GMTK Game Jam 2020 – staff picks
The fourth annual GMTK Game Jam has broken it’s previous year’s record! GMTK Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making competition focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The competition has just…
A Practical Guide To Product Tours In React Apps — Smashing Magazine
Showcasing new product features to users or familiarizing them with some UI functionality in a web app can get tedious, especially when you want users to see a lot of things. In the following guide, BLessing Krofegha will show you how to proactively use product tours to onboard users into a new and complex UX, and how to familiarize them with UI functionality without boring them, using a typical R
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q2 2020
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March.
Chapter 1: Birth
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and
Warp SVG Online
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we'll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel
GitHub Actions: Enterprise runners and fine-grained access settings with runner groups
GitHub Actions hosted virtual environments are a turn-key option for running your workflows. But if you need fine-grained control and customization of your environment, then self-hosted runners give you full…
GitHub Availability Report: July 2020
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
Pcicrawler: A Python-based command-line interface tool to debug PCI issues at scale
What it is: A Python-based command-line interface tool that can be used to display, filter, and export information about Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) or PCI Express (PCIe) buses and devices, as well as PCI topology. We built pcicrawler to diagnose and debug PCIe issues at scale and help with automation. What it does: Pcicrawler provides […]
Using DNS Traffic Management to Add Resiliency to Shopify’s Services - Shopify
If you are lacking understanding of what is DNS, traffic management, or why we would even use it, read Part 1: Introduction to DNS traffic management. Distributed systems are only as resilient as we build them to be. Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management (TM) is a well-used approach to do so. In this second part of the two-part series, we’re sharing Shopify’s DNS traffic management journey f
An Introduction to DNS Traffic Management - Shopify
Distributed systems are only as resilient as we build them to be. Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management is a well-used approach to do so. In this first part of a two-part series, we aim to give a broad overview of DNS and how it’s used for traffic management, as well as the different reasons why we want to use DNS traffic management. If you already have context on what is DNS, what is traffi
Creating A Static Blog With Sapper And Strapi — Smashing Magazine
You might be wondering, “Why should I use this instead of the alternatives?” Sapper is based on Svelte, which is known for its speed and relatively small bundle size. In a world where performance plays a huge role in determining an effective user experience, we want to optimize for that. In this article, Daniel Madalitso Phiri will take you through how to build a Svelte-powered static blog with Sa
Introducing Cloudflare Network Interconnect
We’re excited to announce Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI). CNI allows customers to connect branch and HQ locations with Cloudflare wherever they are.
Cloudflare Network Interconnection partnerships launch
Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s Network Interconnection Partner Program, in support of our new CNI product. As ever more enterprises turn to Cloudflare to secure and accelerate their branch and core networks, the ability to connect privately and securely becomes increasingly important.
Making Sense of react-spring
Animation is one of the trickier things to get right with React. In this post, I’ll try to provide the introduction to react-spring I wish I had when I first
Jetpack CRM
About a year ago, Automattic bought up Zero BS CRM. The thinking at the time was that it could be rebranded into the Jetpack suite and, well, that happened.
The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables
Lea Verou digging up the CSS trickery classic and applying it to clip the backgrounds of some code blocks:
Secure at every step: How GitHub’s dependency graph is generated
GitHub’s dependency graph identifies all upstream dependencies and public downstream dependents of a repository or package by parsing manifest files, so that you can better manage the security and compliance of your dependencies.
GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud
Learn about patterns for configuring and maintaining GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud.
CodeGen: Semantic’s improved language support system
The Semantic Code team shipped a massive improvement to the language support system that powers code navigation. Code navigation features only scratch the surface of possibilities that start to open up when we combine Semantic‘s program analysis potential with GitHub’s scale.
Can You Design A Website For The Five Senses? — Smashing Magazine
Imagine if your website could evoke this kind of response. Visitors who respond to the sensory stimulation would instantly be in a more positive headspace, which they’d then associate with the site and your brand. While you don’t want to design a website for all five senses — because that would most certainly lead to sensory overload — you can use individual senses to strengthen the experience vis
My living room intern experience at Cloudflare
For the past twelve weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of working as a Legal Intern at Cloudflare. This blogpost goes over a few key things that set this internship apart from even those in which I’ve been able to connect with people in-person.
Friction Logs
I first heard the term "Friction Log" from Suz Hinton back in April on ShopTalk. The idea makes an extreme amount of sense: Use a thing, and write down
GitHub Actions improvements for fork and pull request workflows
Today GitHub Actions shipped a series of features designed to improve your workflows when working with PRs from repository forks. New settings for private repository forks Many GitHub customers choose…
