Announcing Config Europe: a call for speakers
Submit your ideas for talks and workshops at Config Europe, a virtual conference.
GitHub Action Hero: Samson Amaugo
GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love, and have more freedom to innovate and be creative. With GitHub Actions, you can…
ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify - Shopify
On June 20, 2020, ShipIt!, our monthly event series, presented AR/VR at Shopify. Daniel Beauchamp, Head of AR/VR at Shopify talked about how we’re using this increasingly ubiquitous technology at Shopify.
How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
This tutorial is for illustrators who also happen to be passionate car enthusiasts. If you follow along, you will learn how to draw from scratch in Sketch the legendary Porsche 911 — all in vectors.
Internationalizing the Cloudflare Dashboard
Cloudflare’s dashboard now supports four new language: Spanish (with country-specific locales: Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain), Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
CMD+Z for Git is Here
Version control with Git has become a "commodity" by now: virtually every software project today uses Git, and virtually every developer knows Git to some
How to secure your GitHub organization and enterprise account
Protect your team’s code with secure software development best practices like setting up SAML/SCIM integrations, enforcing policies to avoid code leakage, and more.
Safeguarding trans-Atlantic developer collaboration
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism governing personal data transfers from the EU to the US, is invalid due to concerns…
Secure at every step: Show your dependencies some love with updates
Keep dependencies up to date, to make sure you can quickly apply a patch when it really matters – when there’s a critical security vulnerability.
How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine
Styled components are “visual primitives for components”, and their goal is to give us a flexible way to style components. The result is a tight coupling between components and their styles. While the component-driven approach has ushered in a new frontier in the way we build web applications, it isn’t without its imperfections — one being its usability and scalability with CSS. This has given bir
Introducing IP Lists
IP Lists can now be stored with metadata at the Cloudflare edge, replicated within seconds to our data centers in 200+ cities, and used as part of our powerful, expressive Firewall Rules engine to take action on incoming requests.
Pausing a GIF with details/summary
Steve Faulkner has a clever idea here. You can show an (animated) GIF and overlay a pause/play button on top of it — which is really a
Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility — Smashing Magazine
Which aspects should we take into consideration when designing and developing for reading? How can we create accessible, comfortable, inclusive experiences for all readers, including the most challenged and those affected by dyslexia? In this article, Edoardo Cavazza will cover how we can improve websites legibility using some modern CSS techniques, great new technologies like variable fonts and p
How to Make a Monthly Calendar With Real Data
Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or
A deep dive on deep search
A behind-the-scenes look at how we built deep search
Application State Management with React
How React is all you need to manage your application state
Scalable data classification for security and privacy
What the research is: We’ve built a data classification system that uses multiple data signals, a scalable system architecture, and machine learning to detect semantic types within Facebook at scale. This is important in situations where it’s necessary to detect where an organization’s data is stored in many different formats across various data stores. In […]
How We’re Solving Data Discovery Challenges at Shopify - Shopify
Humans generate a lot of data. Every two days we create as much data as we did from the beginning of time until 2003! The International Data Corporation estimates the global datasphere totaled 33 zettabytes (one trillion gigabytes) in 2018. The estimate for 2025 is 175 ZBs, an increase of 430%. This growth is challenging organizations across all industries to rethink their data pipelines. The natu
Building Desktop Apps With Electron And Vue — Smashing Magazine
Electron is an open-source software framework developed and maintained by GitHub. It allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies. In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni explains what you need to keep in mind when building a desktop application with Vue.js using the [Vue CLI Plugin Electron Builder](https://nklayman.github.io/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder/).
Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS — Smashing Magazine
The most efficient way to build accessible websites and apps is to “shift left” by incorporating accessibility testing into the earliest stages of your development and design process. In this article, Harris Schneiderman will walk you through the process of analyzing a wireframe from an accessibility perspective and making coding decisions to optimize for accessibility in both design and developme
Our new Edge and Dev infrastructure
Introducing major end-to-end enhancements from a better development experience to serving pages even faster.
Why I’m Helping Cloudflare Grow in Japan
I’m excited to say that I’ve recently joined the Cloudflare team as Head of Japan. Cloudflare has had a presence in Japan for a while now, not only with its network spanning the country, but also with many Japanese customers and partners which I’m now looking forward to growing with.
Don’t trust that tweet…or that email from "Bill Gates"
On July 16th, 2020, an email appearing to be from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was sent to numerous recipients, seeking donations for the Foundation in Bitcoin.
Levels of Fix
On the web, we have the opportunity to do work that fixes things for people. It's fascinating to me how different the scope of those fixes can be.