Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
A “cold start” is the time it takes to load and execute a new copy of a serverless function for the first time. It’s a problem that’s both complicated to solve and costly to fix.
Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
I have spent the past several years working (alongside a bunch of super talented people) on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just
Now Available: Dropbox Embedder
The Dropbox Embedder is officially released and already being used in the wild. Developers can use the Embedder to embed Dropbox content on non-Dropbox surfaces.
Token authentication requirements for API and Git operations
As previously announced, beginning November 13th, 2020, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating with the REST API and will require the use of token-based authentication (e.g., a…
Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools
Simon Bennetts is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Project Leader and a Distinguished Engineer at StackHawk, a company that uses ZAP to help users fix application security bugs before they hit production. Prior to making the move into security, he was a developer for 25 years and strongly believes that you can’t build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.
Making Facebook.com accessible to as many people as possible
We recently shared the work we did to rebuild our tech stack to support the redesigned Facebook.com. When that project began, we saw an opportunity to integrate greater accessibility into the site and build it into the foundation in a way we couldn’t have done without this rebuild. The previous site had been built upon […]
The Renaissance Of No-Code For Web Designers — Smashing Magazine
Just like during the Renaissance, we’re living in times of incredible cultural and artistic innovation. As the Internet evolves, browsers align, capabilities are added and accessibility of technology becomes easier, designers face new opportunities to create, think, and change their status with no-code tools. In this article, Uri Paz presents some tools that allow non-programmers to create applica
Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model
Cloudflare is a security company, and the heart of Workers is, in my view, a security project. Running code written by third parties is always a scary proposition, and the primary concern of the Workers team is to make that safe.
Using GitHub Actions to deploy applications to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
In this post, hear from @stevemar, a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, about a new GitHub Starter Workflow for developers deploying containerized applications to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. Here…
Unbundling Data Science Workflows with Metaflow and AWS Step Functions
by David Berg, Ravi Kiran Chirravuri, Romain Cledat, Jason Ge, Savin Goyal, Ferras Hamad, Ville Tuulos tl;dr Today, we are releasing a new job scheduler integration with AWS Step Functions. This…
Migrating Large TypeScript Codebases To Project References - Shopify
Using TypeScript enabled our ever-growing Admin teams to leverage TypeScript’s compiler to catch potential bugs and errors well before they ship.
Understanding Client-Side GraphQl With Apollo-Client In React Apps — Smashing Magazine
Ever tried interacting with a GraphQL server in a client-side application and felt like giving up even before getting anywhere? Ever declined an invitation to join a code base that requires working with GraphQL API because you had no idea? Ever felt like the only front-end engineer who hasn’t learned how to consume GraphQL APIs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this tutorial is
The Migration of Legacy Applications to Workers
As Cloudflare Workers, and other Serverless platforms, continue to drive down costs while making it easier for developers to stand up globally scaled applications, the migration of legacy applications is becoming increasingly common.
Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.
Want to get better at code? Teach someone CSS.
A friend of mine recently asked me to teach her to code. She was an absolute beginner, having no idea what coding really involves. I decided to start where I
Welcome Malta and Cyprus to GitHub Sponsors—plus updates!
We’re welcoming Malta and Cyprus to the GitHub Sponsors community. Check out this exciting news plus the latest from GitHub Sponsors.
Announcing the GitHub public roadmap
The public roadmap is designed to give your team more information about what features and functionality you can expect from GitHub over the coming quarters.
Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity — Smashing Magazine
Emmett McBain was a Black American graphic designer whose work had a remarkable impact on the representation of Black Americans in advertising. He co-founded what became the biggest Black-owned agency in the USA. McBain designed almost 75 record covers by the time he was 24, and in the penultimate of his Inspired Design Decisions series, Andy Clarke will explain how his work can inspire what we de
Smashing Podcast Episode 21 With Chris Ferdinandi: Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? — Smashing Magazine
We’re asking if modern best practices are bad for the web? Are modern frameworks taking us down the wrong path? Drew McLellan speaks to Lean Web expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
Introducing Workers Unbound
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
The GitHub Profile Trick
Monica Powell shared a really cool trick the other day:
CSS Vocabulary
This is a neat interactive page by Ville V. Vanninen to reference the names of things in the CSS syntax. I feel like the easy ones to remember are "selector,"
Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS
Sometimes our sites need a little sprinkling of content management. Not always. Not a lot. But a bit. The CMS market is thriving with affordable, approachable
Bold on Hover... Without the Layout Shift
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That's because bold text is often larger and takes up more