New and Improved Developer Guides
New developer guides for the Dropbox API are available for OAuth, File Access, Sharing, Extensions, Team Files, Team Administration, Performance, Error Handling, and Detecting Changes.
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1
As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…
Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly? — Smashing Magazine
In some instances, privacy policy, terms of use, and cookie consent pages do have to be ugly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve upon how easy they are to read or navigate (which visitors will definitely appreciate). Today, we’re going to look at four ways that web designers can contribute to getting more policy disclosure pages read and terms actually agreed to.
Smashing Podcast Episode 26 With Natalia Tepluhina: What’s New In Vue 3.0? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking all about VueJS. What’s new in the 3.0 release, and how hard will it be to migrate? Drew McLellan talks to core team member Natalia Tepluhina to find out.
Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d
Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert.
On the Web Share API
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here's our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you're on, if that
Fine-tune access to external actions
Limit use of external actions within Actions workflow for enterprises, organizations, and repositories.
Announcing third-party code scanning tools: static analysis & developer security training
Last week, we launched code scanning for all open source and enterprise developers, and we promised we’d share more on our extensibility capabilities and the GitHub security ecosystem. Today, we’re…
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
Useful Tools In Vue.js Web Development — Smashing Magazine
There are some tools that developers that are just getting started with Vue or sometimes, have experience building with Vue sometimes do not know exist to make development in Vue a lot easier. Today, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you a few of these libraries, what they do, and how to use them during development. This tutorial is aimed at beginners that either just started learning about Vue or alr
GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”
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,…
AVIF image format supported by Cloudflare Image Resizing
We're adding support for the new AVIF image format. It compresses images significantly better than older-generation formats such as WebP and JPEG.
Apple really sucks at Thunderbolt 3, apparently
Building Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress using Cloudflare Workers
zero-config edge caching and optimizations for improved performance for WordPress. Reduce WordPress plugin burden.
DNS Flag Day 2020
October 1 is DNS Flag Day, an initiative by the DNS community to make DNS more secure, reliable and robust. This year the focus is on problems around IP fragmentation of DNS packets.
Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress
Today, we are announcing a new service to serve more than just the static content of your website with the Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service. With this launch, we're supporting WordPress.
CSS Media Queries Guide
CSS Media queries are a way to target browser by certain characteristics, features, and user preferences, then apply styles based on those things.
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
If you've ever thought to yourself, gosh, self, I wish I could have an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of this CSS selector, Lea has your back.
How To Use Face Motion To Interact With Typography — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Edoardo Cavazza will show you how to use face recognition with Tensorflow in order to extract some information from the camera, such as the distance between the screen and user’s face or the amount of people reading the page. Then, we will pass those data to CSS in order to adapt typography and to adjust the page layout.
Introducing API Shield
Of the 18 million requests per second that traverse Cloudflare’s network, 50% are directed towards APIs. Cloudflare is making it simple to secure APIs through the use of strong client certificate-based identity and strict schema-based validation.
NTS is now an RFC
After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work.
Announcing support for gRPC
Today we're excited to announce beta support for proxying gRPC, a next-generation protocol that allows you to build APIs at scale. With gRPC on Cloudflare, you get access to the security, reliability and performance features that you're used to having at your fingertips for traditional APIs.
There's a good reason why experienced devs say "it depends" so often
I feel like Jerod Santo really understood what I was trying to say in Weaved Webs, when I was trying to cover the emerging WordPress ("versus") Jamstack
Some Industry Podcasts
It's called The Clearleft Podcast if you can believe that. It gets into new (at least to me) concepts like Design Ops and Design Sprints, which are loaded