for security codes delivered via SMS. This standard ensures security codes are entered in a phishing-resistant manner. It accomplishes this by binding an SMS with…
GitHub Action Hero
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Intuitive Design? No Such Thing! — Smashing Magazine
“Intuitive design” is one of those overused phrases that we as designers hear all too often from stakeholders and their requirements. In this article, Carrie Webster explores what intuitive design actually means, why it doesn’t make sense, how we can better approach design solutions, and what the future of interfaces might look like. It is aimed at user experience designers and anyone interested e
A Year Later: Reflections on the ANZ Security Landscape
It’s been one year since I joined Cloudflare as Head of Australia and New Zealand. Our team has been even more humbled by our mission to help build a better Internet and help organisations face the increased security threats COVID-19 has triggered.
Building even faster interpreters in Rust
Firewall Rules lets customers filter the traffic hitting their site, powered by our Wirefilter engine. We’re excited to share some in-depth optimizations we have recently made to improve the performance of our edge.
Web Technologies and Syntax
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
Six integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma
How Figma works with tools like Confluence and Avocode
Don't Compare Averages
In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely avail
Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help…
GitHub India Virtual Meetup – Open Source & Hacktoberfest
The developer community in India is thriving and growing. There’s lots of developers, open source maintainers, and contributors. Here at GitHub India, we’re excited to announce our next Virtual Meetup…
